Software engineering professional with excellent project organization and leadership skills. Extensive experience in the storage industry. Positions from individual contributor, team lead, architect to Engineering Manager. Detail oriented and easy to work with. Worked with global, geographically distributed Team. Experienced in driving complex storage engineering projects from functional description to completion, by providing technical direction to a group of multi-location engineers. Responsible for definition of scope, task breakdown, work assignment, project planning both current and long term for the group. Helped define good engineering practices and polices for developing, reviewing, documenting, testing and releasing code. Regularly interacted with various peer groups as well as upper management for project planning, scheduling, prioritization and contingency and risk management. Point of contact for Information and Support on these features, to internal groups and customer support. Responsible for screening, and mentoring new hires to the team.Specialties and technical skills: • Experience with Distributed systems, Highly scalable, Hyper-Converged-Infrastructure. • Experience managing multiple teams with different charter and goals. • Delivering high quality products for multi-cloud, SaaS and on-prem deployments. • Managing multiple teams across local and distributed time zones. • Hiring, retaining and coaching people, to build high performing engineering teams • Partnering with product managers, Architects, and leads to successfully plan for team deliverables. • Technology edge on a wide array of Storage/cloud services concepts • Languages- C/C++, Python • OS- Linux, VxWorks, Unix, NetApp ONTAP • Proficient in Technical Illustration, MS Powerpoint, Excel, Visio • Agile Software Development and Test Processes Rally, JIRA • Source control tools: Clear Quest, BitBucket, Perforce, Review Board,.