Akashdeep Singh

Technical Program Manager

San Francisco, California, United States12 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven capability in managing global cross-functional teams.
  • Expert in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
  • Delivered business-critical products worth over $20M.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Engineering Program Manager with extensive experience in data center operations.

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Skills

Core Skills

Enterprise Project Management (epm)Program ManagementData AnalysisPython (programming Language)

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsAndroidBudget ManagementBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentCSSChange ManagementCloud ServicesCommunicationComputer Science

About

Experienced, very passionate & high energy, Engineering Program-Project manager with a proven capability of effectively and efficiently managing multiple, global, cross-functional remote teams and OEM partners, using a variety of communication techniques and tools & delivering business-critical products & solutions. Also have working knowledge of the Waterfall and Agile software development methodologies (including Scrum, Kanban, and blended methodologies), end-to-end SDLC management (Dell OLP), security (Dell SDL), and vulnerability assessment and mitigation. Scrum Master and Agile Coach experience

Experience

Dell emc

5 roles

Senior Engineering Program Manager

Promoted

Aug 2019Present · 6 yrs 7 mos

  • Acted as EPM for 4+ years, Led Engineering development and delivery for 10+ platforms and multiple SW releases while managing cross-functional teams and competing priorities, thereby enabling businesses to launch products worth over $20M
  • Acted as TPM for 3+ years, Managed communication across external and internal customers, built and manage relationships, and processed for successful feature competition and releases
  • Managed ODM teams by assigning clear roles, responsibilities, and setting clear expectations and standards.
  • Direct all phases of program management including, initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closeout phases of project. Key focus areas include engineering schedule, scope, budget, quality, and risk management.
  • Drive program coordination and communication with Engineering Executive Leadership, cross-functional leaders, and team members across multiple sites and business units to ensure projects run efficiently.
  • Closely collaborate with Engineering Executive Leadership team on project reporting, engineering development process improvements and resource expertise and learning skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to successfully influence win-win cross-functional dynamics.
  • Maintained and tracked budget, making appropriate decisions to meet budget goals.
  • Proactively manage risk and issues management, quality checks, and change management.
  • Lead project communications, cross-functional meetings, and status reporting.
  • Provide leadership, adaptability, and flexibility for routine and non-routine situations.
Team LeadershipChange ManagementAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesEnterprise Project Management (EPM)Development PlanningCommunication+9

Principal Software Engineer

Oct 2018Jul 2019 · 9 mos

  • Proposed, managed, developed, analyzed & reported for the data center's hardware refresh, resulting in a 75% reduction in new hardware purchases.
  • Designed and developed python utility for pulling Syslog from each layer-2 hardware. Performed time-series analysis on Syslog and tracked utilization of each layer-2 hardware in data center.
  • Created ELK stack for monitoring logs of console server for evaluation of illegitimate access to layer 2 hardware.
  • Created alert system that throws an alert if the utilization is >80%.
  • Created python utility for onboarding of hardware device
  • Automated stakeholder approval process in SDLC lifecycle
  • Designed and developed resource capacity planning tool
  • Created power driver for resource reservation tools using python.
Data AnalysisMachine LearningExecutive ManagementEnterprise Project Management (EPM)Development PlanningPython (Programming Language)+9

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

Enterprise Project Management (EPM)Development PlanningCommunicationComputer ScienceAnalytical SkillsHardware Engineering

Software Engineer

Jul 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Project: SiSense
  • Description: Extracted data from Resource Reservation Tool. Created Relational Model on the tool's data for better transaction rate (speed), reliability, maintainability, scalability, and cost. Created Dashboard for reporting utilization, usage, reservation and user pattern for devices in the data center. These dashboards played a vital role in taking an important business decision, eg ordering new hardware or user activity pattern.
  • Project: RF Asset Manager
  • Description: Using an RF ID Tag information, created dashboard, maps and alert for devices in the lab. The Map was used to provide the holistic view of the lab which can be used to see the utilization percentage of the rack. This was heavily used by lab admin for finding the space to install new hardware. The dashboard was used to show the detailed utilization percentage on basis of weight, uspace, power and temperature per rack level. Lab Admins were notified on the RF Asset Manager portal if any rack utilization is running above 80% and an email alert sent if the utilization is increased above 90%.
  • Project: Integrate Data from JIRA and Semmle using IBM Cognos.
  • Description: The Purpose of this exercise was to provide the consolidated report about the developer on basis of LOC, Churn, Bug count, Code Quality etc, to the high management. This will help the management to categorize the developer in the different zone and a training can be provided to increase the productivity of the team. Pulled data from Semmle Postgres database and JIRA using Python API followed by transformation and look-up in IBM Congos Data Manager. Used Framework Manager for creating the database model and Business logic. IBM Report was used for displaying the statistics of the developer.
Analytical Skills

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2016Jun 2016 · 5 mos

Santa clara university school of law

Web Developer

Sep 2015Jan 2016 · 4 mos · Santa Clara University, Stanford University

  • Website Development for Bay Area Consortium on Externship at Santa Clara University, Stanford University.

Santa clara university

Student Data Analyst

Jun 2015Dec 2015 · 6 mos

  • Analyzing data for Law School Externship Program
  • Maintaining externship forms
  • Analyzing student data using MS Excel

Dell

Senior Associate Analyst

Jul 2012Mar 2014 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Project Name: Asset Warehouse
  • Designed, developed and implemented search functionality, Lists & Libraries, pages, and, workflow for the Asset Warehouse. The Asset Warehouse is an in-house repository of white papers, documents and findings that acts as knowledge sharing platform within the organization.
  • Technologies used: SharePoint Designer 2010, Visual Studio 2010
  • Project Name: PowerShell Automate
  • Developed PowerShell Automate as part of the Dell Innovation Program. This tool provides the Graphical User Interface for PowerShell Command Prompt, and, a functionality of Back-up/Restore with a click of a button, thereby freeing up users of cumbersome tasks of manual back-up and restore.
  • Technologies used: Visual Studio 2010, PowerShell Command Prompt
  • Project Name: The K-Edge
  • Provided comprehensive technical support, and, made appropriate changes to keep K-Edge system up and running at peak efficiencies within the minimum turnaround time. K-Edge is the most important communication portal of Dell Services that provides information such as news updates, top performers of the week and month, organization policy, organization growth, etc.
  • Technologies used: Moss 2007, SQL Server.
  • Project name: Microsoft Azure Research and Development
  • Under Research and Development Department worked on various projects as mentioned below.
  • PowerShell Script – Developed PowerShell Scripts to automate Virtual Machines Creation process on Windows Azure Portal.
  • Azure Price Calculator – Developed Windows Azure Price Calculator in Microsoft Excel using Macros, the tool calculates the price of usage similar to Azure Portal Calculator but this tool works offline
  • Partner Configurator – Developed a wireframe for the concept using Visual Studio 2012, HTML 5, CSS 3 (Bootstrap). Partner Configurator is the concept portal in which a user can compare its price charged by different vendor like Microsoft Azure, Scale Matrix etc.

Education

Santa Clara University

Master's Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2014Jan 2016

Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Noida

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Rani Laxmi Bai Public School

10+2 — Mathematics

Jan 2007Jan 2008

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