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Over twenty years of software development experience with progressively increasing leadership responsibility from software architect through Vice President. Proven track record of managing and delivering mission critical projects in e-commerce. Experienced in all phases of software development lifecycle. Expertise in managing 24x7 systems and operations. Specialties: Experience in recruiting, building and managing large teams of developers. Expertise in supply chain management and retail processes including inventory management, fulfillment operations, pricing, demand forecasting, vendor management and catalog operations. Extensive hands-on experience in designing highly scalable distributed systems, big data, BI analytics, workflow systems and machine learning techniques.Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure and Operations @ Responsible for designing, building and operating the infrastructure that power's Microsoft's cloud; the engineering systems required for automating and optimizing the processes associated with the planning and management of the cloud infrastructure. From October 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) Corporate Vice President @ From June 2014 to September 2014 (4 months) VP, Worldwide Retail Systems and Retail Services @ As the Vice President of Worldwide Retail Systems, managed a global team of 500 engineers across seven locations, including four Vice Presidents of Technology and twelve Engineering Directors. Responsible for technology that powers core retail functions such as pricing, promotions, catalog and vendor management for all Amazon properties worldwide. Responsible for all aspects of technology, including program management, software development, testing, support, operations and business analytics. As the Retail CTO, responsible for establishing software architecture standards, and maintaining consistency in hiring and leveling of senior engineering talent across all retail divisions. Responsible for setting architecture direction for all Amazon retail subsidiaries and integrating subsidiaries into the Amazon technology stack. As head of Retail Services, currently managing a team of 2000 associates across nine centers and twenty product imaging studios worldwide, responsible for creating and maintaining all item information, including item images for products sold by Amazon retail. From August 2008 to May 2014 (5 years 10 months) Greater Seattle AreaVP, Retail Systems @ Responsible for all software systems and operations supporting the retail business at Amazon.com. The retail segment at Amazon.com generates over 70% of the company revenue. Managing a department of over 300 people in engineering and retail operations, spread over five countries. Functional areas of responsibility include demand forecasting, buying, pricing, catalog management, vendor contract management and vendor compliance tracking systems. Support for over forty product lines in six countries. From October 2005 to August 2008 (2 years 11 months) Director, Software Development @ Responsible for Inventory Management Systems world-wide. Teams included demand forecasting, inventory planning, inventory allocation, procurement, vendor management, inventory health and vendor returns. From 2002 to 2005 (3 years) Senior Manager, Procurement Systems @ Responsible for development and support of Amazon.com’s procurement systems – a set of diverse software and tools that manage all of the company’s purchases across all product lines with over 10,000 vendors and through which purchase orders worth several hundred thousand dollars are processed every hour. From 2000 to 2002 (2 years) Software Architect @ Designed the transition of the company’s purchase order user application from a monolithic Java model to a multi-tiered model using RMI and CORBA (Weblogic Enterprise). From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Research Staff Member @ Developed a C++ numerical simulation framework for use in design of electromechanical systems necessary for portable hard disk drives. Developed 2D and 3D visualization programs for studying the effect of shock on portable systems. Several IBM products have been redesigned to have industry leading shock performance based on these studies. The work led to five patents and won several awards within IBM, including two for Outstanding Technical Achievement. From 1992 to 1999 (7 years) PhD, Engineering @ Princeton University From 1987 to 1992 Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering @ Indian Institute of Technology, Madras From 1983 to 1987 Suresh Kumar is skilled in: Java, Pricing, Recruiting, Demand Forecasting, Scalability, Distributed Systems, Product Management, E-commerce, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Analytics, Agile Methodologies, Strategy, Architecture, People Development