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Manoj S. Thakur |
Professional Summary:
Results
oriented, technical senior executive with over 18 years experience in software
development. Over 8 years management experience including project management, team
management, business development, off shore team management, new product development
and deployment, and sustaining product maintenance. I have always emphasized on
developing a good team and delivering high quality results, with the focus on
aligning the deliverables with corporate goals and shareholder values. Involved
in all senior management operations, including hiring, budgeting, software
architecture, team building, outsourcing, product management, suppliers and
partner interactions, sales support and client presentations. My diverse
background enables me to understand and attack the technical and management
challenges demanded by the job.
Experience Summary:
Engineering Manager, Document Systems, Inc., 02/2005
– Present
Move
the engineering team from a “startup” structure to a high quality
and reliable environment.
Introduced
cross departmental changes, expanded team, and played key role in revenue jump
by 200% in 2 years.
Business Analyst and Application Architect, Ceridian,
Inc., 07/2004 – 02/2005
I
was hired as a consultant to assist in migration of the current system to an
enterprise SOA architecture.
Analyzed business requirements, proposed architectural options and prototyped
various options.
Engineering Manager, Telesciences, Inc.,
1995-2004
Promoted
every few years through various technical positions to Engineering Manager.
Responsibilities included managing the engineering department, new business
procurement (RFP, RFI etc.), delivering solutions and sustaining engineering. Managed
on site and off shore development and support teams, and multiple projects and
implementations.
Details from 1989 – 1995 included later in the
Resume.
Technical Expertise:
Immigration Status: U.S. Citizen
Education:
Masters
of Science in Computer Information Systems (MSCIS) (Ongoing)
Bachelor
of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics Instrumentation, 1989, First Class with
Honors
Certifications:
Six
Sigma, Green Belt certification. (Ongoing)
Object
oriented design and methodology
ISO-9000
training certificate
EXPERIENCE
DETAILS:
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Engineering
Manager |
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Document
Systems Inc., CA, |
Feb
2005 – Present |
Job
Type: Hire - Full time |
I was hired to
steady the engineering team for this very fast growing company. The
organization structure is very flat and I report directly to the
Owner/President of the company. The goal was to establish some structure and
frameworks to move the company forward from a startup mode to a more predictable,
high quality and reliable environment, without loosing the agility and without
any big budget long term projects. Effectively moving the company in this
direction opened the market for the company’s key product (a SAAS - Software
as a service- module) to some very large clients, who demanded a consistent, repeatable
service quality, reliability and security. This new market segment, allowed the
revenues to grow by over 200% in just over two years.
My focus for
achieving the goal was to improve communication across departments, introduce
and standardize key workflow processes, foster product ownership with high
quality expectations and emphasis on eliminating errors, improve cross
departmental product confidence, key personnel changes and showing leadership
by example. I served various roles in my position, including hands on software
development, when the need arose. I adopted a lot of Agile, test based
development techniques in the fast paced environment. The products were built
as Java web services (XML-RPC), with clients interfacing either using a Java
GUI or integrating within their workflow directly by utilizing the web services
architecture.
Some key actions/projects
undertaken were.
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Established a product release policy, with communication requirements,
predicable release freeze windows, and formal release processes. We built a
tool to assist us with this process.
·
Worked closely with the President to prioritize the projects in the
pipeline, balancing both the business (a.k.a. customer needs) and the
infrastructure changes. We continue this task as an ongoing process.
·
Identified some ancillary processes that could be outsourced (customer
invoice fulfillment) to improve efficiency and also reduce costs,
·
Migrated the company infrastructure from MSWindows/ServletExec to
Linux/JBoss architecture, for both cost savings and also improvements in
performance and security given our applicable architecture.
·
Introduced tools to assist in performance tuning (such as syslog,
JMeter), to enable the fast rise in higher TPS requirements, without major
hardware upgrades.
·
Identified Intersystems Cache as the next generation replacement for the
IBM Universe database product, and initiate an evaluation (and later migration
)project for the same.
·
Move a major chunk of the corporate website to an open-source content
management system to empower business teams (legal/compliance) to update
content themselves, to avoid costly time delays and mistakes in transit from
MSWord content (from legal) to web content (by development).
·
Always keeping business (customer) demands in the forefront, with new
mortgage services added constantly (such as eDisclosure, MERs registration,
MISMO, Flood system integration and more).
·
Started a QA team, to perform independent testing, and automate key
operational tests.
·
Introduced quality frameworks such as Source control system
(Subversion), problem tracking and Wiki documentation, regular project
meetings, dedicated QA tiers and engineers and standard base platforms.
·
Introduced guidelines, frameworks (e.g. Java Spring), coding standards
etc. to introduce consistency in design and development of various features.
·
All development was done primarily in Java (Eclipse IDE), MySQL and IBM
Universe PICK Basic (using JEdit).
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Business
Analyst and Application Architect (Analysis, architecture and design) |
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Ceridian
Corp., CA, U.S.A |
Jun
2004 – Feb 2005 |
Job
Type: Consultant Full time |
I took on this
consulting opportunity, when I moved to
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Engineering
Manager (Business development and Offshore development Group) |
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Telesciences
Inc., NJ, U.S.A |
Mar
1995-Jun 2004 |
Job
Type: Hire – Full time |
In
Telesciences, I started as a Senior Software engineer and got promoted every
two-three years, from Project lead, Technical lead, Product Manager to
Engineering Manager. I had many responsibilities over the course of almost 10
years, from hands-on product development, product migration to a new
architecture and porting to Solaris.
·
Last project in the company involved moving the web UI onto an
application server framework. After evaluating BEA WebLogic and JBoss
application servers, we decided to use the JBoss application server for our
product development, with a separate group concentrating on deploying the
components on major application servers (such as BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere).
