Delivery Head, Version 1.0 Business Unit at GlobalLogic
India
- Current
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- Delivery Head/Business Development, AVP – Consumer Services/New Venture Services at GlobalLogic
- Past
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- Director - Product Management, Velocity at GlobalLogic
- Director – Innovations & Technology Group (ITG) at GlobalLogic
- Director, QA at July Systems
- Owner, Consultant at Software Practices LLC (Sole Proprietorship)
- Senior QA Lead at Leapstone Systems
- Research Scientist at Telcordia Technologies
- Education
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- Western Michigan University
- University of Mumbai
- VJTI, Bombay
- Connections
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Manish Rathi’s Summary
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Manish Rathi’s Experience
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Delivery Head/Business Development, AVP – Consumer Services/New Venture Services
GlobalLogic
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Founding member of the Business Unit targeted towards new product ventures. Rolled out the popular GlobalLogic offering termed as “Version 1.0 Service” for helping both start-up and established companies rapidly convert their concepts into complete software products. Built up the Onshore/Offshore Delivery Organization and Processes to help Product Innovators deliver a fully functional product release to market in 4 – 6 months using a fabless engagement model. Conceptualized the GlobalLogic Fixed Time/Fixed Budget engagement model (alternate to Fixed Bid or Time and Material model) based on Agile delivery model. Over the 16 months, built up a functional business development, sales support, and delivery organization grounds-up (which included Product and Program Managers, Architects, Business Analysts, Usability/Graphics Designers, Software Engineers, Testers, and Deployment Engineers) and grew the revenues to $2M.
Implemented certain innovative practices such as Prototyping, Assembly-Line Product Engineering, Velocity Packs, Onshore/Offshore SCRUMS, Cloud-enabled Disposable Environments, etc.
Experience in building products in Media & Entertainment, Education & Training, Social Media & Web 2.0, Travel & Hospitality, and Gaming industry. Played in a consulting and operating capacity the role of either CTO or VP Engineering to several Product Organization. -
Director - Product Management, Velocity
GlobalLogic
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
February 2007 — November 2007 (10 months)
Conceptualized, led, and rolled-out the framework for Velocity Methodology & Platform – GlobalLogic’s home-grown offering for supporting Distributed Agile Product Development across multiple time zones and borders. Velocity Methodology combines the traditional software engineering processes with the Agile practices with blue-print to tailor to specific product needs. In addition to this, the processes also take into consideration the Roles and the associated Behaviors of individuals in the team. Velocity Platform which was built on open-source development platform taps into open integration protocols and configuration mechanisms to facilitate, manage, and monitor product development at a global level. Velocity was awarded the Infoworld Top 100 Innovation Solution for the Year 2007. Over the years, Velocity has become a chief differentiators for GlobalLogic’s offering in Distributed Product Development.
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Director – Innovations & Technology Group (ITG)
GlobalLogic
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
August 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 7 months)
Along with the CTO, played a key role in creating and leading a horizontal group with a key mission to empower GlobalLogic Product Delivery Teams with the best Product Engineering methods, knowledge, tools, components, and metrics; and enable Distributed Product Development. Led a group of around 45 employees comprising of Product Managers, Technical and System Architects, Program Managers, Information/Usability Architects, Developers and QA across six different focus groups.
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Director, QA
July Systems
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 7 months)
Responsible for creating and heading up the QA and Delivery Organization for the Mobile Service Delivery Platform
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Owner, Consultant
Software Practices LLC (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
July 2003 — February 2004 (8 months)
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Senior QA Lead
Leapstone Systems
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
November 2001 — June 2003 (1 year 8 months)
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Research Scientist
Telcordia Technologies
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 2001 (4 years)
Manish Rathi’s Education
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Western Michigan University
1992 — 1997
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University of Mumbai
Production Engineering 1988 — 1992
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VJTI, Bombay
B. E. , Production Engineering , 1988 — 1992
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