SUMMARY

• Accomplished Technical Manager and Software Architect with twenty years of progressive experiences in various aspects of Information Technology, Electronics and RFID.
• Achieved 800% improvement in production capacity by innovating and developing inkjet based very high­speed RFID printer with variable label size with inlay insertion for RFID printing industry automation.
• Generated $35M revenue in apparel label production by developing and deploying new production process across the company globally.
• Prodcued savings of $2M/year in raw material wastage by evaluating and implementing automatic solutions to reduce wastage and saving the final product finishing time by 20% by finding new process and enforcing across the board. Accimplishment gained company award.
• Launched, managed and owned many products in various segments including RFID based Asset management, Merchandize Visibility solutions ($10M+) with large enterprise deployments.
• Produced $1M revenue for the startup in 3 months by successfully delivering solutions for fall prevention of aged people over 20+ locations across North America.
• Experienced in product management, strategic thinking & development, managing cross functional team & remote team projects; heavy hands - on experience with passion involving all the phases of software life cycle including requirement analysis, writing specifications, planning, design, development, maintenance, testing, optimize time to market, delivery of Enterprise & Mobile products.
• Expertise in research, highly scalable complex software and hardware architecture, object-oriented design, release engineering, management, consulting, comprehending and resolving difficult problems
• Outstanding ability to work in a fluid environment where requirements change as often as hourly.
• Proven ability to get the job done regardless of logistical, technical and cultural obstacles.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize strong talents, mentor and build high performance software engineering & professional services teams. Strong technical background to facilitate communication.
• Applied patents for N-up highspeed RFID encoding system.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• HF/NFC/UHF RF Printing and Encoding Technologies, chips, readers, printers, PLCs, LLRP, ALE, UPOS
• Big Data, IoT, Kafka, Zookeeper, Strom, Spark Streaming
• High Availability, Cluster (MC/ServiceGuard, MS Cluster, Veritas Cluster, WAS Cluster)
• Enterprise Architecure and Solutions for Supply Chain, Asset Tracking, Work in Progress
• Mobile Technologies, Architecture and Provisioning
• IT Infrastructure, Data Protection/backup Techniques
• LDAP/Active Directory, SSO, JAAS, Security
• Web Technologies, Web Services (REST, SOAP, JASON, jsp, javascript, html, css, Tomcat, WebShpehre)
• Databases/Connectivity (Postgres, H2, Oracle, MS SQL, DB2, SQLite; Hibernate, EHCache)
• Performance & QA Techniques, Software Life Cycle
• DevOps Technologies, Automation tools, Team Management, and Project Planning
• Performance and Quality Assurance Techniques and Software Life Cycle
• Software Configuration Management (ClearCase, ClearCaseMultiSite, CVS, Puppet, SVN, GIT)
• Packaging (InstallShield, InstallAnywhere, HP-UX/SUN/Linux package tools)
• Embedded software development, firmware for Atmel Micro Controller; Arduino board
• Electronics circuit design
• M2M Development and solutions
• Project/Product and Resource Management, strategic development in new technologies
• Windows, Mac, Unix, Wind River, iOS, Windows Mobile, Android
• C, C++, C#, Java, Objective C, Jsp, Perl, Python, Shell (DOS, bash), jacl, ant, make

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering

Confidential, OH

Responsibilities:

• Develop handshake relationships with growing firms and delivering actionable results.
• Define & Execute consulting projects to deliver on time - on budget profit-oriented results.
• Define and execute strategic plans for the product roadmap.
• Developed and delivered RKGT N-across High-Speed RFID Verification system with multiple installations at a RFID converter facility in Kansas City, Missouri.
• Developed and delivered Asset Tracking product for a foundry to track their molds’ usage, service, life line etc.
• Developed and delivered a solution for fall prevention program over 20+ locations by partnering with Exercise Physiologist in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Genearated $1.5M revenue for the company.
• Developed ultra speed n-up RFID encoding system which can encode, validate at 20 labels/second per lane.
• Developing BidData and BLE based solution for realtime data for atheletes body perforamance to reduce the injuties.
• Developing RFID based Inventory management system

Engineering Manager & Lead Architect

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Responsibilities:

