Mar 2024 – Aug 2024 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Took a refreshing 5-month break from regular work and embraced a range of personal and physical challenges. Highlights include completing a 14-mile hike with a 4000ft elevation gain in 5 hours, winning the UTR Tennis city championships in Oakland (Rating 4-5), and excelling in 3 singles leagues with a 9/12 win record. Participated in the USTA 7.0 league, winning 2 out of 4 mixed doubles matches for the Sleepy Hollow Swim and Tennis Club. Also navigated my kids through the summer swim team, helping them improve their times by over 20%, and dedicated time to continuous yard improvement projects.

Mar 2022 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• Helping customers with a reliable product experience. Being a customer advocate.
• Leading a global organization of 120+ technical support folks across 5 locations (San Francisco, Phoenix, Poland, Bangalore, Hyderabad)

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

• Pre-pandemic in-person meetups in SF
• Pivoted to virtual meetups
• 1000+ strong TPM slack workspace
• Great opportunity to share, help and grow the TPM skillset

Dec 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Managing technical programs directly and with TPMs on my team; Tech OKR planning and engineering operations for the Guest Experience organization.

Apr 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• ▪ Leading a talented group of 4 TPMs managing a wide portfolio of new products and cross-functional initiatives for Amazon Music. Scaling my team to lead more initiatives to deliver to the organizational needs.
• ▪ Manage and mentor reports and other engineering staff on the multi-disciplinary teams to deliver amazing products. Actively hired TPMs as well as involved in other key hires for the organization.
• ▪ Maintain the culture of full accountability of the programs my team delivers with building mechanisms for audit and success.
• ▪ Run monthly/Quarterly Leadership Program reviews for high priority initiatives. Providing Path to Green to several senior stakeholders.
• ▪ Collaborate within the larger TPM team driving execution, planning, work estimation and reporting of all the programs.
• ▪ Facilitated the alignment amongst various client, services and device teams to align towards a common release goal for strategic projects. Partnered closely on Fire TV, Fire Tablets and Echo devices for best Amazon Music experience.
• ▪ Managed Live Audio streaming platform to support Bundesliga by partnering closely with production and data partners in UK and Germany.

Mar 2013 – Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• ▪ Key contributor to the launch of Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV stick. Gained extensive experience in launching 1st Gen products.
• ▪ Working with 3P partners for complete program Management including app development, submission, issues tracking and resolving platform issues. Managing strategic Client/Partner engagement with Netflix, YouTube, Sling TV(Dish), BBC, Hulu, ESPN etc
• ▪ Driving relationship with Silicon Vendor in terms of managing low level SW issues as well as Strategic planning their releases by providing SoW and defining schedules
• ▪ Held responsibility for program management and end-to-end execution/accountability for Android Frameworks team. Day to Day planning, Issue tracking, dependency resolution and status reporting the health of the project. Driving SW release gate reviews, Launch Readiness meetings and test plan reviews for the team
• ▪ Driving new architecture implementation with Silicon vendor as well as 3P SW development
• ▪ Understanding Business needs to drive changing priorities and keep the teams focused. Status reporting back to the executive Leadership. Assisting with Business development needs while engaging with 3P app partners and Silicon vendors
• ▪ Led end to end execution of special SW for Fire TV retail demo. Managed and tracked execution across the organization at various WW locations from engineering to Offline retail Product and Marketing teams
• ▪ Working with executive leadership to provide inputs for roadmap, BRD and strategize the planning for next Gen products including schedule, resources and budgets

Jul 2011 – Feb 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Program management of various projects to ramp OMAP based Tablet products - the Nook tablet, Nook HD and Nook HD+.
• ▪ Provided customer interaction and alignment daily, serving as front face for company. Created schedule and followed up on committed deliveries by parties to meet milestones, with minimal remaining backlog items.
• ▪ Led resource planning and securing on-the-fly resources on need-to-need basis. Reported progress and status weekly to company management as well as customer’s management.
• ▪ Coordinated quality software delivery by team on customer platform. Held responsibility for requirements gathering and project planning with customer as well as internal engineering teams.
• ▪ Managed technical answers by aligning with internal experts, leading onsite team work/vacation schedule, and providing onsite team feedback to managers.

Apr 2009 – Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• ▪ Acted as hands-on technical leader responsible for project and program management. Contributed to multiple designs and IPs going in SoCs, including OMAP SoCs and custom Nokia solutions.
• ▪ Prepared project plan, using Microsoft Project and alignment on dates for receivables/deliverables. Oversaw resource allocation and task assignment/follow-up. Identified and mitigated project risks. Tracked weekly project progress.
• ▪ Provided continuous interaction and coordination with multi-site teams. Coordinated and resolved issues, including receivables and deliverables, by effective communication.
• ▪ Conducted one-on-one meetings with team members, providing regular feedback. Scheduled weekly team meetings with internal teams and SoC teams, capturing minutes of meeting, AIs, and follow-up.
• ▪ Reported weekly status to SoC team and senior management. Contributed to weekly design reviews with senior managements, providing project status and sharing useful insights into execution to instill schedule confidence.
• ▪ Managed sub-con hiring into team. Communicated with vendors for further requirements of resource augmentation.
• ▪ Held responsibility for hardening digital part of design with team. Led floor plan discussions and timing budget alignments for IP/analog IOs with analog as well as SoC teams.
• ▪ Oversaw synthesis, LEC, place and route, timing closure, as well as power management verification. Guided team for DRC and reliability checks closure.
• ▪ Reviewed team member deliverables, ensuring required quality before delivery to SoC team in France and India. Led weekly calls with SoC team for alignments on multiple challenges as well as deliverables.
• ▪ Set up new support flows for tool usage. Held responsibility for program managing full execution of third-party graphics IP leading into OMAP4 Frontend, DFT, and Hardening.

Feb 2006 – Mar 2009 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Area of Expertise lies in RTL-GDSII design in digital subchips
• Involved in Logical Synthesis, physical Synthesis and STA in both 65 nm and 45 nm nodes
• Involvement in Gate Level Simulations in various designs
• Flow setup for Power Characterization of designs
• Formal Verification, Netlist QC and Power Management Verification

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

• Involvement in Gate Level Simulations in various designs
• Flow setup for Power Characterization of designs
• Formal Verification, Netlist QC and Power Management Verification

Apr 2003 – Dec 2003 · 8 mos · Mumbai, India

• Cobol, JCL, mainframes
• Westfield insurance maintenance project