Soumen Sarkar

Soumen Sarkar

Software Development Manager and Technical Leader

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Software Development Manager at Nokia
Past

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Education
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
  • National Institute of Technology Durgapur
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Industry
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Soumen Sarkar’s Summary

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

At present managing software development for NOKIA.

Technical leader and hands on manager for software development with more than 15 years of experience. Broad product development engineering experience spanning telecommunication network management, service quality (QoS) and end user experience (QoE) assurance management, data warehousing and reporting applications, n-tier web sites and productivity enhancement software tools.

Managed teams comprising of six to ten senior developers and managed outsourced teams. Hired senior developers, selected and managed professional service vendors. Managed performance for direct reports and monitored service of professional service vendors. Purchased or influenced purchase of hardware, software and professional service worth approximate $500,000 to date. Authored technical articles in industry respected journals and company internal white papers.

Led software development in variety of corporate environments (startups, medium sized public companies, Ebay, Yahoo) in the telecommunication and Internet industries and thus developed rich diversity of experience. On programming I have more than ten years of experience with C/C++ and eight years of experience with Java.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OS & Languages ==> Unix/Linux, Java, C/C++, C#
XML ==> JAXB, DOM, XSLT, XPATH
Data and Databases ==> OLTP, OLAP, MySQL 5, Oracle 10g, ETL
Telecom ==> FCAPS, SNMP/CMIP, QOS/QOE
Architecture ==> Design Patterns, Distributed Computing, N-Tier, J2EE/CORBA
Applications ==> Parser, Code Generators, I18N

MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Management of 6-10 developers
Vendor Engagement and Management
Hiring Senior Software Developers
Technical Paper/Development Roadmap
Conducting Effective Meetings
Coordination with Marketing and QA
Contribute to Corporate Strategy
Performance Review/HR Best Practices

Soumen Sarkar’s Specialties:

Software Development with C/C++ and Java
Software Development Management
Business Intelligence and Reporting
Telecommunication Network Management (FCAPS)
ECommerce Back End Development

Soumen Sarkar’s Experience

  • Software Development Manager

    Nokia

    (Public Company; NOK; Telecommunications industry)

    2008 — Present (1 year )

    Responsible for server side development of NOKIA Point and Find service.

    With Nokia Point & Find, users can access information and services from the Internet simply by pointing a camera phone at an object. The device recognises real-world objects and links the user directly to web content or other digital services.

    The Nokia Point & Find Management Portal allows you to create your own custom experiences. Use the simple online interface to create your worlds, manage content, assign roles and deliver a unique interactive experience to your targeted users. The Nokia Point & Find Management Portal is your connection to Nokia's game-changing technology for mobile users to find your content when and where they want it most.

    http://pointandfind.nokia.com/

  • Senior Manager Software Engineering

    Symmetricom

    (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

    2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

    Manage development of a network operation center (NOC) product monitoring for Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) performance indicators of Internet-Protocol-TV (IPTV) and triple play (data, voice and video) applications. The NOC product is based on Java, web and C/C++/Linux technologies.

    Besides coordination, management and communication, I am leading in the area of database modeling, C/C++/Linux/MySQL development, performance and scalability roadmap resulting in clarity in development direction and development roadmap.

    http://qoe.symmetricom.com/

  • Manager, Software Development

    Ditech Networks

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; DITC; Telecommunications industry)

    2006 — 2007 (1 year )

    I am managing (hands on) development of two products of Ditech Networks:

    * NetConsul EMS (FCAPS)

    * EXi Reports (operational business intelligence on voice quality for telecom carriers)

    My reposibilities include

    * Contract negotiation and vendor performance management for outsourced technical services

    * Hiring and new hire onboarding

    * Team performance management and facilitation

    * Interface with executive leadership, product line managers and customer support

    * Technical development in the area of Java, SNMP, XML, Oracle, COGNOS, etc, i.e., wide spectrum of tools used in EMS/NMS/OSS application development.

  • Sr. Technical Yahoo

    Yahoo!

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; yhoo; Internet industry)

    2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

    AdSystems Engineering (project Panama) -- Basically Eat Googles Lunch ...

  • Staff

    eBay

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ebay; Internet industry)

    2004 — 2006 (2 years )

Soumen Sarkar’s Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

    MS , EE

    Published paper on digital signal processing in IEEE transactions of INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, August 1998, Volume 47, Number 04: A Blind Deconvolution Approach for Chromatographic and Spectroscopic Peak Restoration, pp 941-947

  • National Institute of Technology Durgapur

    BS , EE

Additional Information

Soumen Sarkar’s Websites:

Soumen Sarkar’s Interests:

Human behavior, data parallelism, large scale systems, management practice and leadership

Soumen Sarkar’s Groups:

tcsi, TCSI Alumni Network, NIT Durgapur Alumni Group, PayPal Alumni on LinkedIn (PALs), Atoga Alumni, IIT Kharagpur, Cyanea Alumni, Fabric7 Alumni, Ex HCL, IronSpeed Alumni, Ex TCS Bangalore, Friends, Video Architechts, MySQL 2008 Conference

  •    TCS Alumni Network
  •    Executive Suite
  •    International Association of Software Architects
  •    PayPal Corporate Alumni (worked there previously)
  •    IIT Kharagpur
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    TEN - Top Executives Net
  •    Telecom Professionals
  •    IIT Alumni
  •    Wireless Jobs
  •    Yahoo Alums
  •    HCL Alumni
  •    Nokia Alumni
  •    TCSI Alumni Network
  •    Database Experts
  •    NIT Durgapur Alumni
  •    NIT Durgapur Alumni Group
  •    Linux Expert
  •    eBay Employees and Alumni Group
  •    Startup Specialists
  •    Atoga Alumni
  •    Yahoo Employees
  •    NIT, Durgapur (formerly REC, Durgapur)
  •    Great Free Apps
  •    Cyanea Alumni
  •    Software + Services (SAAS)
  •    ! NRI (NON RESIDENT INDIANs) - Largest and Earliest Platform to Reunite NRIs, PIOs, and OCIs
  •    The IT Architect Network
  •    Venture Capital Group
  •    Grafton Executive Search Recruiting and Career Network
  •    The DNS and DHCP group
  •    Humanity+
  •    Mobile Augmented Reality
  •    Nokia Point & Find

Soumen Sarkar’s Honors:

* All India Rank 14th in the Indian Engineering Service (IES) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Engineering_Services

* All India Rank 26th in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_Aptitude_Test_in_Engineering

* West Bengal (a state in India) rank 3rd in grade 10 mathematics olympiad

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