Ashish Parikh

4029 250th Ave SE, Issaquah WA 98029

Phone: 425-279-3279, Email: ashishparikh69@gmail.com
I am an experienced Architect/Program Manager with over 15 years of experience interfacing
Summary
with customers/partners, gathering requirements, translating them into functional specs,
building/managing teams, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver high quality software
projects using scrum and waterfall.

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Arizona State University

M.S. Computer Information Systems, 1994, GPA : 4.0
L.D. College of Engineering
B.E. Instrumentation and Control, 1991

Voltari (formerly Motricity Media) (Feb 2011 Current)
Architect/Product owner, Mobile Advertising
Microsoft Corporation (Nov 1995 to Feb 2011)
Principal Technical PM, Bing Data Mining Team : Dec 2009 Feb 2011
Principal Technical PM Lead, Windows Server Systems : Dec 04- Nov 09
Escalation Engineer, Web Data Developer Support : Jan 01-Dec 04
Technical Lead, Web Data Developer Support : Dec 98-Dec 01
Developer Support Engineer, Database API : Nov 95-Nov 98
Trecom Business Systems (Aug 1995 to Oct 1995)
Software Design Engineer
Distribution Architects International (July 1993 to Aug 1995)
Software Design Engineer
Allied Signal Laminate Systems (Feb 1992 to Jan 1993)
Summer Intern
! Voltari Star Performer 2013 - Ashish has demonstrated a dedication and consistency to help
move the business forward. He is super smart, proactive, and willing to do whatever it takes to
get the job done.
! Microsoft Gold Star Awards(2006, 2008)
Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX.
Development Languages: C/C++, T-SQL.
Technologies: Display advertising, Search, BI & Web analytics, Data warehouse, Web services,
XML, .Net, SASS, Online commerce, Mobile, Big data, Hadoop, Hive, Android, IOS, SDK.
Database Systems: SQL Server, Oracle, Mysql.
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSE)

Automated collection of information
Automated Role based model for Server Usage
Associating telemetry data from cluster of Servers
U.S. Citizen
Available on request

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Functional Architect/Senior Technical Product Owner Engineering (Feb 2011 Current)

Product owner - Mobile Display advertising: Responsible for functional architecture and delivery
of SaaS-based Mobile Advertising, Ad Serving and audience buying platform utilizing RTB (Real
Time Bidding) and mediation. Also, responsible for technical integrations and business
intelligence, data warehouse/reporting.
Delivered functional architecture and specs (UX-Wireframes, Data Flows etc) for several
generations of predictive analytics adserving DSP (Demand Side Platform).
Architected and delivered a new product line for mobile affiliates attribution. Delivered
Android SDK and IOS SDK for affiliate attribution.
Improved team agility by transitioning from waterfall to an agile/scrum methodology.
Interfacing with sales team and assisting in the RFPs, gathering requirements and bringing
voice of customer to the product team.
Architected and delivered business intelligence platform for reporting and dashboards.
Delivered functional spec for a mobile storefront product.
Principal Program Manager Bing Data mining (Dec 2009 Feb 2011)
Program Management:
Architected and delivered business intelligence platform for reporting and dashboards.
Results surfaced as a product health scorecard that is delivered on a weekly/monthly
cadence to Bing execs and entire engineering team.
Delivered actionable insights to Bing execs and engineering teams to help optimize search
investments and understand sources of query share gain/loss.
Led cross functional team to collect, process, analyze and report user behavior data on
websites to understand user intent and provide actionable insights to help optimize content
and search investments.
Principal Program Manager Lead Windows Server Systems (Dec 04- Nov 09)
Lead Program Manager/Architect
Accomplishments: Responsible for telemetry data collection components that shipped in two
multi-year product releases of Windows (Vista/WS2008 and W7/WS2008 R2). The components
run on millions of computers and Servers. Developed IP strategy and filed 4 patents. Managed a
team of program managers and developers.
Program Management: Led a cross functional team to deliver telemetry data collection
components that shipped in-box in Windows Server. The components identified the usage of
Windows Servers. Architected and delivered a Data warehouse and reporting system that
enabled Windows Server Leadership make data driven decisions. Led a team of program
managers who wrote detailed feature specifications
Vision: Set the vision for Windows Server Business Intelligence team for 2 versions of
Windows Server (WS2008 and WS7) based on the customer requirements.
Project Management: Managed schedules for PM, Dev. and Test teams. Identified and
managed risks. Reconciled cross group issues that impacted the product release.
Developing people and Team building: Recruited and built a strong team of PMs.
Engineering Excellence: Instituted use of Customer Focused Design (six sigma concept) in
planning process. Instituted a formal requirements process that enabled strong cross group
collaboration.
Customer Outreach: Evangelize and gather feedback on features from IT Pros, Enterprise
customers and MVPs with a customer outreach initiatives.