Professional Summary

• 13 years of experience in the area of embedded, data warehousing enterprise software development with roles encompassing business analysis, technical software development, project coordination project management
• 4 years of software project management experience in managing embedded software, image processing, web/application Java/.Net/PHP software, data warehousing cloud computing/SaaS projects
• PMP certified project manager with experience in Six Sigma, Agile, Waterfall, CPM, CCPM TOC principles methodologies
• 8 years of hands-on embedded software, web applications development experience
• Experience in business analysis to translate business requirements to software requirements, managing people, communicating directly with overseas stakeholders influencing strategic and business decisions
• Experience in applying TOC/Six Sigma principles to implement engineering improvements for projects
• Adept at managing multiple projects scrum teams at one time in a high-pressured matrixed environment
• specialties
• Project Management, Agile/Scrum Development, Multidiscipline Stakeholder Management, PMO Operations, Embedded Software, Cloud Scale Software, Enterprise Software, Systems / Functional / Business Analysis, Product Development
• key accomplishments
• Managed, planned delivered projects through complete lifecycles for 9 product programs 25M budget per program within time, cost quality constraints
• Managed, planned and successfully delivered projects towards 3 key enterprise web platform releases for HP ePrint Cloud Scale solutions
• Managed costs, managed people, led teams to innovate and continuously improved productivity processes
• Brought about improvement in team's productivity and delivery quality in 3 months by way of increasing number of deliverables per unit time, improving turnaround time, reducing defect density and post release defects by 25 or more
• Led managed activities that contributed to reduction of devices to cloud integration effort by 50
• Led managed activities that contributed to increase in ePrint cloud print job success rates from 70 to 95
• Leveraged innovative prototype solution from HP Labs organization, applied it to own business context, influenced printer business division to adopt this solution and delivered solution to HP printer product that contributed to reduction in royalty costs and improved customer value experience
• Contributed to saving more than one million dollars in production costs for consumer inkjet devices through software rearchitecture and optimization of firmware subsystems
• Improved team's productivity by 40 by leading directing team to develop automated test frameworks
• Initiated and prototyped a scalable and high performance cloud-based enterprise software imaging framework and proposed business use cases that has potential to earn millions of dollars in revenue for HP
• Independently setup a firmware development team in Bangalore from 0 to 8 people in 3 months which reported directly to US operations and led this team as technically and as offshore project coordinator for 4 years
• Setup a knowledge management system for the workgroup that reduced new employee onboarding time by 30
• Exceeded performance expectations as Project Manager in Hewlett Packard to receive the highest manager rating for last 2 years
• High school topper at undergraduate level with 2 gold medals
• professional experience target corporation, minneapolis, mn project manager scrum master
• Facilitated scope definition deliverables through identification prioritization of business intelligence and analytics requirements for retail workforce management data warehousing solution
• Identified project activities, resource budget requirements and created full scale project plans with activity owners and release milestones
• Coordinated project activities across multiple geographically dispersed functional teams to ensure accurate data modeling, construction validation of the data warehousing solution report remediation to support organizations BI and analytical needs
• Coordinated activities to resolve dependencies with external source system vendor to identify BI and analytical data gaps and customization needs
• Managed project changes by communicating negotiating changes affecting project schedule/budget to business leadership
• Tracked project progress deliverables and reported project status to business and technical leadership
• Acted a Scrum Coach for adoption of Scrum for BI business projects
• Software used: MS Office PowerPoint, Excel, Word , MS Project, MS Visio, MS Sharepoint
• Technologies Involved: Microstrategy, Webfocus, Teradata
• Confidential project manager scrum master
• Planned, executed, delivered and supported software development projects to achieve 100 client satisfaction
• Interacted with client company representatives, translated client business need to project scope and prepared RFPs
• Prepared project plans artifacts and managed project execution as per plan
• PM Software used: MS Office PowerPoint, Excel, Word , MS Project, MS Visio, Google Docs, Time Tracker
• PM Methodologies Used: Agile Scrum
• Technologies Involved: iOS Android apps development, PHP, .Net, Java/J2EE
• Confidential project manager scrum master
• Directed and supervised a 12 member team of software engineers architects involved in the development of Cloud Computing SaaS Software Development for web enabled HP printers HP Cloud Printing Platform / ePrint solutions with key focus on:
• Cloud Print Job management
• Cloud Print Job reliability
• Cloud Platform Scalability
• Seamless integration and enablement of HP printer devices to the cloud
• Delivered end-to-end software for business requirements. Elicited translated high level business requirements to software specifications. Defined, prioritized negotiated scope with local and offshore stakeholders
• Developed complete project plans with time cost estimates, managed cross team/cross functional dependencies prepared communication risk plans
• Executed project using waterfall model and practiced Agile Project Management performed the Scrum Master role for specific projects/requirements as appropriate. Used Rally for Agile project management
• Collected reported project performance and quality metrics to upper management stakeholders for review
• Managed change removed project roadblocks escalated issues/risks wherever appropriate
• Collaborated with other teams to deliver on projects managed conflicts related to priorities, schedules and resources
• Managed people, individual performance and career development
• Conducted retrospectives for projects based on project results metrics and guided team to adopt engineering processes practices to improve productivity and quality of deliverables
• Optimized cost structure by outsourcing appropriate project activities to vendors and managed vendor relationships
• PM Software used: MS Office PowerPoint, Excel, Word , MS Project, MS Visio, MS SharePoint, Rally, Quality Center, Wiki
• PM Methodologies Used: Agile Scrum , Theory of Constraints TOC , Critical Chain Project Mgmt CCPM , Six Sigma
• Technologies Involved: Enterprise Java, Spring, Hibernate, REST, JSP, Servlets, TestNG, JUnit, Mockito
• Confidential project manager scrum master
• Directed and supervised a 5 member team of engineers involved in the end-to-end prototyping development of a scalable and high performance Enterprise Cloud Imaging framework, software imaging services imaging apps for web enabled HP printers
• Practiced Agile Project Management performed the Scrum Master role
• Developed detailed project plans with schedule cost estimates, communication risk plans managed cross team/cross functional dependencies, handled licensing issues prepared quality risk plans
• Removed project roadblocks escalated issues/risks wherever appropriate
• Collaborated with cross-functional inter departmental teams to leverage design and architecture to deliver on projects
• Collected reported project performance and quality metrics to upper management program stakeholders for review
• PM Software used: MS Office PowerPoint, Excel, Word , MS Project, MS Visio, MS SharePoint, XPlanner, Quality Center, Wiki
• PM Methodologies Used: Waterfall, Agile Scrum
• Technologies Involved: Enterprise Java, REST, JSP, Servlets, OSGI, JNI, C/C , Image Processing

