PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT:

A result oriented professional with over 12.5 years’ experience in Software Development, Software Testing, Quality Assurance and Project Management.
Insightful experience of over 4 years in project management including project scoping, estimation, planning, risk management, finalisation of technical / functional specifications, resource administration and quality management of the software application.
Rich experience in SCSI/ RAID and FC Technology.
Knowledge of QMS and CMM Level 5 KPA\'s.
An effective leader with proven abilities in leading multiple project teams, guiding team members and enabling knowledge sharing among the teams. Having comprehensive problem solving and multitasking abilities, willingness to take up ownership, facilitate teamwork and lead activities.

MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE:

• Mapping client\'s requirements and providing them best solutions involving evaluation and definition of the scope of the project and finalisation of the project requirements.
• Providing end to end management of multiple projects from conceptualisation to technology mapping and final execution of projects.
• Managing & leading team members; allocating resources and guiding team members till final delivery.
• Monitoring the scope, schedule and contractual deliverables which included planning, transition, tracking, change control and risk management.
• Holding review meetings to monitor progress of the project as per schedule, and ensuring timely completion & delivery of the project to the client.
• Complementing the efforts of the Software Team and collaborating with the team members for knowledge sharing.
• Analysing the performance of the team and ensuring accomplishments of targets.
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment whilst keeping to tight deadlines, going for that extra mile.

CAREER DETAILS:

Confidential,India Engineering Manager SW3 Since Feb’08

Confidential,India Project Manager M4 Jun’05 Jan’08

• Overseeing the set up of Global Operations Center (GOC) in the absence of the Program Manager, for NetApp at Symphony entailing:
• Directing the planning of the roadmap with the client, staffing and procuring hardware/software.
• Facilitating the set up of the infrastructure/facilities/storage lab at Symphony.
• Rendering macro level estimates and scheduling with the help of Leads and Managers.
• Creating final commitment to client on schedule, scope and resources.
• Reporting program status to the client.
• Monitoring the risks and issues at the GOC level.

Confidential,India Team Lead Apr’04 Jun’05

Confidential,India Team Lead Dec’00 Apr’04
Mphasis-BFL, India Senior Software Engineer Jan’97 Dec’00

PROJECTS EXECUTED:

Project Title:

Manage ONTAP SDK: Manage ONTAP SDK is highly used by NetApp partners and customers in delivering management frameworks and building customized solutions.

Client: Confidential,USA
Duration: 3 months - Team Size: 6 Members

Role:Overseeing the dev & QA efforts for Manage ONTAP SDK client and Zephyr ONTAP project releases.

Project Title:

Snap Drive for Windows (SDW): Snap Drive for Windows (SDW) is a tool that provides for LUN provisioning and Snapshot management. SDW manages virtual disks (LUNs) on NetApp storage system, making these virtual disks available as local disks on windows hosts.

Snap Manager for SQL (SMSQL): Snap Manager for SQL provides rapid online backup and near instantaneous restoration of SQL Server 2000 and 2005 databases by using the online snapshot technology that is part of Data ONTAP.

Snap Manager for Oracle (SMO): SMO is a tool that simplifies the administration and management of Oracle databases used with NetApp\'s filers. The product exposes the full potential of NETAPP filer capabilities (cloning, backup, recovery & restore, etc.), reduces the backup time and the mean time to recovery by leveraging snapshot technology.

Application Integration (AI) Automation: The objective of this project is to create a unified automation solution across AI Products (Snap Drive for Windows, Snap Drive for Unix, Snap Manager for SQL, Snap
Manager for Exchange and Snap Manager for Oracle).

Client: Confidential,USA
Duration: 3 and half years - Team Size: 25 Members
Environment: Windows, Linux, HPUX, AIX & Solaris

Role:Overseeing the automation efforts for the AI products and the testing efforts for SMSQL, SDW and SMO. Enhancing the Java based automation framework.Project Title Invista

Client: Confidential,USA
Duration: 1 year - Team Size: 11 Members
Environment: Windows

Solutions based on intelligent switches are capturing the mindset of storage consumers, storage providers, and industry analysts. The offerings within this product family are expected to include an intelligent multi-protocol switch developed by one or more EMC partners and EMC developed software. Invista architecture allows storage administrators to manage the components of their SAN infrastructure without interrupting the services they provide to their clients.

Role:Guiding the testing effort for major categories (SE Management, BE Pathing, Volume Management, Serviceability and Storage Presentation) and acting as Overall Category Lead for SE Management and Volume Management.

Project Title Storage Works Command Console (SWCC)

Client Confidential,USA
Duration: 6 months - Team Size: 6 Members
Environment: Windows, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Tru64

Command Console is a management framework with a graphical user interface for managing storage works RAID array products.

