High energy, hands-on, results oriented Software Engineering Leader with over 17 years of proven track record of delivering enterprise commercial software applications to market using a unique blend of effective leadership with a highly technical skill set. Versatile individual that is highly qualified in Leadership, Management, Software Architecture/Development, Business Analysis, Quality Assurance and Project Management. Highly entrepreneurial and can thrive in all environments from startups to large organizations and everything in-between. • Leader of Agile teams to develop and deliver business vision as software solutions • Effective at planning, organizing and delivering of multiple simultaneous projects and commercial product releases • Skilled at recruiting, hiring, managing, leading, mentoring, motivating and retaining technical teams • Leader and key change agent on several enterprise level project initiatives • 17+ years professional experience on both large and small scale software projects, with emphasis on startups and entrepreneurial ventures • Expert leader & developer of enterprise level Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications • Cloud technology strategist and expert specializing in internet scale system delivery • Experienced in Software Architecture, Development & QA using Agile Software Development Methodologies (SCRUM, XP) • Hands-on experience in every aspect of Software Development Life Cycle including Business Analysis, Architecture, Design, Development, QA, Release Management and Support • Proven ability to implement business vision and requirements to get new (greenfield) and pre-existing products to market as cutting-edge, industry leading, commercial software products • Extensive direct customer experience representing organizations’ technology stack, products and vision providing pre- and post-sales strategy and delivery of major enterprise software implementations

Director of Software Engineering @ Leadership and management responsibilities for several teams including AWS Solutions Architecture team, Virtual Private Server DevOps team, and Software Engineering Cloud Tech team. Primary change agent in Agile adoption organization wide. Implemented strategic enhancements to recruiting engineering talent process and pipeline. Leading vision and adoption of several initiatives to improve overall architecture and quality assurance practices in engineering department. Over 130,000 customers in 100 countries now rely on Media Temple's simple tools for domain registration, web hosting, business applications, virtual servers, and other cloud services to power more than 1.5 million websites. Our customers range from everyday people to top bloggers, creative professionals, and small businesses, as well as large enterprises like Starbucks, Adidas, Samsung, and Toyota. Media Temple has been repeatedly recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in North America—and one of the best places to work in Los Angeles. Find us anytime on the web at http://mediatemple.com or on Twitter @MediaTemple From July 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaDirector, Cloud Architecture & Platform Services @ • Created & executing on enterprise cloud architecture plan to reduce on premise footprint and move systems to hybrid cloud deployment using public cloud IaaS platforms (Azure, AWS) • Responsible for all enterprise systems DevOps, high availability, scalability, sustainability, and monitoring • Member of IT Steering Committee responsible for overall enterprise IT decision making including best practices for enterprise architecture, sustainability, and reduction of overall system • Created DevOps strategy & team to bridge logistical gap between Architecture/Development and Operations/Support teams • Responsible for $75M+ Oracle ATG eCommerce site deployed on RHEL, Apache, JBOSS, Oracle DB; eliminated nearly daily site downtime now sustaining 99.99% uptime • Successfully improved systems availability and scalability resulting zero eCommerce system downtime during record sales and user/order volume during Cyber Monday and Black Friday. • Responsible for all database administration teams using internal & outsourced DBAs for all SQL Server & Oracle databases • Created Application Support Engineering team for trouble shooting and remediation of complex software & system issues • Hands-on with diverse range of technologies with a philosophy of choosing best-of-breed technology for business solution • Recruit, hire, lead/manage, mentor, and retain management and technical talent From April 2013 to July 2014 (1 year 4 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaDirector/Manager, Software Engineering @ • Primary Technology Strategist and Leader in moving Quark business and technology from desktop/on-premise based to a Cloud-based (Azure), SaaS model, driving overall product architecture and evolution decisions. • Delivered Quark's first SaaS-based, Cloud offering in Q1 2012; sold to first customers in Q3 2012 – includes sales to Fortune 100 company. • Oversee architecture, development, and quality assurance including technical analysis, design, and implementation using Agile/SCRUM methodologies. • Drive planning of product releases, track implementation progress against set schedule and budget for multiple product lines. • Collaborate with stakeholders in Product Management, I.T., Sales, Finance, and Professional Services to ensure successful product delivery. • Work directly with existing and new customers for strategic planning, technical sales and ongoing implementations and integrations with large and small customers. • Leader of multiple high performing onshore and offshore teams. • Reduced teams’ release schedule and time to market from 3 month releases to more Agile releases by implementing continuous deployment, on demand model to be more flexible for business needs. • Introduced QA Automation testing practices that reduced QA system regression testing time by 