Candidates About

A Stanford certified Project Manager & Certified Scrum Master. Enriched with progressive experience in Software Quality and Agile Program Management. Working at the crossroads of business and technology and keenly inclined towards innovative design strategies and architecting business initiatives to success.

·         12+ years of technical expertise in all stages of software quality

·         5+ years of technical Engineering management & 3+ years of Agile expertise and scrum management

·         Strategize program roadmap, execute & communicate at all Organizational levels, focus on customer centricity and emphasis on delivery

·         Lead cross-functional distributed teams, drive product release schedules, establish continuous improvement plans and develop risk mitigation plans

·         Highly proficient at technical requirement analysis, design strategy and implementation, effort and budget estimation, reviews, defect trend analysis and acceptance release plans

·         Exhibit strong leadership at mentoring and technically driving multiple teams to success

·         Hands on at execution involving various aspects of software quality with an exceptional focus to detail

Management: Effort estimation, project scheduling, effective project planning and tracking, test strategy, requirement analysis, work breakdown structure (WBS), risk management, defect flow analysis, traceability metrics, software reviews

Language: C, Java, Ruby, Perl, Shell, and Selenium

OS: UNIX, Linux, and Windows

SCM: Jira, StarTeam, Quality Center, Radar, Espresso, Xythos

Tools: SAP SD, CRM, HP OpenView tools, Bugzilla, Twiki, Gdb, and ConnectMe

Models: Agile methodology, Saas, Waterfall

    2015: Gladiator Award - Outstanding customer focus and delivery

        Customer Hero Award - Outstanding customer interface and excellent technical                              contribution to the account

        Best Project Award - Excellent technical and project management effort providing an overall        contribution to the program

2014: Synergiser award - Creation of online networking and collaborative space on ConnectMe for all      Wiproites at Apple

2010:  Feather in my cap award - Excellent cohesive job with the dev team to ensure high quality            deliverable, handling major tool upgrades and complex features

  2009: Feather in my cap, above & beyond award - Pivotal role in project release and CSAT of 7/7 twice in a             row.

2007: Feather in my cap award - Excellent customer interface, various technical and non-technical           contributions to the project and troubleshooting issues

    2006: Feather in my cap award - Individual contribution in software quality, lab setup, and CSAT of 7/7

2005: Feather in my cap, Above & Beyond award - Initial work and setup created an impression on the    client and resulted in a business opportunity for the division

·         Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance ID: 000391643)

·         Project Management Academy (Wipro Technologies)

·         ITIL Foundation Course (Version 3)

·         Stanford University, CA      (Sep 13 – Jul 14)                                                                 

o    Advanced Project Management

·         JSS Academy of Technical Education, VTU (Aug 98 – Aug 02)

o    Bachelor of Engineering, Instrumentation Technology

Project Manager, Apple Inc.                                                                                   Aug 12 - Now

Leading multiple teams for online Apple store channeling to various B2B & B2C business needs

·         Key Achievements

o    Successfully led project revenue of over $2m and team growth from 2 to 8 members

o    Implemented a repository model saving 30% efforts over every quality cycle

o    Created an online space (ConnectMe) to synergize networking among various teams

o    Consistent delivery led the engagement to foster Customer reputation

·         Responsibilities

o    Translating business needs to software quality requirements

o    Strategize and implement various business requirements to an end to end execution

o    Lead the effort, schedule, resource and technically manage various business releases

o    Collaborate with multiple engineering teams to understand and analyze requirements

o    Lead and mentor engineering teams and manage productivity

o    Communicate to stakeholders at all organizational levels

o    Hands on engineer actively engaged in daily execution solving technical and analytical roadblocks

Agile Project Manager & Scrum Master, HP                                                 Nov 07 - Aug 12

Led multiple teams as a scrum master and project manager across several sprints for various customer facing product releases and introduced automation

·         Key Achievements

o    Collaborated with the customer to transition seamlessly from waterfall to agile

o    Consistent on time delivery, excellent Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) scores helped the engagement to expand over a short span of time

o    Successfully led project revenue of over $3m and team growth from 3 to 11 members

·         Responsibilities

o    Lead various sprints as Scrum Master with a scrum team of 5. Actively collaborate with the Product Owner to analyze and prioritize product backlog

o    Perform requirement analysis with story points, allocate tasks to the team and present burn down charts at every sprint cycle completion

o    Execute test strategy, implementation, review analysis and implemented automation

o    Manage process activities such as team effort, productivity, resource allocation and providing periodic feedback on improvisation process and methods

o    Handling parallel releases and analysis of defect trends and implementation of lab

Project Leader, Wipro Technologies.                                                                               Apr 04 - Oct 07

Performed complete software quality for various customer facing desktop applications on flavors of Linux.

·         Key Achievements

o    Awarded for incredible customer interface and won a new business opportunity

o    Started as a lone member and grew to a 7 member team with growing revenue of over $3m

·         Responsibilities

o    Provide software quality design and execution

o    Analyzing critical issues, defect trends and implementation of lab

Embedded Engineer, Embeyond Technologies                                                         Aug 03 – Apr 04

On boarded this startup to establish an embedded project team working on various microcontroller-based assignments       

·         Responsibilities

o    Designed and built an embedded microcontroller learning kit to aid beginners with microcontroller programming