Role:
Transitioning the product single handedly from onsite. Facilitating the setup of the build environment for the different operating systems. Responsible for building a team to work on the development and testing activities for different releases of the product.

Project Title Continuous Access Storage Appliance (CASA)

Client: Confidential,USA
Duration: 6 months - Team Size: 11 Members
Environment: Windows 2K3, Linux

CASA (Continuous Access Storage Appliance) is part of the family of storage network offerings from HP. The appliance allows users to centrally manage resources, share and protect business information.

Role:Assembling and testing the complete functionality of CASA. Overseeing the testing of CASA with Red Hat Linux, Windows and United Linux on IA64. Planning for transitioning the testing of CASA to India.

Project Title SSSD-SRM

Client: Confidential,USA
Duration: 26 months - Team Size: 8 Members
Environment: Windows 2K, NT, UNIX Flavors

This project involves enhancing and maintaining the following hp SANWorks Storage Products:
Storage Resource Manager and Storage Allocation Reporter.

Role:Overseeing the transitioning of the complete product from US, sitting at offshore. Handling the Unix/Linux related activities (development/testing) in the project

Executing the Design Verification Tests (DVT) and System Integration Tests (SIT). Managing the bug fixing, kit building and testing in different configurations.

roject Title Porting of Common Console Interface Test Utility from Win NT on to Tru64

Client: Confidential,USA
Duration: 3 months - Team Size: 2 Members
Environment: Tru64

The Fusion CCI is a test tool to control NSC operations from a remote host using the SCMI protocol. It can be controlled either by a user in the interactive mode or from the command line in the
Shell script/batch processing mode. The work involved was basically development and testing of two new tracing modules: CCI Trace module & CCI Typeout.

Role:Overseeing development and testing of CCI Trace and Typeout Modules.

Project Title Enhancement and Testing of Starship 2.0 on HP-Unix, IBM-AIX, NT & Porting to Win2K and Support for Starship on Sun Solaris

Client: Confidential,USA
Duration: 4 months - Team Size: 6 Members
Environment: HP-Unix, IBM-AIX, MS Windows NT/Win2K, Sun Spark Solaris

Starship is basically development of new modules to manage the Compaq nodes in a better way and is integrated with the NMA (Network Management Application). The starship modules developed are activated through the NMA.

Role: Adding feature to launch CIM-XE and CIMLC from Starship utility. Handling unit and integration testing.

Project Title Testing of Win2K, NT, NW and UW Management Agents and Compaq Insight manager on Compaq\'s Servers at Compaq, Houston

Client: Confidential,USA
Duration: 20 months
Environment: MS Windows NT/2K, UnixWare 7, Netware

The Compaq Management Agents operate on devices, performing in-depth monitoring of the device\'s state by collecting and measuring parameters. These parameters indicate the current state of
Subsystems by counting the occurrence of particular events or by monitoring state of a critical function.

Role:
Managing the testing of the SNMP agents on Compaq\'s platforms (high end servers/ storage controllers), for various smart start releases (Compaq\'s Official Customer Release).

OTHER PROJECTS:

Project Title Development of Compaq Auto Array Configuration Utility

Client: Confidential,USA
Duration: 6 months - Team Size: 3 Members
Environment: MS Windows 95

Project Title Development of Compaq OS/2 SNMP Agents

Client: Confidential,USA
Duration: 5 months - Team Size: 3 Members
Environment: OS/2

Project Title OS/2 Blazer Utility Updates for Siamese Support

Client: Compaq Computer Corp., USA
Duration: 4 months - Team Size: 3 Members
Environment: IBM OS/2

Project Title SSD Wizard on OS/2

Client: Confidential,USA
Duration: 4 months - Team Size: 3 Members
Environment: IBM OS/2

Project Title Redundancy Support for the Compaq Fibre Channel Array Controller

Client: Confidential,USA
Duration: 4 months - Team Size: 3 Members
Environment: OS/2

NOTABLE CREDITS:

• Recognized and chosen to lead the NETAPP Global Operations Center (GOC), in the absence of the Program Director at Symphony.
• Effectively contributed as a Project Leader to the Compaq SANworks Storage Resource Manager Team which got nominated twice for the \'Best of Digital\' Award and secured \'Best of Digital\' Award for the Q4, 2001 2002.
• Functioned as the member of the Business Initiative Group for the BU in Digital for preparing storage related proposals, thereby contributing towards the company\'s efforts in obtaining external business.
• Played a pivotal role as a Functional Area Representative (FAR) for the BU in Configuration Management for facing the external audit during the CMM Level 5 assessments.

ACADEMIA:

• B.E. (Instrumentation and Electronics)

PERSONAL DOSSIER:

• Date of Birth: 21st August 1975
• Present Contact: 133, Defence Layout, Vidyaranyapura, Bangalore - 97