Seetharama Shastry

**** ****** **** ****

Windermere, FL 34786

732-***-****

October 1, 2013

I bring extensive experience in project management and SDLC management

including, but not limited to requirements review, stakeholder signoff,

WBS, project planning, resource management, budgeting, vendor management,

building teams, improving and driving processes, mentoring and off-shore

engineering management.

. I have over 5 years of product management experience in developing

products for Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Specialty Hospitals -

including definition and development of EHR product that is fully

Meaningful Use certified.

. Managed portfolio of projects from concept to deployment.

. Managed/worked with cross functional groups.

. Reviewed/prepared product requirements and enhancements to define

functional specifications for new releases.

. Introduced Agile development framework and have been using this in the

last 2 years. I hold a Certified Scrum Master certificate.

. I was an active member of management staff making strategic and

tactical plans for the business.

. I had to constantly define priorities and adjust plans depending on

the client requirements. I have defined project scope, resource

requirements, timelines and costs to all of the projects that I worked

on.

. I have reported project progress and status on a weekly and monthly

basis to the management team and to Board members.

. Interfaced with customers for requirements gathering and product

support.

. I have worked in few startup companies leading their product

management and engineering organizations.

. I have mentored and promoted several individual contributors into

leadership and management positions.

. I have negotiated contracts with vendors for products and services and

integrated applications to work with third party products.

. Managed budgets of $5 MM to over $25 MM.

. I have a Masters in Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Best regards,

Seetharama Shastry.

Seetharama Shastry

Cell: 732-***-**** ab9zdh@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

IT Executive with extensive experience in Project Management including

product development, infrastructure management and customer support. Turn

around projects that are in trouble and manage risks. Establish/enhance

process for end-to-end application development and deployment.

Specialties: Certified Scrum Master, Project Management, Engineering

Management, Infrastructure Management, Software-as-a-service (SAAS)/Managed

Service, End-to-end Technical Architecture, Process and Methodology,

Requirements Analysis, SDLC, Waterfall/Iterative/Agile, Product Management,

Web Application Development, E-Commerce, QA, Release Management, Technical

Support, Business and Technical Strategy,, Startup/mid-size/large company

experience, Offshore Management.

Employment History

Source Medical, AL (Private)

VP, Product Development 1/2008 - 7/2013

Managed development of Administrative and Clinical management software for

Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Specialty Hospitals.

. I have held various positions of increasing responsibility in the

project management, product engineering and product management

organizations.

. Managed multiple versions of product releases from end to end - this

included new releases, maintenance releases and integration with

multiple vendors/partners. This included reviewing scope/requirements,

working with the stake holders for planning, WBS, Quality planning,

release planning, acceptance testing, budgeting and overall project

tracking.

. Established a project management office and managed the PMO

activities. This improved cross organizational communication and

reduced project inquires by over 50%.

. Formalized development and maintenance processes and streamlined

process for channeling of client feedback into the product backlog.

This reduced scope creep by more than 75% improving timely completion

of projects by 90%.

. Introduced Agile development process that improved client

participation and product acceptance significantly. This process

improved the user experience significantly, reducing the number of

reworks in product after release by over 75%.

. Introduced automated testing reducing the testing effort/time by more

than 75% and test driven development to improve the overall cycle

time.

. Redefined product deployment process and eliminated hundreds of hours

of client services involvement in rolling out new releases.

Technology Involved: Windows, C# .NET, InterSystems Cache, Web Services,

Microsoft SQL, TFS.

Archive Systems, Fairfield, NJ (Private)

SVP, Engineering 3/2006 - 5/2007

Provided services that include records management, online document storage,

and document process automation.

. Project management: requirements gathering, project planning,

budgeting, WBS, development, deployment, project tracking and

reporting, and support of the mission critical web software-as-a-

service document management system.

. IT infrastructure management of the self-hosted 24x7 SAAS providing

stored document delivery service.

. Supported and enhanced over 100 custom applications with complex

business rules and many points of integration.

. Improved development and deployment procedures by adopting lessons

learned from previous projects. This reduced production issues by more

than 50%.

. Established QA procedures and guidelines within the engineering

organization.

Technology Involved: VB.Net, SQL database, IIS, Workflow (ISI), Web

services, Kofax Capture, PGP encryption, PDF conversion, BMC/Magic, 3-tier

architecture, EDI 810i, 3rd party interface (Countrywide CLD, Oracle

financial, Pershing)

Audible, Inc., Wayne, NJ (Public)

VP, IT 3/2005 - 2/2006

Managed the retail site of the Internet's leading provider of spoken audio

entertainment, information, and educational programming.

. Project management: requirements gathering, project planning,

budgeting, WBS, deployment monitoring, project tracking and reporting,

and post production support of the e-commerce application and site.

. IT infrastructure management of the self-hosted 24x7 e-books delivery

system.

. Project planning and management of new scalable production

architecture to address company's growth. Improved the site

availability of the SAAS platform from 95% to 99%.

