SUMMARY

• Experienced Product/Project Manager with 9 plus combined experience in project/product management, data analysis and process engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to establish successful business relationships, develop product features, drive productrequirements, communicate with executive management, work closely with cross functional teams such as engineering/developer teams, understand market opportunities, manage internal and external stakeholders, and launch new productsto market.

Areas of Expertise

• Project Management, Pricing Analysis
• Market Requirements, Statistics
• Pre & post Sales Operations
• Sales Enablement, Market Research
• ProductMarketing activities
• Financial Modeling, Valuation
• New Initiatives & Product launch
• Product Leadership & Growth
• User Acquisition and Engagement
• User Experience and Design
• Strategic Planning & Partnerships
• Product Roadmap: Productlifecycle management Productroadmap
• New ProductIntroductions: ProductFeature, Productvision
• Competitive Analysis
• Cloud Computing Technologies Platforms: Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure
• Data Analytics & Reporting - SQL & Big Data
• 3rd Party Partner Integration & Cross-Promotion
• Agile Product Management& Program Management
• Semiconductor QA testing / Web Testing

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages/Technologies: RESTful Web services in JavaScript, Java /Junit and Python, C, C++, Spring MVC Framework, JDBC, Java Script, JSON, XML, UML, Data structures, Hibernate, JUnit, Web Services, SOAP, REST, JSON, HTML

IDE/Tools/Utilities: Eclipse, Maven, Toad, SQL Developer, SOAP UI, CVS, SVN, Cygwin, Putty, Hudson, Subversion, Jenkins, Ant, Git, Gerrit, JIRA, Bugzilla, HP Quality center, Rally.

Application Web Servers/Virtualization tools: Apache Tomcat 6.0 and 7.0, JBoss, WAS, VM Ware- Vsphere, HyperV, ESXi, KVM

Databases/ ETL/ Dataware House Technologies: Oracle 10g, 11g, MySQL, PL/SQL, SQL- Map Reduce, HBase, Hadoop, Bigdata, Confidential Big data Files, No-SQL, OLAP, Dataware house/ mart tier -ROLAP, EDW Control Rack, EDW Data rack, Backup server nodes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Project Manager

Confidential - Atlanta, Georgia

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for $ 2 million information systems portfolio with a subject matterfocus on data migration, protection, data center and cloud technical support.
• Provide projectplanning, risk planning, action/issue tracking, and overall project communication.
• Contribute to best practices, new process creation, and identification of business improvements.
• Applies knowledge of project management disciplines and processes to deliver infrastructure consulting and implementations thatmodernize clients’ IT infrastructure at client location.
• Own delivery outcome of the Big Data Data Analytics from “Splunk” and Amazon Red Shift” to Micro-strategy for all data management and business reporting projectsat Confidential, Atlanta.
• Leading and managing team size of 50-60 members across different countries, time-zones, cultures, languages and local customs.
• Manage ‘Business As Usual’ Big data migration projects which had a yearly volume of 45 projects, 140 small size projects and 4-5 high visible long running projects.
• Involved in new client proposal and pre-sales of multi - million projectdeals with new customers.
• Coordinated with customers, onshore and offshore team for transition and implementation of new client projects.
• Accountable for large, complex projects including cross functional engagements, global projects and manages dispersed teams
• Interfaces directly with customer's executive management at client location.
• Guides other professionals (projects practitioners, specialists and consultants)
• Leads commercial negotiations with clients and 3rdparties
• Leads and guides the efforts of others in understanding and reaching project decisions.
• Leads project management/business initiatives in new and complex areas both externally and internally
• Forecasting and budget / financial management to support delivery to time, cost, scope and quality
• Supporting proposal development,from client request through issue, presentation through to project delivery
• Contributing to the development of methods and expansion of the knowledge base within the Practice.
• Involve in core project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management.
• Proficient with MS Project, MS Office, and MS SharePoint and project management methodologies, such as Agile, SCRUM.

