Manager Project

DINESH MALHOTRA

Phone: 425-***-****

E-mail: ******.********@*****.***

LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/in/dineshmalhotra

CAREER SUMMARY

** ***** ** ******* *********** teams building network virtualization and

cloud networking products. Shipped the development platform that is used by

Cisco L2 and L3 product development teams for hardware virtualization and

de-risking prototype. Worked with Cisco customers like Facebook, Verizon

and AT&T and drove early adoption of the routing virtualization platform.

Built teams committed to reliable delivery in India and US. Exposed to

discussing ideas and customer scenarios with CXOs. Hands-on with software

engineering and infrastructure design.

I aspire to work on solving hard cloud networking problems to light up

great customer experiences.

CUSTOMER CONNECTION

< I managed development and test team who conceptualized, developed and

tested award winning product VM Maestro (Virtual Machine orchestration)

initially used internally and later I pushed this product from

productivity enhancement tool to be a revenue generating product by

productizing it and showcasing it to AT&T, Verizon and Facebook and

signing them as beta customers. Highly innovative product using

virtualization built on cloud infrastructure using Cisco UCS servers and

compute is highly appreciated by Facebook as it helps them build their

network on top of Linux box booting our product from a USB drive

< I was responsible for complete customer acquisition and retention for VXR

product in APAC and Australia. Gathering requirements and fulfilling them

with the help of my development and test team in time with high quality.

< WAVE (Workbench for Automation, verification and execution) and TRADe

(Test result analysis and debugging tool) conceptualized, developed and

tested under my supervision with complete focus on fetching new customers

from India and shanghai making sure there requirements were captured and

delivered with highest quality

AWARDS

< Cisco's Engineering Excellence with highest honor, "The Pioneer Award

2012" winner in the category of "Productivity solutions".

< Cisco Quality Champions Award i.e. FY2006 Software "Build in Quality"

champions for bringing my project among top 5 best quality projects in

Cisco.

< Cisco Star award for Implementation of an innovative tool CUT (Chamber

utilization tool) to check chamber (Walkin and closein) utilization

helping save few million $$ of investments.

< Cisco University Connection Recognition Award.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Cisco Systems Mar'04

- Dec'13

Growth path with responsibilities executed

Engineering Manager

Jul'12 - Dec'13

Description: VMMaestro & VXR (Cisco IDE for CPP, Taiko, Panini, Scapa and

Topaz family of ASIC supported for IOS-XR, IOS-XE and NX-OS based

hardware), ASIC Modeling: system modeling for Panini/Scapa platform

< Award winning product used across whole routing software and hardware

teams.

< Successfully translated an indirect revenue-generating product to direct

revenue generation by taking our internal product to external customers

like Facebook, AT&T & Verizon. Working on requirement gathering and

interaction with customers.

< Project planning starting from understanding/gathering requirements to

feature specifications to design specs and framing master test plans.

< Managing team of Senior/Junior ASIC/System Modeling Developers and

VMMeastro (UI) Test and Automation team from India and US (San Jose)

< Leading activities like schedule planning, test scoping, resource

alignment, test coverage analysis, monitoring execution and delivering

results maintaining highest quality product.

< Recruiting at Cisco systems off campus and on campus, training, mentoring

and ramping up of teams in India and US. Have worked closely with India

and US teams virtually and physically for few months.

< Involved in customer visits to customers in APAC and Australia

Engineering Manager

Oct'08-Jun'12

Description: CIDE & VXR (Cisco IDE for CPP and Taiko family of Asic

supported for IOS-XR based hardware. Complete ASIC level simulation.

< Successfully grew client base by 50% in 2 years.

< Responsible for complete Project Management; managed team of

senior/junior ASIC/System modeling developers and CIDE (UI) Test and

automation team in India and US (San Jose).

< Designed Framework and implementation of process across test and

development teams.

< Evaluated tool for automation, designing framework for automation and

driving 100% automation of automatable cases using GUI Automation tool

i.e. QF-Test.

< Provided support to global customers across whole world

< Managed hiring, training, mentoring and ramping up of team.

Program Manager/Operations Lead

Nov'06-Jun'09

Description: DPL & ProjectNet XE is a project management & portfolio

management tool used by NSSTG group.

< Assisted Director, NSSTG to allocate budgets based on previous budget

spending by management and also based on ROI on the critical projects.

< Helped management plan reallocate resources based on project criticality

and need based on release schedules.

< Run audits in Project Net XE tool to check resource allocation and

project allocations

< Facilitated NSSTG Managers and Senior Managers for resource planning and

project/release management.

Test Lead Nov'06-

Sep'08

Description: CCTools (wrapper on Clearcase used across Cisco for SCM with

version control), Wave (workbench for Automation Verification and

Execution), Automated Test Solutions (ATS), TRADe and Camelot (VoIP

simulation tool supporting SIP/Skinny) projects.

< Grew customer base for CCTools from 2000 to 6000, Wave/TRADe from

inception to few 1000's

< Product adoption across Cisco and marketing by the means of

presentations, technology events like Toolapalooza and innovation expo.

