OBJECTIVE

IT Professional with balanced business-technical expertise and 14+ years of rewa

rding experience. Project Manager, distinguished for implementing cross-function
al initiatives requiring support and buy-in from all levels within various organ
izations.
My project management objectives are two-fold:
To assure that each project when initially conceived and authorized supports the
organizations approved higher level strategic objectives and contains acceptabl
e risks regarding the projects objectives: competitive, technical, cost and sche
dule.
and
To plan, control and lead each project simultaneously with all other projects ef
fectively and efficiently so that each will achieve its approved objectives: mee
ting the related strategic objective by producing the specified results on sched
ule and within budget.
CORE PROFICIENCIES
* Project execution expert for Telecomm/Networking applications and Web technolo
gies
* Strategic Leader with extensive Client interfacing experience. Demonstrated ou
tstanding results in handling merger of DSL business between TI and Infineon, re
-negotiations with customers and technical advisory services leading to 100% cus
tomer retention.
* Expert in E-channel marketing, based on web-analytics achieved via portal enha
ncements for administration of Network Elements, including ordering and billing
for broadband services.

CAREER HISTORY
Technical Manager, ICS, MD Aug 09 Present
* Liaison for distributed product-teams responsible for Neustars Managed DNS Ser
vice built on a global directory platform consisting of strategically placed net
work nodes. Introduced project acceleration tools and Agile methodologies extens
ively to drive an aggressive schedule in a high pressure work environment.
* Tech lead for distributed delivery team of a web based management portal for S
SL driven administration of DNS environment through a standard web browser built
on Rich Internet Application framework used collaborative tools to build the e
ffective governance model.
* Supervised a large globally distributed team responsible for iterative release
s involving enhancement of E-commerce website for small biz ordering solutions f
or Verizon.com and successfully achieved the target percent of order flow-thru.

Project Manager, Texas Instruments Inc, MD Oct 05 Apr 09

* Managed a cross functional team of technical support engineers for TI DSP impl
ementations and custom solutions deliveries for major accounts in Europe and Asi
a. Established long-term vital business partnerships, relationships with Asian c
ompanies, acclimatizing to the distinct culture, opening channels of clear commu
nication for conducting continuing business.
* Specialized in advising Field engineers in resolving VOIP call flow issues by
effectively scheduling special engineering delivery releases.
* Succesfully led a profitable product roadmap for TNETV1050/60 based Residentia
l Gateways and IP Phones.
* Responsible for third-party licensing issues in RT Linux based Network Support
Packages LAN/ WAN, PPPoE, TR-069, USB, Bluetooth, QoS, VPN Tunnelling, Voice C
odec issues, T-38, etc.
* Developed and conducted seminars for (up to) 50 engineers with exceptional rat
ings.
Project Manager, Consultant May 03Sep 05
* Collaborated with client executives and Subject Matter Experts at Verizon Comm
unications to identify business goals and objectives for a robust National Telep
hone Address System (NTAS, previously Livewire), an initiative that saved Verizo
n over $33m.
* Transitioned nation-wide telephone service production environments to NTAS ahe
ad of schedule, which was mission critical.
* A record time migration of a module - SOAC (Service Order Assignment and Contr
ol) - corporate repository for ALL (~65 million) service orders, deployed nation
-wide in Oct 2004.

Systems Manager, Wipro Technologies, USA Apr 01 Apr 03

Project#1: Security Sub-system Application for Corvis Communications
* Conducted comprehensive analysis of next generation network markets and suppor
ting systems to design an Optical switch presentation layer software.
* Designed a Security Application Software for Optical Network Element including
data manipulation for Password encryption, Account aging, Authorization and Aut
hentication of User information.
Project#2: TL1 Interface, A network management module for Corvis Communications
* Architected the TL1 Interface (strictly based on Telcordia standards) from con
cept to release. Developed the TL1 command parser, provisioning, database schema
, messaging interface with the application and response formatting using string
operations.
Project Lead, Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India Until M
ar 01
* Designed and implemented effective network management software solutions. Inte
grated and tested 5611 CMIP(Common Management Information Protocol), for ALCATEL
.
Education
MBA (Management) GPA: 3.83/4.0 John Hopkins University, MD, USA.
B.S (Computer Science & Engineering) GPA: 4.0/4.0 Sri Venkateshwara Univ Coll
ege, India.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Design/Schedule Methodologies Visio, MSOffice, MS Project, COTS, Agile (SCRUM)
Programming Languages C, C++, C#.NET, Java, JSP, UNIX shell scripting
Operating Systems Real-time Linux, VxWorks, Solaris and Windows XP
Protocols VoIP, SIP, SNMP, TL1, TCP/IP, Wireless.
Advanced Training Working globally, Negotiation techniques