Highly motivated Technical Lead and Engineering Program Manager, 17 plus years of experience in Direct large-scale complex, multiphase and high-profile engineering products. Expertise in leading cross-functional teams, Project Management, Development, System Testing & Validation and Implementation of Enterprise Server Solutions. In-depth knowledge of HPC (High Performance Computing) with proven track record of identifying new technologies that create value for customers. Managing engineering deliverables to ensure traceability of requirements, high quality and client acceptance.
Project: HPE OEM Engineering
. Managed successful Introduction of over 25 products over time including NICs, NVMe drives and GPUs/Accelerators
. Defined key milestones, Statement of Work and success criteria, which enabled to launch High performance Network cards, NVMe drives and GPUs with a strategic competitive edge.
. Introduced workflow (Program Management tool) for engineering and Engineering logistics to optimize business and engineering needs.
Planned, created and mentored offshore team comprising of 1 team lead and 8 engineers to reduce the turn around time for customer resolutions and utilize resources more efficiently.
Project : Intel Rack Scale and Design (Intel RSD)
. Participated and contributed to requirements and design reviews of new features & enhancements
. Made QA strategies based on the analysis and understanding of Intel Rack Scale Design (Intel RSD Specs)
. Guided and mentored QA Engineering team
. Proposed Hardware topology based on Intel RSD specs for HPE labs and datacenter
. Produced status reports for customers and VP level senior management
· Pilot-test Intel RSD components & Restful APIs and gave initial feedback to the developers and different vendors involved
· Oversaw on-site and off-site teams of up to 12 professionals working on different RSD modules and in different geographies
Project: Solaris Program on HP(E) ProLiant Servers
. Plan, schedule, test, and release NIC drivers on Solaris and HP ProLiant systems
· Tested Solaris / Oracle Solaris 10 & 11 Beta builds
. Setup and maintain Solaris 11 IPS repo
· Collaborated with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues
PLM : Project management, NPI (New Product Introduction)
Technical:
Protocols: PCIe, NVMe, TCP/IP, SNMP
Storage Technologies: DAS, RAID
Ethernet Controllers: 1/10/25/100Gb - Intel, Broadcom, Mellanox, Solarflare, NapaTech SmartNIC
Storage Controllers: HPE Smart Array (P2xx, P4xx, P8xx, P7xx), HPE Dynamic Smart Array, Broadcom Mega RAID, Intel VROC
Servers: HPE ProLiant Servers (DL, ML, BL, SL, XL) Gen 4 to Gen10 Plus, HPE Apollo, HPE Blade Enclosure (c3000, c7000)
Networking: HPE Networking (Intel, Mellanox, Emulex, Marvell, Pensando, Broadcom), Blade & Synergy Infrastructure (Virtual connects, Pass Thru Switches), HPE Aruba, HPE ProCurve, Mellanox, NOS (Cumulus/Arista eos) based Network Switches
Operating Systems: RHEL 7/8x, Ubuntu14/16/18/20x, SLES 12x
Network Operating System: Cumulus 3x, Arista EOS
Virtualization: KVM, VMWare 6/7x, Citrix XenServer 6/7x
Scripting/Automation: Bash, Python
APIs: RESTful
Tools/Framework: Redfish, Postman, Json, curl, FastAPI, JIRA, HPE ALM, QuiX (Bug Tracking), Morpheus (HPE release management)
Software Testing Methods: Black Box, Integration, regression, Stress and Performance Testing
Software Development Life cycles: Waterfall & Agile
H1B with I-140 approved on June 2021