Jay Suryanarayanan
Associate Director, Software Engineering
San Diego,CA
Summary
To obtain the leadership position in the field of Product Development in which I may leverage my 18 -year experience to drive the following:
- Provide strategic leadership and mentoring for the team
- Foster collaboration amongst the cross functional teams
- Ensure alignment on objectives and provide solutions to complex problems
- Collaborate with internal and external customers to further understand user needs
- Effectively communicate with Core Team stakeholders and executive leadership
- Build strong teams to deliver high quality products
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Director of Software Quality Engineering
BD Inc
San Diego, United States
12.2007 - Current
- Drove performance of staff by creating incentives and positive work atmosphere and administering recognition and rewards programs.
- Administered monthly and annual reviews to direct reports and set clear and measurable goals, action plans and follow-up procedures.
- Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
- Orchestrated efficient large-scale software deployments.
- Discussed project progress with customers, collected feedback on different stages and directly addressed concerns.
- Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements, budget and product goal.
- Partnered with development team on product development, application support plans and prototype programs.
- Installed and configured software applications and tested solutions for functionality.
- Communicated technical development stages and provided design support to businesses and other stakeholders encouraging participation for on-time execution.
- Consulted regularly with internal customers on application development project status, new project proposals and software-related technical issues.
- Communicated with third-party product owners to illustrate deficits and bottlenecks within existing software.
- Served as subject matter expert on [Area of expertise] for both clients and internal team members.
- Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff.
Education
Master of Computer Science -
University of Madras
Bachelor of Computer Science - undefined
University of Madras
Skills
Agile
Program testing software
MS SQL Server 2000
New employee mentoring
Software Development
Software Documentation
Team reporting
Policy and procedure adherence
Best practices
Performance Tuning
Scrum methodology
Software development lifecycle expert
Workflows and queries
Hardware and software installation
Continuous improvement techniques
Product development
Superior time management
Resource Allocation
Development Lifecycles
Project planning
Code reviews
Testing and maintenance
Troubleshooting
Accomplishments
- Associate Director, R&D - Software Engineering Becton Dickinson 2017 – Present San Diego, CA
- Guided the team to deliver releases on various product lines (Dispensing/ Infusion platform involving devices)
- Led the Cross functional teams in delivering many complex releases with high Quality
- Increased the R&D’s scope of impact to all Dispensing product offerings
- Represented MMD R&D as SME for strategic customer visits and technology focus groups
- Developed strong talent by direct mentoring, training
- Managed global teams and built teams from scratch as well
- Successfully guided the teams in following AGILE methodology in Medical domain
- Built comprehensive Automation teams to reduce test cycle times
- Partnered with Quality team to establish efficient documentation on dispensing products
- Partnered with Vendors globally to increase R&D’s capacity to deliver releases sooner
- Since last year, I have been transitioning in to managing cross functional teams (Dev+SQE+PO)
Timeline
Associate Director of Software Quality Engineering
BD Inc
12.2007 - Current
Master of Computer Science -
University of Madras
Bachelor of Computer Science - undefined
University of Madras