OBJECTIVE: To obtain a challenging position as a Software Engineering Executive with a growing company which will utilize my technical experience, professional skills, and education.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 7/Vista, UNIX (Solaris, HP, AIX), iOS, Android and LINUX
Programming Languages: Java (including frameworks such as Hibernate, Struts, Spring), C, C++, C#, .Net, Shell Programming (k shell, c shell, bourne shell), Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Access, SQL, HTML, XML, XSL, JavaScript, JSP,ASP, Flash, Ajax,Python, PERL, TCL, Expect.
Applications: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Access, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Project, CVS, ClearCase, Hudson, Eclipse, SAP, Ant, Rallydev,Wingz, FrameMaker, Documentum, Business Objects, Citrix
Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Informix, MySQL, and Microsoft Access
Methodologies/Systems: UML, Agile,SCRUM , Structured Analysis ,Software Usability, Capability Maturity ModeL ( CMMI),ITIL, iDEN, CDMA, 3G,GSM System, TDMA,Symbian,Windows Mobile, Interconnect, Dispatch, UMTS. 
Testing: Box, System, Acceptance, White/Grey/Black Box, Unit, Regression, Agile, WinRunner, LoadRunner, Selenium, Gomez, Mercury Quality Center, QuickTest Pro,Junit, JMeter, Formal Technical Reviews (FTR’s), DDTS, Team Foundation Server,Digital Right Management(DRM)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confiedential,Santa Ana,CA 2010-
Director of Engineering

• Managed whole engineering department including budgeting, hiring, strategic planning with budget of 10M+ with P&L responsibility.
• Created/Managed Software Roadmap, Reporting mechanisms, tool selections, defined the SDLC and QA process. Delivered a single code base ecommerce website/ web application that works in 30+ countries and in multiple languages and currencies.
• Ingram Micro is world’s largest IT distribution firm and our ecommerce website/ web application as well as iPad/iPhone app is a platform which features Ingram Micro’s product portfolio and allows businesses such as Best Buy, Wal-Mart to do their purchases through it. ($5 Billion/year sales volume through the site.) .The platform is written in Java and backend is handled via SAP. In this project, we created web services using SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) that calls into SAP. As head of Engineering department, was responsible for defining the processes (agile development) and maintaining a high level of quality in the process and the web application software.
• Managed over 75 engineers, managers and business analysts in onshore and offshore (UK-Milton Keynes, Mumbai and Bangalore-India) locations. Started the team using fulltime and outsourced ( InfoSys, L& T,TCS) resources and built up a full time presence in Mumbai and scaled down the outsourced resources to realize substantial cost savings.

Confiedential,Santa Monica,CA 2008-2009
Director of Engineering

• Managed whole engineering department including budgeting, hiring, strategic planning with budget well over 5M+ and with P&L responsibility.
• Created/Managed Software RoadMap, Reporting mechanisms, tool selections, defined the SDLC and QA process. Used continuous build/test methodology using Hudson, which allowed the team to detect quality problems in early stage. Held three times a week SCRUM meetings, which facilitated good communication within the team.
• Wilshire Analytics is a information technology division in Wilshire associates which gives the financial institutions a way to analyze their account holdings, portfolios, composites, generate reports from them and make intelligent decisions in their investments. The front end is C# and backend is web-based, written in J2EE and database is SQL Server. As head of Engineering department, was responsible for defining the processes and maintaining a high level of quality in the process and the software.
• Managed over 25 engineers, managers and business analysts in onshore and offshore (UK-London) locations.

Confiedential,Los Angeles,CA 2007-2008
Director,Engineering

• Managed whole Engineering department (50+ engineers, managers) including budgeting, hiring, strategic planning which has budget well over 10M+ with P&L responsibility.
• Created/Managed Software Development Policies, QA Policies, standard processes for development, test case management, bug tracking.
• EDS Division is a strategic initiative in Technicolor which is a digital asset management system that gives the content owners, providers, third parties to have a way to store their content, price their content, set policies, DRM license terms, deliver their content using our Content Delivery Network with multiple data centers (US, UK,Europe etc.) around the world. The CDN (Content Delivery Network) we provide is written in .Net (using SOAP based services) , backend is web-based, written in J2EE technology, used Business Objects for billing/reporting and as head of Engineering department, was responsible for defining the processes and maintaining a high level of quality in the process and the software.
• Worked with Mercury tool suite including LoadRunner, QuickTest Pro and Quality Center.
• Worked on load/performance/stress testing of a system with a content delivery network that delivers movie/audio content that uses DRM licensing.
• Maintained bug tracking system with Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Held bug scrub meetings, scrum meetings, made decisions as to whether to release the software to production system in go/no-go meetings. Used rallydev to track business requirements to test planning and integrated it with Mercury tool suite.
• Managed multiple teams in offshore and onshore locations (Anaheim,CA, and Rennes, France) for SDLC as well as QA related activities.

Confiedential,Los Angeles,CA 2005-2007
Director, Software Engineering

• Amp’d Mobile being a MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator), did not own its own wireless network but rather relied on Verizon Wireless carrier network. On top of this wireless network, it has provided a rich content including music/video/ringtone/game downloads, and has earned one of the highest ARPUs in the industry. As the Director of Software Engineering, have contributed to a high quality software which is the Amp’d copyrighted UI that is on all Amp’d mobile phones as well as the Amp’d Mobile website which allowed users to download/purchase content as well as mobile phone packages.
• Managed Engineering department which has done BREW/wireless related as well as website development using Java. Built the department from ground up, recruited and trained employees. Managed over 20 team members (onshore in US and offshore in India including QA, Development managers) to achieve good quality software. Defined all processes used in QA and SDLC, selected bug tracking, test case management tools (Mercury Suite) for wireless and web development.
• Used web based technologies such as Soap and J2EE for the catalog content to be online on the wireless phones. Did web development to create CMS (Content Management Server) and HCS (Handset Content Server) using Java and SOAP.
• Worked with healthcare companies such as hospitals in LA area to deliver mobile apps to monitor patient health.
• Participated in code walkthroughs.

Confiedential, QIS , San Diego, CA 2002-2005

• Led a team of mixed group of individuals (software engineer, business analyst, tester) for automation efforts for BREW Porting Kit
• and BREW Porting Evaluation Kit (PEK) nightly and weekly testing using Perl, shell scripting. Filed CRs against BREW PK/PEK and fixed the issues, followed them up.
• Worked on fixing bugs in OAT (OEM Acceptance Test) modules using C/C++ and BREW.
• Created QChat Server test automation scripts using Perl and packaged automation suites.
• Worked on creating and executing Acceptance Test Plans for Qchat project, filing CRs using
• TeamTrack and getting CRs fixed and using Perforce for Configuration Management.
• Created User Interface automation test cases using Junit based testing framework.
• Attended Intermediate and Advanced Level Perl classes.
• Attended BREW Developer Training, Brew Distribution System, PEK Training.

Confiedential,Land Mobile Sector, Schaumburg, IL 1999-2002

• Working on Software Process Improvements to bring out the group to SEI Level 3 and above by creating and defining processes, documentation, and holding FTRs (Formal Technical Reviews)
• Working on Harmony (mini iDEN) System User Interface, coding it with Java and conduct software usability Testing and testing the system with WinRunner and LoadRunner.

EDUCATION:

M.S. Computer Science

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Yourdon Training for Real-Time System Analysis
• Voice over IP (VoIP)
• Brew Developer Training