Feb 2015 – Aug 2021 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Product: Adobe Experience Manager (Formerly CQ)
• AEM is an enterprise-grade web content management system with a wide array of powerful features for developing websites, managing digital assets enabling enterprise to share and distribute digital assets, setup social community tools like blogs, plan marketing campaigns etc
• Details:
• Global Engineering Manager & Owner for AEM Product Updates portfolio and part of cross-geo AEM as a Cloud Service team driving cloud migration charter and E2E feature development, AEM Upgrade Engineering
• Responsible for defining and leading the:
• o AEM wide Service pack program allowing solutions to roll out the feature, enhancement, updates and fixes in rapid and predictable manner with high quality
• o The CFP (Cumulative fix pack) program for the pan AEM team which has been key in ensuring customer success across AEM Solutions over the years
• Lead the Enterprise AEM Assets, 'Leader in Forrester Wave in Digital Asset Mgmt ' wider charter of feature, release, quality, dev-ops
• Build & lead AEM Multi-lingual team, cross-geo, cross-BU. June, 2015 - June, 2018
• Lead the initiative of defining 'Definition-of-Done' across global engineering teams for development practices
• Driving innovation within team and ORG
• o Member of ORG 'Tech Summit 2019 Ideas' Peer Review Committee
• Lead the AEM Assets Beta Program from Engg.
• Amongst GLOBAL contributors in engagement with Field, Sales, Pre-sales, Solution Consultants –contributing to scale the business opportunities with a balanced technological acumen and business understanding

Feb 2014 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Product - Adobe Experience Manager (Formerly CQ)
• Roles/Responsibilities:
• Lead: AEM Product Updates Charter. Involves planning, reporting, execution and co-ordination within team, and other component teams spread across various global locations.
• Lead AEM Assets feature, automation and tools charter
• Close Co-ordination with Customer Success Engineering and Adobe Managed Services team (EMEA/NA) for working on customer setups ensuring quality Service Pack releases and customer success.
• Involved in recruiting and selecting best of the talent for organization.
• Leading the new & temp hires ramp up, mentoring, task planning.
• Organizing hands-on sessions for global consulting teams across EMEA, APAC & NA and contributing to scaling business.

Jun 2013 – Jan 2014 · 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Product - Adobe Experience Manager - Assets (formerly CQ - DAM).
• Roles/Responsibilities:
• Worked on AEM Assets in AEM platform

Dec 2012 – May 2013 · 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Product - Adobe Photoshop Elements
• Roles/Responsibilities:
• Lead the ‘Visual Studio 2010 and XCode MIgration’ activity. Involved in planning, scheduling, reporting, reviews etc. (Team size – 5, Duration – 2 months)
• Lead the '64 - bit Mac porting' of Photoshop Elements (Team size – 7, Duration – 2 months)

Apr 2008 – Nov 2012 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Product - Adobe Photoshop Elements
• Roles/Responsibilities:
• Lead the Photoshop Elements Editor user forum activity for entire team.
• Involved in feature discussions, meetings and interaction with higher technical and product management, trainings, learning sessions, knowledge enhancement and certification programs.
• Involved in research on various competitor products available and active participation and contribution in presentations.
• Active participation on Pre-release/Beta program & User-2-User forum resolving user queries/issues. One of the most active members ‘Pre-Release program for PSE 8.0 – Mac’ from team who ran the extra mile and inspired others by significant contribution. Top contributor for PSE9 & PSE10 project cycles.
• Contribution to Adobe knowledge base (KB); writing KB articles for the community.
• Lead the ‘Localization’ effort. Involves planning, execution and co-ordination within team, International Quality Engg. Team and external vendor teams.
• Lead the All Language release activity for core and vendor teams.
• Feature Lead (Team Size - 3) – Headlights/Instrumentation feature. Involved in planning, scheduling and collection of requirements/KPIs, requirements preparation for charts required from Metrics team and presenting the data/charts to senior management. Involves working in co-ordination with Headlights team, China.
• Lead the ‘Code Merge’ activity (Team size – 6, Duration – 4 months). Involved in planning, scheduling, reporting, reviews etc.
• Lead the research & prototype development activity of basic image editing app for Windows 8 Metro Style. Solely created the UI mock-ups for prototype.
• Involved in task planning, estimation, scheduling etc. for junior members in team.

Aug 2006 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Product: NuViewHR (Human Resource Information System)
• HRMS software tools that help HR professionals effectively manage people, process & strategy. This product provide exceptional value for mid to large companies seeking advanced tools to optimize their human resources, while implementing HR best practices.
• Team Size: 16
• Roles/Responsibilities:
• Development of the modules/Enhancements on existing modules. Worked on major projects on Payroll & Training module.
• Involved in QA, Testing, Code Reviews and Bug logging for all the modules.
• Requirement & Analysis & preparation of ballpark and detailed effort estimation for client projects.
• Involved in technical specification documentation for various requirements and project modules and optimization of the application.
• Maintaining Effort Estimate sheets and taking client calls.
• Attending conference calls solely, and with team, to discuss project status updates and the future roadmap.
• Skills/ Tools: XML, JavaScript, HTML,PL/ SQL, MS SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports, Tomcat, Script Recorder (Tool for Automation testing specific to product)