Product Manager

Confidential - Fort Collins, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with end users to identify needs and opportunities for improved data management and delivery.
• Overseeing the ongoing development and operations enterprise data warehouse and UI solutions.
• Collaborating with development team to build data visualization and UI which “wow" the customers.
• Improving and streamlining processes regarding data flow and data quality to improve data accuracy, viability and value.
• Overseeing the ongoing development and operations of a business intelligence architecture that enables fact-based decision making and ad hoc analysis and insight generation.
• Advising and educating management on their relative importance and impact.
• Staying current with industry trends.
• Having solid experience in the Business Intelligence area with proficiency in the features, deployment, user interface design and use of reporting/analytics tools.
• Developing new product ideas and improvements and extensions of existing products in line with overall corporate strategy and purchase funnel goals.
• Communicate goals, and status regularly to business stakeholders.
• Defining product requirements and communicating clearly to the engineering team through agile development process, bring features to market, test, and measure, iterate and advance.
• Defining business requirements into clearly defined user stories
• Responsible for entire SDLC and shipping of software using agile methodologies.
• Establishing processes, tools, and metrics for product development.
• Experience developing web based data tools and working with diverse and large data sets in big data environments (Hadoop, SQL and/or NoSQL)
• Part of distributed team in creating joint solutions for Minimum Acceptance testing, Unit Integration testing, white box and grey box testing.
• Effectively managing the priorities of multiple teams across the globe.
• Managing developers, testers, and operations teams to deliver a high quality product that is stable in production and satisfies scalability, reliability, and performance goals
• Understand and actively advance best practices within a strongly Agile environment, Continuous Delivery & Test automation.
• Drive planning and facilitate roadmap alignment with product owner and other stake holders.
• Applying Agile methodologies throughout the product development cycle paying close attention to quality.
• Act as Scrum master for multiple Scrum/Kanban teams, with a focus on continuously improving the teams he/she supports
• Work closely with Product Planning, Product Development and Technology groups to plan and deliver releases.
• Organize and facilitate project planning, estimation sessions, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives and other Scrum-related meeting.

Product Manager

Confidential - San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated ability to acquire product ownership quickly and track record of launching high impact, delightful and elegant consumer experiences in highly competitive markets.
• Equally capable at delving into product requirements and negotiating with engineering as presenting to executive level decision-makers and marketing teams.
• Translated product needs to technology and understand technology
• Product evangelist to build awareness and understanding of the platform and its features across the company.
• Created use cases and detailed product requirements documents to articulate desired product features and functionality to technical and other cross-functional teams.
• Ensured cross-functional product team execution (with Project Manager and Engineering Manager), meeting project milestone dates, driving decisions across teams and escalating appropriately.
• Monitored impact of product features delivered and other key metrics.
• Optimized technology investment through clear tradeoffs between time-to-market and long term solutions
• Troubleshooting product issues and answer product questions - product ‘expert’.
• Followed SCRUM development process to enable us to ship awesome software with an excellent user experience.
• Involved in Product naming and branding, Product Life Cycle Management, Product development, Product Management, Pre and Post-Sales, Product road maps, product marketing.
• Involved in Pricing Analysis, Market Requirements, Statistics, Pre & Post Sales Operations, Sales Enablement, Market Research, ProductMarketing activities, Financial Modeling, Valuation.

Technical Product Manager

Confidential - Shakopee, Minnesota

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Build release management for test environment to build new products, development team/firmware engineering teams at resolving issues.
• Managed and mentored offshore team members in technical and application knowledge related to quality process.
• Involved in Requirements Matrix, Project test schedule, Master Test plan, project quality metrics.
• Implemented Agile methodology in Software Testing team
• Long term product roadmap and vision, which includes defining new features, better user experience, reliable data protection and improved storage performance.
• Managing the value proposition for the product within the target market segments.
• Defined product requirements for the product based on customer requirements, market trends, and competitive analysis.
• Applied in-depth technical knowledge of flash based shared storage systems to translate customer requirements into technical details for engineering/QA teams.
• Managed new product releases and end-of-life processes for older releases. Completed multiple major and minor releases to enhance customer experience of the product.
• Release content, prioritization and schedule management in conjunction with engineering program management and development and QA teams.

