What I do
I have 17 years of experience in software product industry, with nine years in
technical program management, currently managing programs for rolling out new
product features at Bluejeans Networks.
Planning
Planning activities with product management, engineering, design, DevOps, technical support and other stakeholder groups.
Acting as a catalyst to bring about clear goals and consensus.
Architechure and requirement reviews
Reviewing product requirement and architechure to ensure that requirements and technology work in tandem to deliver best solution for both functional and non-functional deliverables.
Execution
Executing planned backlog items with multiple globally distributed engineering teams. Running stand-ups and scrum of scrums, identifying and resolving risks/roadblocks and making sure that teams are
making sustainable and satisfactory progress.
Metrics and Reorting
Leading program reviews with executive committee and leadership, providing status and progress metrics to enable quick reporting and desicion making.
People
Mananging program activities of globally distributed program teams upto 100 members. In the past, I have also directly managed a team of 40 engineers for a start-up.
Methodologies and Coaching
Having spent few years in waterfall, and doing different roles like scrum master, release train engineer, product owner in scrum teams, I have realised that there is no silver bullet. Each project has unique
challenges and you need to stick to principles and coach teams to achieve results.
Education and Certifications
Education
Birla Institute of Applied Sciences, MCA from 2001 to 2004
Certifications
Experience
Senior manager, Technical program management at Bluejeans , Bangalore, from Oct 2018 to date.
Bluejeans is a cloud based video conference service provider, acquired by Verizon. I am working on various programs to deliver end to end product features to customers.
Senior staff program manager at MobileIron, Bangalore, from Mar 2017 to Oct 2018.
MI provided unified endpoint and enterprise mobility management (EMM) for mobile devices, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), acquired by Ivanti. Among various programs, I managed program management for cloud based solution based out of Bangalore office.
Senior Agile program manager at Skyhigh Networks, Bangalore, from Feb 2016 to Feb 2017.
Skyhigh Networks was a leading provider of cloud access security broker (CASB) technology, acquired by McAfee. I worked as a technical program manager for customer engineering teams for India offices.
Senior manager delivery, at Attano Media and Education, from May 2012 to May 2013.
Attano was a marketpkace of digital books focussing on students, it failed to acquire further funding and was shut down in 2013. I managed the entire engineering and delivery for the company.
Software engineer, Engineering lead, Services project manager and Engineering program manager at Arcot Systems (CA Technologies, Since Oct 2010), Bangalore, from Jan 04 to May 12, and Aug 13 to Feb 16.
The group I worked for managed product for authenticating online card transactions.