Software Engineer Project

P raveen Chawla

C-*, *** Alpine Eco, Doddanekkundi Marathahalli, Outer Ring Road, Bangalore-560 037

Contact: 099********; E mail: *************@*****.***

PROJECT L EADER ~ T EC H N ICAL L EAD

PROF I L E

Seasoned and technically inclined Software professional with 12+ years of experience in IT Service Delivery,

P roject Management and resource planning

Currently working as Senior Software Engineer/ Solution Architect, AMD India Pvt. L td

Rich experience in varied domains like Systems (Microprocessor), UEFI, Embedded and Hand-held devices

& CAD

Aptly recognized for keeping on the leading edge of technology and utilizing the latest applications and

hardware

Possess a very strong understanding of the specific processes & functions being addressed, along with the

ability to b ridge the gap between the business & the technical worlds.

Acknowledged team leader with fine tuned analytical and t roubleshooting skills, thorough domain

k nowledge, seamless project management, and innovative design and conceptualization capabilities

Managing & operating in different environments & serving as key point of contact for senior management

Proven project management skills coupled with professional competencies in mobilizing and judiciously

managing resources with structured inputs in the domains of planning, scheduling and monitoring

Enriched with the latest t rends and techniques and a wide range of skill in Project

M anagement, Quality Ini tiatives, Technology, Critical Thinking, Troubleshooting, Problem Analysis

and Resolution

Exceptional communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with proficiency at grasping new concepts

quickly and utilizing the same in productive manner

Self motivated and goal driven team leader with strong work ethics & th rive in a deadline intensive

environment, multi-tasking, perform under pressure and meet deadlines

PROFESSIONAL VALUE OF FERE D

Project Management Solution Architect Requirement Analysis Technical Support

Product Development Reporting & Documentation Performance Management System Engineering

T raining & Development Team Management Stakeholder Management Leadership Skills

T EC H N ICAL SK I L LS

Microsoft Visual Studio, QT, SVN, Clear Case, Clear Quest, MS Project, UEFI

Technologies/ Tools

(Unified Extensible Firmware interface), Object Oriented Analysis & Design

(OOAD), Design Patterns, Agile Approach, Waterfall Approach & Multithreading

C, C++, C#, STL

Language

Windows (all versions), Linux, VRTX (RTOS), PalmOS (WebOS)

Operating Systems

AMD Microprocessor based Platforms, CPU Emulator

Ha rdware

PERFOR MANCE M I L ESTONES

Successfully provided complete life-cycle development & support for CPU validation applications & user

i nterface

Successfully led the migration of High priority CPU validation software tools to native UEFI Shell

applications

Successfully automated the manual verification process of the Board Schematic design through SRT

software

Successfully led the development effort of extending OS based CPU specialized tools to use UEFI Shell

Succesfully built multiple native UEFI applications, now widely used by internal teams for hardware

debugging

PROFESSIONAL EXPER I E NCE

Senior Software Engineer/ Solution Architect, AMD India Pvt L td, Since Nov 2006

Responsible for managing the complete life cycle of development/ support projects including analysis of the

requirements, t ranslating new ideas into solutions, requirements development, testing and documentation.

Responsible for development & maintanance of various validation and specialized tools for Access MSR, PCI

Config registers and physical memory, performing MM IO and IO operations, changing P-State and C-State

etc

Responsible for handling comprehensive issues, analysis and solution development for requirements while

contributing to the success of the team by prioritizing tasks and delivering project on time

Responsible for providing technical leadership for technologies while estimating and evaluating the

effort/schedules & providing t raining to the team on various solutions

Conceptualized and Initiated user t raining and UAT while held accountable for technical competence

building, resource management evaluations; actively set up team’s appraisal and goals.

Mentor the team with the known issues and prepare them to handle tasks and assigned work independently

Organizing and managing resources for the project that entails creating estimates for the project, work

b reakdown structure, project plan, contingency plan & schedules within defined scope, quality, t ime and cost

constraints.

Actively involve in monitoring various projects and enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of the team

Collaborating with the team members and senior management to maintain a continuous stream of

i nformation regarding the project status and progress.

Successfully formulated plan for documenting all major activities for effective reference and use.

Organized various training sessions for the team to enhance their performance.

Ensured successful status report t racking from resources and updating the management with the latest

status

Consultant/ Team Lead, T Systems (I) Pvt L td, Dec 2005 – Nov 2006

Responsible for overall project management and development support for Perfas+ (Performance Analysis

System) - a decentralized analysis system with components distributed i n the network

Drove initiatives to identify & understand requirements for customization & enhancements, serving as the

Single Point of Contact for Delivery and meeting deadlines in compliance to Time & Quality

Responsible for mentoring and training all junior developers on several projects

Conducted system study and coordinated with team members for system design and integration, application

maintenance etc

Supervised smooth implementation of the project and extend post-implementation, application maintenance

and technical support to end users

Responsible for creating and driving implementation of operational plans

Responsible for overall issue management, risk management, plan management and audit readiness,

PAST EXPERE I NCE

Senior Software Engineer, Patni Computer Systems L td, Jul 2003 – Dec 2005

Software Engineer, Smart Industrial Software Solution L td, Jan 2003 – July 2003

Software Engineer, Eencodex Technologies (I) Pvt L td, July 2002 – Dec 2002

Software Engineer, M BT (Tech Mahindra), Aug 2000 – Oct 2001

ED UCAT IO N / SK I L LS

B.Tech (Elect rical & Electronics Engineering), National Institute of Technology (NIT) Warangal, 2000

Languages known: E nglish & Hindi

References and verifying documentation furnished upon request

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