Project Manager Engineer
Resume:
Gaurav (Garry).Agarwal - abhuav@r.postjobfree.com - San Ramon, CA
RESUME IN BRIEF
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. 10 years of experience in developing, managing and rolling out successful
IT/Mobile products.
. Strong technical background with hands on application development
experience on mobile handsets.
. Translated business needs into technology solutions.
. Forged strong partnerships with engineering, QA, business, product and
functional leaders to drive focus on strategic program business
objectives and optimize program throughput.
. Managed relationships with business partners, vendors, carriers and
OEMs.
. Well versed in the intricacies of offshore management, offshore
strategy, roadmap and methodology.
. Led globally distributed teams.
. Work experience with Industry Leaders.
. Engineering Program Manager - Current - Leader in Mobile handset backup &
Insurance.
. Project Manager - MobiTV - Mobile Wireless Leaders in Live TV / Streaming
based products.
. Lead Technology - EA Mobile - Leaders in Mobile Gaming industry.
. Project Engineer - Qualcomm Technologies - Leaders of CDMA technology.
. Project Associate - IIT Kanpur - R&D - Institute of International repute
in R&D.
. Project Assistant - Indian National Science Academy - the top most body
of scientists in India.
. key skills -
Mobile Application/Product Development --
. Mobile Platforms - Iphone, Android (google), BREW, Windows Mobile
(WinMo - Microsoft), Blackberry, Symbian.
. Carriers Experience: Worked closely with all major carriers
US - Verizon, ATT, Alltel, USCellular, Metro PCS, Cricket,
Cellular south
Canada - Rogers, Telus
. OEMs / Handset Manufacturer Experience - HTC, Samsung, Motorola, LG,
HP/Palm, Kyocera, Pantech, Huawei, Nokia
Management - Strategic planning,People Management, Risk Management,
Resource Planning, Client/Partner Relationship Management, Offshore
Management, Incident/Escalation management, Project management, Budget
cost and Control,. SCRUM - Agile methodology, SDLC - Waterfall model.
Technical -- C, C++, BREW and related tools, Mobile/Wireless
applications development, 3G/4G networks, Perforce, CVS, VSS, JIRA,
Bugzilla, NSTL submissions, App Store submissions.
Education:
. Project Management Certificate from U.C Berkeley
. 4 year degree in Bachelors of Science (technology), Computer Science and
Information Technology.
EXPERIENCE
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Engineering Program Manager - Current (Mobile app development), San
Mateo, CA, US
Reporting to Director of Program Management.
January 2010 - Present
. Managing engineering and actively working on technical feasibility
studies & product development. Making design & architecture decisions.
. Bridging - Business, Product Management, Engineering, Operations, QA &
Carrier/OEM partners.
. Managing OEM / Carrier Relationship.
. Keeping track of Product roadmap & features schedule and making sure
every functional departmental resources/dependencies align together to
deliver on time.
. Keeping the higher executives abreast of the progress and updates.
. Making sure the existing products are ported (preloads / downloads) on
new handsets coming into market and that aligns with the carrier's handset
roadmap and launch dates.
. Administering the application submission to app stores or application
release to carriers.
Project Manager - MobiTV, - Emeryville, CA, US
Reported to Engineering Development Manager
March 2007 - January 2010
. Worked closely with Product Management, Carriers, Partners to understand
and gather product requirements. Also worked with Engineering to do
feasibility study and came up with Product definitions, enhancements and
milestones.
. Managed the mobile application development on multitude of BREW,Windows
mobile (Winmo), j2me, Android, RIM handsets for streaming TV and radio
application for both 3G and 4G networks.
. Lead a team of engineers & acquainted the senior executives with the
progress on regular basis.
. Acted as an interface between Sales, OEMs (LG, Samsung, Motorola
and engineering.
. Actively interacted with carriers (ATT/Alltel/USCC/CellSouth/Verizon) to
resolve technical issues.
. Managed OEM relationship on daily basis and ensured quality release of
new products and software features on committed dates.
. Coordinated the offshore activity with team in India.
Sr Software Engineer/Technical lead -- Electronic Arts, LA, CA, US
(Contract position)
Reported to Asst. Vice President, Mobile and Wireless at Global Logic.
August 2006 - Feb 2007
. Ensured Quality delivery of various games on variety of handsets.
. Coordinated the offshore activity with team in India.
Sr Software Engineer -- Infospace Inc, Los Angeles, CA, US.
(Contract position)
September 2005 - August 2006
. Developed first RTSP based streaming mobile application product for
infospace.
. Designed the developed test suite for automated testing of Web services.
. Ported mobile application across different platforms and handset
manufacturers / OEMs.
Project Engineer -- Qualcomm Technologies, San Diego California, US.
(Contract position)
July 2004 -
August 2005
. Worked onsite with the client and managed offshore mobile application
development.
. Developed generic widgets (UI components) which can be across mobile
handset native UI.
Software Engineer, -- Lambent Technologies (Now GlobalLogic), India.
Jan 2003 - June 2004
. Developed the whole Mobile library for ease of J2me to c++ porting on
Mobile handset.
. Coded generic UI components, commonly used in mobile UI development.
Project Associate -- Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT ),Kanpur,
India (Contract position) September
2002 - December 2003
. Developed Machine Aided Translation system
. First Software in the world to translate English into Hindi. The
System is patented.
. Presented the system at various technical and social forums.
. Implemented various grammatical rules in machine interpretable forms
and developed various artificial intelligence techniques.
Software Developer CoreSolucomm Ltd, India
(Contract position)
June 2001 - Feb 2002
. Developed Remote Desktop Application
. Optimized the software for speed.
. Removed memory leaks critical to the health of the software
Other PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Project Assitant -- (Technical Writing) INDIAN NATIONAL SCIENCE ACADEMY,
Delhi, India
March 2002 - August 2002 (Contract
position)
Wrote appealing and interesting papers on topics related to the upcoming
fields in information technology with the goal to generate interest and
attract kids, youth and general public to the field of Information
Technology. The topics included, voice recognition, e-mail system,
satellite communication, internet revolution etc.
Trainee, Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT ), Delhi, India
Training as part of the Bachelors degree
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