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Narsan Ventrapragada

Naperville,IL

Summary

Amiable Software Development Manager with 18 years leading the creation of exemplary products by fostering enthusiastic and cohesive teams. Practiced at inspiring efforts that exceed corporate guidelines. Maintains strict adherence to prescribed development milestones and quality assurance levels. Expert at leveraging diverse teams to produce revolutionary and successful products.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Development Manager

Cisco Systems
Bangalore, India
07.2018 - Current
  • Change Management: Led organization-wide Agile adoption and successfully implemented the first Agile software development project for the NCS1004 OTN-XP line card program.
  • Oversaw simultaneous software releases and new optical platform development projects, monitoring each for development milestones and quality control compliance.
  • Collaborated with senior leadership on cost optimization initiatives like the Cost Of Quality Software and Hardware.
  • Built inter-team collaboration guidelines to reduce dependence and redundancy and speed up development efforts.
  • Being a Certified Scrum Master led sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives for multiple scrum teams.
  • Hiring and developing talent in the optical technology domain.
  • Trained engineers in standards and strategies for the optical domain i.e. G709 (OTN) and Ethernet.
  • Led team of 22 engineers in the analysis and rebuilding of software of optical embedded systems.
  • Capex Savings: Researched and procured low-cost 1:N optical switches which helped save the capital expenditure of procuring costly traffic generators which improved equipment utilization for datapath testing.
  • Engineering tool development: Trained and created an automation expert team and developed pre-code commit and nightly automation tools for phase containment.
  • Quality initiatives: Initiated discussions on programming principles for maintainable code, and reviewed the software modules that need code refactoring.


Technical Leader

Cisco Systems
Bengaluru, India
05.2013 - 06.2018
  • Enhanced interfaces to promote better functionality for users.
  • Offered input on technical and platform-related strategic planning initiatives.
  • Investigated system issues and implemented resolutions to reduce downtime.
  • Teamed on development of technology roadmap spanning [Number] years.

Design Lead

Tech Mahindra Limited
Bangalore, India
05.2004 - 04.2013
  • Maintained documentation and dashboards to understand resource capacity and project status.
  • Provided operations support for specific design portfolios.
  • Assisted in organizing and overseeing assignments to drive operational excellence.
  • Supported multi-discipline teams to provide design solutions that balanced customer requirements for performance and cost.

Education

Master of Business Administration - International Business

Pondicherry University
Puducherry
06.2009

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

L.B.R College of Engineering
JNTU Hyderabad
05.2002

Skills

  • Building trust
  • Team Member Development
  • Fostering creativity
  • Hiring and retaining the best talent
  • Unit Test Automation
  • Python (PCEP)
  • Embedded C
  • JIRA, Rally
  • Scrum Methodology
  • GitLab, Jenkins (CI/CD)

Accomplishments

Winner of Cisco Back to Business Leader award - CY 2020

Certification

PCEP - Python Certified Entry Level Programmer

CSM - Certified Scrum Master

Timeline

Software Development Manager

Cisco Systems
07.2018 - Current

Technical Leader

Cisco Systems
05.2013 - 06.2018

Design Lead

Tech Mahindra Limited
05.2004 - 04.2013

Master of Business Administration - International Business

Pondicherry University

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

L.B.R College of Engineering

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