• Strategically developed and launched new RFID encoding process and products as a R&D lead of the division. Increased production efficiency by 15 folds and increased production capacity by 10 folds. Increased 20% overall additional profit margin. Handled $35M+ revenue in RFID label in 2016.
• Directed and wrote functional specification keeping future of the process in mind, developed product roadmap, create strong business plans and deliver applications and solutions for high speed RFID label printers by joining technologies like inkjet and thermal printing with encoding methods with high quality enterprise product. This increased the production capacity by 800% for the company.
• Lead Enterprise Architect for RFID middleware platform for Zebra Technologies to build a strategic product architecture based on OAT Foundation suite and Zebra’s legacy produts for seamless integration which produced few million $s revenue for the RFID division.
• Generated $2M+ profit per year by reducing the raw material wastes by 20% by working with cross functional teams on development of new production process across the globe. Oversee the global printing operations, solutions deployment, and engineering in Netherlands, USA, China, Turkey, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka; evaluate, and provide strategic guidance on performance, quality and machines speed improvements. Responsbole for planning and deploying the RFID solutions across various plants at same time. Had interactive discussions with the print-shop plant managers across all the Checkpoint’s print-shop plants and managed overseas personnel in testing and implementing.
• Generated $M+ initial pilot by creating a new product for carelabel solutions by transforming my high-level strategic and innovative product ideas into tactical product solutions and provide strategic insight into the development of the new product. Lead in architecting and designing the new solution based on strong knowledge of the technologies involved, creating a detailed requirement, product roadmap, including tracking progress toward goals and manage complete product life cycle for printing product lines.
• Created great work environement by working with engineering team in Netherlands and Germany to provide guidance, architect, design, develop and test the complete system as per the specification defined. Work with deployment team across the globe to implement, train and support the system. Solely responsible for final product delivery. Worked with digital, laser, offset and flexo printing technologies and teams across print shops globally and provide insights to the corporate. Engineering decision making on any RFID related machine purchases across the company.
• Interviewed, recruited, mentored, supervised, budgeted, merged and controlled the work of internal & external Mechanics and Electronics professionals.

Software Architect and Technical Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed device driver engineering development team to deliver device drivers for various RFID readers, printers, PLCs etc., with high quality. Had the complete control over the functionalities to be delivered on devices. Apart from managing and mentoring the software development team, had constant interactions with device vendors and designers to understand the high-level functionalities and features to provide solutions ahead in the market, provide feedback and improve the product quality. Managed the device driver development for every software release cycle of OAT Foundation Suite.
• Solely responsible for defining specifications and delivering various mobile framework releases keeping strategic future to support different RFID handheld devices to create custom applications based on customer requirements. Manage and deliver Asset Management solutions. As part of mobile framework development and solutions development execute the project and supervised software engineers and senior software engineers who have engineering degree in computer science. These required to oversee daily activities of the engineers, strategic developments, validating & approiving design patterns, project plans, development progress and direction of applications. Jointly responsible for delivering solutions like Merchandise Visibility and Air Transport Association specification delivery for RFID based solutions with other teams. Closely monitored the Quality Assurance team for the testing quality and process of the products and solutions releases.
• Wrote specifications, architected, designed, developed, delivered the initial proof of concept of inkjet based high speed RFID printing machine in 2011. Had invented inkjet based high speed printing machine a.k.a. ecoPET and thermal based printing machines with high quality testing. These printing machines are company’s trade secret for print Engineering. Solely responsible for defining specifications and delivering the prototype of the high-speed printing machine. Managed software engineering professionals for ecoPET.
• Established very strong technical team to deliver enterprise software. Implemented interview & hiring process, training process, software configuration management process across countries and development process and improve the process continuously. These processes allowed Confidential, a Division of Confidential to ensure the challenging software development positions in increasing responsibility and high quality.
• Participated majorly in the selection, hiring, interviewing and mentoring of staff for whole of Confidential division in India. Responsible for yearly performance review process of the staff under supervision. Manage the complete product build, release engineering and delivery of all the product portfolio. A portion of time was spent with senior management to plan, purchase IT equipment & hardware, creation of data center and IT resources for India operations and maintain vendor relationships.
• Responsible for IT infrastructure development and management of the India facility. Had the responsibility and control over the recruitment and performance evaluations. Had authority on evaluating the work according to Checkpoints HR-manual and recommend on employees to be assigned to or dismissed from the various parts of the projects.