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Sunnyvale, California, United States

Mountain View, California

Results-oriented engineering leader offering excellent logical abilities and organization skills. Built positive, trusting relationships through consistent, delivery of commitments and effective communication.Expert in establishing business goals and requirements, removing impediments and keeping team focused on delivering success on time.Successful at creating structure from chaos by using specific tools and understanding the key requirements from different stakeholders. Experience managing complex engineering programs. Started as an IC TPM and hired many TPMs to build a great TPM Team while leading it. Performed Release Management for all software releases which included Scoping, Planning, Coordination, Tagging Builds, Merging Changes, Maintaining Release Lines and Deploying software. Great Track record of delivering highly reliable and scalable complex systems. Manage critical tasks, interpreting leadership’s needs, prioritizing activities. Perform cross functional coordination to manage program scope, risks, dependencies, and drive issues to resolution.Invent and re-evaluate current processes ranging from planning to meetings to budgets and adjust per organizational needs.Collaborate, facilitate, lead and coach teams responsible for developing software products that resulted in delivering stable and high quality product experiences based on roadmap commitmentsDependency and risk profile management - predict potential “train wrecks”. Communicate status & risks internally and externally across organizations from engineer to executive level.Instilled a lot of processes to increase engineering productivity & help scale the organization to 1B$. Established a cross-program governance model to enhance effective coordination of releases and inter-dependencies. Decreased the release cycle by 50% and helped achieve a predictable release cycle.

Redwood Shores, Ca

EPM for the Systems Test Team which performs Stress, Reliability, Scalability and Performance Tests for all EA Titles and provides a risk assessment for launch. Worked on major EA games like FIFA, Battlefield, Plants vs Zombies, NBA and many mobile games to ensure a successful game launch.Organize and lead large cross-functional programs and projects ensuring all functional tracks are resourced properly and progressing to meet business timelines.Managed multiple projects simultaneously, partnering with geographically distributed teams and business groups. Responsible for managing project resource cost & schedule. Responsible for presenting the Launch Risk Assessment to all EA Executive Leadership.Implemented many new processes which helped improve efficiency & visibility in the Project Management Office (Project Reviews, Dashboards, JIRA Tracking) Worked with various teams following different SDLC Waterfall or Agile. Performed the role of Scrum Master for a few teams.

QA Lead for an upcoming FM product in the Cloud Platform and FM Server QA which is developed and tested using Agile Methodology.As a Lead, responsible for Planning, Scheduling, Test Execution, Result Gathering, Analysis and Bug Scrubbing. Coordinated the test effort with different teams like Localization, Instructional Media, Build Engineering, Technical Support & Marketing. Responsible for managing all minor releases from inception to launch.Communicate Project status to all stakeholders. Create test schedules for the team, monitor progress, compile results and report to management. Led the localization effort and was a liaison between the L10N Team and L10N testers in Beijing. Did Test Planning, Scheduling, Training and Result Verification for L10N testers.

Performed System tests by using internal test suites which focused on stressing the system using the different features of the operating system and applications of Netapp Hardware. Created test plans, test schedules and test cases for the different projects. Tested on different platforms and communicated the status to cross-functional teams. Led projects like IBM branded ONTAP, Disaster Recovery Solution & Disaster Protection Solutions for the System Test Team. Managed 4 contractors in Pune, India and monitored their testing. Managed the Lab Usage to maximize system utilization. Lead the effort for creating and designing the System test lab in Raleigh, NC. Worked with different Vendors and Lab Management Team to create a state of the art lab with high end Servers, Networks, Storage and Databases.

Software Quality Engineer for Storage Foundations group at Veritas Software. Tested products (Database Editions) against flavors of Unix, like Solaris, HP-UX & AIX with different databases like Oracle & DB2. Project lead for AIX & Solaris releases. Created Schedule and Project Plan for all team members. Wrote automation scripts for nightly regression tests in Korn Shell and PERL. Use Rational Robot (XDE Tester) to perform GUI Automation. Performed Stress, Scalability & Internationalization (I18N) testing for the SFDB2/SFORA product of Veritas.

Certification Advanced Project Management, Advanced Project Management

Certification Project Management

Masters, Computers

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.)

Bachelors, Computer Engineering