Manu Rao
Objective – Seeking a management position in product development services, along with End-to-End technical leadership.
Executive Summary
· Extensive working experience in NOKIA Series 60 & Symbian OS platforms.
· Helped customers developing leading edge product suite in mobile platform.
· Hands-on experience in
o Onsite coordination, business development and relationship management
o Project management and leading the teams on technical fronts.
· Working experience in Multicultural working environment (India, USA, Europe & Japan).
Experience summary
Project Manager, Series 60 Application Development projects
Wipro Technologies, Hyderabad, India
March 04 - present
Managed planning & supervising execution of several development and maintenance projects for Nokia Series 60. Daily communication with the customer (Nokia Mobile Terminals) is an integral part of my responsibilities.
Responsible for gathering & evaluating project requirements, ensuring weekly releases to several component factories in Series 60 organization, presenting monthly/periodical review reports, coordinating development and QA team’s activities along with Risk analysis and defect prevention activities.
Trained team on Symbian and delivery process followed by Nokia Series 60 Group.
Achievements:
· Achieved customer feedback of 4.5+ on a scale of 5, continuously.
Onsite Manager, Integration Team
Wipro
Technologies/Nokia Oyj; Tampere, Finland & Tokyo, Japan
March 01 – March 04
I have managed Build and Integration activities as part of Integration team, across geographies. Further, I was coordinating the subcontracting developments, by providing training on debugging and assistance on applications development. I was also responsible for co-ordination for project/s being executed in Wipro Technologies, offshore including clarifying the expectations along with implicit & explicit requirements.
Achievements:
· Customer feedback for teams under my supervision was very good, always.
· DependencyAnalyser tool and S60 SkinEditor tool projects were successfully completed under my supervision.
· Assisted Customer Operations and Series60 group in launching Products of external & internal customers.
Project Manager
Wipro Technologies/ PHCS, Boston, USA
My responsibilities included planning, maintenance and development of projects.
Achievements:
· Received “Product Excellence” award for the project from customer (PHCS).
Technical Lead
Wipro Technologies/
General Electric (GE), Erie, PA, USA.
Aug 97 – Sep 00
As a Lead, I was responsible for distributing tasks for a team of 25 software engineers from design till development of GE Transportation Systems train automation modules. Tasks involved co-ordination with various customers of GE TS, analysis of requirements, design/ prototyping of the modules, in accordance with American railroad guidelines and presenting to GE for further evaluation. In addition, I have participated in defect correction process, in close collaboration with QA teams.
Achievements:
· Led the team to achieve the goals (On time delivery, schedule & adherance to GE global quality norms)
· Coordinated transitioning the software development from US to Wipro Technologies offshore.
· Managed offshore team ramp up, trained & supervised the team in India to continue design & development of new modules.
Software Engineer
Serveen Software Systems/DRDO, Hyderabad, India
Jul 96 – Jul 97
Worked as part of a team of 25 engineers. I designed and implemented multi direction tracking module for a defense project. In addition, I have participated in defect correction process, supplementing the QA team efforts.
Achievements:
· Proposed, designed and implemented algorithms which improved application performance significantly.
S/w Skills
Languages & Operating Systems:
C/C++, Visual C++, Code Warrior, GCC compilers, STL library, SQL, Sybase, Perl.
Symbian OS, Windows NT/2000, Sun Solaris
Technologies:
WAP, WML/XHTML, Series 60 Platform;
Client-server, object-oriented design, design patterns, multi-threaded programming
Others:
UML (Rational Rose, MS Visio), Version control (Continuus, SCCS) and others (MS Project).
EDUCATION
· Bachelor of Electronics from College of Engineering, 1992 – 1996.
· Currently doing MBA from Symbiosis Pune, India. (Correspondence).
Contact Information
Manu Rao
C10/4, DAE Colony,
ECIL X Roads,
Hyderabad, India
Telephone: +91 98480 41867 (mobile); +91 40 27122976 (Home)
E-mail: manu.rao@iolansoftware.fi;