
IT - Product Development Manager / Project Manager /Consultant
India

IT - Product Development Manager / Project Manager /Consultant
India
+ Have succesfully managed product development and project development teams, with end-end execution responsibility, by co-ordinating with the distributed (US, Europe) departments of the organisation and the clients.
+ Experience in managing large teams comprising of leads, architects, dev/analysts, QA, and co-ordinate various activities from the technical, functional and part-commercial angle.
+ Exp in support fuinctions like recruitment, training/mentoring, resource planning/forecasting & related activies like performance reviews, employee goal setting and partially managing the budget cost center along with dept heads.
+ Significant exposire to delivery and quality Processes (CMMI) in all areas of software development cycle and a strong hold on the SLAs and KPIs set for the team.
+ Exp in some Client Account management functions along with client budget planning support acitvities.
+ General Management experience of a strategic business unit (satellite center) with necessary support provided to all depts - HR, IT Services, admin etc.
+ Special expertise in product development management of large scale web based (Java/J2EE) applications (using agile dev methodology) and subsequent customization projects.
+ Having a customer oriented approach, with a strong hold on best practices and processes for maximum productivity.
(Public Company; ATO; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Complete offshore transition of product development and customization of the Clarify (telecom) application used by the second largest telecom company in France.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
2006 — April 2008 (2 years)
Managed 3 product teams - two (J2EE) web based, and one Oracle-Forms/Reports based comprising of 45+ members (dev, leads, architects, QA) & delivering quarterly product releases by co-ordinating/planning with the distributed (US, Europe) product management teams. Have also managed related customization/customer support projects in progress simultaneously.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2006 (6 years)
Managing full life cycle product customization implementations and, involved in all phases of software development, testing and delivery. Analysis, Design and Development on Java/J2EE
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
(Part time Course)Masters Diploma in Business Administration , International Marketing , 2001 — 2003
B. E , Electronics and Telecommunication , 1995 — 1998