Austin Chynne

San Francisco Bay Area

Sr. Director, Partner Engineering at SAP

Summary
- Engineering Management, Chief Technical Architect, Technical Alliance
- Big Data Product Management, Business Development
- Expert in Database Technology (SAP HANA, Oracle, Teradata, Vertica, Sybase)
- Expert in Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, MapReduce, Lambda, Spark, IoT)
- Co-Inventor of 10 US Patents for Cloud Infrastructure design
- Hadoop Certified Expert by Cloudera

Experience
Sr. Director, Partner Engineering at SAP
May 2013  -  Present  (3 years 2 months)

Sr. Technical Director at SAP Labs

October 2010  -  May 2013  (2 years 8 months)
Managed partner engineering team responsible for design and development of Big Data Analytic
Applications built on the SAP HANA In-memory columnar database technology. Responsible for
strategic technical hardware and software partnerships. Provide technical leadership and drive the
delivery of strategic software partner applications on the HANA and Business Objects platforms.
Responsible for design and delivery of high performance HANA Appliances with Cisco and DELL.
Managed IT landscapes and created HANA / Hadoop application reference architectures.
Evaluate potential strategic partnerships and evangelize SAP Big Data Platform.

Director, Technical Alliance Management at SAP Labs

October 2008  -  September 2010  (2 years)
Responsible for all technical aspects of strategic partnerships with Teradata, SmartOps, and
Nakisa. Managed Teradata integration with SAP Business Warehouse and SAP Business Objects.
Responsible for SmartOps Inventory Optimization and Nakisa Talent Management Partner Apps.
Evangelized SAP platform technologies to influence partner adoption. Drove technical alignment
of partners solutions.

Chief Architect, Market Development Engineering at SAP

October 2005  -  September 2008  (3 years)
Managed development of software partner applications built on the SAP Java J2EE Web
Application Server contributing to 170M+ in yearly third party revenue. Provided technical
 leadership, architectural design, and hands-on coding for strategic Java J2EE based partner
products. Recruited software partners to build out SAP product portfolio by successfully
evangelizing technical strengths of SAP Java J2EE platform.

Development Manager at SAP Markets

December 2001  -  September 2005  (3 years 10 months)
Lead team of 10 Java J2EE developers to build cloud based SAP Dynamic Auction and Bidding
Solution, a B2B auction marketplace which competed with Ariba. Designed and developed major
development platform Java frameworks including UI and Caching. Designed and developed
Supplier Data Warehouse in SAP Business Warehouse.

Chief Java Database Architect (Independent Consultant) at Cisco Systems

June 2001  -  February 2002  (9 months)
Developed the CISCO Connection Online website hosted at www.cisco.com. Designed entire
Java server side architecture and Oracle database schema for Cisco's partner registration and
authorization system. Wrote JSP's, UI framework and persistent framework. Designed service
oriented architecture for interfacing with external systems. Lead team of 3 developers.

Sr. Java Database Architect / Server Team Lead at Comstock Systems

February 2000  -  June 2001  (1 year 5 months)
Lead architect for Cloud based SAS Utility Metering and Payment system. Designed and coded
Java server side frameworks. Developed Enterprise Java Bean architecture. Designed and
Developed JSP based UI framework. Designed Oracle Database Schema. Designed custom Data
Warehouse reporting solution with predictive analytics. Mentored junior developers.

Sr. Java Architect (Independent Consultant) at Dell

July 1999  -  March 2000  (9 months)
Lead architect for Dell Outlet e-Commerce Web Site (www.dell.com/outlet). Designed software
architecture. Coded Java Servlets, Oracle persistence layer and UI Framework. Designed and
coded Sales, Order Processing, and CRM web applications.

Java J2EE Architect / Oracle DBA at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

September 1995  -  June 1999  (3 years 10 months)
- Developed CRM System based on Java J2EE / Oracle
- Developed Global Sales Quota Setting system on Visual Basic / Oracle
- Developed Global Marketing Data Warehouse on Oracle

Education
California State University-Chico
Bachelor's Degree, Management Information Systems
California State University-Chico
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Management Information Systems, General
Austin Chynne
San Francisco Bay Area
Sr. Director, Partner Engineering at SAP

2 people have recommended Austin

"Austin worked on my team at SAP where he successfully managed high priority technical
engagement projects to stellar outcomes! He was a self-starter who also managed a partner
engineering team to successfully deliver the first five real-time Big Data partner solutions on SAP
HANA. I was very impressed with Austin's ability to combine his technical expertise in Big Data
technologies with quick thinking to deliver high quality results. Besides a strong ability to influence
CTO-level technical investment decisions, Austin also works well in cross functional teams and with
partners. I wish Austin the very best and would be delighted to have him on my team again."

—Sanjay Katyal, Global Vice President, Business Development and Partner Sales, Integrated
Systems Business Unit,  VMware,  managed Austin at SAP Labs

"I have had the pleasure of working with Austin over the past 4 years within SAP’s Global
Ecosystem and Channel team, where he was responsible for managing the technology alliance with
SAP’s most strategic partnerships and driving new innovations and programs. Austin has a unique
combination of technical acumen and strong communication style, which delivers superior results
for our partnerships. He is eager to learn and develop both his business and technical capabilities,
which has positioned him as an expert in the area of Big Data and In-memory computing within
our partner community. Austin’s recent leadership in developing and executing on the HANA
Lighthouse Program has helped to establish new markets for growth."

—Jon Dorrington, VP Global Ecosystem & Partner Group,  SAP,  managed Austin at SAP Labs

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