Abraham Cherian

Engineering Director at Nike

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

About

Experience

  • Engineering Director at Nike
    Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

  • Dell (12 yrs 5 mos)
    • Software Engineering Director
      Aug 2013 - Oct 2020 · 7 yrs 3 mos

      o Engineering Leader for the teams across Dell EMC that manage software licensing and entitlements for consumer and enterprise customer segments that allow seamless activation of software licenses. o In a technology strategist capacity, providing recommendations on future-state technologies and directions for applications in the As-a-Service Enablement organization. o Responsible for driving digital transformation initiatives across BU. Modernizing monolithic applications and moving them to Pivotal Cloud Foundry using microservices o Responsible for managing delivery of the orchestration layer responsible for ensuring order processing between upstream order/quote placing applications and downstream order management systems o Responsible for the engineering functions of the Delivery Promise application that provides granular lead time management and accurate computation of Estimated Ship Date and Estimated Delivery Date. Re-architected the system which helped significantly improve the accuracy of the estimated ship date and delivery date. o Responsible for the performance of applications that support the current state eCommerce purchase path o Responsible for development of the APJ PMCoE across business units o Managed a global team responsible for the delivery of an entire business unit with a portfolio of approximately $40 million

    • Software Engineering Senior Manager
      Mar 2009 - Aug 2013 · 4 yrs 6 mos

      o Managed various global teams on a global CRM implementation o The program globalized service delivery and capability to over 30,000 agents across numerous geographies; It has replaced over 30 different legacy applications providing significant cost savings to the business o Responsible for re-architecting OBIEE to provide near real-time reporting capabilities o Improved software quality progressively across all areas that I have managed o Responsible for managing redesign/optimization of several complex business processes

    • Solutions Architect
      Jun 2008 - Mar 2009 · 10 mos

  • Reynolds & Reynolds ()
    • Solutions Architect
      Sep 2006 - Jun 2008 · 1 yr 10 mos

      • As a Performance Engineering Architect, responsibilities included: o Recommending and validating scalable architectures and configurations of software and hardware that are deployed by Reynolds at customer sites o Identifying performance bottlenecks in applications; providing solutions to re-architect them using sound best practices and prototypes • As an Enterprise Architect in the Systems Engineering team, responsibilities included: o Creation and/or review of solution analyses, trade-off analyses and developing and publishing strategic position papers related to any new software that was being considered to be developed or purchased within the IT organization o Responsible for resolving performance issues on existing or developing solutions from an engineering perspective o Contributing to standards, roadmaps, deployable technology lists

    • Technical Lead
      Mar 1996 - Sep 2006 · 10 yrs 7 mos

      o completed the development of a Business Intelligence strategy for the company that would involve implementation of an enterprise data warehouse utilizing SAP BI 7.0 o Responsible for evaluation of technical solutions/vendors for the initiative from an engineering perspective o Responsible for development of the current and future application landscape road maps as well as the interfaces between the systems o Responsible for creation of a shared environment and reusable security model utilizing MS Reporting Services and SAP Portal o Responsible for defining standards and guidelines for Reporting Services o Partnered with cross functional Architecture teams in evaluating and prototyping of new features utilizing Reporting Services and evaluating applications performance prior to go-live o Responsible for establishing the foundational, reusable components within the SAP portal that required custom iView Development o Led the custom development of Netegrity software for Identity and Access Management o Technical Lead of the core team that developed numerous eBusiness applications. o Developed a reusable design utilizing UML that provided a very scalable solution o Lead for the team responsible for re-architecting the design to provide a highly scalable and supportable solution to generate Reynolds product passwords; the redesign also accommodated future products for password generation