Management Software Engineer

Vikas Nagariya

Email: ********@*****.***, Phone: 1-510-***-**** (Home), 1-510-***-**** (Mobile)

Linked-in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nvikas

Executive Summary

Versatile technology leader with 20+ years of experience in leading teams, delivering reliable and scalable systems.

8+ years of management experience as software development manager.

12+ years of software development experience as a software developer/technical lead/project manager in developing large scale C++ and Java/J2EE applications.

Demonstrated leadership in various global software development organizations, building, leading and managing high performing teams including outsourcing partners.

Successfully leading highly effective and collaborative multinational engineering teams with a strong focus on execution and quality.

Successfully executed several projects and supervised teams of size 20-30 engineers and leads

Team management includes building, hiring and ramping up teams with co-located direct reports, as well as remote, offshore resource management.

Led the transformation of waterfall projects to Agile successfully in previous roles.

Have in-depth knowledge of the software development processes and methodologies in use for successful project execution.

Maintain strategic client relationships and facilitate positive interactions. Customer management includes direct customer interaction in requirements gathering, formulating product roadmap, customer escalation handling, and architecting solutions.

Scrum Alliance’s Certified Scrum Master

Employment Chronicle

Cisco Systems Inc.

5/2012 to Present

Manager II Software Development Engineering – Cloud & Virtualization Group

Responsible for developing next generation unified Network Management System (Cisco EPN Manager) for Telecom Service Providers supporting Carrier Ethernet, Optical, Mobility, Data Center and Cloud infrastructure environments using Agile development methodology.

Led the Agile transformation from waterfall methodology

Scrum master for 3 scrum teams

Project planning, resource allocation, scope negotiation, risk management, product delivery, vendor management and working with multiple stakeholders across geographies

Extreme Networks

1/2008 to 5/2012

Engineering Manager

Led a group of extremely talented engineers, who were responsible for the development, testing & maintenance of Extreme Network’s Ridgeline network management system.

Collaborated with Product Marketing, Sales and Engineering teams to define network management system (NMS) product roadmap.

Successfully delivered multiple releases on-time without compromising product quality.

Started Innovation and creativity group in Extreme Networks India to promote Innovation culture. Resulted in 4 patent applications within 6 months.

Managed project release schedules spread across multiple geographies

Grown the team of experienced engineers from 8 members to 20 members while maintaining low attrition rate (< 5%).

Received multiple rewards for the quickly resolving customer’s escalations.

Hammerhead Systems Inc.

6/2005 to 12/2007

Sr. Software Engineer

The PEGADOR EMS was a comprehensive software application that was a key enabler for Service Providers. It was capable to interoperate and fit seamlessly into a Service Providers’ OSS infrastructure. It had TL1 and SOAP-XML based northbound support.

Designed and implemented PEGADOR SOAP-XML northbound interface based on TMF854 to support service providers’ legacy OSS system. This interface was implemented using apache’s axis as a SOAP web service container and JBoss’s JMS implementation for transport bus.

Designed and implemented Service monitor. Service monitor was responsible for starting, stopping and monitoring all EMS services.

Alcatel USA Inc.

2004 to 2005

Sr. Software Engineer

AMS element management system provides full remote support of Alcatel’s Litespan® and ASAM terminals.

Designed and implemented AMS Web Admin components. This provide functionality for AMS administrator to execute AMS scripts from browser without access to real server.

Led an off-site (in India) team of 4 developers responsible for supporting previous versions of AMS.

Implemented AMS Web Log Viewer to view AMS logs files based on user define filters.

Designed and implemented Backup and restore management server, Event Controller and Alarm management server.

Verizon

2003 to 2004

Sr. Software Consultant

Worked on FTTP (Fiber to the Premises) Retail COFEE application.

Implemented server side components to support Address Validation, Fiber Availability and Pending Order functionality for FTTP.

Implemented web services to integrate COG with COFEE servers.

Cisco Systems Inc.

2002 to 2003

Sr. Software Consultant

Worked with testing team, which was responsible for manual testing of CORBA northbound interfaces. I had joined them as developer to help automate testing.

Designed and developed a framework to automate Northbound (based on TMF 814 standard) CORBA gateway API verifications.

Designed and developed OSS client to validate the EMS-NMS Northbound CORBA gateway interfaces.

Fujitsu Network Communication Inc.

1997 to 2002

Sr. Software Engineer

FLEXR-EM was a CORBA/C++ based distributed element management system (EMS) to manage Fujitsu’s SDH optical switches. I was responsible for

Leading team of 5 developers that designed and developed FLEXR-EM

Designed and developed various EMS server components such as NEManager, CardManager, PortManager and PerformanceManager.

Designed and developed core modules such as ManagedObject, event and fault management for Common Foundation Framework system.

Timex Resource Limited ( R&D Division of Timex Corporation)

1996 to 1997

Sr. Software Engineer

TDK (Timex Development Kit) was designed for OEM venders to interface TIMEX™ DataLink™ watch with their product. Using this user was able to download personal data from PC to DataLink watches. All communication was done using bar code on PC CRT screen and infrared optical sensor on watch.

Designed and developed API suit for TIMEX™ DataLink™ watches, PC (CRT Screen) based communication software for TIMEX DataLink watches and PC based GUI software for TIMEX DataLink watches.

Avery India Limited

1995 to 1996

Software Engineer

Designed and developed Avery Weighing Software, which connects PC with electronic weighing terminal IT-301™ using C/C++, Win3.1 API & 80X86 Assembly language

Credentials

Master of Business Administration, E-Business, School of Business and Management, National University La Jolla, CA,

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, S.G.S.I.T.S. Indore, MP

Technical Skills

Java,J2EE,XML,SOAP,REST,JSON,DOJO,JAVASCRIPT,C++,CORBA,HTTP/HTTPS,HTML,Hibernate, Python, Docker, Jenkins, Maven, OpenStack, SDN/Cisco ACI, and Carrier Ethernet & Optical Networking Technologies.

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