Jan 2024 – Mar 2024 · 2 mos

Dec 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Independently lead, deployed, and delivered end-to-end Containers platform solutions to transform infrastructure into Private Cloud platforms. Co-ordinated with Automation team for one-touch solution and drove the validation and documentation effort of the releases.

Dec 2018 – Jan 2024 · 5 yrs 1 mo

• Responsibility as Product Owner:
• Requirements Development: Collaborated closely with Product Management and stakeholders to design and develop Product Requirement Documents (PRD) and participate in technical design discussions that will impact Platform capabilities.
• PI Planning Excellence: Drove Program Increment (PI) planning readiness, fostering a culture of continuous exploration, synthesizing a vision, roadmap, and backlogs, and enhancing pre- and post-PI planning meetings.
• Agile Transformation: Spearheaded Agile processes, championing best practices within 10-12 members Agile team. Ensured adherence to Scrum principles, fostered continuous improvement, and eliminated impediments.
• Cross-domain collaboration: Work with Cross-team Product Owners to understand their prioritization and align deliverables.
• Responsibility as Program Manager:
• Strategic Leadership: Orchestrated the production deployment of the Containers platform at customer sites, ensuring seamless integration and functionality.
• Project Management: Effectively managed project schedules, translating requirements into actionable plans. Communicated progress to stakeholders and senior management, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Facilitated technical readiness across cross-functional teams globally spread, communicating requirements and schedules for streamlined execution.
• Risk Mitigation: Proactively identified program risks, devised mitigation strategies, and made critical trade-off decisions, ensuring program success. Skillfully resolved conflicts to maintain project momentum.
• Metrics Management: Defined and maintained program metrics, providing essential insights into program health, enabling informed decision-making.

Aug 2015 – Aug 2019 · 4 yrs

• RA/RC/Whitepaper designed and developed by me:
• HPE Reference Configuration Guide for Red Hat OpenStack Platform on HPE Synergy with Ceph Storage
• HPE Reference Architecture for VMware Cloud Foundation on HPE Synergy with GPU Acceleration for Horizon 7 Client Virtualization
• HPE Reference Architecture for Infrastructure-as-a-Service with CloudSystem 10 on HC380
• HPE Reference Architecture for Capacity and performance monitoring using HPE Cloud Optimizer 3.0 on HPE Helion CloudSystem 9.0
• RA/RC delivered in collaboration with my colleagues:
• HPE Reference Architecture for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on HPE Synergy with HPE Nimble Storage
• HPE Reference Architecture for HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 5.2 and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric on HPE Synergy Composable infrastructure
• HPE Reference Architecture for HPE Ezmeral Container Platform 5.2 and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric on HPE Synergy on HPE Synergy and HPE APOLLO 4200 GEN10 Servers

Sep 2013 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Project: HP Helion CloudSystem 9.0
• Description: HP Helion CloudSystem Foundation is based on the HP Helion OpenStack distribution of OpenStack cloud software. It integrates hardware and software to deliver core Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provisioning and lifecycle management of compute, network and storage resources.
• Responsibilities:
• Negotiated product UX design changes with the senior architects to deliver higher customer satisfaction
• Leading the QA team of 5 members the UX module
• Test case identification, review and execution
• Implement Iterative testing process using Agile methodologies
• Responsible for build stability for each build
• Regression, Sanity, features testing and status reporting

Jul 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Project Name: HP CloudSystem 8.1
• Description:
• HP CloudSystem Foundation is cloud computing software designed for infrastructure services (IaaS) provisioning, and engineered to be easy to install, use, manage and extend.
• Responsibilities:
• Planned and coordinated QA projects to test Beta versions of the product to improve defect leakage by 15% over a quarter
• Designed the performance testing plan to develop automated testing framework
• Led a team of 3 engineers to get it implemented which helped cut down the product testing time by 33%

Apr 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Responsibilities:
• Complete OS testing both for OpenVMS Alpha and IA64 platform
• Design and create test conditions to address business and technical use cases
• Played vital role in OpenVMS V8.4 release and subsequent OS UPDATES
• Oversee the status and progress of vendor deliverables while building metrics to track and report effectiveness against outstanding milestones/deliverables, status, resource requirements and issues
• Daily synch-up with vendor SPOC on the progress of their deliverables.
• Status update to higher management on the vendor progress or any issues.

Apr 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Responsibilities:
• Manage and coordinate monthly and quarterly kit releases which needs involvement from multiple team at the different cycle of the release
• Responsible for the quality and timely release of the kits
• Define, verify and monitor timelines for processes such as release requests, build schedules, engineering testing, regression testing and final release
• Reporting Release information and status to higher management and cross-functional team
• Responsible to seek approval from all level and final sign-off of the kit
• Credited for improving Release process which led to 100% schedule-adherence and zero bad patch for FY ’12 for entire OpenVMS product suite

Jan 2007 – Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Responsibilities:
• Analyzes and review customer system configurations to include patch level and make recommendations to increase reliability, flexibility and capability
• Managing both low and high-severity incidents across the entire incident life-cycle in accordance with SLA
• Responsible for engaging, escalating and communication with cross-functional groups within HP, various level of service team and customer organizations
• Oversee engineering team progress on the issues raised
• Participates in problem review with the engineering team/service team/customer and monthly/quarterly customer meetings
• Negotiation with HP CSC/Customer
• Produce proactive reports, trending analysis, service level reporting and other reports needed at various level of management chain

Sep 2005 – Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• DECnet and DECnet-Plus are four layered network stack, which is available on OpenVMS and TRU64 UNIX and it integrates DECnet and OSI network protocols, which provides continued support for DECnet applications and enables support for OSI applications on OpenVMS. With separate TCP/IP software running on the same system, DECnet-Plus supports multivendor, multiprotocol network environment.
• Responsibilities:
• Maintenance of the product which includes bug fix along with minor enhancement.
• Involved in release activity, which include testing the functionality of the product and integration with the OS
• Involved in various TCE (Total Customer Experience) related projects. Market research and deep dive of OpenVMS Customer
• Training and mentoring for other engineers within and outside the team.
• Demonstrated proficiency in leading and mentoring individuals to maximize levels of productivity while forming cohesive team environments.