Arjun Narang Email & Phone Number

Los Altos, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, California, United States

Palo Alto, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Developed feature specification, branding, and timelines for call home and data analytics product. Worked with engineering team in India throughout software development life cycle.Coordinated across development, marketing, and sales teams to align product functionality, release timelines, marketing materials, and customer POCs for KVM support of Maxta’s hyperconvergence softwareParticipated in sales calls and customer visits and POCs. Provided technical assistance to field sales and interacted with customers to understand project requirements. Visited customers in UK and China to gather feedback for roadmap prioritization.Conducted multiple webinars with industry analysts and customers. Participated in recorded analyst interviews as company spokesperson to communicate product capabilities and company position within hyperconverged industryResearched competitive products. Developed internal documentation and training materials for sales team regarding competitive advantages and product differentiation. Prioritized future engineering tasks that would help to bridge gap with competitorsProvided technical training to global field sales and sales engineering teams. Managed communication between engineering and sales teams. Managed internal demo lab, as well as hosted and on-premise POC environmentsActed as lead technical and product resource for multiple conferences, including VMworld and OpenStack meetups. Developed presentations, demo materials, and speaking sessionsAssisted with project to redesign product UIAssisted with roadmap creation and prioritizationDeveloped and maintained product compatibility list

Performed various product marketing tasks, including development of a video series for product training, technical resource at customer lunch and learnsDeveloped technical white paper detailing Maxta product architecture. Tested and developed numerous solution briefs describing co-existence with other products, deployment guides for for common use cases, and marketing datasheets

San Francisco Bay Area

Developed test automation in Java and Powershell. Incorporated existing automation frameworks to increase testing effciency.Managed and maintained interoperability testbed for VMware vCloud SuiteTested numerous products including: VMware vSphere, VMware vCenter Server, VMware View, VMware vCloud Director, VMware Data Recovery, VMware vCenter Operations, and VMware vCenter Heartbeat.Deployed and maintained complex virtual infrastructure testbed to support team of 8quality engineers. Testbed was composed of multiple Virtual Centers, ESX hosts, storage arrays, and networking configurations.Point of contact for employees who needed training to ramp up on new products.Worked with teams across multiple regions (Palo Alto, Beijing, Bangalore, Bulgaria).Collobarated with developers, QA, and PMs throughout release cycle of version 1.0 product to provide system test coverage.Worked across multiple teams to expand test coverage by leveraging automation tools from other teams and incorporating additional solutions into testbed. This allowed our team to create a testbed with the widest distrubtion of products in a large scale environment.

Developed set of utilities to automate processing of VMware log files and provide structured HTML reports that can be used for detailed analysis. This tool has been implemented for internal use and is scheduled to be released to VMWare customers.Created alogrithm to efficiently search VMWare log files. Worked independently throughout the lifecycle of the project. This algorithm is implemented in Python and deployed on Unix servers.

Developed user interface for Subversion (SVN) client to improve efficiency of defect management process using Python. Worked with developers to test new release of Master Data Management (MDM) software.

Collaborated with software developers to create test cases and test features of product.Gained working knowledge of SAP MDM products through development of test plans for a release cycle.

Worked in the development group creating test automation scripts using Perl, developing data conversion utilities, and maintaining test and production servers.