Confidential

project manager

• Directed and supervised a 4 member team of engineers involved in the end-to-end leverage, prototype, implementation, testing and integration of image processing solutions into HP DesignJet multifunction printer products
• Practiced Agile Project Management performed the Scrum Master role
• Developed project schedule resource estimates, managed cross team/cross functional dependencies prepared quality risk plans
• Removed project roadblocks escalated issues/risks wherever appropriate
• Collaborated with teams in HP Labs to leverage algorithm design to deliver on solution
• Influenced business program teams on the value proposition of solution and created plans for product integration
• Collected reported project performance and quality metrics to upper management program stakeholders for review
• PM Software used: MS Office PowerPoint, Excel, Word , MS Project, MS Visio, MS SharePoint, XPlanner, Quality Center
• PM Methodologies Used: Agile Scrum
• Technologies Involved: C/C , Image Processing, Embedded Systems, RTOS

Confidential

project manager

• Directed and supervised a 10 member team of software engineers architects involved in the development of:
• o Embedded web portal and web server software development for HP DesignJet printer products
• o Device User Interface Control Panel development for HP DesignJet printer products
• Estimated costs managed, prepared detailed project plans for projects with annual budgets of 800,000 or more
• Analyzed translated high level business requirements to software requirements through interactions with offshore product management, marketing, market research and business teams
• Handled requirements prioritization, scope negotiation, estimation commitment of engineering resources to concurrent programs for implementation
• Collaborated, coordinated and interacted with local and offshore software, mechanical, electrical operations teams to deliver on projects
• Built a strong working relationship with offshore partners stakeholders in US Europe and proposed influenced strategic and roadmap decisions
• Collected reported project performance and quality metrics to upper management program stakeholders for review
• Conducted retrospectives for projects based on project results metrics and guided team to adopt engineering processes practices to improve productivity and quality of deliverables
• Significantly improved team performance and productivity by driving systematic changes in the team's composition engineering processes, removing constraints roadblocks and effecting engineering improvements
• Advocated a high performance culture and led the team to prototype and implement innovative software solutions to support rollout of business use cases
• Ensured a high degree of employee engagement through effective goal setting, ongoing performance feedback and career development discussions with employees. Coached employees to get to the next level of job performance job level and facilitated supported career moves of employees
• Recruited new employees and ensured a optimized cost structure by outsourcing appropriate roles activities to vendors
• PM Software used: MS Office PowerPoint, Excel, Word , MS Project, MS Visio, MS SharePoint, XPlanner, Rally, Quality Center, Wiki
• PM Methodologies Used: Waterfall, Agile Scrum , Theory of Constraints TOC , Critical Chain Project Mgmt CCPM , Six Sigma
• Technologies Involved: Java, JSP, Servlets, XML, Corba, JNI, C/C , JUnit, Qtopia

Confidential

Lead Firmware Engineer / project coordinator

• Recruited setup a firmware development team of 8 engineers in 3 months at Bangalore
• Technically led coordinated activities of project team
• Reported project status and updates to offshore US management
• Performed Embedded Software development requirements definition, feasibility analysis, effort estimation, functionality design, implementation, unit testing, defect fixing build and release creation for HP Home Home Office Inkjet DeskJet/PhotoSmart/OfficeJet printers using C, network programming real time design pattern concepts on embedded ARM core running ThreadX RTOS

Delivery focus was on:

• Page Description Language e.g. PCL
• Print Data Processing firmware
• Motion Control firmware
• Printer User Interface Control Panel firmware

Software Skills/Tools used: C, ThreadX, Embedded Systems, PCL, Real Time Design Patterns, Sockets, Green Hills IDE

Confidential Senior

Software Developer

• Embedded web server porting web portal implementation
• Delivery focus was on:
• Performed Embedded Software development requirements gathering, feasibility analysis, functionality design, implementation, unit testing defect fixing for Xerox Phaser printers using C, multithreading IPC concepts on embedded PowerPC core running VxWorks RTOS.
• HTTP security implementation
• Embedded protocol stack network application development

• SNMP development
• Simulation tools development

Software Skills/Tools Used: C, VxWorks, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, SNMP, HTTP, Sockets, Tornado IDE, Rational Test Real Time

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