Staff Technical Program Manager

• Dec 2022 - Present

Core responsibilities: - Point Of Contact for all the dates related to feature and App delivery for internal and external stakeholders. - Take ownership of mobile release planning, Ensuring successful launches of App for retail and customers. - Lead process initiatives (Branching strategy, Bug triage, Feature requests etc) to ensure high quality execution and the quality of the App. Core responsibilities: - Point Of Contact for all the dates related to feature and App delivery for internal and external stakeholders. - Take ownership of mobile release planning, Ensuring successful launches of App for retail and customers. - Lead process initiatives (Branching strategy, Bug triage, Feature requests etc) to ensure high quality execution and the quality of the App.

Global Release Manager

• Jun 2021 - Nov 2022

Technical Engagement Manager

• Jan 2019 - Jun 2021

Technical Release Manager

• Mar 2017 - Jan 2019

Senior Program Manager, Core Applications and Upgrades

• Mar 2012 - Sep 2016

• Managed program deliverables for Motorola’s biggest B2B customer account, generating about 80% of mobile devices revenue. • Led effort across 6 teams in 4 countries to deliver core phone applications and upgrades for Droid Maxx, Maxx2, Turbo and Turbo2, achieving over $100M in product revenue. • Managed program release schedules through project tracking, daily scrum meetings, team workshops, and weekly stakeholder communication, improving visibility of program delivery status to senior… Show more • Managed program deliverables for Motorola’s biggest B2B customer account, generating about 80% of mobile devices revenue. • Led effort across 6 teams in 4 countries to deliver core phone applications and upgrades for Droid Maxx, Maxx2, Turbo and Turbo2, achieving over $100M in product revenue. • Managed program release schedules through project tracking, daily scrum meetings, team workshops, and weekly stakeholder communication, improving visibility of program delivery status to senior leadership and increasing orders over $100K. • Drove initiatives through re-architecture of software release process for 20 features across 8 consumer devices, reducing overhead 80%. • Conducted sprint planning while capturing velocity, priority and success criteria for stories. Incorporated continuous integration and daily testing into development process, reducing risks and shortening release time for critical features. • Worked across 10 agile engineering teams to triage software defect backlog, eliminating blockers and validating defect resolution. • Liaised with Google (former parent company) to identify O/S defects and enhancements discovered through application integration effort, achieving integration of over 90% of code fix submissions. • Led cross-team metrics meetings to discuss trends and determine product success. Reviewed findings with consumer experience design, deprecating at least 10 features and increasing opportunities for product innovations.

Program Manager – Multimedia Applications

• Mar 2008 - Mar 2012

• Managed feature roadmap for over 20 multimedia applications across 10 consumer platforms of phones and tablets. • Led project-tracking initiatives across multimedia team, ensuring clear communication, elevating risks, identifying dependencies and managing expectations. • Oversaw testing and validation teams, domestically and internationally, managing all core applications in multimedia suite, reducing number of escaped defects by 85%. • Drove automation of testing and validation… Show more • Managed feature roadmap for over 20 multimedia applications across 10 consumer platforms of phones and tablets. • Led project-tracking initiatives across multimedia team, ensuring clear communication, elevating risks, identifying dependencies and managing expectations. • Oversaw testing and validation teams, domestically and internationally, managing all core applications in multimedia suite, reducing number of escaped defects by 85%. • Drove automation of testing and validation, improving efficiency and scale across all products. • Coordinated feature integration and defect tracking with 7 3rd party vendors; managed schedules and external contracted resources, creating closer working relationships, containing vendor delays and issues, maintaining delivery dates and ensuring product releases remained on schedule.

Senior Software Engineer – Build and Release Manager

• Mar 2006 - Mar 2008

• Managed global integration team of 6 engineers to deliver daily software releases across 4 consumer phones. • Delivered python scripts to automate system build processes, eliminating 95% manual build errors. • Created Software Change Management document to define best practices and procedures for new employees, creating cohesive understanding of team’s charter and achieving 100% of software goals. • Defined and implemented 24-hour build and release process, ensuring optimal cycle… Show more • Managed global integration team of 6 engineers to deliver daily software releases across 4 consumer phones. • Delivered python scripts to automate system build processes, eliminating 95% manual build errors. • Created Software Change Management document to define best practices and procedures for new employees, creating cohesive understanding of team’s charter and achieving 100% of software goals. • Defined and implemented 24-hour build and release process, ensuring optimal cycle times and increasing releases to 5 per week. • Defined quality review boards to gather metrics, improving quality of build releases.

Senior Build Engineer

• Mar 2004 - Mar 2006

• Led daily Change Control Board (CCB) meetings to review daily/weekly release plans. • Planned and scheduled builds to minimize development downtime and meet project deadlines. • Key contributor to build time reduction initiatives. Reduced build time by 10% through file GLOBing, 5% through header-file searching time reduction and continuous Makefile optimizations. • Reduced escaped defects and achieved 75% defect containment goal through implementation of domain build and test… Show more • Led daily Change Control Board (CCB) meetings to review daily/weekly release plans. • Planned and scheduled builds to minimize development downtime and meet project deadlines. • Key contributor to build time reduction initiatives. Reduced build time by 10% through file GLOBing, 5% through header-file searching time reduction and continuous Makefile optimizations. • Reduced escaped defects and achieved 75% defect containment goal through implementation of domain build and test strategies. • Integrated Klocwork and Complexity quality checks into Multimedia release process. Responsible for ensuring new critical Klocwork errors are caught in integration process and complexity rules are not violated. • Created and maintained smoke testing, training, and feature support documentation. • Trained and established multimedia software integration teams in India, Russia, and Italy. • Effectively established integration process for handling 3rd Party proprietary software. Worked with Software BOM team to efficiently track 3rd party software in component and platform releases.

Build Engineer

• Mar 2001 - Mar 2004

• Delivered integration builds using CLEARCASE for 3G, GSM, CDMA and TDMA products. • Achieved 100% on-time delivery by conducting software configuration management and release management under a clearcase environment. • Gained valuable working experience on software Build Planning / build integration / Branching / Merging / Labeling /Releasing / Testing / Debugging. • Supported a common component label across multiple products to reduce propagation overhead. • Delivered key… Show more • Delivered integration builds using CLEARCASE for 3G, GSM, CDMA and TDMA products. • Achieved 100% on-time delivery by conducting software configuration management and release management under a clearcase environment. • Gained valuable working experience on software Build Planning / build integration / Branching / Merging / Labeling /Releasing / Testing / Debugging. • Supported a common component label across multiple products to reduce propagation overhead. • Delivered key releases for TDMA shipments to emerging markets in Latin America. • Coordinated test efforts for new Multimedia features across multiple platforms and products.