90%. • Combined multiple complementary products into a single platform that is diverse and flexible to match emerging customer and business demands. • Primary technical partner relationship manager with Microsoft and other third party vendors. • Recruit, hire, lead/manage, mentor, and retain management and technical talent From April 2011 to April 2013 (2 years 1 month) Greater Denver AreaManager, Software Engineering @ • Manage teams delivering highly complex, enterprise scalable, secure and performant Learning Management System software for industry leader using Microsoft technologies such as .NET and SQL Server using a SaaS enterprise delivery model • Responsible for ensuring both business and technical requirements are met by working closely with cross-functional teams including business stakeholders, architects, development teams, QA, DBAs, release management and other internal teams • Manager multiple high performing onshore and offshore software engineering teams • Interview, hire and mentor and conduct performance evaluations for developers • Collaborate effectively and regularly with internal business leaders as well as Quality Assurance teams to ensure delivery of products that meet customer needs on time and within budget • Responsible for collaborating with other Development & QA Managers for setting departmental policies and improvements as well as introducing and socializing original ideas to obtain buy-in from inter & intra-departmental stakeholders • Implemented and encouraged use of various of team procedures and practices including peer code reviews, test-driven development practices and various coding standards and practices Act as ‘Scrum Master’ and guide teams in Agile/Scrum best practices mentoring and coaching From April 2009 to April 2011 (2 years 1 month) Greater Denver AreaR & D Technical Software Manager @ • One of principle architects and developers coding and implementing first lines of code on various industry leading SaaS-based C# .NET commercial software applications including Dragon Tag®, CrossTag®, Crossfire® Analyst and Dragon View® • Manager of a Research & Development team of 6-10 developers delivering a variety of industry leading, SaaS-based patent pending commercial products to the market • 50-50 split of time between analysis, design and development (coding) and management. • Responsible for researching and evaluating emerging technologies and reporting findings to drive innovation of new product ideas • Interview, hire and mentor new developers • Collaborate effectively and regularly with internal business leaders and external customers, as well as Quality Assurance team to ensure delivery of products that meet customer needs on time and within budget • Participate in executive management meetings to plan business strategy and communicate team goals and accomplishments • Responsible for coordinating and managing development projects including planning and delivering major, minor and service pack updates to various products throughout the internal testing, customer beta and general availability life cycles • Leader in promoting and implementing the use of various Agile methodology practices such as SCRUM & XP including Test-Driven Development and acting as primary Scrum Master for the team • Implemented and encouraged use of various of team procedures and practices including peer code reviews, test-driven development practices including a framework for NUnit testing and various coding standards and practices • Took the principal lead role on the enterprise project to design and engineer a multi-tenant SaaS model for Rivet products as well as implementation of the systems with a major third-party SaaS managed hosted service provider From November 2006 to April 2009 (2 years 6 months) Greater Denver AreaTechnical Lead & Sr. Software Engineer @ Develop market leading, innovative and easy-to-use Financial Analytic and Reporting commercial software, including software for XBRL creating, viewing and analytics. Products include Crossfire Analyst, Dragon Tag, Dragon View and Cross Tag. Technology Highlights: C#, .NET, XBRL, MS Office VSTO, ASP.NET, XML, SQL Server, Visual Studio. From March 2004 to November 2006 (2 years 9 months) Greater Denver AreaSoftware Engineer @ Developed CRM products for the convergent communications market worldwide. The company’s product, Intelligent Customer Support Systems (ICSS), can be used in part or in whole, modular or as an end-to-end solution for customer care requirements. ICSS enables customers to provide management for communications services and products, including voice, video, and data. Technology Highlights: Visual C++/MFC, C/C++, ASP.NET, SQL, Visual Studio. From August 1999 to March 2004 (4 years 8 months) Greater Denver AreaSoftware Engineer @ Analysis, design and development of Managed Healthcare Claims Adjudication software for MPOWER Solutions. From August 1998 to August 1999 (1 year 1 month) Greater Denver AreaSystems Engineer / Consultant @ Analysis, design and development of international bankcard systems for Citicorp/Citibank as a consultant. From June 1997 to August 1998 (1 year 3 months) Greater Denver Area

MCIS, IS Management & Leadership @ University of Denver From 2003 to 2005 B.A., Biology @ Colorado College From 1992 to 1996 Amit Nayar is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Software Development, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Integration, Amazon Web Services..., C#, XML, Management, Strategy, ASP.NET, Leadership, SDLC, Agile Project Management, Software Engineering, Web Applications, Web Services, SQL, Visual Studio, E-commerce, Project Management, Testing, Process Improvement, Software Project..., Business Analysis, Test Driven Development, Team Building, Cross-functional Team..., Architecture, Technical Leadership, Start-ups, SOA, Quality Assurance, Software Design, Customer Acquisition, Requirements Management, Software Engineering..., Deployment Strategies, Cloud Applications, Windows Azure