Project Manager
Resume:
Narkeeran Narasimhan Pittsburgh, PA-*****
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Summary
18+ years of IT/Software Management experience with proven track record of improving operational efficiency by successfully delivering large-scale projects on time and within budget. Experience
Computer Enterprise Inc., Pittsburgh, PA
Senior Manager of Project Management 3/2023 –
• CEI consults with small and medium sized organizations around the world on various software/IT projects.
• Overall responsibility for CEI’s Pittsburgh regional operations.
• Cross functional, Agile Project Management responsibilities for various client projects.
• Worked with C-level suite to create vision and goals for project, and represented customers to ensure quick product adoption
• Concurrently executed several projects within schedule, scope and budget constraints.
• Managed a group of 40 engineers with a budget of over $20 Million. Status reporting, planning, hiring and performance appraisal duties.
Ansys Inc, Canonsburg, PA
Senior Manager, Software Development 7/2020-1/2023
• Headed a group of geographically distributed Software development engineers.
• Successfully delivered meshing features for four ANSYS product releases. SaaS based on python API driven microservices & deployed as distributed HPC within cloud environments.
• Led PyAnsys/PyPrime project – a client API published in GitHub which enables customers to build specialized industry specific applications and workflows. This allows customers to leverage Reinforcement Learning (ML) to produce accurate simulation results while reducing processing time.
• Headed a cloud migration project fostering a hybrid model for internal applications.
• Core representative from the Mesh Development team for ANSYS internal software security group. Championed secure development practices, coding standards, source control management, build, continuous deployment across the various functional teams.
• Contributed to ANSYS leadership team with risk assessment, risk mitigation strategies, long term product strategies, and targeted mergers and acquisitions.
• Mentored, trained and developed a diverse team to deliver product releases through CI/CD and automation strategies following scaled agile (SAFe) software development framework.
• Generated revenue of over $800 Million YoY by supporting both Ansys Mechanical and Ansys Fluent products.
Senior Manager, Mesh Development, Product Engineering 4/2011-6/2020
• Managed product requirements, software testing, and technical documentation teams on all phases of product development.
• Head of the project review board and cross BU process task force team.
• Designed delivery strategies for specific product releases, which included gathering requirements, prioritizing, estimating, creating RACI matrix along with team assignments, goals/KPIs and successful delivery of features for Ansys product suites.
• Brought 27% efficiency in project execution.
• Created a business analytics platform for tracking product/feature usage by customers, market segments, and provided insights to the leadership team.
• Conducted Coverage Analysis, Code Complexity Analysis and measured Product Reliability as part of release metrics.
• Successfully handled $10 Million in total team budget implementing strategies that resulted in cost reduction and enhanced project performance.
Manager, Software Testing 06/2007-12/2011
• Defined the scope of testing within the context of each release including preparing a high-level test plan, functional and non-functional requirements plan and platform coverage plan.
• Automated pre-commit testing and component certification process that improved turnaround time of code commit and reduced production defect rate by 55%.
• Championed test automation and deployed Ansys Regression Manager (ARM).
• Managed a team of 5 engineers across different projects and conducted their performance appraisals and continuous improvement.
Test Engineer/Sr Test Engineer 06/1998-05/2007
• Tested various solver features and meshing features in Ansys WorkBench Mechanical environment for multiple product releases.
• Responsible for internal release testing and defect reporting.
• Maintained Product major reliability over 95% each release Technical Summary:
• Agile Management Tools: Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally Agile Central
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certified (2006) by Project Management Institute
• Programming/Scripting Languages: C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, Shell script, SQL, JSON, YAML.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure cloud, docker container, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Education
• Executive General Management Program 2017-2019
The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA
• M.S., Computer Science 2000-2002
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
• M.S., Mechanical Engineering 1996-1998
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
• B.E., Mechanical Engineering 1989-1993
College of Engineering, Chennai, India.
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