Manager Project

Jay Charavda **** Northridge Ct., Irving,

TX ****8

Telephone: (H) 972-***-****

(C) 972-***-****

*********@********.***

Summary

Software Project Manager with an extensive experience in gathering

requirements, managing resources, coordinating between groups within the

company and outside the company, building customer relationship, monitoring

the development of the software within company and outsourcing including

off-shore, managing architecture, development documents and system level

test plans, managing the deliveries of major and minor releases of the

software, prioritizing and tracking customer issues and generating periodic

reports for the upper management.

Management Skills

Project Defining the Requirements, Building Schedule and Budget

Management Managing Schedule, Budget, Issues, Changes, Communication, Risk,

Resources

Managing Quality and Metrics

Managing Product/Project Life Cycles, Process Implementation

Portfolio Select, prioritize, authorize and manage the completed work, work

Management in-progress and future work.

Technologies Microsoft Office including Project Planner, Power Point, Visio,

and Tools Rational Rose (ClearCase, ClearQuest), Telelogic DOORS

(Requirement management)

Technical Skills

Operating Windows (7, Vista, XP), UNIX (Solaris and Linux), DOS and RTOS

Systems (Nucleus, Symbian)

Languages 'C VC++, 'C', C#, JAVA, ASP.net, JavaScript, Perl, Python,

PASCAL, FORTRAN, and ASSEMBLY

Technologies Visual Studio (including MFC and ATL), ARM Development (embedded

and Tools development), UI and Graphic Design using MFC, Source Insight,

Eclipse, XML, WAP, TCP/IP, PostgreSQL DB, WinRunner

Platforms IBM and compatible PCs, SUN, HP, and Dell Windows and Linux based

Servers

Experience

Coscend Communications, Dallas, TX January 2009 - present

Software Engineer/ Manager

Coscend Communications provides software solutions using Software Service

Factory which was pioneered by the company.

. Managed a group of engineers to design, develop, test, deliver and deploy

Firmware Management tool to install and upgrade firmware in the client

devices such as Routers in the network; utilizing C, C++ and Perl.

. The Admin Systems were Linux based while the devices were based on Linux

like OS, Adtran-OS.

. The manual process used to take 45 to 60 minutes to upgrade firmware. The

tool reduced the time to 5-7 minutes and it can upgrade 8 devices in

parallel. ROI was over 10 fold.

. Managed and assisted in Architecting, Designing, Developing and writing

Use Cases for Unified Communications and Self-Service Web Portal utilizing

C#, ASP.net, and JAVA.

. The projects were managed utilizing MS Project Planner.

. Built and managed good relationship with customers.

Prodea Systems, Plano, TX July 2008 - November 2008

Software Lead Engineer/ Manager

Prodea Systems developed a comprehensive solution to address the increased

list of Internet-based services available making the "digital" home very

complex for the consumer. ROS Service Center (RSC) which is the server side

of the system, serving several thousand ROS Home Center (RHC) units

providing an access to many of the new Internet services such as

downloading and listening to Music, downloading and watching movies,

uploading and sharing photos, personal videos and many other services.

. Managed a group of software engineers in-house and in India to design,

develop, test, and deliver software to Quality Control (internal customer)

and final version to customers.

. The new software for the Linux based servers and clients were built,

verified and delivered to QA team for testing on a weekly basis.

. Linux and Python based scripts were utilized to bring up the servers and

once the servers were up, the clients' software was upgraded.

. The upper management was provided with weekly and monthly progress

reports covering the schedule and resources status utilizing MS Project

Planner.

. The software versions were controlled using SVN.

Infineon Technologies (Agere Systems), Irving, TX May 2004 - June 2008

Software Lead / Manager

. Build the relationship with customer to finalize the requirements for

additional features such as Web Browsing, Infrared Data Association (IrDA)

and Bluetooth, PC Sync., and receiving and sending of vCal, vCard and

images over MMS and IrDA interfaces.

. Managed the version control utilizing ClearCase and delivered the several

releases of software every month.

. Managed a team to design, develop, enhance, integrate and deliver

Diagnostics Tool which is used to test and verify internal hardware

components of a Mobile Phone such as Memory, Audio, Display, Async

Interface Unit (ASIU), Real-Time Clock (RTC) to customer.

. GUI is used to control Downloading the software, Starting / Pausing /

Resuming / Stopping the test. The results are displayed on the GUI screens

and saved in a file.

. The software was written in C, C++ and VC++ utilizing MFC and ATL Libs.

. The project and resources were managed utilizing MS Project Planner.

. Received the Spot Bonus Award for excellent customer technical support.

Skyworks Solutions Inc., / Orbis International, Inc. Irving, TX January

2004 - April 2004 Software Consultant

. Debugged, fixed and documented problems and solutions in the real-time

software for User Interface (UI) and the Protocol Stack (PS) for Global

System for Mobile communications (GSM) and General Packet Radio Service

(GPRS) based mobile phones.

NEC America, Inc., Irving, TX June 1988 - April 2003

Software Development Manager

Developed, enhanced, integrated, verified, and automated testing for

Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the mobile (cell) phones based on TDMA

and GSM/GPRS and ATM Network Management System (NMS).

. Managed and delivered the software for the GUI applications such as

Phonebook, Scheduler, and To Do List with finalized requirements.

. The NMS utilized Solaris based servers to manage hundreds of ATM

switches. Solaris shell scripts were utilized to bring up Primary and

Secondary servers and manage the fault tolerant between them and also with

the DB (Sybase) servers.

. The projects and resources were managed utilizing MS Project Planner. The

requirements were written and managed using DOORS.

. The software versions were controlled using ClearCase.

Education

Manchester University

. Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Work Status

. U.S. Citizen

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