Owais Lari

Product Development Architect & Technical Lead

Location
Greater Philadelphia Area
Industry
Computer Software

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Owais Lari's Overview

Current
  • Application Support and Development Manager at Comcast
Past
  • Advisory Software Engineer at McDATA Corporation
  • Principal Member Technical Staff at CNT
  • Principal Member Technical Staff at INRANGE
  • Principal Member Technical Staff at General Signal Networks
  • Adjunct Instructor at New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Senior Member Technical Staff at Telenex Corporation

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Education
  • University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
  • Villanova University
  • Villanova University
  • Drexel University
  • Iowa State University

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Owais Lari's Summary

Software technical manager and architect with a wide range of technology skills. Successfully managed projects and led development teams to achieve stretch goals in a dynamic work environment across remote locations. Strong expertise in analyzing, designing, and implementing secure networked systems using open standards and accepted best practices. Core competencies include:

• Strong ability to lead and motivate project teams, identify new initiatives, define architectures, develop and manage detailed plans, and follow through every stage of product life cycle.
• Solid comprehension of technology and markets and excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
• Acquired Certificate in Marketing with outstanding results from Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
• Proficient in the design and architecture of high performance, robust, and cost effective infrastructures and applications.
• Expertise in multi-threaded client-server, multi-tiered, and distributed computing architectures.
• Proficient in Java, C++, C, SQL, and several assembly languages.
• Utilized STL, Design Patterns, UML, RUP, OMT, Booch, and Yourdon methodologies.
• Experience with Real-Time Operating System kernels, ROM monitors, in-circuit emulators, and various software development and CASE tools including Eclipse, Visual Studio, ClearCase, ClearQuest, PVCS (VM & Tracker), CVS, Rational Rose, etc.

Specialties

• Competitive analysis
• Technical marketing
• Client/Server Architecture
• User Interface Design
• Java, C++, XML

Owais Lari's Experience

Application Support and Development Manager

Comcast

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; CMCSA; Telecommunications industry

2009 – Present (4 years) Mount Laurel, NJ

Manage the production support and development of Comcast Commercial CRM platforms (Workbench, Salesforce SMB, Century) in Comcast Enterprise Technology - Business Support Services. The CRM platforms support full lifecycle for the Business Services products including lead management, offer presentation, contract management, survey management, ordering, order acceptance, service delivery, provisioning, MACDs and Reporting. The applications are built using various technologies like Java, J2EE, JSP, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, Google Toolkit, Oracle 10g and Web Services. The hardware includes multiple farms of 20+ application servers, cluster of four Oracle BPM servers, and Oracle 10g Rack.
• Manage full life-cycle development and support of suite of CRM applications that services over 6000 sales and ancillary staff across the country.
• Manage teams of onsite/offshore resources and business partners to provide tier-2 and tier-3 production application support and development. Coordinate support structure to provide 24x7 support.
• Provide technical leadership to the team and technical contributions to the ongoing projects. Analyze and help resolve critical issues.
• Introduce processes improvements and monitoring to achieve higher availability and reduced impact on business activities.
• Assist in planning, scheduling, assigning, and coordinating of resolutions, patches, and features. Assign and plan staff as dictated by the project priorities, tracked schedules, and provided regular status for the team.
• Manage outage bridges of high impacting production issues while making critical decisions to quickly restore service. Resolution at times required engaging external teams and coordinating a restoration plan.
• Ensure business priorities are achieved by deploying emergency patches, releases and workarounds when required.
• Present and communicate reviews of improvements, fixes, and production support performance against the SLA to business on a regular basis.

Software Development Manager

Sycamore Networks

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; SCMR; Telecommunications industry

2008 – 2009 (1 year)

Managed development of network management software, ENvision Plus, for Sycamore access product line, DNX. ENvision Plus is built upon a client/server distributed architecture. It provides intuitive GUI to simplify provisioning, configuration, fault detection and recovery, diagnostics, statistics, and routing and monitoring of end-to-end connections. Responsible for managing all aspects of the development team through the design, development and support phase for the ENvisionPlus network management product. Responsibilities include:

• Working with marketing and senior management to determine release content
• Developing feature and release schedules
• Assigning staff to projects as dictated by the project priorities of the company, tracking schedules and providing regular status for the team
• Enforcing quality development processes
• Ensuring defects found during the qualification phase are addressed appropriately
• Interfacing to other disciplines as needed
• Providing technical leadership to the team and making technical contributions to the ongoing projects
• Assuring that engineers have a clearly defined set of project-specific objectives and that they are tracking to and meeting those objectives
• Assuring that the engineers in the team follow the appropriate methodologies, generating and tracking software quality metrics
• Reviewing performance appraisals for staff and providing goals and deliverables
• Communicating effectively and working across several development locations
• Planning and managing transition of sustaining development to offshore location
• Contributing to front-end planning for next-generation product

Principal Engineer

QLogic

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; QLGC; Computer Networking industry

2007 – 2008 (1 year)

Lead engineer in the development of network management software for Infiniband HPC (High Performance Computing) product line. Managed enhancements to QuickSliver FastFabric® toolset that is used to control, configure, diagnose, and monitor Infiniband devices, switches, and hosts. FastFabric® utilizes advanced algorithms, which automatically discover fabric topology, calculate optimal routes, configure and manage devices, and quickly execute commands and alarms in response to changes in the fabric that may have thousands of nodes.

