Anirudh Bhargava

BJs Wholesale club is membership warehouse club chain with $15B+ in annual revenue and more than 25k+ employees. Currently, playing pivotal role to transform Digital eCommerce business and incrementally delivering 100-200% growth each year since joining BJs Wholesale. • Leading Platform engineering and tech ops team for eCommerce web/app (both B2C and B2B) and associated 3rd party platforms that enabled Digital business significant growth by 500% in last 3 years • Managing 20+ external vendor relationships and multi-million dollars technology P&L, negotiated million-dollars contracts, vendor and technology selection, meeting desired outcomes (SLAs, Goals or KPIs) • Implemented end-to-end DevOps agile release cycle allowing developers to deliver high quality code in production (multiple releases in a week) • Built a team of high performing engineers (70+ globally located) and implemented best practices across domains to deliver highly responsive and fast eCommerce platform

- Product Owner - Ideated, Designed and led development of an innovative and award winning* learning management system that delivered retail and sales traning to 100,000+ users - Designed an integrated LMS that leverage open source learning and video delivery platforms. - Successfully led team of UX/UI designers, architects, developers and QA testers to build the application meeting aggressive timelines - Partnered with IT procurement and assisted in successfully negotiating contracts with suppliers with defining SLAs and other service agreements - Collaborated and co-ordinated with infrastructure teams, store operations and HR departments to create product launch and communication plan. *Kaltura Innovation Awards 2013

- Product and Delivery owner of customer facing mobile applications across all platforms(iOS, Android and mWeb) - Responsible for Creating, Defining, Priortizing and Maintain Strategic Product Roadmap - Managed team of UX/UI designers, Developers, Architects, and QA testers to develop new features until production rollout. - Redesigned native apps that led to increase in mobile downloads from ~1500 to 12K in 3 months post-launch, and increase in weekly unique visitor count from ~5k to 16k in same timeline. - Led design and development of simple and easy to use eCommerce features - Shopping Cart, Product Browse(per defined taxonomy), Product Search and Checkout pages. - Collaborated with marketing teams to drive internal and external communications to increase in-coming traffic

- Performed role of Project Manager - managing team contributions, internal and external communications, deliverables and milestones. - Analysed and Conducted data mining experiments using social media monitoring tool - PeopleBrowsr - Identified key influencers in various product categories by implementing network graphs using Gephi, a network analysis tool. - Provided detailed report on usage of Facebook canvas applications, highlighting gaps and improvements that can increase user engagement.

Conducted analysis of PepsiCo’s social media metrics using various tools such as comScore, Radian 6, Lithium- Scout labs, compete.com, and recommended better metric system that meets corporate goals

Implemented a working model of optimization algorithm that computes best allocation of resources in a city to minimize service delivery metrics

Led the team for multiple projects, which catered business units like private equity, alternative funds and hedge funds, and that accounted more than 500 users. Analysed, designed and developed two major workflow solutions. This successful venture resulted in more than 300k savings annually for the division. Involved in activities such as project scope and requirement gathering with clients, cost and effort estimations, delivery planning, and providing solutions for new and existing applications Gained hands-on experience in implementing successful projects that went through complete SDLC process Involved in several technically intensive projects such as web server upgrades, database movements, MQs, etc Worked in cross-functional teams and assisted in interface development, client and management reporting across various divisions

Started as a JAVA developer in a IT Architecture team for DTCC Project, New york. Developed two tools that supported business driven application programming using languages such as REXX and Excel based VB macros Achieved several technical certifications such as Sun Certified Java Programmer(SCJP 5), IBM Web Sphere Network Administrator (v6.0) Deputed to Chile, South America - Worked as Senior Java Developer - activities included co-ordinating offshore team, facilitating user acceptance testing, integrating multiple applications, etc.