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• Acquisition and Portfolio Ownership: Joined Cytek Biosciences as part of the acquisition of Amins, Guava, and Muse products, and currently own the portfolio of Research Use Only (RUO) Flow Cytometers and Sorters, which include spectral, imaging, and non-imaging instruments.• Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Collaborate across various disciplines such as R&D, Marketing, Service, and Operations to manage projects efficiently using Smartsheet and other PLM tools.• Project Management: Manage instrument development projects from initiation to launch by coordinating with teams across different time zones.• Engineering Contributions: Coordinate and contribute to engineering deliverables, including specifications, test plans, reliability testing, and engineering validation to ensure the launch of quality products.• Product Road Mapping: Actively participate in product road mapping and planning meetings.

• Formalized the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process and built a team of Software Development and Test Engineers (SDTEs) to ensure high-quality product releases.• Led the successful release of major updates for the flagship product, ImageStream MKII, which doubled sales.• Contributed to a multi-year project to develop, test, and release the new instrument 'CellStream' by collaborating across disciplines.• Focused on team growth by offering opportunities to learn and work with cutting-edge technologies like AI and Machine Learning.

I mentored a team of diverse individuals to provide quality assurance for Windows 8.0 and 8.1 releases. Designed and organized a verification and validation on the V1 device, MS Surface.Windows 8.0 -The most used desktop app ‘Windows File Explorer' was updated with some awesome new features,• Graphical representation of file copy progress and system resources• Ribbon for easy access to all hidden file management gems • Touch friendlyI facilitated the smooth transition of this work to my team. Designed and developed test plan and mentored my team to come up to speed quicklyI did the integration testing with other shell features for smooth user workflow. Performance and fluid user experience was the key for success. High quality product was released to meet these user promises,1. Performance2. Reliability3. Compatibility4. World Readiness- Windows is shipped globallyWindows 8.1 -I developed test plan and automation for performance optimization of Compatibility Online Service (COS) hosted in Windows Azure.Impact: 4X performance improvement with 100% success rate.I did the functional, data validation and performance testing to improve the search on ‘Windows Compatibility Center' web site that provides compatibility information on most used apps and devices.Impact: Customer satisfaction increased by 30%

I joined the Zune marketplace team to work on the V1 product that followed the scrum model.Participated in design and development of the Music catalog and feed engine, developed using SQL server. Music feeds were collected from multiple providers and biggest challenge was to eliminate duplicates and have correct and complete recordsManaged the release of Marketplace (online store) V1. I hired and mentored high caliber candidates and built a strong team. Led the team of 4 FTEs and 2 contractors to work on the expansion of the Marketplace catalog to collect videos, games and apps data for Windows phone and XboxI worked on the integration and released the updated version of Marketplace for Windows phone 7.0 and Xbox 360 by following agile methodology.

I worked on multiple release and many different technologies on one of the MSN's property 'Carpoint' renamed to MSN Home and Autos and finally to MSN Autos. http://autos.msn.comFew noticeable accomplishments:1. Expertise in performance, stress and load testing of web portal and SQL server. I started from scratch, environment setup (to mimic production) to planning and development of tests. 2. Cross group collaboration and consistent improvement of the new test tools and process as technology evolved3. After working as perf expert for 4 years, I mentored a new hire to take the ownership of the stress/perf testing and I moved on to take new challenges of client/server feature testing4. Became an expert of SQL and Web services testing. Developed test automation using C# and SQL, collected code coverage and actively participated in design reviews as a voice of users5. Developed monitoring system for production Web & SQL servers that prevented downtime by sending timely alerts

Participate in Software design reviews, develop Test plan, design and develop automated tests, execute and release test run results.