• Led the effort to port FastFabric® from QuickSilver stack to OFED (Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution) stack.
• Contributed in the development of GUI network management software for Infiniband switches and hosts that include Fabric Viewer and Chassis Viewer.
• Managed the development of Fabric Viewer to include support for multicast forwarding tables, logging via Log4j, and system-wide debugging enhancements to improve overall product reliability.

Conducted market research for developing customer centric solutions in small to medium size enterprise
• Studied and analyzed findings from secondary research sources such as IDC, Gartner, Dell’Oro, etc.
• Prepared questionnaire for qualitative research and survey for quantitative research.
• Interviewed customers regarding their requirements and usage.
• Presented key findings and recommendation to senior management.

Software Professional

Brocade

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BRCD; Computer Networking industry

2007 – 2007 (less than a year)

• Provided technical leadership to the team and technical contributions to ongoing projects
• Contributed to planning and transition of sustaining development of Enterprise Manager to offshore location
• Provided training to new staff

Advisory Software Engineer

McDATA Corporation

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BRCD; Computer Networking industry

2005 – 2007 (2 years)

Managed the development of Enterprise Manager (EM) and QoS features of, EFCM. Brocade EFCM centralizes and simplifies the management of large, multifabric, or multisite storage networks through a single pane of glass.
• Acquired complete ownership of the Enterprise Manger (see below) that included management of development and level 3-4 support of EM after acquisition by McDATA Corp.
• Managed the development of user-interface features of EFCM for control and configuration of Quality of Service (QoS) and Fabric Flow Control of i10000TM Fibre Channel Director.
• Managed the development of LogViewer, a standalone platform-independent Java application to assist in isolating field issues in data collection logs that compromise a collection of over 300 files. The software allows advanced log analysis capabilities to facilitate isolating complex and hidden issues in field log files. Some useful features include search, filtering, sorting, time-synchronization, decoding binary data and fibre channel logs, export, and print capabilities.

Principal Member Technical Staff

CNT

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CMNT; Computer Networking industry

2003 – 2005 (2 years)

Lead architect in the design and development of Java based EM (Enterprise Manager) for control of SAN (Storage Area Network) Fibre Channel directors and switches. The EM supports platform independent clients and provides continuous director monitoring, logging and alerting; centralize log files, configuration databases and firmware distribution; and support centralized call-home and e-mail alerts, and service and support operations.
• Designed overall system architecture including core frameworks.
• Developed EM client-server communication support using Java RMI.
• Implemented context based client registration, real-time notification, and event-driven update mechanism to optimize refreshes and traffic between EM server and clients.
• Some notable implemented features include: user security; RADIUS client; audit trail; event logging, triggering, execution, and dynamic views;
database support utilizing JDBC-ODBC layer; query shell for database interface.

Principal Member Technical Staff

INRANGE

Public Company; 201-500 employees; ZANE; Information Technology and Services industry

2000 – 2003 (3 years)

Lead engineer in the development of an IBM ESCON-compatible Channel Switch director (CD/9000) that provides dynamic point-to-point connectivity between processing systems and control units.
• Participated in design and implementation of ‘Director Control’, client-server software that lets user graphically configure, control and manage the ESCON Directors in a LAN environment. The software is a multi-threaded, multi-tasking, and multi-user system. The development is based on OOA (Object Oriented Analysis) and OOD methodology by Grady A. Booch.
• Ported the software platform from OS/2 Presentation Manager to Windows NT.
• Ported connectivity from Named Pipes to TCP/IP Windows Sockets 2.0.
• Designed and developed a stand-alone network configuration GUI utility.
• Authored product specifications and design documents.

Principal Member Technical Staff

General Signal Networks

1994 – 2000 (6 years)

Lead engineer in the design and implementation of an IBM ESCON-compatible Channel Switch director firmware.
• Principal architect of NP - A CAN (Controller Area Network) processor firmware.
• Designed and developed data-flow, communication protocols, and associated drivers for a distributed network of 143 processors within the ESCON director.
• Principal architect of fault isolating diagnostics within the ESCON director. Implemented “Exerciser” self-boot diagnostics to stress test the director and the switching fabric capable. Simulated ESCON frames to test hardware.
• Implemented optimized firmware functionality with commercial multi-tasking and preemptive RTOS kernels. Authored Engineering specifications and participated in presentations and design reviews.
• Co-authored functional specifications and design documents.
• Provided in-house training with C++ and UML technologies to department engineers.

Adjunct Instructor

New Jersey Institute of Technology

1997 – 1999 (2 years)

Worked as NJIT adjunct faculty member in teaching evening Computer Science undergraduate and graduate courses. Course topics included Operating Systems, Unix Operating System Design, and C++ Programming.

Senior Member Technical Staff

Telenex Corporation

1988 – 1994 (6 years)

Lead developer in design and implementation of a fault-tolerant "Mega Matrix Switch® controller". The Matrix Switch provides connectivity and path routing of up to 24,000 ports.

Participated in the development of a PC based client-server graphical user interface for control of Matrix switching systems. The software is multi-threaded, multi-tasking, and multi-user system supporting multiple client access in a LAN environment.

Designed and developed “non-blocking” connection logic, routing, and control software of a 4,096 port Matrix switch controller.

Owais Lari's Education

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

WPWP, Marketing

2005 – 2006

Villanova University

MS, Computer Science

1988 – 1992

Villanova University

MS, Computer Engineering

1986 – 1987

Drexel University

1983 – 1983

Iowa State University

BS, Electrical Engineering

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