Helped Harman to deliver embedded infotainment solutions - including 3D and augmented navigation, as well as a new generation of automotive cloud services.Managed delivery of software navigation platform for major European car manufacturers, while coordinating activities of Harman teams worldwide. - Executed all aspects of program management including release planning, time and resource scheduling, cost and quality control, risk analysis and mitigation, while coordinating activities across geographically distributed teams (USA, Germany, India). - Coordinated and directed scope control processes, by managing internal change control board, coordinating requirement analysis, prioritizing feature requests for upcoming releases as well as driving requirement clarifications workshops with the customers. - Acted as primary point-of-contact by analyzing customer escalations and engineering problem reports to ascertain which software releases required updates and/or immediate hot fixes to resolve customer issues. - Participated in resources management activities by assisting with resource planning for Vernon Hills site as well interviewing potential candidates.

- Managed delivery of software platform enablers, as well as coordination of cross-team dependencies between tech marketing (primarily Verizon and AT&T, as well as other carriers), product test teams (field testing and carrier validation) and software development teams - Oversaw software projects for platform technology team (Modem, Kernel, Security) in multi-site 24/7 environment with global teams. Planned and tracked software deliverables, coordinated cross-team dependencies and hardware prototypes, which contributed to successful launch of Droid phones line for Verizon Wireless - Built and led the team of program managers supporting Linux-Java front-end release management. My team provided program management for several Linux-Java release programs from initial idea concept to portfolio accept phase to system requirements baseline. - Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings, as well as facilitated the adoption of dual-track scrums that allowed to reduce time to market for product innovations. Maintained dashboards in Scrum tool to provide transparency on projects statuses for internal and external stakeholders. - Coordinated monthly and annual R&D resource planning processes for software development organization that allowed balanced resource utilization and skill-based planning - Supported legal team by driving legal software workarounds from feature requests to software teams to various products which prevented potential IP lawsuits

- Managed Bluetooth stereo headsets projects from conceptual idea reviews to final product shipments - Supported other non-Bluetooth Companion Products projects (battery doors, car cradles, standalone apps for Android devices), including creating 1st Motorola customer-facing web portal for MotoActv sport wearable device. - Coordinated monthly and annual R&D resource planning processes for Companion Products business encompassing forecast versus actual on product shipments, non-labor expenses, and schedule progress which led to improved cost control down to project level as well as decision making on portfolio level.

- Performed database and software design including object-oriented modeling, administration (Oracle 8i) and performance tuning (SQL Server) - Deployed and supported internal private certificate authority and developed SSL-protected application (IIS/HTTPS, Java/JSSE) - Supported project management organization using Primavera TeamPlay suite (a.k.a. Primavera New Product Development) administration for schedule support and resource planning - Developed and conducted trainings on organizational standards, procedures, tools and technologies

- Implemented several key features in short time frame (seamless integration with credit card processing center, Java-based image wavelet compression) which allowed deployment of commercial video-conferencing web site. - Drove commercial web site development using ASP, VBScript, SOAP, Visual InterDev, SQL Server 7.0, IIS, Windows NT 2000, Internet-based billing system - Directed database administration operating SQL Server 7.0, Windows NT 2000, Transact-SQL - Developed software applications and tools utilizing Visual Basic, Java applications, Video compression, and Java-based NT services