Manager Project
Resume:
Vishal Sheth CSM, CSP, PMP
Phone: 512-***-**** 6909 Larue Belle Cove
Email: ******@*****.*** Austin, TX – 78739
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Experience
Organizational Leadership – Led a very successful rollout of Agile/Scrum
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development methodologies across a 250-person, globally distributed (US, Australia,
India, Romania) Products organization. Has resulted in a 300% increase in the
number of major releases shipped in the last 2 years.
11+ years delivering Web-based Enterprise Software Products and Solutions for
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business domains like Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Application
Integration, Online Marketplaces and Supply Chain Management.
6+ years experience growing/mentoring/leading globally distributed teams.
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Analysis/design/development/management of 50+ releases spanning multiple JAVA
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based enterprise software products and solutions.
Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Practitioner and Project Management Professional
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Strengths
I am a versatile, customer-focused, commitment-driven, self-starter who has consistently
demonstrated effective contributions both as a leader and individual contributor. I possess strong
problem solving and presentation skills. Sound people and issue management skills are balanced by
a well rounded technical background and an ability to work with peers and management at all levels
to positively influence the organization. I am passionate about lean methodologies and agile
development using Scrum.
Attitude, Aptitude and Experience are the three pillars of my professional abilities.
The Experience to draw upon in any situation; the Aptitude to learn quickly; and the Attitude to take
on new challenges for personal, professional and organizational growth.
Education
MS in Computer Science, University of Cincinnati. (G.P.A - 3.95/4.0)
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BS in Computer Science, M.S. University, Baroda, India. (G.P.A. - 3.86/4.0)
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High School: 37th out of 37,000 students appearing in statewide 12th grade exams.
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Certifications
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
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Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP)
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Project Management Professional (PMP)
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Community Presentations
“Outsourcing to India: Can you be successful?” – Austin Technology Council
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“Agile Adoption at Vignette: Goals, Challenges and Successes” – Agile Austin
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“Ask An Expert” – Agile Austin
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Profile / Recommendations
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Additional References available on request
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Professional Experience
Vignette Corporation [Austin, TX] [May 2004 - present]
Currently working as Scrum Lead/Coach and Program Manager. Since joining as Sr. Software
Engineer, have grown from Team Lead to Project Manager to Program Manager and now Scrum
Lead/Coach.
As Scrum Lead/Coach, I am responsible for the adoption, evolution and institutionalization of
Scrum as the software development process across all Vignette locations spanning 4 continents
and 250+ contributors. Scrum is extremely powerful, yet lightweight framework of practices and
principles that guide a team’s response to situations. Influencing a mindset shift at the individual,
team and management levels to focus on principles rather than process has been a key factor in
the success at Vignette. Since adopting Scrum in April 2007, Vignette has seen positive benefits
such as significantly faster time-to-market, better predictability, higher team spirit and
empowerment. The role involves:
Working with Scrum teams to provide training, specific one-on-one coaching to the
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ScrumMaster and Product Owner and ongoing interaction with the 20+ teams to provide
guidance and information.
Close collaboration with the senior leadership team ensures visibility and active redressal of
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organizational impediments.
Constant communication with the ScrumMasters group coupled with innovative process and
organizational changes have created an environment of team empowerment and efficiency
without sacrificing organizational visibility and confidence. With Scrum, Vignette has brought 7
new products to market and shipped 15 major releases in 2 years compared to 1 new product
and 5 major releases in the 2 years prior.
As Program Manager, I provide cross-functional, cross-team, cross-geo oversight for releasing
multiple new and existing products to the market.
The role involves communicating with various stakeholders to create milestones, track
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progress and to identify and mitigate risks.
I was also handpicked for an effort to seamlessly integrate an acquired company and to
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bring its employees and processes into the Vignette fold. This assignment required ramping
up on the existing practices, technology and ongoing releases of the acquired company and
to help the team transition to the Vignette organization, culture and processes. A key target
was to stabilize ongoing activities and manage confidence amongst existing customers.
As Project Manager/Team Lead, I managed the development of the Content Contributor
Extensions (CCE) product with an engineering team spread across 5 time zones and 3 continents.
I was awarded the peer-recommended Engineering Outstanding Achievement Award for
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successfully bringing together a team spread across remote locations.
SeeBeyond Technology Corporation [Monrovia, CA] [Sep 2002 – May 2004]
Worked as a Sr. Software Engineer on the design and development of eGate 5.0.x, which was
the latest version of company’s flagship product for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) at
the time. eGate 5.0 was successfully released in Oct. 2003 to wide acclaim.
Responsible for the collaboration framework, automatic code generation and deployment
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functions of the product.
