MAHESH KUMAR, PMP CSM

** ****** **., **** * • Vestal, NY 13850

bh85t6@r.postjobfree.com • 607-***-**** • Cell 607-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Certified Scrum Master and Project Management Professional with over 8 years of experience in full life cycle of embedded product development and over 11 years of experience in interfacing with external and internal customers.

• Experienced in software development life cycle methodologies: Modified Waterfall, Spiral, Staged delivery, and Hybrid Agile. Strong concept in agile project management methodology using Scrum.

• Adept in completing projects that meet targets in service quality and customer satisfaction.

• Lead cross-functional teams to build, enhance and support enterprise software and systems.

• Experienced in early risk identification and mitigation. History of improving development efficiency and cost cutting.

• Exceptional communication and problem-solving skills backed by high energy and creativity.

• Proven ability to form positive relationships with customers and project stakeholders.

• Experienced in multi site offshore project and team management.

• Successfully delivered several complex systems within planned schedule and budget.

• Six years of experience in software engineering team mentoring and management.

• Experienced in several product launch collaboration with sales and marketing.

• Experienced in business analysis using UML Diagrams with MS Visio.

• Experienced in managing projects on Solaris, VRTX, VxWorks, and Windows platforms with C, C++, .NET, Visual Studio 6.0, SQL, and XML

CERTIFICATION:

• Project Management Professional certification from Project Management Institute

• Organizational leadership certification from Binghamton University

• Certified Scrum Master by Scrum Alliance.

TRAINING:

• MS Project I

• MS Visio 2003

• MS Power Point II

• Project Management

• Fundamentals of Supervision

• Interpersonal Communication Skills

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY :

MS OFFICE SUITE (EXCEL, POWERPOINT, VISIO, and WORD) , MS PROJECT, RATIONAL CLEARCASE / CLEARQUEST.

EDUCATION:

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE – 2003; GPA: 3.84

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY, Binghamton, NY

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING IN COMPUTER SCIENCE – 1996; GPA: 3.58

BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Mesra, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSAL INSTRUMENTS CORPORATION, Binghamton, NY 5/2003 – Present

Technical Project Manager/Sr. Software Engineer, 5/2009 – Present

• Led cross-functional teams and managed several projects across all phases of SDLC using Modified Waterfall, Spiral, Staged delivery, and Hybrid Agile methodologies.

• Managed projects of duration 3 months to 12 months and cost $250K to $1.5M. Provided process and tool training to team members.

• Developed schedule status and resource allocation reports for senior managers. Presented project status to team members and senior managers.

• Actively managed stakeholder expectations, project scope, and project risks.

• Researched new methods for improving accuracy of project estimation, leading directly to better risk identification and mitigation planning.

• Managed several standard application development projects for ease of use, quick system recovery, improved system uptime, central data storage, and flexible report generation on Windows platform. These projects were developed using C, C++, XML, .NET, SQL and MS Access technologies.

Technical Manager, 4/2006 – 4/2009

• Software Engineering Manager for $18M revenue division and member of business strategy development team that increased revenue from $12M to $18M.

• Worked with strategic customers to understand future requirements, define objectives, and develop business division’s solution road map.

• Provided technical training and leadership to team of software and quality engineers.

• Led cross-functional teams and managed several projects across all phases of SDLC using Modified Waterfall and Spiral methodologies.

• In addition to several custom application projects on Windows platform using VS Studio, MS Access, and SQL, I also managed a 12 months duration project to separate data storage from data retrieval by adding a data layer using C# technologies.

Team Lead, 5/2003 – 3/2006

• Managed five–member engineering team and liaised between U.S. and India resources while establishing company’s new Advanced Semiconductor Assembly division in India.

• Took lead on setting up facility, coordinating divisional resources, building onsite team and planning new product releases.

• Worked effectively across all phases of product development: requirements analysis, planning, design, implementation and deployment

• Managed projects using Modified Waterfall SDLC, improved project delivery time and reduced first pass defects.

• Designed and developed embedded system using C and C++ on VxWorks and Windows Platform.

INVENSYS INDIA PVT LTD, Mumbai, India 4/1998 – 7/2001

System Engineer

• On site project coordinator, between customer and project teams, for several projects.

• Improved customer satisfaction and increased percentage of repeat orders.

• Played integral role on team that identified opportunities for process optimization and solution development; visited potential customers on site to evaluate needs, and proposed solutions that generated high Return on Investment (ROI).

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