. Managed full SDLC of the e-commerce (retail) web site.

. Established development, QA, deployment and post-deployment

procedures.

Technology Involved: Solaris, Apache, Load balancing, Oracle database,

BroadVision application server, NetApp, Paymentech, 3-tier architecture.

Quantiva, Inc., Princeton, NJ (Private) (Acquired by NetScout Systems, Inc)

Vice President, Engineering and Operations 2/2002 - 2/2005

Member of the executive management team, reporting to the President & CEO.

Developed the first product to implement statistical analysis method to

detect anomalies and the first to use advanced logical analysis to

automatically diagnose service-impacting application problems.

. Project management: requirements, WBS, design, development,

deployment, budgeting, monitoring and support of web performance

management application.

. Established a production computing infrastructure to host the Quantiva

Analysis System that consists of multiple geographically separated

computing centers.

. Managed the hosted IT infrastructure operations (24x7) - hosted at

multiple data centers.

. Planned, managed and deployed multiple releases of the Quantiva

Analysis System.

. Worked with the business development and sales teams in defining value

proposition, pricing, packaging, customer presentations, and pre-sales

activity.

. Interacted with customers to establish service, perform training and

obtain new product requirements.

Technology Involved: Solaris, Apache, Load balancing, Python, Postgres

database, Nagios.

InterWorld Corporation, New York, NY (Private/Public)

Executive Vice President, Engineering 6/1999 - 12/2001

Member of the executive management team, reporting to the President & COO.

InterWorld Corporation operated in a high growth market and delivered e-

commerce software to its clients. The company went from being private to a

public corporation and went through significant growth.

. I have held various positions of increasing responsibility in the

product engineering, product management, customer training, and

customer support organizations.

. Instituted product development discipline so as to reduce post release

customer problems.

. Released two major versions of e-commerce application framework -

completed on-time, within-budget. Significantly improved client

satisfaction.

. Formalized product development process for the engineering team.

. Managed and coordinated product management, development, QA,

documentation, technical support, Corporate IT, training and software

delivery/shipment.

. Established extensive technical support procedures and guidelines to

address the needs of mission critical customer requirements.

. Established call center procedures and infrastructure.

. Managed over 120 employees (including 7 technical and business

managers).

. Worked closely with marketing and sales organizations to ensure

success of product launch.

Technology involved: Client/Server, 3-tier architecture, Java, WebLogic

Application Server, Multi-platform (W2K, Solaris), Load Balancing, Oracle,

3rd Party Products, Internationalization.

Business: E-Commerce, B2B, B2C/Retail, Enterprise Integration, Business

Intelligence, Migration.

Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ

Department Head 6/1992 - 5/1999

Reported to VP, provided development and support services to Lucent

Business Units and to Bell Labs Research.

. Established guidelines for productization of research prototypes.

Enabled Lucent ventures organization to launch two internal products

as internal business units by taking the prototype to product stage,

developing initial business plan and establishing an initial product

distribution strategy.

. Refocused the organization activities to align with Lucent

Technologies business strategy. Developed crucial relationship with

customers and worked with them to address critical product and

business problems.

. Managed a department of over 60 employees (including 5 technical and

business managers) located in two locations.

Technology Involved: C/C++, Multi-platform (W-98, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX),

Telecommunication, Multi-Media Delivery, Speech Recognition and Synthesis,

Internet Security, Network Provisioning.

Business: Professional Service, Product Development, Product Support,

Applied Research, Business/Venture Launch.

Echo Logic, Inc., Holmdel, NJ (Private) (Acquired by Bell Laboratories,

Lucent Technologies)

Vice President, Engineering 1992 - 1995

Member of the executive management team, reporting to President & CEO.

Echo Logic was a startup venture that pioneered the field of binary

translation. The FlashPort for Macintosh product translates 68K based

Apple Macintosh software to several platforms including PowerPC, SPARC,

RS/6000 and HP-PA RISC.

. Planned and managed projects to meet an aggressive product launch

requirement. Project management activities included requirements

review, stakeholder signoff, WBS, project monitoring and reporting to

the Management Team.

. Coordinated all of the engineering activities, including the

definition, planning, execution, capital equipment acquisition, and

budgeting.

. Managed a group of 15 software engineers.

. Negotiated development contract details with Apple Computer.

Conducted project review with Apple.

. Co-authored the business plan for the corporation.

. Performed technical support activities for companies like Apple and

Microsoft.

Technology Involved: C/C++, Multi-Platform (Mac, SUN OS, HP/UX, AIX).

Business: Application Translation, Legacy Migration, Professional Service.

Education

M. S. (Computer Science), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

M. Tech. (Computer Science), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay,

India

B. E. (Electrical Communication Engineering), Indian Institute of

Science, Bangalore, India.

Publications

. "Flashport Binary Translation: A Breakthrough Technology for Software

Migration" 4th Annual AT&T Software Symposium, Holmdel, NJ.

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