Product Manager

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to several areas of product software integration focused on Sprint & MVNO programs.
• Managed a 3rd party feature for Voice based commands.
• Planned/scoped product specs, key features, budgeted resources (internal, 3rd parties - people and equipment).
• Mentored a new team of engineers and motivated to realize their highest potential.
• Managed delivery of several modules including Confidential stack, low level drivers / applications and several user interface modules.
• Liaised with customer to develop their phone flashing and provisioning tools at point of sale.
• Managed inter-op and certification testing in several network labs and test houses.
• Initiated several new processes & quality review changes to improve early defect detection and prevention.
• Helped fine-tune product definition/experience specs & feature scope to balance customer needs & our resources.
• Seamlessly integrated existing software/product processes, ramped up team to a new (Android) platform.
• Coordinated “focus teams” on key metrics that directly had a positive impact on bottom-line and customer satisfaction score card.
• Conducted analysis/resolution of field issues, implemented corrections for over the air “field upgrade” (with Confidential Éclair).
• As a lead android product within organization, documented key lessons learned for other products/teams to follow.

Product Manager

Confidential - San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Participated and understood use cases of Client-Server Secure IPRM diagrams and design specification documents
• Led Confidential ios application device-preload projects which brings in 60% of the new users.
• Delivered mobile-web and deep-link experiences of service that caters to relevant experiences across platforms, support various marketing campaigns and drives user acquisition.
• Drove ~400K users across several marketing/social campaigns, within few months of release.
• Leading the premium tier offering from launch to ongoing feature enhancements that contributed to 7X growth of premium subscribers/month to out
• Championing efforts on 3rd party app integrations, exposing private APIs to partners & driving development of custom music experiences across their services & platforms.
• Defined analytics requirements and making data-driven decisions to build engaging consumer experiences.
• Delivered business and design presentations to executive teams and partners.
• Previously worked as Product Manager for mobile, web & backend internal tools on legacy Confidential mobile service.
• Managed graceful user migration to partner service, for the legacy products.

Sr. Software Engineer

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for reporting test case failure and any issues found during test execution and product use in an automated system with severity assessment based on predefined categories.
• Tracking of test cases and failures that are executed/found daily via metric based reporting.
• Detail the steps to reproduce failures found so Test Engineers and can reproduce to debug and resolve.
• Developed Python automation test framework with YAML/XML Scripts.
• Supported the testing of customer reported field issues and document the steps for reproducing those issues based on Test Engineer direction.
• Executed detailed complex software testing and automation for all wireless devices both in the lab and field

Softwareand Integration Engineer

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Engaged with the gestures team and evaluated iterative changes to ensure the chop chop flashlight and twist to launch camera features were easy for consumers to understand and use.
• Directly impacted phone profitability by drawing unrelentingdeveloperfocus to highly visible consumer facing issues reported by trial users, senior leaders, 3rd party testers, and internal testers.
• Daily interfaced withdevelopers, users, and testers to ensure issue reporters and developers communication was frequent, clear, and contributed to issue resolution.
• Daily analyzed, tracked, labeled, assigned, created, and managed JIRA defects.
• Designed JIRA dashboards which became the standard for tracking user trial issues for multiple phone launches.
• Daily used Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, Artifacts, among other tools during development and integration roles.
• Executed weekly factory tests while recording new failures and collecting logs supporting each event.
• Triaged failures, located duplicate reports of failures, created defect tickets for tracking, set priority for reported issues, and led technical response to 3rd parties.
• Excelled at working with subject-matter experts to gather information, identify relevant data and audiences, and write documents that are clear and user friendly.
• Extensive experience in scripting, especially with regular expressions used to parse large data files.
• Very familiar with the need to pre-parse data for efficiency and the use of natural language processing.