Ashish Ghanate
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Norcross, GA – 30071 *******.******@*****.***
Professional Summary
Innovative, highly motivated, result oriented, hands-on Software Engineering Manager with 18+ years of experience
Led projects generating revenue of over USD 20 Million
Successfully executed several complex projects and supervised multiple teams
Strong business acumen with an eye to expand business working towards vision
Strong organizational management, communication and project skills
Chair for driving innovation, happiness and work culture within organization
Culturally sensitive and internationally travelled leader
Co-Inventor for Centralized Content Management System (Patent Publication no: US 8,136,142)
Professional Experience
Ericsson, TV & Media, Atlanta, GA Feb ’07 – Present
Senior Engineering Manager, Software
Oversaw from design, development to launching of several releases of multiple product lines (CMS, MediaPath, NGMP, CMS-D, and Adaptations) for TV & Media industry
Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering and working closely with executives
Led projects generating revenues of over USD 15 Million per year
Involved in architectural design meetings providing feedback and suggestions
Organized Engineering department within Atlanta managing all aspects of team
Defined Processes resulting in 90% reliability rates for meeting delivery dates
Helped migrate two teams from Waterfall to use Agile methodologies
Established a cross-functional team for implementation of Data Warehouse solution
Responsible for driving innovation in the organization to increase patents filed
Tandberg Television, Atlanta, GA Feb ’05 – Feb ‘07
Engineering Manager, Software
Involved in business decisions managing revenues of over USD 5 Million per year
Managed the Asset Management System and MediaPath System, systems for management and distribution of media content used by cable and satellite operators
Received patent award for one of the key aspects on the next generation product line
Involved in the integration of MediaPath and zBand product lines to increase the satellite and terrestrial transmission speeds
Established good working relationship with customers that helped expand the business consistently
Took responsibility of writing technical requirements for features newly introduced in each of the releases
N2Broadband, Atlanta, GA Oct ‘00 – Feb ‘05
Sr. Software Engineer/Technical Architect
Responsible for design and implementation of MediaPath Distribution application from conception to completion
Involved in the implementation of web based MediaPath Catcher software for ingestion of media content received terrestrially of via satellite
Involved in the implementation of Recorder/Slicer (earlier version of Network PVR) and Streamer product lines
Involved in solution design meetings to help architect scalable solutions to meet customer demand
Consumer Financial Network, Atlanta, GA Mar ’99 – Oct ‘00
Lead Software Engineer
Responsible for implementation of a framework to add new banks to the list of banks for the company’s website youdecide.com
Led the development and maintenance of the website which included client software and the backend software of the banking aspect of the youdecide.com online business
Developed application using Java, JSP/Servlet technologies deploying on Tomcat
Developed reports providing analytics related to visitor information
BellSouth, Birmingham, GA Mar ’97 – Mar ’99
Sr. Software Engineer
Involved in developing the Application Services Layer (ASL) for the ROS (Regional Ordering System) application in C++
Implemented the Customer Account Model (CAM) component of the ROS application
Involved in performance tuning of system using tools such as quantify and purify
Received Golden Note award for excellent performance multiple times
AT&T, Dulles Corner, Northern Virginia May ’96 – Mar ‘97
Software Developer/Designer
Involved in implementation and verification of Integrated Ordering (IO) project, for validation of rules to catch errors before the customer data is saved into the database
Designed and developed data model for legacy system data. Automated the processes for development and testing of model
Developed and maintained C++ servers to provide access to Database
Involved in troubleshooting issues and providing solutions
Education:
MS Computer Science, Northern Illinois University, USA
BE Electronics & Communication Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
Technical Skills:
Java, C/C++, JavaScript, J2EE (EJB, Servlets, JSP), REST, SOAP, SAAS, AngularJS, JSON, UML, XML, SQL, Apache, Tomcat, JBOSS, TCP/IP, Unix Shell scripts, SDLC (Agile/SCRUM, Waterfall), Build Automation, Lean Six Sigma