Praveen Kumar
Engineering Leader - Onboard Service Technology at Delta Air Lines
- Role
- Senior Solutions Architect at Delta Air Lines
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Praveen Kumar
Result-oriented success-driven professional with a distinguished career in consulting with clients to devise innovative technology solutions, building and leading engineering teams throughout all phases of product development. Accomplished Engineering leader with a strong background in defining strategy, road mapping, planning, building complex enterprise software applications, and software products. Strong ability to collaborate across business units to analyze and interpret needs and devise technology solutions to align services to meet established corporate objectives and business goals. Proven success in building highly motivated result-oriented engineering teams and delivering differentiated technology solutions under time, budget with the highest quality. Skilled leader adept at interacting with diverse individuals and groups, coordinating internal and external technology partners to realize deliverables.Specialties• Strategy definition, road maps, architecture blueprints, and execution• Solution Architecture, Application Architecture, Design, and Implementation• System Architecture Design and Implementation• Master Data Management, Data Integration, Analytics• Leading Technology Transformation initiatives. • Building, Mentoring and Leading Global Software engineering Teams• Commercial Software implementation• Continuous Value Delivery• Talent Management, Hiring and Team Development• Cross-Functional Team Leadership• System Reliability & Performance tuning
Experience
Senior Solutions Architect
Aug 2015 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US
Strategy and Technology leadership role. Lead the following multi-million dollar programs steered all of them towards a very successful implementation.Catering Transformation• Architected and Developed Event-Driven Passenger Flight Meal Communication Platform for Preselect Program• Developed the Solution to inhouse Material Logistics, Kitchen Production and Truck Dispatch on an inhouse ERP Platform running on on-prem and cloud infrastructure • Architected and Built Catering Operational Data Source integrating data from various in-house & external vendor systems• Creation of Catering Enterprise API’s (viz Flight Menu, Passenger Meal Selections, Asset and Inventory Management, etc)• Integrated Operational Data Source with Enterprise Data Lake for Analytics & Reporting • Architected & Built Microservices for all Customer & Associate Facing Digital Channels, Enterprise Systems and Vendor Partners Crew System Improvements IROP (Irregular Operations) Stabilization• Rearchitected Legacy Mainframe Pilot Trip Coverage system to identify and report legally eligible pilots in record time• Enabled automation of identification and awarding of open trips to eligible pilots based on established business rules using a self-service model with minimum human involvement. Crew Mobility• Implementation of Airwatch Mobile Device Management Platform to manage Crew Mobile Devices and rollout of Tablets to all Pilots• Architected and built an Event-Driven Platform to create Electronic Crew Briefing Package which sources data from 12 different systems and deliver packages to pilot just in time before flight departure.• Architecting and building Flight Weather Viewer Turbulence Mobile appTechOps New Fleet Airbus - A350 Entry into Service• Spearheaded Program Architecture from inception to conclusion • Lead the technology Delivery of all 5 IT workstreams viz. eOperations, CMS, Aircraft Messaging (MIAM), Enabling Mobility and Crew Briefing Package
Education
University of Madras
BE, Computer Science
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