Project Manager Software

Vastari Kranthi Kiran

Email: *.************@*****.*** Phone: +27(0) 7490 89 875

Linked-in: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=35019915&trk=tab_pro

Career I am looking for a position, one that will build on my skills and experience in software and

Objective digital TV, and allow me scope for upward movement

Career Currently working as Senior Consultant with Multichoice, Johannesburg, South

Summary Africa, Since March-2012

Worked as Software & Senior Software Engineer at NDS Services Pay TV

Technology from November -2006 to March-2012

Over 6 years of software development, integration, testing experience in Digital

Television (DTV) domain

Experienced in DVB, XSI, Open TV, MediaHighway (Fusion) and Irdeto middleware,

PVR, XBMC, Recommendations and other STB Standards & Functionalities

Experienced with different phases of SW cycles; Especially in UI Development, Unit

Testing, SDK/API validation

Experienced with different types of Integration (E2E, Horizontal, Continuous)

Derived Use cases, Middleware SDK behavior from Functional Requirements

Led UI development, Integration cycles and technically navigated at tweaking times

Designed, Developed solutions with DVB, Open TV, Fusion and Irdeto middleware

understandability

Hands-on experience in Debugging, Unblocking SW cycles at different phases and

Identifying root cause of the issue

Porting, Integrating Middleware Services/Components

Penned Use Case, Acceptance Test Procedure, Integration sanity, Component sanity

Highly appreciated for Knowledge sharing and Training peers, colleagues

Worked with leading Broadcasters and different Cultured people

Skill Set & C, Java, Android (novice)

Tools DVB, XSI, Open TV, MediaHighway (Fusion), Irdeto, Cygwin, GDB

Merant 6, Clear Case, Clear Quest, Spira, Jenkins, Red-rat

Rational Rose

Current Project Customer Multichoice, South Africa (http://www.multichoice.co.za)

Environment Java, Irdeto Middleware

Hardware PACE PVR STB with BCM 7346

End to End Integration – System Integration and Validating official releases from all

Vendors of Multichoice

Role & Key Contributions:

Owner of UI component from SI team

Validation of official releases by executing System sanity, UI component test suites

Investigating failures detected during Sanity and raised by QA team

Providing SI requirements and list of Issues to fix for each UI Development

Sprint/Iteration

Assisting UI Dev engineers with development, bug fixing and purging development

hurdles

Responsible for CA-DVT validation. The test cycle is carried to ensure STB software

responds to CA Notifications such as EMMs, Authorization and so on

Randburg Inn Flats, 265 Main Avenue, Ferndale, Randburg, Jo’burg, Gauteng, South Africa

Vastari Kranthi Kiran

Email: *.************@*****.*** Phone: +27(0) 7490 89 875

Linked-in: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=35019915&trk=tab_pro

NDS Customer UPC, Europe (http://www.upc.ie/)

Projects Environment C, Linux, MeidaHighway (Fusion) Middleware

Hardware Samsung Gateway STB with Intel Atom CE Media Processor

Middleware Integration – Continuous Middleware Integration, integrating new or changed

code (change in subcomponents) with the existing code repository

Role and Key Contributions:

Providing the Integration Plan to STB Architects

Identifying the scenarios to be integrated, tested under Middlerware and Full

Stack Integration

Ensuring the changes doesn’t lead to malfunction of the existing Product and

the changes made meets the new requirements

Providing Test Suites to verify middleware sub components works and

collaborates with other components as expected

Finding the root cause of the issues and providing the fixes to Component

Owners

- Integrated Search, Sort and Collapse functionality

- Integrated tuner conflict management which supports 6 tuner management

- Integrated Persistence Review Buffer (time-shift) functionality

Customer Foxtel, Australia (www.foxtel.com.au)

Environment C, Open TV Middleware, Cygwin

NDS Hardware PACE PVR STB with ST5514 and BCM7401 chipset

Projects

IP Junior (Progressive Download - PDL) – The STB provides the facility to the viewer to

download the content using IP connection.