The user ‘designs’ a collaboration on the UI and these back-end features are responsible for
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dynamically generating J2EE-compliant EAR files that are deployed onto a J2EE-compliant
Application Server, where they process and direct the incoming data to appropriate user-
defined destinations, encapsulated as EWays.
Built monitoring capability using JMX that allows real-time visual status check as well as the
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capability to turn individual processes/collaborations ON/OFF.
i2 Technologies, Inc. [Dallas, TX & Mountain View, CA] [Aug 1998 – Aug 2002]
4+ years as a Sr. Software Engineer in the application development organization of
i2Technologies with responsibilities ranging from leading a team, to design, development and,
testing too. Essentially, do what needs to be done to deliver a successful product that exceeds
customer expectations.
Projects are listed in reverse chronology below:
i2 Five.Two eProcurement (Indirect Procurement)
Touted as the most elaborate release in i2’s history, i2 Five.Two was a company-wide effort
aimed at delivering an extended suite of Supply Chain planning, optimization and collaboration
products with a common User Interface and out-of-the-box integration. J2EE with Session and
Entity Beans on Weblogic 6.1 with XML/XSL driven UI and Oracle at the back end.
Designed Store Front Selling and Auctioning applications of the Marketplace product as
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Team Lead.
Analyzed, designed and implemented intelligent decision support via Three Way Matching
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of Invoices. This feature was widely accepted as a significant value-add for customers and a
key market differentiator for i2’s eProcurement offering.
Responsible for analyzing and designing the Global Spend Management functionality within
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the Indirect Procurement solution.
Responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of features related to supplier
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interaction such as creation/update and upload/download of Invoices and Advanced
Shipment Notices.
Built the data migration framework from a JAVA/Oracle based architecture to an EJB/Oracle
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based architecture. It is important to note that these were two different logical
architectures/business models built on 2 very different technical platforms.
User Profile Management
User Management service of the Collaboration Products suite was i2’s web-based
Administration Solution that provided easy-to-use wizards and tools for intuitive configuration
of a Public or Private Marketplace. JAVA-based development with Oracle database and JSPs.
UI Team Lead during the 1st release of UPM which was delivered ahead-of-time with only 2
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other development members, both new to the RCP architecture and JSP development.
Acted as a Mentor during their learning phase with concurrent development tasks.
Promoted to Team Lead during the 2nd and 3rd releases of the product.
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Auction Collaboration
Auction Collaboration was i2’s web-enabled B2B Auction Solution that enabled buyers and
suppliers to conduct various types of Forward, Reverse and RFQ Auctions over the Internet in a
secure and automated fashion. Creation, processing and automatic clearing of custom auctions
was supported in addition to standard Auction types like English, Dutch, and Vickrey. JAVA-
based development with Oracle database and JSPs.
Designed, developed and delivered the 1st release of the auctioning solution in 3 weeks with
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a total of 2 developers, one being myself.
Global Procurement Manager (Direct Procurement)
Global Procurement Manager was i2’s web-enabled direct eProcurement solution. It allowed
buyers and suppliers to gain visibility/negotiate on various parameters across complex timelines.
JAVA-based development with Oracle database and JSPs.
Involved in the development of multiple initial releases of the product.
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Re-architected the entire UI framework to use JSPs for rapid application development.
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I was also responsible for ensuring successful deployment of the product at the first major
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set of customers.
Global Demand Manager
Global Demand Manager was i2’s first web-enabled collaborative planning application that
allowed both buying and selling organizations to have forward visibility into the forecasted
demand for products and the seller’s ability to supply against the demand. JAVA-based
development with Objectivity’s Object Database.
Worked on multiple releases of the product
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Was responsible for the I/O framework, external integration and performance optimization.
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Was closely involved in the first deployment of the product at a top Fortune 500 company.
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University of Cincinnati [Research Assistant] [Sept 97 – June 98]
Analyzed, improvised and implement, in C++, a new secondary indexing mechanism for
relational as well as object databases, called Property Maps. The analysis involved
developing cost models and simulating performance (vis-à-vis Multi-Dimensional indexing)
with varying parameters.
AT&T [Summer Manager] [June 97 – Sept 97]
Developed call flows for AT&T’s next generation switch, designed and developed the
Division website for the AT&T Intranet and helped translate existing services and features to
the next generation switching environment.
University of Cincinnati [Teaching Assistant] [Sept 96 – June 97]
Conducted laboratories, taught programming concepts and evaluated overall student
performance.
Affiliations
• Chairman, IEEE Students Branch, Baroda Chapter, India – 75 members.
• Chairman, Students Association of Computers Engineers, M.S. University – 230 members.
• Executive Member, CSI Students Branch, Baroda, India - 125 members.
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