A Highly Skilled professional able to lead, supervise, manage, guide & accelerate software development Projects. Also, a professional who has domain knowledge across 3 Industries – Telecom, Finance & Online Retail.
a) IBM Venture Capital experience-
1. Was an advisor to the board of directors of a European Company called as WorldSensing.
2. Looked at opportunities, Technology & Scale across businesses in Europe.
3. Suggested ways of cutting client acquisition costs & my methods were accepted by IBM as well as WorldSensing.
4. Making their businesses smarter by suggesting real-time systems that give feedback and optimize business critical parameters.
b) Project Management Experience -
1. Managed a team of 25 people at Infosys as an Offshore Project lead (Designation: Programmer Analyst) for the SMSDV Project. 25 people included 3 Team leads & their respective teams. Each team was from a diverse technology, (Coldfusion, JAVA and Oracle DBA respectively). There was no Project Manager at offshore. I used to report directly to the Senior Project manager.
2. Scaled this project from scratch to a CMMi Level-5 rating in just two audits with some of the toughest auditors.
3. Initially the team size was just 6 people, based on good delivery coupled with innovative suggestions; we were able to raise it till strength of 25 in 8 months.
4. Apart from this I have managed Teams at Verizon (Infosys) & Ideas (IBM) and I have repeatedly demonstrated team scaling up while winning client appreciation & adding value.
c) Domain Knowledge, Business Process Excellence & Client Value Add –
1. Good Knowledge about the Telecom domain, including OSS/BSS, eTOM models, SID, BCM, SOA, SOMA etc.
2. Added value to Sprint by suggesting changes that helped them save 5 million USD annually. Both Sprint VPs & IBM management have verified the savings & was presented as a case study of one of the value-adds IBM did for Sprint.
d) Experience in direct client handling –
1. AT&T Bell Labs: the largest telecom provider in the US
2. Verisign: The second largest telecom provider in the US
3. Sprint: The third largest telecom provider in the US
4. Paypal: Internet Finance major
5. Ebay: Internet Retail major
Most clients worked with are in the Fortune 50 space & I have been exposed to their process standards like CMMi, Express, ISO 27001, ISO 9000 etc.
e) Experience in direct vendor handling-
For the purpose of Hiring Interviews that have been conducted, I have also directly interacted with Vendors, Consultancies & independent Contract providers to arrange for people, resources that would be required for staffing within IBM.
f) Awards & recognition –
1. Received the prestigious “Infosys Award for Initiatives & Excellence”
2. Was consistently ranked as an “A” level contributor for exceeding client expectations & delivery for all the years served in Infosys.
3. Received twice consecutively the recognition of “The Best of IBM” (an yearly award) while in IBM.
g) Quality Experience -
1. At Infosys – faced some of the toughest auditors & scaled up the above project from CMM- level 0 to CMM- Level 3 & subsequently to CMMi- Level 5.
2. Understand & have used Mercury Test Director (Quality Centre), WinRunner, LoadRunner to automate test scripts.
3. Good Understanding of CMMi Processes, including DP analysis, fishbone cause-effect analysis, Configuration management activities, change management activities, Risk analysis activities etc. Even understand the PCMMi Model, although didn’t get a chance to implement it.
4. I also have experience using the CMSynergy tool in both Developer / Build Manager roles)
5. Understand the RPM tool & can create timesheets, workflows & most of the other stuff, required to manage a project successfully.
h) Community Give back –
1. I am also involved in giveback activities, where in professionally I have mentored people within IBM & guide them in areas where I can assist with. I have mentored 12 people within IBM. (Mentoring regarding career progression as well as Architects Profession)
2. I was also a part of On-Demand Community @ IBM where-in we go to municipal schools where IBM has contributed PC infrastructure & see how kids are being benefited. Sometimes we also teach them on computer operation & stuff.
3. I regularly take JAVA/J2EE sessions, technical architecture sessions within IBM. In Infosys, I also used to take Domain related sessions (Telecom) & Quality (CMMi / PCMMi related sessions)
• Experience in direct client handling-
AT&T Bell Labs: the largest telecom provider in the US
Verisign: The second largest telecom provider in the US
Sprint: The third largest telecom provider in the US
Paypal: Internet Finance major
Ebay: Internet Retail major
Most clients worked with are in the Fortune 50 space & I have been exposed to their process standards like CMMi, Express etc.
