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PRODUCT MANAGER• Drive the market research, product vision, product development, and lifecycle management for multiple products in alignment with the company mission, focused on increasing staff efficiency and customer outcome/NPS by 10%• Participate in cross-functional business operating teams to intake new ideas, manage urgent technical issues, manage release schedules and deliver high-quality solutions through close collaboration with developers• Elicitate product requirements & create user stories/tasks to maintain the product backlog (prioritized via release & iteration plans), which helped reduce time to market by 50% and project savings of nearly $100,000• Improved net promoter score (NPS) by 65%, average # of 5-star customer reviews per cohort by 33%, and top of the funnel leads by 3x using A/B testing of hypothesis, collecting metrics, and optimizing functionalities• Adhere to Agile practices (SCRUM) with CICD, helping enhance predictability & mitigate risk• Track project progress using velocity & burndown charts, and other key success metrics (defect analysis)MANAGING DIRECTOR• Directly managed a team of 8 FTEs across Product, Engineering, Instruction, Marketing, and Customer Success• Responsible for budgeting, forecasting, and operationalizing a $3mm P&L• Increased profit margin by 110% in 1st year• Mentored 250+ young professionals & delivered talks at conferences, leadership events, and non-profit organizations• Set strategic vision and direction for organization to help drive new streams of revenue• Led continuous system and process optimization, including restructuring the organizational chart that resulted in increased staff effectiveness, motivation, and the best retention rate of all offices

Product: IBM PureSystemsTeam: Security Development (Feb 2012 - Sep 2014)• Security development & test lead for PureApplication Systems (on-premise / off-premise cloud infrastructure)• Led the implementation of key test framework enhancements which resulted in reduced regressions and improved overall quality of code• Integrated code coverage tool into the build to help focus testing efforts on key components and achieved a 85% code coverage & grew test suite by 20x YOY• Developed various security-related REST/HTTP APIs, features, and enhancements• Supported clients via consultation & provided various educational training/demos to team, customers, and executive leadership• Technologies/practices: IBM RTC, Java, Python, Groovy, Agile, Continuous Delivery, Continuous IntegrationTeam: Incubation Squad (Sep 2014 - Aug 2015)• Prototyped technologies to help redefine the future of IBM Cloud capabilities• Delivered customer POC / Demos• Projects: Secure Hybrid Cloud Capability (Microcloud), IBM Cloud Strategy• Technologies: Github, Wireframing, BlueMix, AWS, Openstack, Heat, Docker• Awarded multiple IBM leadership awards by management team for impact and contribution

• Automated campus-wide research protocol status updates via the web• Reduced status inquiry phone calls to the Office for Responsible Research by over 75%• Managed comprehensive research database for the university• Technologies: MS Access, MS SQL, Microsoft Server Management Studio, web development (PHP)

• Teaching assistant for two undergrad courses: Digital Logic & Embedded Systems• Led weekly laboratory experiments, graded weekly assignments, and mentored undergraduate students through office hours

• Worked with a team of undergraduate and graduate students on Sparsh UI, a multi-touch software and hardware development project• Helped in the development of the cross-platform, hardware agnostic multi-touch gesture (e.g. flick, double-tab) recognition framework using dynamic algorithms for developers interested in developing multitouch applications. For more details on the project, visit http://code.google.com/p/sparsh-ui

Team: LabVIEW Embedded Microprocessor (R&D)• Implemented a Linux Valgrind target in LabVIEW that will help the Embedded Microprocessor SDK team in detecting memory corruption issues easily without having to go through extra manual work. The new target will aid in automating the use of the Valgrind tool to detect heap corruptions and other common memory management problems that exist in the generated C code.• Wrote technical & end user documentations for better maintainability of the project • Presented multiple specification reviews on the architecture design of the Valgrind target

• Developed CATculator, an auto-scaling application with high capabilities, to aid engineers in debugging & testing softwares on Electronic Control Modules • Developed CAT Data Log Decoder, an application for the Core Electro-Hydraulic Steering Control team to parses raw field test data to detect steering control faults and generate reports• Technologies: VBA, Excel

• Troubleshoot Networking Problems• Remove Spywares/Viruses• Customer relations/service