SUMMARY:

I am a highly talented, self - motivated and a committed leader experienced in SDLC, C#/VB .NET, building team from scratch, hiring developers in Romania, India and USA and managing applications/product development and Agile methodologies like Scrum/Continuous Integration As a leader, I do the best, do things that enables customers to do their job in the best and fastest possible way. I focus on delivering high quality products, that are best in the market, compatible with the latest technologies and for generations to come.

Leadership

• Business focused value propositions to leverage competitive advantage
• Harnessing strategic and operations drivers to deliver results
• Devise winning solutions, aptitude to learn new technologies and thrive to stay as market leaders.
• Team Player: Collaboration, communication and removing road blocks leading to successful, quicker delivery

Specialties

• Product/Application development strategy, business drivers and agile/scrum project management methodology
• Technology and Business Solutions. End-to-End solution approach, Business Value Propositions
• Strong collaboration with stakeholders
• Managing distributed global (onshore and offshore) diversified and large teams. Hiring and building teams, mentoring, coaching, motivating, interacting and growing them. Working with vendors who supply resources to fulfill the job assigned to their team.
• Migration of complex products developed on one platform to a new environment considering new technologies, evolutions and changing market trends/demands
• Work with quality teams during the quality assurance and quality control phase of SDLC and TDD
• Work with customers to understand their requirements and deliver above their expectations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: C++, C#, .NET, XML/JSON, XAML/WPF, JAVA8, MySQL/SQL, Java Script, jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3

New Skills: ASP.NET, Python, Django, Hadoop, knowledge of REST and SOAP. Learning MEAN, AWS and No SQLPackages: MATLAB, MS-Office. Source control management (WinCVS, Tortoise HG and Perforce).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Advanced Applications Manager

Responsibilities:

• Manage and maintain Virtual.Lab motion product: Fix bugs, implement enhancements, review resources, plan the sprints, talk to Dev Managers and roll out the execution of the plan.
• Manage and plan updates to existing product and architect the new direction of two business critical applications using C#/VB in .NET environment. Review change requests, code changes, designs, align priorities and roll out the execution of the plan. These products are dynamic nature with faster deliveries to customers. We follow continuous integration/scrum agile methodology. Use database to put the data instead of using Excel as data storage.

Sr. Software Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hire developers in USA, Romania and India. Successfully managed two scrum teams. Play the role of scrum master for my direct reports. Develop, mentor and coach junior developers and new hires. Empower senior developers.
• Developed and delivered 6 major projects as the first major building block of the Motion product (multi-million-dollar product) on NX platform. Provided product vision & direction, reviewing requirements, guiding application engineers to write specifications and managing development of product deliverables.
• Guided the team leads in estimating projects, splitting them into sprints and allocating appropriate resources.
• Helps designing and developing a new auto test framework using PYTHON scripts
• Plan and work with quality teams to ensure product is of highest quality and satisfying the proposed requirements.
• Prepared bi-weekly reports on overall status and delivered to Director. Regularly review overflow in projects in regards to allocated time, negotiated scope with Product management balance sprint workloads
• Participated in Product definition workshops in Belgium and Cincinnati and design workshops in Romania and Pune
• Primary challenges that were successfully met:
• Rethink Motion solution, taking gaps/issues observed while developing the legacy product
• Prioritize between legacy product and new product to deliver Driving Dynamics vertical
• Ensure the development team is aligned with the new vision and committed to it.
• Managed three teams (located in Americas, Romania and India). Two teams were led by “software engineering managers” reporting into me while I played the role of “Team lead” for the third team. Team composed of full time employees and contractors. Team size grew to 15 members.
• Prepare realistic, achievable, milestone plans of the projects to win customer business
• Participate in code reviews and pay close attention on architectural inconsistencies
• Traveled to Romania, India and Milford to strengthen synergies between teams and disseminate the vision.

Confidential

Senior Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Initiated synergies/collaboration between teams (LMS and NX teams), disseminate the vision and motivate them on how the goal of producing an Analyst based NX Motion product could be realized:
• Guided the team in designing the SDK-API to launch LMS motion solver from NX UI. Leverage strengths of C++11 standards. Traveled to Shanghai to coach developers on SDK-API design and do code reviews
• Manage a new team in Romania. Negotiated training budget for them in the motion domain.
• Train and coach the team on the technical aspects of Real-Time Solver from the Pre/Post environment in VL and how to present it in the front-end.
• Successfully improved customer responsiveness from under 70% to over 95%
• Successfully build and manage a team led by a Team Lead reporting into me
• Managing synergies with external partners - successful in integrating new upgrades/updates without any gaps in quality. Added development and maintenance of TWR software into the collection
• Took on responsibility of entire VL Motion Pre/Post maintenance and development in the rigid body area
• Kicked of development of Driving Dynamics Vertical. Primary responsibilities were defining specifications, architecting the product and connecting it with VL motion. Primary challenges:
• Use .NET (WPF/XAML) to build complex UI. Use MVVM pattern
• Driving Dynamics demanded quick deliverables in a span of three months. Had to be quite Agile.
• Code review of .NET based change packages
• Visited multiple automotive customers in Japan and USA to discuss the direction and show progress
• Grew team from four developers to 9 developers distributed in USA, Romania and Canada

Confidential

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Managing projects and product definition for full-vehicle sub systems and Software development tasks. Further inroads in the redesigning task started in 2006.
• Work on the feasibility of integrating VL motion into CATIA V6 framework - review the V6 architecture and analyze how the V5 based code will fit in V6 and what it means to migrate the data structures
• Led a small team of 2-4 developers. Primary challenge was balancing between coding and leading team
• First visit to a customer site to demo and collect feedback on the current projects

Confidential

Software Development Engineer & Senior