Management Manager

SUMMARY

Global Engineering Team Management ? Program Management ? Software

Development Process Improvement ? Project Lifecycle

Proven management leader with extensive experience in large and small

companies. Demonstrated ability to deliver stretch goals in fast paced and

dynamic environments. Recognized as an exceptional leader, mentor,

communicator, and innovator, with entrepreneurial traits. Specialize in

creating and effectively managing high performance, geographically

dispersed software development teams through proven leadership and open

management style. Expertise in vitalizing departmental and organizational

performance through process improvements and effective planning, execution

and risk management strategies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ALCATEL-LUCENT Holmdel, NJ

Project/Development R&D Manager 2003-2005, 2006-Present

Currently lead a geographically dispersed research and development team for

the Lucent VPN Firewall product line; provide technical direction; manage

relationships with some customers and development partners.

Architected one of the best cloud-based element management systems for

security appliances and creating a unique differentiator for the product

line.

Established a development center in Bangalore, India; conceived and

implemented a unique hiring practice to staff up the development center;

hiring method later adopted by other divisions; mentored the new hires and

creating a effective and productive team in within 4 weeks.

Streamlined and developed processes, implemented best practices, and

improved productivity of the team; improved defect removal rate by 40%;

reduced defects/KLOC by 50%.

Proposed a number of new initiatives and potential product improvements

like seamless distributed reports, active-active realtime redundancy which

helped increase differentiators in a crowded product space.

Created and led a cross functional innovation sub-group to analyze

technology trends and to identify future evolution paths for the product

house; results of analysis used to develop a long term strategy.

SIPERA SYSTEMS Dallas, TX

Director of Engineering 2005- 2006

Created, groomed and managed global software development teams. Set up a

R&D unit for the company in India. Successfully grew and managed this

center and turned it into a working and productive unit.

Created and deployed the infrastructure in both locations, developed and

initiated data/Internet security, auditing, and best-practices procedures.

Initiated and developed the company wide disaster management procedures and

methodologies.

Performed security analysis of VoIP phone security and worked with

development team to developed VoIP exploits. Conceived the need for Load

generation and Vulnerability Assessment Tool (LAVA) and helped garner

support from Sipera management team to launch Sipera's LAVA security

service offering.

Identified the scope, requirements and the need for a Program Management

Office and played a key role in the establishment of the PMO; Created

Project Management templates for schedule management, estimation, risk

management, and performance management.

Worked on formulating partnerships (and possible M&A activity) with

external potential partners. Analyzed technology trends in the industry and

proposed new potential evolution paths.

MEITROS INC, Hoboken, NJ

Director of Technology, Cofounder 2002-2003

Co-founded a small Security Services startup and provided technical

direction to the company in designing customized network security

solutions.

Set up a cutting edge cross functional, vender independent product

evaluation lab.

Communicated of project status, schedule development, and tracking to key

investors on a regular basis. The company was unfortunately shutdown due to

lack of funding.

AT&T BELL LABS Holmdel, NJ

Development Manager R&D 1994-2002

Managed and worked on numerous cutting edge technology projects in the area

of network security, internet telephony, voice recognition, and databases.

Key successes include management and development of a web based search

engine using content-based heuristics to search for similar patterns and

delivery of working product in record time. The project was based on Bell

Labs Research prototype. After a successful demo, this technology was

licensed and spun-off.

Designed and developed tools for instant communication between the

computers across the network. This was built in early 1995 and was a

predecessor to the current Instant Messaging Technology in use by Yahoo,

AOL and MSN.

Early Career (1989 -1994): Worked as a Senior Scientist with Defense

Research & Development Organization in India. More Details available upon

request.

EDUCATION

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Johnson Graduate School of Management

Master of Business Administration, General Management & Strategy, May 2009

UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD, JK Institute of Applied Physics and Technology

Master of Science in Computer Science (Software), Dec 1989

DELHI UNIVERSITY, North Campus

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Dec 1987

RECENT HONORS, AWARDS AND ACTIVITIES

Nominated a Key Performer in ALU in 2010

Certificate of Recognition for exemplary leadership in ALU in 2009

Founding Club Officer & Treasurer of Cornell Univ Alternative Investments

Club, 2008-09

CERTIFICATIONS

CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional, conferred by

ISC2 in Jan 2002

PMP - Project Management Professional, conferred by PMI in July 2004.

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