·
Involved in many business development activities, working closing with
the marketing team and top management, to respond to RFI’s and RFPs. I
was key in accepting and leading a challenging project to mold our product to
serve as a functional prototype in the new Cable-telephony market, correlating
and aggregating IP events (using CableLabs standards), to generate billing call
detail records. I traveled extensively during this time, meeting clients and presenting
as technical expert for prospective customers.
·
The core product was ported from HP to Solaris, with my team consisting
of onsite and off-shore engineers. Also, major (much needed) user interface
redesign was done, migrating to a web front end. The web GUI architecture,
design and development went through the entire analysis and development cycle,
including customer usability surveys and feedback, UI prototyping, UI
architecture and design and development, quality assurance testing, User
Acceptance testing and finally deployment and post deployment support. Various
standard HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) resources, user-interface guidelines
and web-ui building frameworks were analyzed and leveraged for the development
of the UI. Implemented primarily using
C, C++, Java, Oracle ProC, JDBC, XML (xerces, libxml & expat parsers used
for SAX and DOM XML parsing).
·
I was part of the team, assigned to streamline the processes to enable
the company obtain the ISO-9000 quality certification. I was responsible to
identify and developing the project development process and artifacts required
for the same. We implemented a standard process framework, with the project
artifacts such as Statement of Work, Project Definition, Test Plan and more.
·
Worked on the project to migrate the data-auditing framework to a more
generic, database driven framework. The project used HP-UX, Oracle 9i, Pro*C ,
PL/SQL for the backend components and XML, HTML, XSLT, JSP, JDBC, java servlets
for the front-end. I was responsible for the database layout, the audit API to
be used by all modules and the architecture of the UI.
·
Designed the FT/MP (File Transfer/Multiple Protocols) product, which
had the responsibility to provide a generic framework to handle the various
inputs formats over various network protocols (FTP, FTAM). This development was
done using a combination of C and expect (a Tcl/Tk derivative).
·
Part of a 2 person team responsible for migrating the text based
configuration and reporting system for the Traffic Analysis and Measurement
product to a GUI front end using Informix NewERA (which sits on top of the
Informix 4GL programming language). I implemented the login, reporting and
various configuration screens
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First job responsibility in this company was the design and development
of a Busy Hour Traffic Analysis System, which is a long-term storage and
traffic usage-monitoring tool for traffic management systems. This software was
developed using C, INFORMIX ESQL/C and INFORMIX 4GL.
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Unix administration, database administration (Oracle and Informix) and
shell scripting using various shell languages have been integral during the
entire duration in this job.
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Software
Consultant |
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Global
Weather Dynamics Inc., |
Jan
1993 – Mar 1995 |
Job
Type: Consultant |
Worked on the
design and development of a Weather Data transmission, storage and presentation
system that was ported from a VAX/VMS based system onto ULTRIX and UNIX SVR4
based systems. Responsible for development of the Statistics generation
software module and a UNIX-Kernel IPC structures maintenance software. Also
served as the primary Informix DBAdmin. The software development utilized
extensive use of Informix-4GL, Informix-ESQL/C, C, and C++. Used SCCS to
maintain the source tree and used Make to build the system. The hardware
platform consisted of DEC machines running Ultrix and SVR4 based UNIX.
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Software
Engineer |
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Siemens
Ltd., |
Sept
1991 – Dec 1992 |
Job
Type: Hire – Full time |
Involved in the
modification and installation of PROD-STAR, on INFORMIX based Manufacturing and
Inventory control software. Also designed and developed PC-STAR, a front-end
PC-based software with basic PROD-STAR capabilities. The main software used
were SINIX, INFORMIX 4GL, SQL, ESQL/C, PC (MS-DOS), TURBO-C, DBASE IV.
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Embedded
Software Engineer |
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Crompton
Greaves Ltd., |
Nov
1989 - Sept 1991 |
Job
Type: Hire – Full time |
Part of a team
responsible for the development of an indigenous Automatic Testing System
(A.T.S) for motors with in built Testing software, Storage and a Graphical
front-end Interface for testing command input and data retrieval. Responsible
for design and development of a Graphical Front-end User Interface using
TURBO-C and also for development of the software for communication with the
sub-system instruments over GPIB (IEEE-488). Also, was involved in the porting
of the A.T.S. over to a UNIX system (XENIX). Software used was TURBO-C and
XENIX based 'C'. Platforms were PC-AT (386) running MS-DOC and XENIX.
TECHNICAL SKILL’S DETAILS:
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Skill Set |
Skill Level |
Experience |
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C++ |
Expert |
6 years |
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C |
Expert |
17 years |
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UNIX Shell Programming |
Expert |
15 years |
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Java/JSP |
Expert |
6 years |
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J2EE |
Intermediate |
3 years |
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XML Technologies |
Expert |
7 years |
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MS Visual C++ |
Intermediate |
2 years |
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Tcl/Tk |
Intermediate |
6 years |
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Python |
Intermediate |
2 years |
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Informix SQL, ESQL/C, 4GL, NewERA |
Expert |
6 years |
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Oracle ProC, PL/SQL |
Intermediate |
2 years |
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MySQL |
Beginner |
1 year |
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IBM Universe PICK Basic |
Expert |
2 years |
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UML |
Intermediate |
5 years |
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SVN/CVS/SCCS/Visual Source Safe |
Expert |
17 years |
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HP-UX |
Expert |
8 years |
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SOLARIS |
Expert |
4 years |
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LINUX |
Expert |
4 years |
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DEC ALPHA-OSF & Ultrix |
Intermediate |
3 years |
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Siemens Unix (SINIX) |
Beginner |
1 year |