< Involved in complete project management for CCTools, Wave, ATS, TRADe and

Camelot test release

< Responsible for resource planning and budgeting for equipment on

quarterly basis.

< Undertook GUI Automation of Wave using Windows Tester and QF-Test,

Camelot using tcl, ATS using shell scripting and CCTools using perl

scripting

Test Lead Mar'04-

Nov'06

Description: Cisco Transport Manager (CTM) is the industry's most advanced

optical transport domain manager. It delivers the full power of the Cisco

Optical Networking System (ONS) 15000 Series, Cisco Carrier Routing System

and the Cisco MGX Voice Gateway products.

< Managed customer escalations and customer's visits to VSNL Mumbai NOC.

< Handled project planning and weekly status meeting with India team

including Cisco and Infosys team.

< Undertook Test planning for some new critical features.

< Performed Testing (FCPS) of CTM for IOX, IOS and Optical platform.

< Automation of new features using RFT (Rational functional tester).

< Tested on various platforms like 15454 ANSI/ETSI, 15600 ANSI/ETSI, 15310

CL/MA, GSR 12000 series, HFR CRS-1 and IOS based 7600 series routers.

< Used IXIA, Smartbit and Omniber for test setup and traffic generation

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Electronics for Imaging (EFI) Project Lead

Oct'03-Mar'04

Description: Tornado is a PS, PCL5 and PCL6 interpreter and pcl5 and pcl6

drivers for fiery production solutions delivering power, performance and

speed to high-end print environment

< Started a new team and ramped up the team to 5 Engineers in India with

engineering manager in US

< Responsible for project planning for Tornado project using Microsoft

project and having weekly status meeting within India team.

< Examined Development and Marketing document like PRD (Project requirement

document), SFS (System functional specification) and Unit test plans.

< Handled test planning for new features and regressions

< Undertook Testing/Automation of the tornado product including testing of

tornado, PS, PCL5 and pcl6 interpreters and pcl5 and pcl6 drivers for

Fiery.

Wipro Technologies Senior Software Engineer

May'02-Sep'03

Description: SCTP Porting

Porting of conformance validation test suite from UNIX to Linux on SCTP, to

make the parameters as tunable, and to make SCTP stack on Linux

Description: NTID

Development of NTID scripts on Microsoft environment

Description: Ethernet Driver Testing

Testing and Automation of the Ethernet drivers, Network interface cards and

SNMP Sub agent for Ethernet in Linux Environment. Development of automated

test suites for different phases of manual testing

Description: GPRS Testing (3COM)

Involved in initial ramp up on GPRS core network consisting GGSN/PDSN/SGSN

for 3COM.

GRD Computers Software Programmer Jul'01-

Apr'02

< Contributed in developing:

o Stock maintenance system: It is a system meant to keep a record of

transactions of a mediator i.e. person with customers as well as

suppliers. In addition to maintaining a database, it also issues sale

as well as purchase memos to concerned clients.

o Payroll process system: This project keeps a record of the various

departments, employees in each department. It also issues monthly pay

slip, mailing labels, leave status report for each employee, etc.

IT SKILLS

< Proficient in: Unix Shell, Tcl/Tk, Perl Scripting, Eclipse, QF Test and

RFT

< Familiar with: Java programming, Web technologies, HTML5, CSS, JSP,

Apache

Database: SQL, RDBMS Concepts

Platforms: Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, Linux (Suse, United

Linux, RedHat)

Web Technologies: Apache Web server, CGI scripting, HTML, CSS,

JSP

Protocols/Networking: TCP/IP, SNMP, SCTP, Gateway CORBA, L2-L7, SIP,

Skinny (SCCP)

Engineering Tools: VI, CVS, SVN, Git, Mercurial (Hg), Clearcase,

CScope, RFT, Test Director, DDTS, JIRA, Wiki,

Microsoft project, RCP Applications, Jenkins, Hudson

Optical Devices: 15454 SONET/SDH, 15600 SONET/SDH, 15310 CL/MA,

15216

Routers: 7200 series (IOS based), CRS-1/3 and XR1200 series

(IOX based)

OS: IOS-XR, Linux, Windows

EDUCATION

< B.Tech. From Regional Engineering College (NIT), Kurukshetra, India in

1997-2001 with 70%

CERTIFICATIONS

< PMI Certified PMP (Project Management Professional)

< Certified Scrum Master

< SAPM, Stanford University (Converting Strategy into action)

< SAPM, Stanford University (Leadership for Strategic Execution)

< Basics of Configuration Management (By Micro Genesis on behalf of IBM

Rational)

TRAININGS ATTENDED

< Rational Functional Tester

< Tcl/Tk & Perl Scripting

< ReqPro Power User

< Accessing, Building & Committing Cisco IOS Code

< Introduction to Product Management at Cisco

< Leading a team, Accessing performance, Keeping team on target,

Negotiating, project Management - HMMT (Harvard Manage Mentor Training)

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