FOSS Evangelist and Engineering Manager
India
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- Manager, Software Engineering at Red Hat Software Services India Pvt Ltd
- Fedora Ambassador at The Fedora Project
- Open Source Evangelist at OpenOffice.org
- Marketing Contact, India at GNOME Foundation
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Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay’s Summary
I have been actively participating in Free and Open Source Software for close to 12 years now in various roles of a Systems Engineer, Developer, Consultant, Team Lead, Sales Engineer and Project Manager.
I have both participated and lead distributed as well as virtual teams tasked with delivery of products. I have experience in managing projects of sufficient complexity and modularity. Such projects include both product innovations as well as sustaining engineering of existing services and products.
I have experience of creating, delivering and managing Products and Projects in the area of development and consumption of Free and Open Source Software tools.
I have expertise in speaking about Free and Open Source Software, Open Standards and Public Commons.
I have a functional knowledge in the following organizational units and processes:
+ Systems Engineering
+ Sales Engineering
+ Services Delivery
+ Program Management
+ Partner Management
I have been a Marketing Contact for GNOME as well as OpenOffice.org in India for around 5 years now. I also managed the Public Relations and Community Outreach efforts of the Ankur Bangla Project. I am the Joint Lead for the Bengali (India) locale for OpenOffice.org, Firefox and Thunderbird Native Language efforts. I am a Fedora Ambassador and a member of the Fedora Marketing Team and part of the Fedora Project.
I aim to work with teams innovating in Products or Services space with an emphasis on building Community of Usage around the innovation.
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay’s Specialties:
Systems Engineering
Sales Engineering
Project Management
Program Management
IT Consultancy
Public Speaking
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay’s Experience
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Manager, Software Engineering
Red Hat Software Services India Pvt Ltd
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHT; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
+ directing the software systems development function, including the design, development, troubleshooting and debugging of software programs
+ acting as an advisor to subordinates to meet schedules and resolve technical problems
+ develop and administer schedules and performance requirements including budget responsibilities
+ interacting with subordinate supervisors, customers and / or functional peer group managers in issues involving functional areas, other company divisions or units or customers and the company -
Fedora Ambassador
The Fedora Project
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
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Open Source Evangelist
OpenOffice.org
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)
Marketing Contact aka MarCon for OpenOffice.org in India. I contribute towards building a community of users and contributors to the project.
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Marketing Contact, India
GNOME Foundation
(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2001 — Present (8 years 7 months)
I am involved in evangelising GNOME, building the community of GNOME users and contributors and generally writing about it.
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Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay’s Interests:
Free and Open Source Software, Usability and User Interface Testing, Human Interface Guidelines, Accessibility, Product Engineering, Partner Engineering, Management
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