Arun Thakur
Director of Application Development, MBA, Kellogg School of Management
- Role
- Director of Application Development at Uline
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Arun Thakur
IT leader with diverse consulting experience in areas of Software Development, Enterprise Application Architecture, Data Analytic and Business Development serving Fortune 500 clients.* Proven ability to lead teams in different roles ranging from Software developer, Technical Lead to the Development & Product Manager. Extensive hands-on experience in architecting and implementing high throughput, low-latency SOA with SQL or NoSQL databases solutions.* Specialize working across organization boundaries, building consensus and forging collaborative partnerships across all functions and divisions, thus helping translate and execute IT strategies and initiatives. Specialties: IT Product Management & Strategy, Customer Relationship Management, Resource Management, Enterprise Software Architecture, Distributed Systems and Development, Requirement gathering, Semantic Web Technologies, AI/ML, Java/J2EE, Web Services, SOA, Rest, SOAP, Caching Strategy, NoSQL, RDF, SPARQL, SQL, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, JMS, XTM Topic Maps, Linux.
Experience
Director of Application Development
Dec 2023 — Present
Head of 4 portfolios teams that design, develop and support six business departments and Uline\'s customer facing applications- Responsible for all technology needs for Uline\'s Order Processing systems in addition to others- Leading the transition of the micro-services stack to containers environment using RedHat OpenShift, working closely with the infrastructure and RedHat teams
Education
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management and Strategy, Finance, and Marketing
2013 — 2016
Illinois Institute of Technology
MS, Electrical Engineering
2004 — 2005
Kurukshetra University
Bachelor of Technology - BTech
Skills
- Program Management
- Junit
- Requirements Analysis
- Jsp
- Agile Methodologies
- Management
- Wsdl
- Sql
- Linux
- Hibernate
- Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
- Soa
- Unix Shell Scripting
- Leadership
- Websphere
- Jms
- Java
- Web Services Development
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Rdf
- Javascript
- Uml
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Enterprise Architecture
- Design Patterns
- Semantic Technologies
- Jdbc
- Html
- Software Project Management
- Struts
- Team Leadership
- Javabeans
- Business Strategy
- Xml
- Rest
- Ant
- IT Strategy
- Tomcat
- Software Development
- Nosql
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