SUMMARY:

Passionate about customers success, highly technical and results - oriented with proven experience of building teams, distilling market requirements into solutions, features and architectures resulting in the highly successful IT products, platforms and services that delight their users.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Product owner

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed mobile applications. Developed JavaScript based API test tool.
• Technical product manager. Developed storage platform for analytics application.

Keywords: product design, new product development, two-sided platform, platform architecture, API, business model canvas, customer discovery, SaaS, Lean, UX, JavaScript, blockchain, Solidity, decentralized systems .

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Defined and successfully launched software subscriptions. Led cross-functional team to develop operational model. Measured and analyzed KPIs. Groomed product’s backlog. Facilitated architecture discussions.
• Led the team designing UX for the management console. Applied user-centric design principles. Redesigned UX simplified cluster’s management and reduced number of service calls.
• Re-engineered access & identity management. Developed detail technical requirements in a form of epics and user-stories, including functional, non-functional, operational requirements and acceptance criteria. Led acceptance test cases design meetings. Facilitated engineering design discussions and release planning meetings.
• Launched HA capability. Market research, feature prioritization model. Elicited requirements and facilitated design discussions. Facilitated UAT meetings with the customer.
• KPI monitoring. Collected and analyzed Salesforce and other data sources to monitor success factors.
• Developed and managed Strategic Alliances program to create the ecosystem and sales channel.
• Actively promoted and improved SDLC within organization by adopting Scaled Agile (SAFe) framework to manage the roadmap, priorities and product delivery more efficiently while establishing accountability and optimizing resources to achieve business objectives.

Keywords: Roadmap, product definition, pricing, innovation, creativity, data-based decision, alliances, Docker microservices, statistics, Java, JavaScript, Python, CDN, OTT, Linux, product KPIs, UX, HTML5, Balsamiq, user-centirc design, Angular, Ceph, open source, hyperscale, identity management, LDAP, data encryption, livestreaming, NFS, CIFS, S3, Swift, AWS, hardware, IP networks, SOA, Aha, Jira, Agile, Git, APIs, REST, Swagger, OpenAPI.

Product Development

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Designed the concept and launched OpenStack cloud management two-sided platform into the enterprise market by developing new business/use-cases, requirements, MVP, opening APIs and bridging partnerships. Leveraged Jenkins to monitor code quality and test coverage. Elicited epics and user-stories. Prioritized MVP requirements. Facilitated design discussions and UAT.
• Managed cloud health data analytics platform and grew its adoption to ensure service uniformity and industry leading SLAs. Platform was gathering 3.5 Billion records ingested daily from multiple sources. Defined data visualization, platform’s capabilities and performance requirements. Developed SQL queries to gather and analyze data collections to seek for patterns and new visualization formats.
• Managed self-service catalog SaaS from Ideation to Delivery. Gemba walks with customers, elicited and refined requirements. Developed epics and user-stories in Aha And VersionOne. Prioritized product requirements. Facilitated design and architecture discussions. Developed UI mockups in Balsamiq. Oversaw MVP development. Led User Acceptance testing. Researched and developed high level requirements to meet 2010 ADA Standards.
• Visited customers to elicit requirements the billing, onboarding process orchestration, authentication and identity management and self-service multitenant portal. Actively participated in GTM launches.
• Gathered requirements and facilitated public REST API design sessions using OpenAPI format and Swagger tool. Tested APIs using Postman. Evangelized APIs to internal and external customers.
• Liaison between the customers and engineering. Consulted sales in large-scale global deals, demonstrated product and gathered requirements.

Keywords: cloud architecture, startup, platform management, SDLC definition, PI planning, backlog grooming, sprint/release planning, customer discovery, UX, Balsamic, user-centric design, Python, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, SDN, SDDC, SDS, object storage, distributed storage, SAP application service orchestration, OpenStack, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, identity management, multi-factor authentication, SAMLv2, OAuth, sw . licensing, AWS services, continuous integration & delivery, devops, RESTful APIs, OpenAPI, Swagger, MongoDB, Casandra, Cloud Foundry, ElasticSearch, PowerBI, NoSQL, SQL, data analytics, internationalization, influence strategy, team management, develop self and others, conflict resolution.

Product Management

Confidential, Norcross, GA

Responsibilities:

• Established Advanced Development Center. Built and managed team designing and developing innovative and complex end-to-end ad hoc solutions, gathering market intelligence and producing white papers.
• Consolidated product strategy, defined product requirements, and built the ecosystem. Managed development tools and APIs. Co-authored REStfull API model and proposed it to SNIA (industry body) for review and acceptance.
• Led cross functional team defining and developing product and operational model for the electronic self-service software licensing platform.
• Designed and launched electronic software licensing product for B2B and B2C markets.
• Led UI design of the next generation AJAX based storage management software with AI based recommender system. Applied user-centric design. Formed and participated in the focus groups.
• Introduced NLP to enhance configuration management software.

Keywords: product design, customer discovery, team management, quantitative analysis, new product, cost-benefit analysis, vendor selection & management, contract negotiation, M&A, cloud storage, customer analytics, customer discovery, persona definition, devops, Java, C++, B2B, OEM, ROI & SWOT, GTM, alliances, RFC/RFQ, build vs. buy, firmware, software, hardware, REST APIs, BigData, SMI-S, SNMP, device drivers, SDK.

Software Engineering Manager

Confidential, Norcross, GA

Responsibilities:

• Product owner for the enterprise management applications. Responsible for applications architecture, development and release.
• Hired and managed 20+ team of architects, software engineers and consultants in US and India. Optimized teams and hardware resources to drive towards high-quality and near to perfect schedule fidelity, as demanded by the business. Hire, motivate, inspire, grow and challenge team members to do things better than yesterday. Focus on innovation, creativity, and teamwork.
• Continuous quality improvement. Championed devops group to automate software builds and UT processes. Developed home grown test automation framework using Java, JavaScript and HTML.
• Designed and developed SOAP and REST APIs, embedded applications and UX for cross-platform web applications. Developed requirements, groomed backlog and removed impediments.

Keywords : contract negotiation, enterprise software, B2B, OEM, project management, staff hiring & management, cross-functional teams, mentor, coach and influence, conflict management, UX, user-centric design, SOA, SOC, Java, C/C+, device drivers, embedded programming, SMI-S, SNMP, APIs, RESTful, SOAP, HTTP, cloud storage, Rational tools, business process development, SDLC design, team management.