Bimal Patel Email & Phone Number

Northville, Michigan, United States

• Streamlined the mobile application release process resulting in a rolling 6-month forward-looking calendar of planned releases.• Delivered quarterly mobile application upgrades on time to over 20 partners resulting in a 30% subscription growth year-over-year.• Established a process for all release communications to internal and external stakeholders, providing clear and concise release notes to partners and customers.

• Led integration of UberEATS delivery service with the McDonald’s Mobile application.• Managed the release of key features for strategic market growth in the Australian market.• Managed development of a core global solution to support gaming in any market. Scope includes a single sign on solution and a closed loop redemption system.• Drove deployment of GDPR compliance and fraud score solution to the UK market.

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed program deliverables for Motorola’s biggest B2B customer account, generating about 80% of mobile devices revenue.• Led effort across 6 teams in 4 countries to deliver core phone applications and upgrades for Droid Maxx, Maxx2, Turbo and Turbo2, achieving over $100M in product revenue.• Managed program release schedules through project tracking, daily scrum meetings, team workshops, and weekly stakeholder communication, improving visibility of program delivery status to senior leadership and increasing orders over $100K.• Drove initiatives through re-architecture of software release process for 20 features across 8 consumer devices, reducing overhead 80%.• Conducted sprint planning while capturing velocity, priority and success criteria for stories. Incorporated continuous integration and daily testing into development process, reducing risks and shortening release time for critical features.• Worked across 10 agile engineering teams to triage software defect backlog, eliminating blockers and validating defect resolution.• Liaised with Google (former parent company) to identify O/S defects and enhancements discovered through application integration effort, achieving integration of over 90% of code fix submissions.• Led cross-team metrics meetings to discuss trends and determine product success. Reviewed findings with consumer experience design, deprecating at least 10 features and increasing opportunities for product innovations.

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed feature roadmap for over 20 multimedia applications across 10 consumer platforms of phones and tablets.• Led project-tracking initiatives across multimedia team, ensuring clear communication, elevating risks, identifying dependencies and managing expectations.• Oversaw testing and validation teams, domestically and internationally, managing all core applications in multimedia suite, reducing number of escaped defects by 85%.• Drove automation of testing and validation, improving efficiency and scale across all products.• Coordinated feature integration and defect tracking with 7 3rd party vendors; managed schedules and external contracted resources, creating closer working relationships, containing vendor delays and issues, maintaining delivery dates and ensuring product releases remained on schedule.

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed global integration team of 6 engineers to deliver daily software releases across 4 consumer phones.• Delivered python scripts to automate system build processes, eliminating 95% manual build errors.• Created Software Change Management document to define best practices and procedures for new employees, creating cohesive understanding of team’s charter and achieving 100% of software goals.• Defined and implemented 24-hour build and release process, ensuring optimal cycle times and increasing releases to 5 per week.• Defined quality review boards to gather metrics, improving quality of build releases.

Libertyville, Il

• Led daily Change Control Board (CCB) meetings to review daily/weekly release plans.• Planned and scheduled builds to minimize development downtime and meet project deadlines. • Key contributor to build time reduction initiatives. Reduced build time by 10% through file GLOBing, 5% through header-file searching time reduction and continuous Makefile optimizations. • Reduced escaped defects and achieved 75% defect containment goal through implementation of domain build and test strategies. • Integrated Klocwork and Complexity quality checks into Multimedia release process. Responsible for ensuring new critical Klocwork errors are caught in integration process and complexity rules are not violated.• Created and maintained smoke testing, training, and feature support documentation.• Trained and established multimedia software integration teams in India, Russia, and Italy.• Effectively established integration process for handling 3rd Party proprietary software. Worked with Software BOM team to efficiently track 3rd party software in component and platform releases.

Greater Chicago Area

• Delivered integration builds using CLEARCASE for 3G, GSM, CDMA and TDMA products.• Achieved 100% on-time delivery by conducting software configuration management and release management under a clearcase environment.• Gained valuable working experience on software Build Planning / build integration / Branching / Merging / Labeling /Releasing / Testing / Debugging. • Supported a common component label across multiple products to reduce propagation overhead.• Delivered key releases for TDMA shipments to emerging markets in Latin America.• Coordinated test efforts for new Multimedia features across multiple platforms and products.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering