KIMSUKH KUNDU

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408-718-9256 (Mobile), 510-979-9118 (Home). kimsukhk@yahoo.com
Profile
Seasoned professional with extensive experience in large scale Technical Program Management for
enterprise level Hadoop based Big Data ecosystem providing Infrastructure (IaaS) and Platform (PaaS) as
Services. Prior experience in Service Delivery, Operations Management and Application Development for
Oracle ERP based Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence systems for enterprise implementations.
Professional Experience
Yahoo Science and Technology Platform:

May 2010 Present

Senior Technical Program Manager Hadoop and Big Data

Successfully Program Managed several large scale cross-functional initiatives over the years
being part of the growth of the Hadoop and Big Data ecosystem from ~3,000 to ~40,000 nodes

Effectively managed Customer Engagements with the different Business Units and Properties
across Yahoo like Ads/Search, Mail, Flickr, Data, Targeting, Personalization, Publisher Products

Program Managed the end-to-end onboarding of over 500 Hadoop projects to the Multi-Tenant Big
Data Private Cloud platform that run millions of jobs daily, ETL pipelines and other use cases

In collaboration with Grid Capex team, managed the capacity planning of the ~40,000 nodes in 17
clusters across 3 data centers, with over 500 PB of Data and over 1.5 PB of Compute resources

Program Managed rollout of Hadoop Grid Services providing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) running Hadoop with HDFS, Map-Reduce and Tez framework,
and other components like Pig, Oozie, Hive, HCatalog, HBase, Storm, Spark, Machine Learning

Organize and Host the Bay Area Hadoop User Group (HUG) forum sponsored by and at Yahoo

Drive the monthly Grid Advisory Council meetings with customers across Yahoo, and the weekly
Grid Steering Committee meetings with leads from Hadoop teams to run the day-to-day operations

Key Achievements:

Program Managed the cluster consolidation initiative and migration of over 330 projects from 3 old
clusters comprising of 14,000 nodes with outdated hardware to 1 new cluster of only 1,400 nodes
with state of the art hardware and new technologies, for data-center footprint and power savings.
Our team for the Cluster Consolidation Initiative received the SVP-STELLAR Award in Q4 2015

Program Managed the customer validations and migration of over 300 projects on Yahoo Grid
from previous Hadoop 0.20S environment to YARN based Hadoop 0.23 with High Availability of
Namenode. Received individual award from VP for Customer Focus at All Hands in Q4 2012

Followed that with Program Management of migration of the Yahoo Grid from Hadoop 0.23 to
Hadoop 2.x with Rolling Upgrade of clusters for High Availability, and Tez alongside MapReduce

As part of PM team delivered on the Segmentation of Projects on Grid initiative, leading to the
creation of the Master Projects Database as the single source of truth for all Hadoop projects
ever onboarded on Yahoo Grid. The Grid Onboarding Workflow System was built on that in 2014

Product Managed feature development and enhancements of the internal Grid Tools and Workflow
System for Onboarding projects working collaboratively with Grid Tools Development team

Program Managed Cross-Colo-Data-Encryption initiative as part of CEOs public announcement

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Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC): (Oracle / Sun Microsystems Account) Oct 2005 May 2010
Senior Service Manager IT Oracle 11i ERP IBIS Application Support

Implemented an Operational Crisis and Escalation Management Support model for $85M ERP
IBIS implementation at Oracle / Sun Microsystems for several modules in Oracle Apps 11i, 10.7

Successfully delivered process improvements in Incident, Problem and Knowledge Management

following industry standard ITIL principles. Managed a globally distributed team of Operations
Managers for 24x7 escalations, crisis management and client engagements

Implemented repeatable processes for enterprise level support working with Process Managers.
Participated in cross-functional efforts with Client and Support teams towards Operational
Efficiencies to streamline effective Service Delivery, tracking and Reporting Operational Efficiency

Service Manager IT Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse Portfolio

Managed 5 Corporate Data Warehouse Operations at $135M Oracle 10.7 ERP Legacy
implementation. Managed Application Development, Maintenance and day-to-day operational
support with a 16 member global team in US, UK, Singapore, and India

Managed project progress through metrics tracking, scorecard and day-to-day operations, meeting
client SLAs (Service Level Agreement). Conducted project planning, estimations, forecasting and
contributed in Architecture, Technical / Functional Specifications reviews

Designed and implemented Dimensional Modeling, Star Schema over various versions of Oracle
databases and multiple BI and ETL (Extraction Transformation Load) tools, spanning Enterprise
Services, Finance, Revenue and Commercial Practices for US General Services Administration.
Implemented SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) measures for data security

Managed administrative responsibilities like hiring, appraisals, and career planning and
compensation review for team members. Resource management in onshore/offshore model

Sun Microsystems, Business Intelligence Services IT:

Aug 2001 Oct 2005

Senior Software Engineer, Project / Team Lead, Release Manager. Managed Operations, Release
Management and Application Development for multiple corporate data warehouses

Developed ETL processes, schedule based jobs with complicated dependencies and automate
processes. Developed an enhanced and stabilized data reconciliation process for data integrity
and data quality. Established standards, repeatable processes, support model

Conducted process reviews, developer code reviews, query performance tuning, and end-to-end
integration. Conducted regular interaction with Business Analysis team in defining requirements
based on Functional Specifications, Product Life Cycle

ETL Tool Evaluation Project and Sun Sigma based RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability)
Application Maintenance Project, which streamlined processes, eliminated redundancies and
reduced maintenance cost by 35%. Received Six-Sigma Green-Belt and trained in Sigma Tools

CaritaSoft, Pacific Bell, MCI Worldcom, TCSI, Sonata, DDE-ORG Systems:

Feb 1992 Aug 2001

As Data Warehouse Architect / Sr. Oracle DBA for CVM (Customer Value Management) Suite at
CaritaSoft Inc., designed the CVM logical ERD, physical database schema, and developed ETL
processes for Cable and Telecommunication Service Providers

At the other companies developed, and provided Support for several Data Warehouse applications

Education and Certifications

MBA, MS, PGDCA, BS. PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified (ITIL) IT
Infrastructure Library Foundation, Six-Sigma Green-Belt from Sun Microsystems

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