Management Engineering

VIPUL DOSHI

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

Phone: 510-***-****

HANDS-ON ENGINEERING LEADER with strong leadership in building teams and products from

conception through deployment. Over 22 years of software engineering experience spanning multiple domains:

IoT, Green Technology, Casino Gaming, Healthcare, Imaging & Printing, Automobile and Media. Proven

ability to identify strategic opportunities and deliver solutions that adds real value to company business. Strong

in technology, engineering strategy, risk mitigation, project and people management.

Status: U.S. citizen

LEADERSHIP SKILLS AND EXPERTISE

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People Management: Build and sustain onshore and offshore teams.

• Team efficiency by bringing out each individual’s strength.

• Remove roadblocks for team by being a keen listener.

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Project Agile/Scrum, Extreme Programming Practices, Waterfall.

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Management: Ability to manage and execute multiple projects.

• Risk mitigation strategies at project onset.

• Vendor relationship management, including staff augmentation.

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Product Evangelize and introduce new technology into product suite.

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Development Build v/s Buy analysis

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And Management: Product positioning and Roadmaps

EXPERIENCE

Blink Network, San Jose, CA 03/13-Present

Vice-President of Engineering

• Hands-on Engineering Executive and Architect for a scalable, distributed, multi-tenant SaaS B2C e-

commerce product supporting an international network of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations (IoT).

• Created engineering and product strategies for the company’s end-to-end product suite, including mobile.

• Architected and executed product features for platform, mobile and big data thereby doubling company

revenue.

• Evangelized business intelligence product suite using Amazon EMR platform.

• Managed geographically distributed teams comprising of development, QA and Dev Ops.

• Achieved product delivery efficiency by introducing hybrid Agile SDLC among distributed teams.

• Delivered on features to enhance customer experience and reduce operational inefficiencies.

• Environment: Java/J2EE, PHP, Hbase, Amazon EC2 & EMR, ehCache, Postgres, Android, iOS

International Game Technology, San Francisco, CA 07/08-03/13

Sr Engineering Management – Online Platform and Analytics

• Development Leader for $50+ million revenue generating internet product lines comprising of scalable,

distributed, high volume transaction gaming systems (SaaS) and big data business intelligence solution.

• Evangelized and delivered features that quadrupled customer base in 2 years after joining company.

• Introduced and led development of new SaaS scalable, robust, distributed high volume transaction Jackpot

Server using Hadoop, Pig, and Hazelcast.

• Developed and championed strategies with Business, Operations, and Technical Marketing and Cross Asset

teams for an effective roadmap of the project.

• Instilled product ownership and accountability in engineers leading to better product quality.

VIPUL DOSHI

• Provided technical direction to an effective distributed team (40+) of managers, architect, software and

database engineers.

• Evangelized and introduced new technologies and frameworks, including Hadoop, Hazelcast, iBatis and

Flex to the product portfolio.

• Environment: Java/J2EE, Hadoop, Hazelcast, Spring, iBatis, Flex, Oracle, OBIEE.

MD SYNERGY, El Segundo, California 08/06-03/08

Vice-President of Engineering

• Executive officer, reporting to CEO, of revenue generating multi-million start-up company providing multi-

tenant SaaS oriented physician practice revenue optimization solutions which help medical practices

improve efficiency, increase operational control and maximize revenue potential.

• Created engineering strategies and drive SDLC execution for the company’s end-to-end product suite.

• Worked closely with CEO and product management team to define the product roadmap and requirements.

• Build a complete offshore engineering division from ground up.

• Managed an onshore and offshore team members comprising of managers, architects, leads, developers,

QA and IT engineers.

• Responsible for overseeing the IT infrastructure for corporate and offshore locations.

• Environment: AJAX, Web Services, .NET, C#, ASP, (D)HTML, JavaScript, TFS, VFS

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY, Cupertino, California 03/03-08/06

Software Manager

• Managed, led, motivated and empowered a team of offshore software engineers, DBA and Unix System

Administrator for HP’s WW content aggregation and syndication application.

• Provided technical direction for functional & design documents, along with implementation guidance.

• Responsible for end-to-end project planning, resource allocation and execution of the SDLC.

• Developed and championed strategies with Business, Operations, Technical Marketing and Cross Asset

teams for an effective roadmap of the project.

• Responsible for onshore and offshore technical team management, including hiring of resources.

• Environment: JSP, Servlets, Core Java, XML, UNIX, Windows.

R&D Manager (2 years)

• Managed, led and motivated a team of 20 software & quality engineers across three digital imaging and

printing products, including image archiving and web-based image sharing products.

• Wrote and reviewed PRS documents, functional specifications and test plans.

• Managed geographically distributed development and quality engineering teams.

• Developed and championed strategies with R&D, Technical Marketing and Business teams to design in

product quality and sustain it throughout product life cycle.

• Developed, implemented and communicated process improvement and development across SDLC.

• Managed and developed year-to-year financial budgets (ranging from $3 to 10M)

• Environment: Web Services,.NET, C#, Java,/J2EE, (D)HTML, JavaScript, C++, TFS, VFS

Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, California 12/00-12/02

Senior Engineering Manager

• Managed, led and motivated a team of 3 software engineers and 1 QA engineer in creating a MVC based

web-enabled collaborative design environment for hardware design engineers. This design environment

provided task management, document change control, workflow management and integration with the

complete set of Cadence PCB design tools.

• Responsible for project life cycle management, technical architecture, design and review of code, cross

functional team management.

• Reviewed PRS documents, wrote functional specifications and participated in product roadmap

discussions.

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VIPUL DOSHI

MODEL E CORPORATION, Fremont, California 03/00-11/00

Software Engineering Manager

• Managed a web-enabled project which provided built-to-order and mass customization of automobiles.

• Managed staff of 8: 4 java server-side engineers, 2 web engineers, web designer and QA engineer.

• Responsible for project life cycle management, technical architecture, design & review of code and

documents, cross functional team management.

• Provided strategic technical advice to top level management (CEO and CTO).

• Environment: Linux, Windows, (D)HTML, JSP, Servlets, Beans.

• Reason for Leaving: Company ceased operations.

GETMEDIA INC., San Jose, California 05/99-03/00

Team Lead

• Led and managed three projects for an internet e-commerce start-up company providing impulse buy

solution for media broadcasters.

• Managed staff of seven software engineers.

• Responsible for project life cycle management, technical architecture, write & review PRS and functional

specification documents.

• Coordinated the recruitment, interviewing, hiring and assignment of responsibilities to engineers.

• Provided strategic technical advice to CEO.

• Environment: Windows, Java, VB, C++.

• Reason for Leaving: Company ceased operations.

Various Companies 11/92-03/99

Software Engineer

• Lucent, McKesson, EDF

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java/J2EE, node.js, PHP, .NET, C#, (D)HTML, JavaScript, C++, C

Protocols: UML, SOAP, XML, XSL, CORBA, DCE, NCS, TCP/IP, HL7, UDP, UUCP, NFS

Databases/ORM: Postgres, Oracle, iBatis, Hibernate, JPA, MySQL, SQL Server, Sybase, Informix

Frameworks/Tools: AWS, AMR, EC2, Hadoop, HBase, Hazelcast, ehCache, Spring, Rabbit MQ,

JMSApache CXF, Jquery, Google API, Weblogic, Websphere, Tomcat, Apache

EDUCATION

MS, Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 1992

BS, Computer Engineering, University of Bombay, Bombay, India, 1990

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