Project Manager Software

Location:

New York, NY

Posted:

January 24, 2013

Contact this candidate

Resume:

Sumana Harihareswara

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

Astoria, NY 11106

http://brainwane.net

http://www.linkedin.com/in/sumanah

Profile: I lead software development projects and develop and implement

sustainable processes, with special expertise in open source practices.

Selected Experience:

Wikimedia Foundation

Interim Volunteer Development Coordinator, Feb 2011-present

* Coordinate volunteers and WMF staff to plan agenda and structure for yearly hackfest

* Run Google Summer of Code program (MediaWiki organizational administrator)

* Recruit summer interns

GNOME Foundation

GNOME 3.0 Marketing Coordinator, Feb 2011-present

* Write and disseminate marketing material, including a press release

* Recruit and manage volunteers for marketing tasks

QuestionCopyright.org

Fundraising Coordinator, Feb 2011-present

* Manage fundraising process

* Write and coordinate grant proposals

* Write and recruit articles for website

GNOME Journal (http://gnomejournal.org)

Editor and Release Organizer, Nov 2009-present

* Planned and organized issues

* Recruited, edited, and published contributions

* Wrote articles about the GNOME Desktop Environment

Collabora, Ltd.

Lead Project Manager and Personnel Manager, Apr 2009-Jan 2010

* Managed multiple software projects, including research & development

department

* Reported and triaged bugs, documented, and tested Zeitgeist, Telepathy,

Empathy, and GNOME open source projects: see

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?emaillongdesc1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=sumana.harihareswara%40collabora.co.uk

for some examples

* Liaised with colleagues and clients globally in a distributed workplace

environment

* Led website redesign and wrote or edited all new copy

* Maintained shared documentation on internal and external wikis

* Wrote and managed regular companywide internal communications to highlight

teams' accomplishments and clarify strategic and tactical context

* Ramped up new employees

* Mentored team leads

* Created and executed Performance Improvement Plans for underperformers,

leading to improvement or termination

* Created and ran the performance appraisal system

* Tracked personnel assignments

AltLaw (http://www.altlaw.org)

Product Manager, Jan. 2009-Apr. 2009

* Coordinated volunteers

* Advised developer in developing priorities and new features in open source

software

* Conceived, and headed development of, new product to publicize nonprofit's

services and better serve audience

* Started publicity campaign and publicized organization's work via email

and social media

Behavior, New York, New York

Project Manager, Jan 2008-Nov 2008

* Tested web sites and standalone software, managed other testers, and filed

and managed defect reports

* Led projects from kickoff through scoping, information architecture,

visual design, functional specification, technical build, QA, and deploy

phases

* Produced and maintained project plans, status reports, extranets, and