Information Security Engineering
Resume:
Suresh Thanamala
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SUMMARY
v overall 17+ years of experience in Technical Program or Project Management/Technical leadership /development responsibility in Banking, Telecom, Multimedia, Networking, Security, Mobile, SAAS, Cloud and E-commerce applications. v Extensive experience in directing and motivating cross-functional engineering, multi-location teams and departments in support of corporate strategies.
v Excellent working with business and engineering stake holders to collect, analyze and document the Business Requirements. v Expertise preparing Functional specs and Technical specs by following Program Management/Engineering Excellence guidelines. v Hands-on working with Technical and architecture teams to analyze systems and design solutions. v Proficient preparing Project Management Plans (including Change Management and Risk Management plans). v Experienced in evaluating the multiple projects are on schedule, high quality, within the budget, and meet the measures of success (MOS) and the high-level achievements (HLA).
v Capable in developing plan based on customer requirements, project constraints and risk analysis and delivering high quality products. v Expertise in developing an evaluation method to assess program strengths and identify areas for improvement. v Strong organizational, influencing and inter-communication skills. v Proven experience managing complex projects and dependencies which includes checkpoints and reviews prior to release. v Familiarity with Accessibility standards, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Cloud (SAAS) frameworks and Mobile app development frameworks.
v Strong experience in automating Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and Agile practices for a highly scalable system. v Developed and implemented long-term goals and objectives to achieve the successful outcome of the projects. EDUCATION
Bachelor of engineering in Electronics and communication, Nagarjuna University, India. PMP Certified, Brain Bench Certified, Java Certified. PROFESSIONAL EXPERINCE
Siemens Inc., Foster City, CA October’16–till date Energy IP, Download center Mobile app (Cloud, SaaS). Principal Technical Program Manager Energy IP serves as a high-performance data integration platform for electric, gas, and water utilities to collect and process consumption data and manage all the transactions between the enterprise and the consumption endpoints. Siemens also creates applications built on top of the platform to solve business problems not addressed by legacy enterprise systems. Responsibilities:
Ø Managed programs for cross-functional initiatives, identifying and driving key deliverables and providing a program status to all the stakeholders.
Ø Build the relationships across the functional engineering teams, product management teams, release team, engineering managers, stakeholder and giving technical support to the customers and improve the process. Ø Drive, coordinate, and monitor the product development programs including scheduling, planning, execution, and delivering. Ø Resolved cross-functional issues while partnering with leadership within product development and provide oversight to Change Management as it relates to Customer and Technical Support. Ø Collaborated with our Product and Engineering teams to resolving complex technical issues, documented product bugs and help influence our product roadmap.
Ø Acted as a liaison between Engineering, Customer Support and Sales on product and service issues affecting our customers including driving key customer escalations.
Ø Driving daily case management success from the detection to resolution and dissatisfaction issues for the customer leading to ongoing enhanced customer experiences.
Ø Evaluated current processes, technology, and organizational skills to identify the areas of improvement and Identify the key technical risk areas and develop mitigation strategies. Ø Involved in designing and developing Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and other services of the AWS infrastructure.
Ø Participated in integrating services like GitHub, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins and AWS Elastic Beanstalk to create a deployment Ø Responsible for identifying and classifying Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and work on mitigation plans. Ø Provide ongoing internal risk assessment to the IT leadership team in regard to device vulnerabilities. Ø Involved in maintain the application security including user creation/deletion, audit compliance, Cyber Security technologies and policies to safeguard networks, data, and applications from outside threats Ø Collaborate with Product Managers, Platform Leads, and Information Security teams, to design and implement mobile security Ø Worked with CI/CD Release and Deployment Leadership and team to improved standards around Release Management. Environment: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, TestRail, wiki, Java, SalesForce, Web services, SOAP, REST, MS Office, Agile (Scrum), Perforce, Oracle, windows 10, Apache Application/webserver, Apache Kafka, Oracle, SQL developer, Ant, UNIX, MAC OS, IOS, Android, XCode, TestFlight. Google Inc., Mountain view, CA
June’11– Sept’16
Google TV, Mobile App & Mobile Web Sr Technical Program Manager Google TV is a Smart TV platform line of digital media play. The Google TV devices are small network appliances that deliver the digital audio and video content streamed via the Internet to a connected high-definition television. Responsibilities:
Ø Collaborate with customers and vendors to ensure high-quality products that adhere to schedule timelines and meet budget guidelines Ø Provide daily metrics status (key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks) ongoing basis and sending report to all stakeholders, Project managers.
Ø Involved Architectural reviews and validations, overseeing the implementation of quality processes. Ø Lead the successful ongoing execution and delivery of large-scale programs while partnering with design, product, engineering, business and operational teams.
Ø Developed full program plans including timelines, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, success criteria. Ø Ensure broad socialization of the plans and aligned across the leadership, project team. Ø Provided detailed and timely communication on developing issues to the relevant partners with clarity and urgency. Ø Defined, executed, and communicated risk management plans with an attitude towards engaged problem solving. Ø Collaborated engineering teams to design/architecture for back-end cloud (SaaS) and overall solution development and also participated for Creating security and device management policies. Ø Worked closely with engineers to architect, develop and optimize the mobile Cloud infrastructure and Identify the root cause of declared security incidents.
