Himanshu Sawhney
Pleasanton,CA
Summary
Seasoned management professional with 14+ years of experience in both SaaS & Enterprise delivery models (spanning both large organizations and start ups - hands on). Strong background in Program/ Release Management having successfully delivered multi million $ projects while collaborating with geographically disperse teams. Deep domain & technology experience in Marketing Automation, CRM, Big Data Analytics, CPQ, Sales Performance Management.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
VP of Engineering
Veeva Systems
04.2018 - Current
- Trained employees on safety and project procedures.
- Kept detailed records of project progress and budgets.
- Designed detailed budget for engineering equipment and projects.
- Inspected equipment before and after use.
QA Architect
Xactly Corporation
06.2015 - 04.2018
- Incent is the flagship product of Xactly, the leader in on demand Sales Compensation
- Management solutions
- Provides robust platform (rule based engine) for organizations to automate their Sales Compensation Management operations and provide real time visibility into compensation data to the sales group
- Incent is supplemented with additional products including
- Modeling, Connect, Rewards and Analytics which constitute the Sales Performance Management package offered by Xactly
- Key Accomplishments:
- Key contributor in design, implementation and delivery of Xactly integration platform -
- Connect
- Served as the QA, Product Owner, Scrum Master, DevOps, Documentation and Production
- Support person for this line of product
- Occasionally building new features and fixing bugs
- Supported the fasted ever customer adoption for any product @ Xactly
- We grew from 0 – 200+ customers in less than a year
- Reduced the product deployment time from 45 mins to less than 2 mins through automation
- Helped design and participated in the product training for customers/ prospects at our annual user conference CompCloud
- Designed and implemented the automation reporting framework @ Xactly
- Implemented a BI solution for reporting Key Scrum and Quality metrics using EazyBI
On Director
Act-On
04.2014 - 06.2015
- Act-On is leading provider of cloud-based integrated marketing automation software, helping 3000+ companies to tie inbound, outbound, and nurturing programs together – across email, web, mobile, and social
- Key Accomplishments:
- Drove overall delivery of several business critical features including MSD Integration/
- Export Builder/ On Boarding & Email Engagement for key customer accounts
- Key liaison between engineering and CS/ Sales/ Operations for new feature training & overall roll out strategy
- Competitive analysis of Message Compose/ Forms and Landing Pages against Mail Chimp/
- Hubspot & Marketo
- Partnered with CS/ Sales to drive road map for improving overall email deliverability for customers
- Moved from monthly to weekly release train model
- Successfully Delivered > 120 releases & patches in ~ 1 year
- Grew engineering/ QE team from 18 to 55 members operating both locally and offshore
Karmasphere QA Director & Agile Coach
Karmasphere
09.2013 - 04.2014
- Karmasphere empowers new customer analytics, providing deep insights on Big Data to optimize every customer touch point
- Using personalized workspaces and self-service templates; analytics are rapidly assembled, customized and shared across business teams
- With Karmasphere’s full-fidelity support for Hadoop, data is never abstracted or replicated, maintaining the richness, agility and low cost of ownership needed for innovation and competitive advantage in the era of Big Data
- Key Accomplishments:
- Led the engineering team ~ 20+ members and assumed the role of a technical product manager to outline technical requirement specifications
- Conducted the Planning, Daily
- Standups, Retrospective and Demo meetings across 4 Scrum teams
- Led the design efforts during an end-to-end UI overhaul initiative moving to Angular/
- Bootstrap by creating Mockups/ Wireframe/ Business Flows and defining User Persona’s
- Worked closely with Professional Services & Sales to build Big Data Analytics use cases based on feedback from the field
- Led the transition from waterfall to SCRUM process (Monthly release train model)
- Led the due diligence engineering efforts & product demos during M&A with
Sr. QA Lead & Release Engineer
Xactly Corporation
10.2007 - 09.2013
FICO
Xactly Corporation
10.2007 - 09.2013
- Incent is the flagship product of Xactly, the leader in on demand Sales Compensation
- Management solutions
- It provides a robust platform (rule based engine) for organizations to automate their Sales Compensation Management operations and provide real time visibility into compensation data to the sales group
- Incent is supplemented with additional products including
- Modeling, Connect, Rewards and Analytics which constitute the Sales Performance Management package offered by Xactly
- Key Accomplishments:
- Key contributor in design and deployment of Xactly data platform (Xactly – Master Data
- Repository) feeding downstream Operational and Analytical reporting systems
- Drove product and platform enhancements that contributed towards significant improvements in overall computation accuracy and performance (> 400%) of the core application functionally enabling the system to operationally scale from 5 to > 500 customer in ~ 5 years
- Contributed towards designing production deployment architecture and scaling out horizontally (Xactly PODs)
- Identified & presented key insights into product usage based on available computational data sets
- These included a variety of information including hours when most processing occurs to predicting growth (fed into data center capacity planning), whether customers were using the system optimally (information leveraged for Customer Training via Support/ Success)
- Served as the Product owner for the QE Automation group driving the vision/ strategy and execution plans
- Help setup, build & operationalize the Xactly India office from 0 to 50 in less than a year
Sr. QA Engineer/ Process Lead
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
07.2004 - 10.2007
Education
MAP Certified Management Professional -
CSM (Certified Scrum Master) Mountain Goat Software Six Sigma Greenbelt Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. mapR Certified Administrator mapR - undefined
Masters Computer Applications - undefined
DAVV
Bachelors Computer Applications - undefined
DAVV
Skills
- Programming Languages:
- Java, Python Agile Tools: Greenhopper, Bonfire, Confluence
- Bug Tracking Tools: JIRA, QC Continuous Integration: Hudson, Jenkins, Bamboo
- Code Coverage: Cobertura, Clover Analytical Reporting: Karmasphere, Hive
- Platforms: Windows, Unix HDFS: Cloudera, mapR
- RDBMS: Oracle 11, MySQL, Postgres Operational Reporting: Informatica, DAC, Data
- Validator, OBIEE
- Other Tools: WebMethods 60, Mercury
- Business Availability Center
- Domain: Marketing Automation, CRM, Sales
- Performance, CPQ
Timeline
VP of Engineering
Veeva Systems
04.2018 - Current
QA Architect
Xactly Corporation
06.2015 - 04.2018
On Director
Act-On
04.2014 - 06.2015
Karmasphere QA Director & Agile Coach
Karmasphere
09.2013 - 04.2014
Sr. QA Lead & Release Engineer
Xactly Corporation
10.2007 - 09.2013
FICO
Xactly Corporation
10.2007 - 09.2013
Sr. QA Engineer/ Process Lead
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
07.2004 - 10.2007
MAP Certified Management Professional -
CSM (Certified Scrum Master) Mountain Goat Software Six Sigma Greenbelt Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. mapR Certified Administrator mapR - undefined
Masters Computer Applications - undefined
DAVV
Bachelors Computer Applications - undefined
DAVV
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