PDL an NDS Product, provides a solution to download the content via HTTP and playback

the same with the existing play drivers

Role and Key Contributions:

Software requirement analysis

Provided Use cases and Sequence diagram for PPV asset booking

Coded, Integrated and Tested Booking Module and Ethernet Configuration

Module

Provided Generic framework as part of EPG sub-component to query the Open

TV middleware Ethernet SQnC interface

Providing status updates for EPG to the Project Manager

Managed Engineering Releases to the Integration team by providing the proper

baselines for all the components, release notes

Supporting Integration team with bug investigation and fixes

Randburg Inn Flats, 265 Main Avenue, Ferndale, Randburg, Jo’burg, Gauteng, South Africa

Vastari Kranthi Kiran

Email: *.************@*****.*** Phone: +27(0) 7490 89 875

Linked-in: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=35019915&trk=tab_pro

Book-able Promo – The STB provides the facility to the viewer to book and purchase of

specific scheduled events during the broadcast of promotional audio/video content.

Role and Key Contributions:

Software requirement analysis

Developed a Gadget which downloads the data from the carousel and monitors

the carousel updates

Also, Gadget handles different UI functionalities

Provided EPG Use-Cases

Provided Unit test cases

iXTV – iXTV Component is a NDS supplied library that allows third-party applications to

perform Personal Video Recording (PVR/XTV) functions

Role and Key Contributions:

Delivered Test Application to Foxtel for iXTV library verification

Involved in Integration, Testing the iXTV functionalities

Ported iXTV component to PACE PVR BCM7401 STB

Provided Acceptance Test Procedure document to Foxtel

Movie Selector – Provides the EPG with the ability to store and query the XSI information

from the HDD (internal to STB) and also the ability to retrieve the data by attribute-based

search rather context-based search

Role and Key Contributions:

Software requirement analysis

Porting, Integrating Sqlite & Query engine components to Foxtel PVR system

Adding and changing the makefiles to enable different PVR components

Troubleshooting – Compilation errors, Providing generic export files to non PVR

components i.e. platform independent

Troubleshooting - Memory management, Assigning task priorities to PVR

components

Provided new EPG screens which uses Query engine API’s to retrieve the data based

on the user inputs

Documented How to Port, Integrate PVR components

Randburg Inn Flats, 265 Main Avenue, Ferndale, Randburg, Jo’burg, Gauteng, South Africa

Vastari Kranthi Kiran

Email: *.************@*****.*** Phone: +27(0) 7490 89 875

Linked-in: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=35019915&trk=tab_pro

Electronic Program Guide - Facelift (New look & Feel)

Re-skinning of entire EPG software

Role and Key Contributions:

Deputed to Foxtel Labs, Sydney, Australia for development and deployment

Closely worked with Foxtel Marketing & Graphics team

Provided technical assistance to onsite test engineers

Instrumental in designing, implementing and delivering the feature far ahead of

the project schedule at the customer site

Trained teammates on Facelift

Post onsite program – Lead the team of size 3, fragmentized work and managed

the iterative releases to Foxtel

Recognition/Appreciation:

Recipient of Best Team Award for the year 2008 (CEO Award) from NDS

Face lift rated as GOLD Performance by Foxtel

Education Dynamic/Static EPG Themes

Role and Key Contributions:

Concept, design and implementation

Proof of concept for the Generic Framework (Face-Lift)

Provides the facility to the Broadcaster to change the EPG theme on fly via

pushing the data on the carousel

Personal Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering (2002-2006) from JNT

Details University, Hyderabad, India

Age 29

Nationality Indian

Work Visits Sydney, Australia

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bangkok, Thailand

Johannesburg, South Africa

Randburg Inn Flats, 265 Main Avenue, Ferndale, Randburg, Jo’burg, Gauteng, South Africa

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