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Akashdeep Singh

Akashdeep Singh

Campbell,CA

Summary

Experienced, very passionate & high energy, Engineering Program-Project manager with a proven capability of effectively and efficiently managing multiple, global, cross-functional remote teams and OEM partners, using a variety of communication techniques and tools & delivering business-critical products & solutions. Also have working knowledge of the Waterfall and Agile software development methodologies (including Scrum, Kanban, and blended methodologies), end-to-end SDLC management (Dell OLP), security (Dell SDL), and vulnerability assessment and mitigation. Scrum Master and Agile Coach experience.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Engineering Program Manager

Dell EMC
Santa Clara
08.2019 - Current
  • Acted as EPM for 4+ years, Led Engineering development and delivery for 10+ platforms and multiple SW releases while managing cross-functional teams and competing priorities, thereby enabling businesses to launch products worth over $20M
  • Acted as TPM for 3+ years, Managed communication across external and internal customers, built and manage relationships, and processed for successful feature competition and releases
  • Managed ODM teams by assigning clear roles, responsibilities, and setting clear expectations and standards.
  • Direct all phases of program management including, initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closeout phases of project. Key focus areas include engineering schedule, scope, budget, quality, and risk management.
  • Drive program coordination and communication with Engineering Executive Leadership, cross-functional leaders, and team members across multiple sites and business units to ensure projects run efficiently.
  • Closely collaborate with Engineering Executive Leadership team on project reporting, engineering development process improvements and resource expertise and learning skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to successfully influence win-win cross-functional dynamics.
  • Maintained and tracked budget, making appropriate decisions to meet budget goals.
  • Proactively manage risk and issues management, quality checks, and change management.
  • Lead project communications, cross-functional meetings, and status reporting.
  • Provide leadership, adaptability, and flexibility for routine and non-routine situations.

Senior Software Engineer

Dell EMC
Santa Clara, CA
07.2016 - 08.2019
  • Proposed, managed, developed, analyzed & reported for the data center's hardware refresh, resulting in a 75% reduction in new hardware purchases.
  • Designed and developed python utility for pulling Syslog from each layer-2 hardware. Performed time-series analysis on Syslog and tracked utilization of each layer-2 hardware in data center.
  • Created ELK stack for monitoring logs of console server for evaluation of illegitimate access to layer 2 hardware.
  • Extracted data from Resource Reservation(RR) Tool. Created relational model on RR tool's data for better transaction rate (speed), reliability, maintainability, scalability, and cost. Used data for tracking reservation patterns, user usage patterns, and h/w usage.
  • Using RF ID tag information, created dashboard, maps, and alerts for devices in lab. Maps and dashboards were used to report rack utilization, weight, power consumed, and temperature per rack level.
  • Created alert system that throws an alert if the utilization is >80%.
  • Created system that reports LOC, Churn, Bug count, Code Quality, etc., by pulling data from Jira and Semmle (tool for checking code quality).
  • Created python utility for onboarding of hardware device
  • Automated stakeholder approval process in SDLC lifecycle
  • Designed and developed resource capacity planning tool
  • Created power driver for resource reservation tools using python.

Software Engineer

Dell International Services
Noida, India
07.2012 - 02.2014

Worked as SharePoint developer/designer for Dell Services internal portal resulting in improved user experience while navigating website.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Santa Clara University, Santa Clara
06.2016

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Amity University, Noida, India
06.2012

Skills

  • Program-Project Management
  • Cross-Functional Teamwork
  • Team Management
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Risk Management
  • Jira/Confluence
  • Conflict Management
  • Scrum(Agile)
  • Adaptability
  • Process Improvement

Timeline

Senior Engineering Program Manager - Dell EMC
08.2019 - Current
Senior Software Engineer - Dell EMC
07.2016 - 08.2019
Software Engineer - Dell International Services
07.2012 - 02.2014
Santa Clara University - Master of Science, Computer Science
Amity University - Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology
Akashdeep Singh