Manish Parekh

Current

• Director, Software Development at Symantec

Past

• Senior Manager, Development at Symantec Corporation
• SW Engineering Manager I / Staff Software Engineer at VERITAS Software
• Senior Software Engineer at VERITAS Software

• (Associate) Software Engineer at VERITAS Software
• Product Engineer at Cyberquest Systems

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Education

• Pune Institute of Computer Technology
• University of Pune

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Manish Parekh’s Summary

Seven years direct management experience; managing team sizes of 20 to 50+; shipping world class software products & platforms; track record of on-time delivery

Directed 6 product delivery and launches in the past 18 months; Lead and delivered 12+ product and platform releases in management career

Thirteen years hands-on software development in Java; Architect for UI software platforms, built from ground-up; Platforms used by multiple products and OEM partner; 1 patent issued

Directing the 3.0 release of a successful enterprise management software; global engineering team (Development & QA) of 55+; Product is the primary web user interface for a $800+ million business; Technologies: Java / Sybase / Perl / REST / C

Iteratively incorporating Agile & Scrum processes; run the Scrum of Scrum meetings

Focus on end to end product delivery, collaborating with cross functional teams; product and release scope definitions (w/Product Management); program definition and tracking (w/Program Management); engineering development and delivery (w/Dev and QA teams); Documentation planning and delivery (w/Doc team); I18N and L10N (w/I18N team); Usability testing (w/User Centered Design & Research); Support planning & TOIs (w/Support); Outbound messaging (w/Product Marketing)

Track customer adoption of product deployment;

Active participant in the Enterprise 2.0 pilot project within the organization; Focus on defining best practices and use cases on micro-blogging for adoption.

Progressive career; grew from Associate Software Engineer to Director, Engineering

My motto: Quality comes first and is non-negotiable; Build usable products: leverage user research & industry paradigms; Be efficient: Work smartly; Be practical: Use common sense; Maintain a healthy work-life balance

Manish Parekh’s Specialties:

Software platforms & frameworks, Plug-in architectures, APIs , Web technologies, user interfaces, Java technologies, desktop applications, Enterprise software, Storage management, UNIX, Windows, Agile, Scrum, Manage engineering teams, Offshore project & engineering management, Project management, Java, Perl, C, C++, Sybase

Manish Parekh’s Experience

• Director, Software Development

  Symantec

  (Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

  Veritas Operations Manager:
  * Leading a global engineering team (Development + QA) of 55+ to deliver the 3.0 release for VOM. Web-based management solution for a $900MM+ business.
  * Focusing on iteratively incorporating Agile methodologies into legacy processes.

• Senior Manager, Development

  Symantec Corporation

  (Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)

  December 2004 — August 2009 (4 years 9 months)

  SFM 2.0 - 2.1
  - Led an extended engineering team of 48 across US & India to deliver SFM 2.0 & SFM 2.1
  - Timeliness, predictability & quality highlighted as a major accomplishment by our VP & SVP.
  - Released the core product stack, along with 4 downloadable Add-ons (Plug-ins)
  
  SFM 1.1.x:
  - Led the engineering team to deliver v1.1.1 Windows & v1.1.1 Unix in late 2008
  
  Veritas Virtual Infrastructure (VxVI)
  - Server & Storage virtualization product built jointly with Citrix
  - Drive team to architect, design and deliver management stack for VxVI 1.0
  
  Cross-team collaboration
  - Led initiatives for unification of multiple web user interfaces across organization.
  - Evangelize the SMWeb framework to various product teams. In active use by 6 products within the SAMG organization. Reduces engineering efforts by ~25%
  - Work with other engineering teams for code reuse and sharing across groups.

• SW Engineering Manager I / Staff Software Engineer

  VERITAS Software

  (Public Company; VRTS; Computer Software industry)

  March 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 10 months)

  * Built a global development UI team in the US & India
  * Initiated product development for the UI of SFM, a management solution for a $600MM+ business
  * Led a UI team of 17 - 21 engineers to deliver SFM versions 1.0, 1.0MP & 1.1
  * Delivered multiple VEA UI infrastructure releases on UNIX, Windows & Linux
  * Grew the UI engineering team in India from 10 to 15

• Senior Software Engineer

  VERITAS Software

  (Public Company; VRTS; Computer Software industry)

  October 2001 — March 2003 (1 year 6 months)

  * Own & drive product requirements and roadmap for VEA UI and SMWeb
  * Architected Web UI Framework: SMWeb. In active use by 6 shipping products.
  * Grew organization by taking on CI & Web Framework responsibilities
  * Delivery and sustenance of multiple releases of VEA Infrastructure

• (Associate) Software Engineer

  VERITAS Software

  (Public Company; VRTS; Computer Software industry)

  October 1999 — October 2001 (2 years 1 month)

  * Initiated the VEA UI team, as the lead engineer for a 2 person strong team
  * Architected a highly pluggable product, from scratch.
  * First product delivery for Storage Foundation 4.x. Deployed by 1000s customers
  * Grew team to 4 engineers

• Product Engineer

  Cyberquest Systems

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 1997 — September 1999 (2 years 3 months)

  Responsible for building multiple Java desktop products and APIs, built using JDK 1.1/1.2 & AWT/Swing. Products include ORBET: Organization Chart, LDAP client JAVA Bean, v3 Java API & Visual LDAP.

Manish Parekh’s Education

• Pune Institute of Computer Technology

  1993 — 1997

• University of Pune

  Bachelors , Computer Engineering , 1993 — 1997

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