Ø Worked with Information Security team and update Security Standards for all technologies (Databases, Operating Systems
&Network devices) and Creating new ways to solve existing production security issues and Improve security infrastructure Ø Involved in maintaining the reliability, availability, and performance of Google Cloud compute instances. Ø Work with CI/CD incubation and legacy teams to ensure consolidation and automation as part of key DevOps. Environment: Oracle Database, Android, IOS, TestNG, Bugnizer, Java, Selenium, Eclipse, Win CVS, TestNg, Oracle SQL developer, Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server 4.5, Microsoft's streaming server, UNIX, windows 7., MS office, Express one, wiki, Jira, Maven, Test Flight, Agile
(Scrum), Primavera, XCode, Cloud (SaaS).
CISCO systems Inc., San Jose, CA June’08 – May’2011 Smart Call Home (SCH) Lead Technical Program Manager The Smart Call Home System was designed to automate problem reporting between a customer’s Call-home capable network device and Cisco’s Technical Support Systems, to provide faster failure resolution using consistent analysis from a rules engine, and to improve the reporting of these issues with a web interface.
Responsibilities:
Ø Managed large/complex project which may include rollout, go to the market, and deployment. Created project schedule and execution plan with resources and material requirements. Ø Made constant assessment of the feature pipeline, work done and work quality to support decision making on release delivery schedule.
Ø Influenced stakeholders in the assessment, planning and management of the project. Ø Anticipated roadblocks, escalated issues and driven resolution across a cross-functional team. Ø Established working relationship and rule of the engagement with stakeholders, and bring the data driven approach to the project management.
Ø Worked with engineering, product management, program management, operations and support teams. Ø Regularly prepared materials and present project status update to stakeholders and accountable for the Project completion within designated timelines.
Ø Maintain JIRA, Confluence, Wikki and other tools to track program and project status. Ø Perform Technical Program and Project management/Scrum Master activities such as coordinating, running and driving stand ups, PI planning, sprint planning and retrospectives as well as implementation activities. Ø Perform analysis of the current practices, design, implement best practices and emerging concepts in CI/CD landscape. Ø Worked across multiple methodologies, including Agile, DevOps, Automation and CI/CD practices and technologies. Ø Accomplished highly scalable and available applications under budget and with lesser hosting and maintenance costs. Environment: Windows, Java, XML, HTML, Oracle, JIRA, Selenium web driver, Toad, Web services, SOAP, REST, Win CVS, Express one, Rally, Agile (Scrum), MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio). AT&T Inc, San Ramon, CA Dec’03 – May’08
Light Speed Order Management System (www.att.com) QA Manager The Order Management System (OMS) is web-based application for issuing an order (IPTV, HSIA, VOIP, and Mobile). It is the front-end system for ordering the activities, product definition, order management, tracking, delivery and notification. The entire life cycle is supported by OMS for each order.
Responsibilities:
Ø Led automation project plan, scope, schedule and implementation of tests within the automation framework. Ø Defined automation test objectives, strategies, standards and metrics. Ø Analyzed system impact during design reviews with development and business analysts. Ø Facilitated technical input and growth opportunities for further automation improvement. Ø Led in the analysis, design, development, and ongoing maintenance of automated tests and automation architecture. Ø Set up the test environment for automated test execution Ø Tracked and analyzed test results, team productivity and took corrective action, follow up the bugs for every OMS product release. Environment: Mercury Quality Center 9.0, Selenium, Oracle 10g, Web sphere 5.0, Selenium RC, SOAP, CRM, SAP, ERP EPIC, Windows XP, Linux, Java, XML, J2EE, Unix, TestNg, TOAD, Maven, Express one, clear quest, clear case. Sony Electronics, San Diego, CA
Sept’01– Nov’03
Sony Style Entertainment (www.sonystyle.com) Sr Technical(dev) Lead This is Business to E-Commerce application. The goal of the Sony Style entertainment project is to create the ability to market Electronics items and merchandise as part of the Sony Style store. Create and integrate an accessible, organized and appealing online store for SonyStyle.com. Responsibilities:
Ø Involved in installation, configuration of WebLogic and deployment of EJB components in to WebLogic Application Server. Ø Developed and deployed EJB/JSP/Servlet for customer account management, order status tracking and address book management module.
Ø Involved in developing an interface for credit card payment processing using Verisign API. Ø Validated the CID response from Verisign payment gateway for Amex transactions to process the orders Ø Wrote an e-mail module to send a mail regarding order confirmation and shipping information. Ø Implement, gather, and report team and project metrics which demonstrate business value and showing continuous improvement. Environment: Oracle Database, Rally, Java, J2EE, Web spheres, Eclipse, Selenium, Win CVS, TestNg, TOAD, UNIX InfoTech, India, Hyderabad Aug’00 – Aug01
www.usbank.com Sr Analyst
The project was to replace their current web banking application with a new online system which had to support existing functionality whilst integrating with a number of backend applications including a Siebel CRM module, anti-Fraud system as well as external credit checking systems such as Experian, Equifax, and Transunion.
Responsibilities:
Ø Participate in project planning sessions with business analysts and team members to analyze business IT Ø Requirements and translate business requirements into working model. Ø Develop web application and user interfaces using Struts Framework, JSP, HTML and CSS Ø Used JavaScript and struts validation framework for performing front end validations. Ø Develop DAO design pattern for hiding the access to data source objects. Environment: Java, Eclipse, JSP, Struts, HTML, CSS, XML, CVS, WebSphere Application Server, JIRA, Test Link.
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