SUMMARY:

• Expertise in mentoring and leading technical teams including software, quality, and systems engineers.
• Successfully managed development of multiple products from conception to production deployment some responsible for over $1bn in revenue.
• Experience with managing software teams as large as 60 engineers.
• Designed, implemented, managed, and launched successful products for startups.
• Published articles on iOS development on Code
• Proven expertise with improving software and quality assurance processes and standards.
• Contributor to open source projects on Confidential
• Successful project manager, noted for excellence in cultivating lasting relationships and motivating employees to excel beyond expectations.
• Experienced software architect with object oriented methodologies and technologies.
• Exceptional analytical abilities in resolving complex issues.
• Superior oral and written communication skills.
• Experience in Agile process (Scrum) definition, roll out, and management.
• Experienced with C, C++, Objective - c, PHP, Win32 SDK, MFC, and Confidential .
• Designed and implementeda native iOS app in Objective-C to make it easier to keep track of your appointments and communicate easily with the participant.
• Hands on commitment for full life-cycle development from conception, requirements, development, QA, artwork, and submission to the Apple Store.
• Learned Objective-C and the iOS framework by reading books and the xCode documentation. App uses the following frameworks: CoreData, SystemConfiguration, EventKitUI, CoreTelephony, AddressBookUI, AddressBook, Foundation, and UIKit. Built application website from bootstrap template.
• Supported part-time on weekends and evenings.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Intel PC and Sun

Languages: C, C++, SQL, Java, PL/c, PHP, Objective-C

Frameworks: .NET, Confidential

Operating Systems: Solaris(UNIX), Linux, Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, NT, OSx

Software: Microsoft Office Suite (word, excel, and PowerPoint), Microsoft Project, Apache Web Server, Rational Tools, Crystal reports, Erwin, Visio, J2EE, Wordpress, phpBB

Database: Oracle, Sybase, MySql

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Manage ecommerce software development projects including estimating effort, producing detailed project plans, tracking plans to successful completion, managing risks, managing dependencies, managing issues, managing financial budgets, coordinating work assignments, delegating tasks and responsibilities, producing bi-weekly executive status report, and chairing weekly status meetings with cross functional team members who include quality assurance, software engineering, product marketing, and legal. Present status at executive management meetings. Manage relationships with offshore consulting firms: TCS and Digital.
• Manage monthly agile release cycle for three product lines. Prioritize and scope requirements, resolve technical issues with team, lead daily status meetings and resolve issues, prepare artifacts for production deployment, and manage deployment activities.
• Build experimental Linux Beowulf Cluster on low cost Arndale Octa Board having Cortex-15 and Cortex-A7 cores. Installed and configured cluster with Linaro Linux and MPI for Beowulf cluster architecture and experimented with Elastic Search configuration.
• Created and deployed an agile release process to operational systems for maintenance releases resulting in improved customer satisfaction and a steady reduction in the support backlog. Project teams deploy 20 releases per year.
• Managed the redesign of legal filing web application. The team comprised a cross functional team of QA, Software engineering, Legal, and product management team members. Release was launched successfully with high customer satisfaction and a successful increase in the revenue and transactions executed with the application.
• Support SEI/CMMI Level 2 software development lifecycle processes for projects managed.
• Support technical staff with analysis and code review of C#, .Net, and Silverlight code for difficult problems.

Software Development Manager

Confidential, Bohemia, NY

Responsibilities:

• Project managed development efforts including estimating effort, producing project plan, tracking plans to successful completion, producing weekly executive status report, and chairing weekly status meetings with cross functional team members.
• Mentored engineers in architecture, design, coding, debugging, and test case development. Provided critical review of all key software and quality engineering deliverables.
• Successfully brought product NavisAccess from last place to first place in customer satisfaction through independent Lucent market survey by initiating and leading a re-architecting of the software with resulting improvements in quality, performance, and time to market.
• Supervised system test, integration test, and performance test teams responsible for testing EMS software in a simulated test environment and actual test environment where software was tested against real devices controlled by embedded software.
• Solid technological aptitude manifested in architecting client server, n-tier and distributed designs, using CORBA technology.
• Led, coached, and directed a project team of 60 including software engineering, quality engineering, marketing, support organization and publication professionals to develop element management software (EMS) for Network Access Servers; i.e., dial network devices and DSL network devices, valued at $30MM.
• Totally revamped engineering processes with a particular emphasis on planning, tracking, designs, and reviews, reducing release ship overrun from nearly 50% of initial target dates to on time delivery after assuming management of project. Improvement in quality engineering practices resulted in higher quality products and significant reductions in engineering field support costs.
• Managed transition of engineering teams from US to India and Ireland to India.
• Coordinated development efforts in offshore locations including Ireland, Spain, and India.
• Wrote and delivered yearly performance appraisals for all direct reports which include software engineering, quality assurance, support, technical writing and systems engineering.
• Collaborated with third party vendors to resolve issues and track status. Work directly with full-time project consultant; held weekly status meetings with third party vendors.
• Contributed to, supported, and rolled out CMMI processes for development programs under direct management with particular attention to audits.
• Chaired meetings with product marketing, systems engineering, and product support to develop release requirements and priorities and product road maps.
• Improved customer service operations; i.e., initiated process to reduce turnaround time for closing support requests; held daily meetings with support organization on high priority customer issues to secure speedy resolution
• Manage staff that produces all user-level documentation; i.e., installation, user, and administrators’ guide, training materials and on-line help. Initiated and oversaw programs to improve user documentation.
• Assisted in screening and interviewing 20 new software engineers and quality engineers in a very short time, and initiated and managed the training to integrate them into the team.

Technical Specialist

Confidential, Hauppauge, NY

Responsibilities:

• Department wide resource for peer review of software designs and implementations.
• Senior architect of relational data models for Asset Manager Product.
• Produced ActiveX interface layer to relational database model in C++.
• Participated and contributed to process development leading to SEI/CMM level 2 certification.
• Led engineering team in defining and implementing SEI/CMM level 3 KPA processes to produce efficient, effective, and consistent software.

Project Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded fixed income trading applications using Web technologies, including Internet Browser, Java, and HTML. Fixed income trading product was targeted to wholesale trading companies.
• Delivered customer presentations on key product features.
• Project managed development efforts including estimating effort, producing project plan, tracking plans to successful completion, producing weekly executive status report, and chairing weekly status meetings with cross functional team members, and presenting status to executives in quarterly project reviews.
• Led quality assurance team in revamping quality test plans to improve quality assurance testing of system test and regression test phases.
• Demonstrated superb leadership qualities in responsibilities of planning, project tracking, requirements and release management, recruiting, supervising staff, and designing product enhancements.
• Experienced in developing network interface layers for Reuters Terminal application. Interface layer is responsible for managing network connections and data request to Triarch networks.
• Led staff of 10 including junior and senior software engineers and QA engineers in developing product features.

Senior Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior engineer for News Server Interface Dynamic Link Library, written in Microsoft Visual C++.
• Chief designer and developer of multi-lingual terminal strategy (Kanji and English), allowing new supported languages to be added without recompiling applications.
• Formulated, executed, and documented test designs for innovative real-time financial information network terminals.
• Responsibilities included writing system functional specifications, provided leadership and direction to junior programmers, documented design specifications, and implemented application features in Microsoft Visual C, C++ for these projects.