Avi Saha

Summary

PROFILE: --------------- SENIOR TECHNOLOGY EXECUTIVE-- results driven, business focused innovator with broad technology experience and exceptional organizational skills. Ability to influence clients, analysts, business partners and technical teams equally and at all levels. RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS: ----------------------------------------------- By leading Architecture, Process and Organizational changes, measurably improved Cost (savings in the millions), Availability (by a factor of 10), Performance (by 40 to 50% on average) and overall Security of the Database and Web Tiers at ADP supporting all client facing applications with over 30Million end users. Invited speaker/participant at many industry forums on technology and cloud computing. Reinventing identity and access management space for new revenue opportunities. SOME PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS ----------------------------------------------------- Board Director at DMTF standards body Pioneer in setting industry direction in the area of web portals Furthered overall area of verification by inventing and developing algorithms for CAD tools Built key RAS features in PowerPc architecture Built the fastest 2-D graphics chip with multiple patents over the underlying algorithms Author of over 30 patents and 25 publications SUMMARY OF CURRENT POSITION: -------------------------------------------------------- Responsible for defining the next generation end-to-end infrastructure architecture for one of the largest B2B SaaS providers in the industry. Leading multiple teams responsible for defining overall platform architecture (which includes the web, AAA, app and database tiers) and for the implementation and operation aspects as well. The focus in next iteration is to get to added levels of availability, dynamic provisioning and automation as the next generation internal platform as a service is built out. Leading teams that are focused on building out data and BI as shared services. Specialties: ARCHITECTURE: --------------------------- Application Architecture and Infrastructure Architecture; HW/SW SERVICES: ------------------------------- Servers, Storage,Database, Network components, AAA/IDM, Security, Application Servers, Monitoring technologies, Web-technologies, Caching DISCIPLINES: -------------------- IT Security, AAA/IDM, Autonomic/Grid/Distributed/Cloud Computing, Verification, Service Management, Business Intelligence (BI), CRM, RAS, Industry standards