Software Engineering Manager

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Accomplished Software Engineering Manager with 25+ years of experience in Managing, design, and development of Object-Oriented systems with extensive experience in business analysis, detailed software design, programming, support, testing and implementation.

5+ years of Technical/product management experience in various Logistics portfolios

Manage a global team of 20-25 engineers. Managing 3-5 scrum teams of engineering. Coordinated with multiple cross functional business and engineering teams across the globe.

Domain expertise in Logistics, Insurance, Cellular, OS Migrations & Telemetry

Software Tools & Technologies:

Project Management: SAFE, Agile, Scrum, Azure Ado, ServiceNow, Workday, JIRA, TFS, MS Project, Data Analysis, PMLC, EVM, Risk Management, Planning, Execution, SaaS Vendor Management and integration. TSA Audits, Security Compliance

Technologies: C, C++, MFC, VC++, C#, .NET, COM, XML, DOM, JAVA, REST Webservices, API, Web Security, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, OpenShift4, Kubernetes, Jenkins, SQL, Couchbase, ActiveMQ, MQ, JUNIT, JMETER, Windows, Linux, SaaS, JavaScript, Visual Studio, Eclipse, GIT, HTML, CSS, Google Apigee

Monitoring tools: CA APM, Grafana, Log Insight, GCP Logs

Current Clearance: STA, SIDA5

Work Authorization: US Citizen

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

UPS Inc – Airlines SDG Aug 2023 - Present

Manager, Software Engineering

Currently managing a suite of applications for UPS Gateway systems which are used for Load Planning, Air Ramp Operations, Load Handling, Weight & Balance Systems. Managing Vendor based SAAS product for Air Cargo operations and extensively managing Onshore, near Shore and Offshore teams.

Managing Gateway Automation effort for UPS hubs across the world which would save Millions of USD

Managing Weight and Balance systems modernization will lead to huge savings and ease of equipment use.

Established a requirement prioritization and change management process that minimized engineering randomizing, it helped increase the developer productivity by 5-7% and time to market by 15%

Enhanced stakeholder engagement through effective program flashes, and conducting monthly and quarterly program reviews, which helped to align with department goals and priority.

Coordinated with product managers to disambiguate requirements into technical execution plans with measurable milestones that helps to effectively optimize scope and schedule, manage cross-functional dependencies, and proactively manage risks.

All applications are built on .net tech stack

UPS Inc: DCT SDG

Application Development Manager, Lead Software Developer Mar 2018 – July 2023

IMS is a suite of applications which supports UPS.com Authentication and Authorization. It has both Restful web services and single page web apps running on Red Hat Linux servers on JAVA tech stack. Some apps are deployed in OpenShift CI/CD Pipeline using Jenkins.

Contributions:

Manage team members and provide timely feedback

Managing application development for 5 to 6 apps

Managing deployment support

Participate in Business and Functional Requirements analysis.

Activity Estimations and Risk Analysis.

Assigning and monitoring tasks.

Code and Technical specification Reviews.

Mentoring junior programmers

Migration of Tomcat apps to OpenShift (CI/CD)

Release Train Engineer for IMS Modernization which runs under SAFE guidelines.

Mentor and Coach SCRUM Masters

Lead Software Developer, Senior Software Engineer Feb 2006 – Feb 2018

WorldShip Trade direct is a shipping software which runs on various Win O/S.In consequence of globalization, the increasing economic integration and interdependence of countries, an innovative contract service offering, Trade Direct, will facilitate the movement of goods through the global supply chain. Leveraging the breadth and reliability of the UPS global network, Trade Direct will provide freight consolidation, air, ocean, and ground transportation, customs clearance, and subsequent deconsolidation and forwarding of UPS small package and child shipments delivered directly to a multitude of addresses within the destination country, all through a single source. Moreover, increased efficiency, improved resource allocation, reduced costs and time to market, enhanced shipment visibility and copious information, mitigated service failures, streamlined processes, a return address in the destination country, and one Trade Direct invoice contribute to the additional benefits to the customer through Trade Direct service offering.

Contributions:

Writing Technical specifications for initiatives.

Activity Estimations and Risk Analysis.

Assigning and monitoring tasks.

Lead Implementation of Initiatives.

Defect Corrections.

Unit & System testing.

Code and Technical specification Reviews.

Participate in Business and Functional Requirements analysis

Mentoring the junior programmers.

All applications are built on Microsoft tech stack using C++, MFC, C# and SQL Server

Other Key Experiences:

Tata Infotech July 2003 – Jan 2006

Worked in various domains like Pharma, Cellular and Services as a Lead technical Specialist.

Park Controls and Communications Nov 1998 – Feb 2000

Worked mainly in PCM Telemetry related projects like PCMDAC, Terminal Emulator based on VT-340 standards.

EDUCATION:

B.E in Mechanical: University Visveswaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore India

Certifications:

Certified SCRUM Master

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Srinidhi K Lakshmanaswamy

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