Tony Arul Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Bengaluru Area, India

I was engaged in the capacity of Engineering Manager / Program Manager with CISCO Systems. My primary responsibility here involves management of portfolio of projects/ programs with the accountability of project planning, defining scope, budgeting, setting timelines, analyzing requirements, identifying dependencies, evaluating risks and acquiring release approvals to ensure seamless testing & delivery. Apart from the key tasks that I performed, I also establish & deliver product roadmaps, introduce various organizational changes for effective delivery of programs and streamline short & long term priorities within the program plans.I align architecture to business strategy for delivering structured, efficient, sustainable & adaptable IT solutions. I also played a key role in serving as a part of 1st wave of Agile Transformation Leadership Team and delivering critical application development & maintenance for 4 clients in APAC and Europe.► Key focus of my role included ◄Program / Project Management ~ Agile Business Analysis ~ Risk Management ~ Deliverable Management ~ Client/Stakeholder Liaison & Coordination

Singapore

Succession Path: Project Leader, Bangalore ►transferred to Singapore as Project Leader in Mar 2010 ► Promoted to Delivery Leader, Bangalore in May 2011I focused on developing, deploying & tracking projects as per budgeted schedule. I served as a primary point of contact for the team &project stakeholders for managing software change requests, ascertaining their impacts and determining time, effort & cost.During my engagement, I headed negotiation contracts with vendors and establishment of SLAs/KPIs for determining project completion date, creating, documenting & validating acceptance, integration, performance and formulating test plans.I also showcased adaptability, agility & ability to manage constant change through innovation by eliciting, identifying & documenting functional requirements, structuring ambiguous business problems to define detailed user stories, creating story maps, functional requirement documents, GUI use cases, flow charts, diagrams, or other requirements documentation, as needed to support user stories. I was involved in critically evaluating information gathered from multiple sources, reconciling conflicts, decomposing high-level information into details, abstracting up from low-level information to a general understanding and distinguishing user requests from underlying true needs.► Some highlights of my role included ◄☞ Developing capability of project team by establishing reasonable, challenging & clear expectations and implementing processes &tools☞ Conducting architectural assessment of the deployed systems entailing study of their alignment with WCS approved architectural technologies☞ Responding to RFPs and developing project proposals, cost &time estimates for new projects

Succession Path: Joined as Software Engineer promoted to ► Senior Software EngineerSpearhead project activities from inception phase entailing architectural analysis, alternate design evaluation & feature gap analysis to code walk-through for maintaining technical integrity. I was involved in executing all stages of development viz. design, coding, unit testing, integration, implementation and final documentation.I played a key role in developing products using both Waterfall and Iterative Models. In addition, I managed product stabilization, releases activities, resolution of UAT defects, development of Nunit/Junit test suites executing unit test cases, etc. ► Some highlights of my role included ◄☞ Delivery of Desktop based C# Winforms & Java based Applications; managed designing of various components using MVC Architecture &design patterns☞ Received ANT Award in 2006 for iVG Application Development &Support

Mca

Bachelor Of Science