Project Manager

Gene B. Zuñiga

P r o j e c t Manager R&D Manager

+63-917-***-**** ******@*****.*** LinkedIn

C a r e e r P r o f i l e

Solid project management skills in R&D, software design and development, maintenance and support. Vast experience in Agile software development under multinational organizations. Keen on technical details, aiding in high quality project completion. Working knowledge and proven experience in applying tools and techniques from PMP knowledge areas. A thorough and responsible leader who delivers results and develops strong working relationships.

Core skill sets on project management, application development management, production support, risk and incident management, change request management, release management, and team management. Work E x p e r i ence

Nokia Technology Center Philippines Inc. (Feb 2018 – Present) 5G R&D Manager

5G User Plane Domain Leadership

• Improved User Plane (UPlane) deliverables by increasing test code coverage to 94% through GCovr and TDR

• Optimized UPlane System Component Test (SCT) frameworks through strategic planning and coordination with multiple Product owners and technical experts

• Successfully transitioned competence ramp-up and SCT knowledge from Paris to Manila which contributed to the successful release of 5G18A program deliverables

• Increased test UE data throughput through Proof of Concept (POC) development and via left shift initiative using task force approach

Projects and Programs Management

• Conducted 5G test user equipment simulator’s program review commitments which ensured resource allocation and successful delivery for 5G19 and 5G20A

• Improved monitoring and controlling of project quality through advance and automated code review and enhanced testing in 5G18A, and 5G19 programs

• Empowered UPlane centric teams to be technically competent for 5G20B program through focused classroom trainings

• Tracked and closed incidents/issues reported to teams to ensure compliance on agreed Service Level Agreements (SLA)

Team Management

• Groomed UPlane technical experts by exposing them on technical discussions with Architecture teams from multiple sites

• Improved new Scrum team’s velocity by 20% and sprint success rate to average of 90% by mentoring them in project planning, incident, and support maintenance management

• Enabled team members through challenging roles through individual assessments and job rotations

Gene B. Zuñiga

P r o j e c t Manager R&D Manager

+63-917-***-**** ******@*****.*** LinkedIn

Community Leadership (Code Guards)

• Improved code review efficiency through process analysis and Code Guard (CG) process optimization

• Improved code quality through competence enhancement via C++/Tools trainings and coding Dojos

• Left shifted code inspection by preparing CG competence prior to execution phase of 5G18A and 5G19 programs

Wipro Limited, Philippines Branch (April 2016 – Feb 2018) Sr. Project Manager

Project management

• Optimized project roadmaps for Point-of-Sale (POS) terminal releases and strategy together with customers from multiple sites such as USA, Germany and Brazil

• Delivered more than three (3) parallel change request projects on multiple POS platforms

• Continuously engaged stakeholders by providing key project status reports and risk management updates

• Improved planning through merging of multiple source code repository branches that resulted to excellent customer satisfaction.

• Minimized issue escalations through well improved test frameworks and well-defined quality management plans

Efficiency and Process improvements

• Optimized product release processes by deploying Jenkins and Artifactory in the CI process

• Automated the compilation and building processes in creating release packages

• Created design and code review processes via Confluence and Stash/Bitbucket VeriFone Global Development Center Philippines (Nov 2005 – April 2016) Project Manager, Engineering Projects (July 2013 – April 2016)

• Delivered multiple changed requests in parallel with maintenance and support for software communication libraries and terminal applications

• Reviewed and provided analysis on new Verifone POS/terminal PRD (Product requirement Document)

• Translated product requirements to software design specifications by coordinating with various functional groups from HW, OS, FW and other SW teams.

• Conducted team appraisal and performance reviews which ensured team efficiency in project execution

SW Design Team Lead (Oct 2007 – July 2013)

• Supervised software development team from requirement analysis to development and product release

• Coordinated with different department to gather requirements and technical details of the project

• Conducted software design and architectural brainstorming and reviews Gene B. Zuñiga

P r o j e c t Manager R&D Manager

+63-917-***-**** ******@*****.*** LinkedIn

Senior Developer (Antico Manila, Inc. @ VeriFone (Nov 2005 – Oct 2007))

• Developed, maintained and enhanced VeriFone’s existing POS communication libraries which uses GPRS, WIFI, BT, Ethernet and dial modem

• Enhanced TCP/IP stack for configurable TCP related timeouts which allows performance optimization of the applications compiled using with the TCP/IP library

• Updated of VeriFone’s existing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Library together with its TCP/IP stack to be used in their POS terminal applications

SVI Software Services Corporation (Oct 2004 – Nov 2005) Software Engineer

• Worked with enhancements, investigation, bug fixing and testing of the Telephone Server module for Apello Conference Bridge (a telephony application using Intel Dialogic boards) application

• Conducted investigation, modification, bug fixing and testing of DVR (Digital Voice Recorder) application

• Performed unit testing, stress testing, bug fixing and enhancing of Linux Encoding Toolset (LETS) web-based tools

ROHM LSI Design Philippines, Inc. (April 2001 – Oct 2004) Engineer I – Software Team Lead / Developer (August 2004 – October 2004)

• Created templates for planning, scheduling and development used to ease software development execution

• Led the research for new development tools and hardware that was used in SW-HW interfacing Used USB microcontroller as medium of PC and hardware interfacing Junior Engineer I & II – Software Developer (April 2001 – March 2004)

• Developed applications that controls instruments through PC serial ports and GPIB Card used in test automation of microchips sample evaluation

• Created different ActiveX, DLL, COM and other API which aided engineers in microchip evaluation

• Developed Unix/Linux utilities using Perl/shell scripting and Motif programming that aids engineers in circuit design simulation

S k i l l s & K n owledge S ummary

Project Management – Project management, Application Production Support, Problem Management, Incident Management, Change Management, Release Management, Team Management, Agile Software development

PM Tools and Technologies – MS Project / Office, Confluence, Jira, Git / Gerrit, Jenkins, Power BI, Artifactory, Stash/BitBucket, ARM compiler, TCPIP/OpenSSL, WireShark, Agile / Scrum, Lean, Kanban Communication Technology – 5G UPlane, GPRS/GSM/3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, Dial/Modem, OpenSSL, Socket programming

E d u c a t i o n

BS Computer Science

Technological University of the Philippines

Graduated cum laude

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