Manager Software

SUMMARY

A highly motivated problem-solver and hands-on software engineering leader

with passion for software engineering ? 10 years of progressive software

management experience ? Experienced in managing complete software

development life cycles and collaborating with cross-functional teams

(Product/Program Managers, QA, Localization, etc.) ? Track record of

successfully planning, prioritizing and delivering products and software

releases with very high quality ? Very knowledgeable in wide variety of

development platforms, tools and processes, including Agile/Scrum ?

Experienced in managing and coordinating with dispersed (US & India)

development teams ? Experienced in creating and maintaining architectural,

technology and product roadmap ? Experienced in building highly motivated,

accountable and collaborative development teams ? Maintain positive

attitude with high level of energy and enthusiasm ? Excellent communication

skills.

Demonstrated success in:

. People, product and process management with strategic oversight and "on

the ground" tactics.

. Organizing for success, setting clear goals and priorities and

facilitating effective collaboration across teams.

. Quickly adapting to new technologies and business focus.

. Providing technical leadership and defining and delivering right

solutions.

. Engaging with customers and delivering customer value with high quality.

. Building a pipeline of innovative technologies and productization of

solutions.

. Building a motivated team and hiring, developing and retaining world-

class engineering talents.

. Delivering high quality mobile/wireless applications for iPhone and iPad

platform.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Adobe Systems, Inc. San Jose, CA (2004 - Present)

Senior Engineering Manager

Provided engineering leadership to the geographically dispersed (SJ and

India) team of ~22 developers and QEs and 2 managers with responsibility

for scoping, planning, development and delivery of Adobe Illustrator CS2,

CS3, CS4 and CS5 release. Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard

desktop vector graphics software for print, web, video and mobile

publications, with over $200M revenue and approximately 3M customers.

. Promoted to lead the entire Illustrator engineering team to deliver Adobe

Illustrator CS3 and CS4, which have won awards and critical praise for

the functionality, integration and the high quality of release.

. Managed significant organizational restructuring and transitioning entire

Illustrator development to India.

. Launched Adobe Ideas 1.0 for iPad and iPhone, targeting designers and

creative professionals and developed using Objective-C. Within days, it

was the 4th top downloaded application on the Apple App Store.

. Design and developed a WIRED Digital Magazine Viewer 1.0 for Apple iPad -

#1 paid application on Apple App Store.

. Primary driver and developer of the "Social CRM" prototype, a self-help

hosted community service for creative professionals. Designed and

developed the entire prototype using AIR and Flex for client UI, Tomcat,

HSQLDB, BlazeDS, Renga and Java/PHP for real-time collaboration, backend

web services and storage.

. Experienced with Windows and Mac desktop products, Rich Internet

Application (RIA), iPhone/iPad and hosted Flex/AIR/Java web apps

development.

. Experience with prototyping software solutions using LAMP stack with

working Drupal (CMS) and Kaltura (Video).

Autodesk, Inc. San Rafael, CA (1997 - 2004)

Software Development Manager

Managed a team of software engineers, build, release and network engineers,

including responsibility for hiring, performance reviews, mentoring,

tracking deliverables & schedules, design reviews and liaising with QA,

TechPub, Product Management, Sales/Accounts team and Marketing.

. Successfully delivered four release of Location Connect suite of location

enabled wireless WAP, SMS and Web applications. Location Connect uses

Autodesk LocationLogic platform and consists of Business, Entertainment,

Direction, Traffic and Friend Finder modules. Worked in a "start-up" like

environment.

. Working with Professional Services team, successfully deployed the

software solution into the wireless telecommunication customers network.

Responsibility for the entire software development life cycle and

successfully delivering projects on time, within budget and with high

quality.

Software Development Manager

Managed a team of 8-11 software engineers, including responsibility for

hiring, performance management, mentoring, product deliverables, schedules,

design reviews and liaising with QA, TechPub, Marketing and Product

Management.

. Successfully led the team to deliver award-winning Autodesk OnSite,

Release 2. Autodesk OnSite enables dynamic viewing of digital design data

on Windows CE and Pocket PC based handheld devices.

Senior Software Engineer

Senior member of a team developing Autodesk Map. Autodesk Map which allows

GIS/Facilities professionals to create powerful precision maps.

. Primarily responsible for the design and development of the Data View

functionality. Data View provides integration of ODBC or OLE DB data with

the drawing objects.

. Key member of the team that successfully delivered Release 3 and 4 of

Autodesk Map, working with QA, Product Management, Documentation and

Localization team.

Interim Technology, Inc. Oak Brook, IL (1995 - 1997)

Senior Consultant

Senior member of a team responsible for the design and development of real-

time control software that manages the high-speed bindery line for print

publications.

. Successfully delivered several releases to R.R. Donnelley - a customer of

Interim Technology.

Various companies in UK

Analyst/Programmer, Senior Consultant

. Worked for various companies in UK, including Ferranti, ICL, DataLogic,

Siemens, ACT Logsys, Peterborough Software Ltd, J Sainsbury PLC and

Automobile Association. Information on projects and technology will be

provided upon request.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science.

University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages C++, C, Objective-C, Java, XML, XSLT, ActionScript, JavaScript,

PHP

Operating Systems Windows (XP, Win7), Sun Solaris, HP UX

Java, J2EE & Web Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Beans, JDBC, JMS

Technologies

Protocols and Formats TCP/IP, UDP, Socket, SMTP, HTTP, HTML, XML, XSLT, ODBC

Web/Application Servers Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic

Development Tools Eclipse, FlexBuilder, AIR, Struts, JUnit, JWebUnit, CVS, STL,

MFC, ObjectARX

Databases Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, HSQLDB

Wireless Technologies WML, J2ME, SMS, UAProf, WAP Push, SMPP, UCP

Others Visual C++, XCode, Autodesk Map, AutoCAD, Eclipse

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