EXECUTIVE 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) with extensive experience in Project planning and schedules, Resource management, project coordination and internal and external communication with stakeholders
• Key expertise includes Customer relationship management, Account management & Process improvement
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with 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 with 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, Confidential XMM7160 XMM6260
• Development and testing experience in RRC/eRRC and NAS/eNAS protocol stack
• Working experience in web development projects with 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

Tools: QCAT, QXDM, Proprietary tools

Operating System: Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ, USA

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 the business needs versus technical constraint

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

Confidential, NJ, USA

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 with development and testing team and resolved them

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

Confidential, NJ, USA

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Scrum Master for development teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the 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 with whole team and ensure that all members were performing satisfactorily
• Responsible for internal and external communication with client, developer and testing teams
• Project status reporting to higher management and cross functional teams
• Resolved and escalated technical issue to Samsung R&D

Environment: JIRA, Proprietary Project tracking tools, MS Office

Confidential, NJ, USA

Project Lead - Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Developed project baseline, road maps, schedules and budget for automation tool development
• Established the criteria for each milestones within the 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 the methodology
• Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs

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

Confidential, NJ, USA

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Technical requirements, develop project baseline and roadmap with collaboration of US carrier
• Project coordination in between overseas development team and testing teams
• Identified and resolved impediments during Scrumevents by coordinating with external and internal teams
• Project status reporting to higher management and cross functional teams

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

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

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

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple projects of protocol stack development/testing of Confidential 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 with s/w architect
• Provided comparative analysis report with 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

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