Feb 2022 – Jul 2022 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mar 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Professional Responsibilities
• Administering the development and planning of new launch devices for the US market.
• Facilitating discussions with major US telecom operators for the product roadmap, new feature commercialization, requirements finalization, and product approval.
• Managing commercialization projects of new features such as Knox Guard, 5G, etc.
• Driving future-oriented changes by thoughtfully challenging old ways of thinking and generating creative perspectives.
• Understanding the product and organization structure; Analyzing industry trends and competitors to create business opportunities.
• Deducing financial implications by understanding numeric data; Seeking opportunities for effective profit-making.
• Establishing response measures for risk factors based on risk awareness; Providing accurate and timely measures in case of risks.
• Creating synergistic ways of working with related departments and colleagues with a sense of responsibility for organizational goals.
• Seeking the root cause(s) of problems; Coming up with and proposing the most optimal solution on time.
• Achievements
• Employee of the Quarter Award Q2 2019 and Q2 2020.
• Supervised the development of Galaxy- A51, A21 & A11 device for the US market, launched in 2020.
• Instituted automation and test process improvements by analyzing customer VOC trends, resulting in 15% decrease in market reported issues.
• Increased Samsung KPI score given by US operators by 3%.

Mar 2016 – Feb 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Professional Responsibilities
• Manage the progress status for each development process stage and plan and adjust specific schedules based on the progress status.
• Examine expected resources based on the project status (MM(Man-month), material cost, development cost and etc.), set up a goal, and manage performances.
• Review adding, changing, and removing of a development process, revise the process, and establish an operation methodology.
• Set up an appropriate KPI index item in order to evaluate the project, establish a calculation logic, and manage the status.
• Analyze key data on development and overall market and provide a material that the management needs for decision making.
• Forecast and respond to risk factors preemptively and develop an optimal solution to respond to risks which have already happened
• Worked closely with sales, product planning, and strategic partners to define product features and product standards.
• Identified and managed the product testing and product certifications required from third parties.
• Coordinated and managed products being worked on by multiple teams based in various countries like Vietnam, Poland, Korea, and the USA.
• Achievements
• Successfully led the development of market launch models worth ~22 million USD.
• Led development of first CDMALESS mobile for USA (Galaxy J2 Core), eMBMS, Wi-Fi Calling etc.
• Re-structured the processes of software upgrade projects. Reduced the overall project cycle from 8 weeks to 6 weeks, thus reducing the cost by 20%.
• Established development processes for new operators. Defined standard development processes, and communication channels with Charter & Comcast operators for device development
• Refined development process for new launch devices by surveying previous projects. Refined process reduced issues reported during certification test by 60%, thus reducing device certification cost by 50%.

Jun 2013 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Professional Responsibilities
• Project lead for Android OS upgrade projects of Verizon, Comcast, and Tracfone Operators.
• Established project development plan and decided overall management tasks to align with development goals and schedule.
• Managed the progress status for each development stage and modified schedules based on the progress to optimize resource usage.
• Forecasted and responded to risk factors preemptively and developed optimal solutions to respond to risks.
• Monitored feedback on market issues, from identifying the root cause to addressing issues with appropriate actions.
• Monitored project documentation and deliverables creation within the project management scope.
• Achievements
• Fast track promotion to Lead Engineer.
• Analyzed market issues to provide necessary responses. Improved Customer satisfaction by 8%.
• Successfully completed ~30 software upgrade projects for Samsung smartphones & Tablets.
• Awarded the Best Project Award for Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Project
• Awarded the Employee of the Month Award.

Apr 2012 – Jun 2012 · 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Member of the team that developed ERP solution for DLF India PVT Ltd for “Project management and Purchase management”. Solution is a unified platform to track project progress, inventory management, details of pending, upcoming and delayed tasks.

Nov 2011 – May 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Published four applications at Windows Phone Marketplace
• Conducted Dream Spark Yatra and other Microsoft events at College.