Project Manager Engineer

Ramesh D. Javagal

Email: ********@*****.*** 408-***-****

Summary

. U.S. Citizen.

. 20 years of extensive hands-on technical experience in all aspects of

Software Life Cycle and Project Management.

. An effective and efficient team builder, with proven capabilities in

strategic planning and working with global teams. Attention to

details.

. Effectively create Business Plan, Execution Plan and Budgets and

implement them after mitigating risks and business dynamics.

. Well trained and experienced with recognized ability develop and

manage business plans for the long term.

. Excellent interpersonal relationship skills, team player and

communication skills.

Professional Experience:

SriDutt Technologies (Aug 2012 - present)

Consultant

. Strategize and help to streamline on bringing the emerging cutting-

edge technologies (like MEMS and Optical Sensors) to market.

. Worked with major industrial clients who are using open source

projects to

o Define metrics and processes to ensure effectiveness in Release

Management

o Improve their build and releases using Git and Clearcase.

Magma Design Automation (acquired by Synopsys), San Jose, CA (Aug 2000 -

Jun 2012)

Technical Project Manager

. Operational efficiency:

o Achieved 30% reduction in release cycle time by identifying

areas for process improvements and adopting automation and

streamlining the release engineering processes.

o Track quality improvements and deliver releases within the

committed schedules.

. Cross-functional collaboration:

o Extensively collaborated with global R&D engineers and directors

to provide a continuous build and integration of user/team

branches and Labeling.

o Be the liaison with Engineering, Field Engineers and customers

to understand the needs and translate into requirements thus

building a strong relationship and delivering high quality

releases.

o Coordinate with the Product Team Management to analyze the

requirements, mitigate risks, strategize and chalk-out the

product release roadmap after collaborating with all the

stakeholders.

. Strategic leadership:

o Managed the world-wide release operations division and ensure

that the team is motivated.

o Created and ran an internal academy to train and re-skill

engineers.

o Engage with senior management to establish an environment that

is motivating and well aligned with company objectives.

o Measure and report on quality metrics (build time, compile

issues, bugs fixed, etc), successes and ensure product quality

improvements.

Manager (SCM)

. Designed, developed and implemented detailed release plans -- ensured

the release plan and implementation to go according to the scheduled

time and availability.

. Extensive experience with ClearCase (manage, installation, usage and

setup), Makefile generation, license manager tool (flexlm).

. Experience with creating automated multi-platform build scripts, web

based on-demand build applications, automatic unit-test and release

verification systems.

. Developed custom processes on top of ClearCase to optimize and to

increase efficiency, thus leading to process improvements.

. Ensured that we prepare special builds for Purify (to detect memory

access errors) and Code Coverage (to ensure high percentage of code

coverage in tests).

. Imparted training on ClearCase fundamentals to development engineers

and helped them to discover the best ClearCase/CM solution for their

development environment.

. Managed a multi-site Release Operations, Software Configuration

Management and QA team. Track issues and ensure the required fixes

were provided in a timely manner.

. Manage parallel stream releases (for patch releases, hot fixes, as

well as major enhancements).

Talarian Corporation (acquired by Tibco Software), Los Altos, CA (June 1998

- Aug 2000)

Senior Software Engineer

. Designed and developed an Enterprise Test Suite to simulate customer

loads - in terms of number of servers and clients and also message

traffic through the cloud.

. Automated the testing process to minimize the user intervention, and

update the Intranet with results - with a summarized chart for review

by senior management.

. Ported the software to various platforms including HP-UX, Linux, IRIX

and VMS.

. Developed test cases to ensure high percentage of code coverage.

. Well experienced with using Purify to find and fix memory leaks in C

and C++ applications.

. Extensive experience with CVS (usage and setup) and Installshield

Multi-platforms.

Polycom Inc., San Jose, CA (Sept. 1997 - June 1998)

Senior Technical Support Engineer

. Provided pre-sales and post-sales support to world-wide customers on

the audio-, video- and data-conferencing products.

. Involved in pre-sales demonstration and post-sales customer training

of the new line of products.

International Game Technology, Reno, NV (July 1992 - Aug 1997)

Senior Software Engineer/Project Leader (July 1995 - Aug 1997)

. Interacted with world-wide customers in defining the requirements for

enhancing the performance of the video lottery system.

. Lead the QA team to ensure the products meet the customer

requirements. Directed the QA Engineers to utilize the customer

scenarios into testing the releases. Evaluated the load-test results

to ensure the system performance is maintained/improved.

. Supported world-wide customers and resolved any on-site issues for the

Video Lottery system.

. Provided training to the customers on the new features of the lottery

system.

Software Engineer (July 1992 - July 1995)

. Designed and developed transaction processing systems using DECNET and

ETHERNET for the Video Lottery systems.

. Designed and developed a simulation program to simulate thousands of

Casino-style machines to load-test the system.

. Part of a 3-member team in the design, development and maintenance of

the VAX-ELN based communication front-end.

Skills

. Lead a team of SCM (continuous integration, build, configuration and

maintenance of Clearcase), and QA for successful release of products

on-time.

. A track record of identifying and recruiting good talented

individuals.

. Identifying talents and translating into company goals.

. Ability in making independent judgment and to keep teams motivated.

. Able to work independently and under pressure.

. Configuration management (Clearcase, Git, CVS) & Agile development

methodology.

. UNIX, Programming (C/C++, Java), Scripting (shell, perl, python),

Makefiles, Purify.

Education

. M.S. (Computer Science), University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

. B.E. (Mechanical Engineering), R.V.C.E (Bangalore University),

Bangalore, India.

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