Oct 2022 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Responsible for delivery of multiple products for a set of customers. Build and manage teams.

Apr 2016 – Sep 2022 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore · Remote

• Successfully served customers with Agile PLM implementation, enhancement, support and maintenance activities. Built a small team of Agile Consultants and Software Upgrade consultants.

Jun 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• As a senior manager got a unique opportunity to manage a diverse team of Developers, Quality Analysts, Release Engineers, Database Administrators and Product Support Analysts. Successfully launched the Foreclosure Bankruptcy cloud based Equator solution for Ocwen. Exposure to Mortage solutions has enriched the exposure in the financial space. Learned new Adobe Cold Fusion technology stack and the PTC Integrity tool for software life-cycle management. Remote management and working with vendor teams helped in the art of "influencing without authority".

Jan 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · On-site

• Playing the role of Systems Architect in designing application systems and clients including mobile applications for the payments industry.

Nov 2012 – Jan 2013 · 2 mos · On-site

• Playing the role of an architect (part time) for a software product development team.

May 2012 – Jan 2013 · 8 mos · Bangalore, India · On-site

• Technology - Development, Deployment and Management. Worked with the software vendor to get the issues resolved and took it live.

Mar 2012 – Jun 2012 · 3 mos · Bangalore, India

• Freelancing as a subject matter expert. Content Preparation for C programming language. Review HTML course content.

Jul 2010 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• Manage the Customer Service and Business Intelligence development teams for ASDA online (Walmart UK).

Oct 2009 – Jun 2010 · 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• Responsible for EU3 (UK, FR, DE) portals development for AOL.

Dec 2007 – Oct 2009 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

• The team formed to take over the web portal development work that was currently being done in London, UK.
• New ADP/TCL proprietary technology of AOL was being used on AOL's own AOL server technology.
• Within a short period of a few months identified the skills of the team, recruited new members as needed and managed to get them trained in London.
• Able to take over work successfully - moved work from London to Bangalore.
• Currently managing the same team of over 20 developers from Dec 2007 till date.
• Highly regarded by team members. Very cohesive team has been built and this has been widely accepted and appreciated by the AOL management.
• Currently involved in migration of the portals to Open Source platforms (Apache, Tomcat, Java).
• Extensive people management skills developed during this period including resource management, mentoring, recruitment, training, one-on-one meetings, status updating, conflict resolution, escalation management and so on.
• Managed two project managers who directly reported to me.

Jul 2001 – Nov 2007 · 6 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area, Bangalore India · On-site

• Agile is Product Development company having a suite of products in the field of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).
• Worked in this company for 7 years from Agile 7.0 version to the latest 9.2.2.1 version.
• Joined as a software engineer in a consulting position in 2000 with technical skills of C++, MFC, VC++, COM/DCOM.
• Within a short period of time was able to understand the UI framework and make enhancements to the MFC UI of Admin and CM - the 2 most often used Windows based core application of Agile Anywhere 7.5.
• Later on started working on the C++ Server code (Agile eHub) and made several enhancements in version Agile 8.0 and Agile 8.5.
• Was solely responsible for the Metadata design and development in Agile 8.5. This gave exposure to Oracle PL/SQL.
• Have been responsible for Meatadata and Schema Management for the product for over 5 years.
• For Agile's 9.0 version of the product, worked as a Java developer along with the Metadata and Schema Management responsibilities. Agile 9.0 was developed on the J2EE stack.
• Took the total responsibility of the Product Portfolio Management solution in 9.0 version and was the Team Lead of the module though Java was a new technology.
• For Agile version 9.2, took up the responsibility of redesigning the database upgrade process. Used Ant (xml) and was fully responsible for the development of the now famous Automated Upgrade Tool of Agile.
• Teams that reported to me worked on Schema Management, Metadata development, Database Upgrade, Tools & Install Packaging.

Jul 2000 – Jul 2001 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked at Agile Software through xMedia in the US during this period.

Jan 1999 – Mar 2000 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Worked in the NEC Middleware lab as part of the Far East Group.
• Though worked for a very short period of about an year was able to learn and contribute a lot of things.
• Directly supported calls from Japan and interacted with NEC, Japan.
• Technically worked on ISAPI Plug-in along with porting VB code to VC++.
• Worked on the SecureMaster project in which a few fresh graduates were also there. This gave a chance to mentor them technically and was the first experience in guiding other engineers.

Sep 1996 – Dec 1998 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Joined this software services company as soon as I graduated and worked for a little more than 2 years.
• Very process-oriented and well-documented approach. Company went for ISO certification and our group was audited.
• Worked on varying technologies from EWS-Unix (NEC's Unix version) to HP-UX. Worked on C, C++ and VC++ 2.0 on Windows 3.51 version.
• Made a significant contribution in providing an implementation of the MAPI Service provider - an implementation of the standard MAPI (COM Interface) so that Microsoft Mail and Outlook could be used to NEC's Mail Server. Visited Tokyo as part of the implementation team and have received a letter of appreciation