Manish Parekh

Current

• Senior Manager, Development at Symantec Corporation

Past

• 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

Over 7 years of software engineering management experience with complete end-to-end product engineering delivery ownership, and over 12 years experience in software engineering.

Demonstrated leadership in on-time delivery, release predictability, aggressive goals, quality, practicality, innovation and work-life balance.

Manish Parekh’s Specialties:

Software platforms & frameworks, Plug-in architectures, APIs , Web technologies & user interfaces, Java technologies & desktop applications, Enterprise applications, 1.0 product development, Storage management, Server Virtualization, UNIX, Windows, Agile, Iterative, Manage engineering teams, Offshore project & engineering management, Project management, Java, J2SE, J2EE, Yahoo UI, Hibernate, Perl, C, C++, HTTP, REST, XML, JFreeChart, Sybase

Manish Parekh’s Experience

• Senior Manager, Development

  Symantec Corporation

  (Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)

  December 2004 — Present (4 years 8 months)

  Veritas Operations Manager:
  * Leading a global engineering team (Development + QA) of 55+ to deliver the 1.0 release for VOM. Web-based management solution for a $900MM+ business.
  * Focusing on iteratively incorporating Agile methodologies into legacy processes.
  
  SFM 2.0:
  * Led an extended engineering team of 48 across US & India to deliver SFM v2.0
  * On-time high-quality product delivery in March 2009. Timeliness, predictability & quality highlighted as a major accomplishment by our VP & SVP.
  * Active participation with Product Management & Marketing teams for defining requirements, balancing priorities and defining our external messaging.
  * Cross functional collaboration via Program Management, with our Documentation, I18N, Integration teams, Technical Support & other engineering teams.
  * Product gaining very good traction, exceeding internal expectations.
  * Released the core product stack, along with 4 downloadable Add-ons (Plug-ins)
  * Released a Beta version for Solaris in April 09, and on track for GA in May 09
  * Actively working on 2 additional add-ons and a Windows release for June 09
  
  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) [Link]
  * Server & Storage virtualization product built jointly with Citrix
  * Drive team to architect, design and deliver management stack for VxVI
  * Led team to deliver version 1.0 in October 2008 and 1.0RP in March 2009
  
  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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