Manager Engineer

Ajay Jayaram

408-***-**** http://www.linkedin.com/ajayjayaram ******@*****.***

SUMMARY

A seasoned technical manager with over 14 years of industry experience delivering complex enterprise and SaaS offerings. Keen ability to recruit and mentor individuals to build high quality products. Passionate, detail oriented strategic thinker known for balancing technology and business needs.

• Launched the best of class PKI Web Services product working with partners, product owners and hands-on development, with this platform being the core for the next generation of PKI Services cloud platform.

• Built efficient teams, a team of 3 engineers and two QA(s) delivered 3 Java Web Services and Windows Enterprise gateway within 5 months, exiting every 2 week sprint with 0P1 bugs.

• Strategized the consolidation of multiple authentication platforms to a single next generation platform by providing technical direction for long term and short term deliverables to address SMB and enterprise customers.

• Implementing Agile and Scrum practices

• Security: PKI, CAPI, OTP, PKCS#11, PKCS#7, X509, Authentication /Authorization /Cryptographic Algorithms /HSM /Smartcard

• Frameworks: Spring/JSF 2.0/Hibernate/JPA

• Certified ScrumMaster • Database: Oracle/SQL

• Languages: Java / C /C++ /C# /VB

• Web Services: XML / XML Schema / SOAP / JAX-WS

• Active Directory, Microsoft CA, ActiveX, COM, DCOM, .NET

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VeriSign Inc (now Symantec, Authentication Services), US 2000-2011

Provides solutions in Identity and authentication services which offer convenient, secure fraud detection, two-factor authentication and public key infrastructure (PKI) services for protecting online identities and interactions between consumers, business partners, and employees.

Senior Manager, 2007 – 2011

Managed staff of 8 and two Scrum teams along with multiple projects simultaneously in delivering hybrid services in the cloud and enterprise products.

• Led and collaborated with multiple geographically distributed development teams, architects, product owners, production teams and other stakeholders to deliver the core applications of Next Generation Managed PKI OLTP Services involving both Cloud and Enterprise components, a PKI lifecycle management platform focused on providing Self Service and Usability enhancements to the customers.

• Led the design and delivered a policy based and template driven Web application in the cloud with a very sophisticated UI for policy management and configuration. This application integrated with Identity Provider to provide strong authentication for multitenant customers.

• Instrumental in introducing JSF 2.0 framework, the first in the company to use the technology.

• Led the design of enterprise gateway and scalable cloud architecture which takes advantage of the local enterprise authentication and authorization and advantage of cloud to roll out of new features to the Cloud Web Application with minimum impact to the customers.

• Evangelized and the led the adaptation of Agile and Scrum in Authentication business unit.

• Consistently delivered high quality releases and shippable software end of every 2 weeks sprint/iteration by spearheading the roll out of software best practices by introducing TDD, code coverage, design best practices, code reviews, automation and continuous integration.

• Delivered 20% ahead of schedule Device Certificate Services Release for a particular customer.

• Helped develop reusable architecture for Web Services which resulted in decreasing time to market of all the new Web Services.

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• Working with QA organization led the roll out of automation framework and introduced automation to legacy products resulting in decreasing the regression cycle by 50%.

• Managed multiple releases of Unified Authentication OTP product which is a OTP credential lifecycle management and validation (RADIUS) hybrid platform which includes Java Web Applications; Management Console, Configuration Console and End user Configuration Console and Validation Service.

Manager, 2005-2007

Built off shore team and managed the delivery of multiple projects simultaneously in enterprise security and desktop product lines.

• Built an off shore team within 2 weeks and delivered a release in a very short time period.

• Spearhead the roll out of Diagnostic tool which helped the support organization and the customer to troubleshoot and fix issues.

• One of the first to implement Scrum Methodology.

• Delivered multiple releases of UA PKI for Windows PKI product including Windows, Active Directory and Java technologies; Certificate Authority DOCM Service, Java Web Configuration console, Microsoft Management Console and CGIs..

• Delivered the new Gemplus smartcard token support by working closely with partners and leading the effort in design and architecture.

• Managed the release of third-party integration authentication modules for OTP with Oblix, Tivoli Access Manager, PAM and Outlook for Web Access.

Software Engineer, 2000-2005

Lead engineer responsible for delivering the new version of the next generation Unified Authentication product, a platform to manage lifecycle of multiple strong authentication credentials..

• Designed and implemented the DCOM server which simulates Microsoft Certificate Authority protocol, performs authentication and authorization and proxies Enrollment requests to the VeriSign PKI Service

• Designed and Implemented Web application using CGI to support management operations such as revoke, search, download of certificates, reset OTP token pin and integrated with MMC console.

• Designed and implemented lightweight SMIME parsing and creation module

• Designed and implemented Java service to download CRL with different frequencies from the cloud and publish in Active Directory.

Microsoft Corporation, US (for Aditi Corporation) 1997-2000

Aditi Corporation is a consulting company mainly focused on delivering consulting services to Microsoft Corporation and its technologies.

Lead Software Engineer

• One of the two engineers to port SChannel (SSL) protocol used in Active Directory to Unix platforms

• One of the two engineers to port Microsoft Cryptographic Modules and Security components to Unix

Education

Bachelor, Electronics Engineering

BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore

Awards

CEO Thrive Award for Unified Authentication

ATS team excellence award for PKI Web Services

“Show Must Go On” award from PMO team

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