SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of end to end project management of progressive experience in Software development/testing in all phases of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) of Wireless product development, Smartphone applications, Web development and Automation
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) wif extensive experience in Project planning and schedules, Resource management, project coordination and internal and external communication wif stakeholders
• Key expertise includes Customer relationship management, Account management & Process improvement
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) wif experience in facilitating Scrum ceremonies, enabling Agile/Scrum practices and teaching Scrum methodologies
• Extensive 12 years experience working in Agile / Scrum environment in product development
• Experience in mobile handset carrier approval process wif coordinating overseas development team and onshore field testing team
• Extensive experience in LTE/IMS/ePDG features VoLTE, ViLTE, VoWi - Fi, RCS, RTT, Modulation schemes
• Working experience in Qualcomm MSM8996 MSM8998, Intel XMM7160 XMM6260
• Development and testing experience in RRC/eRRC and NAS/eNAS protocol stack
• Working experience in web development projects wif HTML and CSS
• Experience in Project management tools - JIRA, Kanban and MS Project
• Hands on using C, SDL and Python programming Languages

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Management Skills: Agile/Scrum Methodology Strategic Planning Project Scheduling Quality Management Process Improvement Team building & Mentoring Resource Management Client Relationship & Stakeholder Management

Telecom Technologies: 5G/LTE/3G, IMS, ePDG, VoLTE, ViLTE, VoWi-Fi, RCS, RTT, MIMO, Carrier Aggregation

Internet of Things (IoT): Smart tracking devices: NB-IoT, Cat.M1

Telecom Features: VoLTE, ViLTE, VoWi-Fi, RCS, RTT, MIMO, Carrier Aggregation

Web Technologies: HTML, CSS

Applications: Mobile Applications and User interface

Project Management Tools: JIRA, Kanban, MS Project, MS Office, SharePoint

SDLC Models: Agile: Scrum

Programming Languages: C, SDL, Python

Network Protocols: RRC, NAS, PDCP, RLC, MAC, eRRC, eNAS, 5G NR RRC, RTP, RTCP, SIP

Configuration management: Git, SVN, CVS

IDEs: Eclipse

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Leading multiple Smartphone/IoT devices protocol stack development/testing and Samsung cloud applications projects of budget up to $6M for 20+ engineers team for galaxy S7/8/9 and Note 7/8
• Review Carrier requirements for new projects, develop Project baseline, road maps and schedules
• Performed vendor management and resource management for complete project
• Review code, test procedure and verify software deliverables to adhere quality process of modem, features, User Interface and applications development
• Anticipate bottlenecks, providing escalation to management, and balancing teh business needs versus technical constraint
• Slashed down $400K budget annually through resource and process optimization
• Optimized technical requirements by 20% efficient through introduction of requirement analysis/gap verification process
• Introduced Scrum and made projects more agile centric to increase their velocity by 38% wifin teh first year of Agile adoption
• Streamlined communication channels to sync global stakeholders for status, risks and change control

Environment: JIRA, Kanban, Proprietary tools, MS Office,QCAT, QXDM, Wireshark

Confidential, NJ

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed 1Gbps US carrier testing projects including joint testing of Samsung and Network testing team
• Reviewed Technical requirements of 1Gbps technologies: 3CA, 256QAM & MIMO; developed Project baseline and roadmap
• Managed cross-functional teams of 8 engineer to deliver on defined performance targets
• Project status reporting to higher management and cross functional teams
• Reviewed critical technical issues wif development and testing team and resolved them
• Mitigate 20% Risk of milestone slippage by pro-actively application of risk strategies
• Reduce 15% budget in resource mapping changes in critical slippage scenario

Environment: JIRA, Proprietary Project tracking tools, MS Office, QCAT, QXDM, Wireshark

Confidential, NJ

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Scrum Master for development teams wif a focus on guiding teh teams towards improving teh way they work.
• Coached team in optimal time utilization through concepts of scrum and agile management methodologies.
• Led sprint reviews and daily scrum meetings to touch base wif whole team and ensure that all members were performing satisfactorily
• Responsible for internal and external communication wif client, developer and testing teams
• Project status reporting to higher management and cross functional teams
• Resolved and escalated technical issue to Samsung R&D
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing teh productivity of Scrum teams by 15%
• Optimized resource management to reduce budget 18% in project phase II to deliver new solution

Environment: JIRA, Proprietary Project tracking tools, MS Office

Confidential, NJ

Project Lead - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Developed project baseline, road maps, schedules and budget for automation tool development
• Established teh criteria for each milestones wifin teh product road-map as a means to measure
• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning and demos
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Coached team members on Agile principles and providing general guidance on teh methodology
• Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
• Successfully developed automation tool and presented in Global meet and received appreciation from top management

Environment: JIRA, Proprietary Project tracking tools, MS Office, QCAT, QXDM, Wireshark, python, GIT, Eclipse

Confidential, NJ

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Technical requirements, develop project baseline and roadmap wif collaboration of US carrier
• Project coordination in between overseas development team and testing teams
• Identified and resolved impediments during Scrumevents by coordinating wif external and internal teams
• Project status reporting to higher management and cross functional team
• Successfully completed first milestone of Phase me on time by resolving binary major issues

Environment: JIRA, Proprietary Project tracking tools, MS Office, QCAT, QXDM, Wireshark

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Developed and followed agile project management plan and build product backlog wif priority
• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Developed process to quickly identify and close requirement conflicts and issues
• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow teh team to deliver teh sprint goals and deliverables
• Communicated teh progress to senior management thru 'Burndown Charts' and monitored teh Quality thru metric
• Created teh SEO roadmap, which was later adopted as a template for other projects
• Assisted team wif making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 20%
• Mitigated effectively 31% of risk by optimizing risk plan and strategies

Environment: JIRA, Proprietary Project tracking tools, HTML, CSS, SVN

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple teams including protocol stack analysis team and Dual Sim Dual Stack modem system testing team
• Reviewed test cases and feature requirements
• Developed DSDS modem system testing project plans, resource planning and project schedule
• Made vital decisions for scheduling to keep running project slippage on track
• Improvised efficiency by 24% through investigation and managing technical issues
• Received champion for successful completion of project wif 100% milestone s

Environment: Project tracking tools, MS Office, Proprietary logs analysis tools

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple projects of protocol stack development/testing of Intel modem XMM7160, XMM6260
• Developed test strategies and reviewed test cases of 3G/LTE call handling, throughput, DC HSPA
• Resolved major software issues captured in testing wif s/w architect
• Provided comparative analysis report wif competitor mapping per client request
• Transit projects to agile methodology to expedite process and for higher quality and customer satisfaction
• Travelled globally to client locations for timely management of critical challenges and periodic stakeholder management
• Built geographically diverse and cross-functional teams of 15+ engineer to deliver on defined performance targets
• Received highest customer satisfaction score (CSAT 5.0) and Customer Appreciation by driving growth and quality procedures
• Improvised 32% effectiveness in project planning, estimation and resource allocation

Confidential

Senior S/W Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed client’s features requirement for protocol stack modules of 3.9G/3G telecom network product eNodeB/RNC for primarily WCDMA/LTE operator
• Designed and developed various key modules and functionalities
• Developed test plan and performed unit testing for protocol stack RRC module
• Code analyzed, peer code reviewed and optimized
• Debugged and analyzed failed module test cases, system/field issues