I am a high-spirited team player who thrives in challenging and dynamic environments - opportunity to use my experience, creativity & skills to deliver effective solutions. I am proud to have consistently saved my employers money, time & resources by innovating & improving both engineering processes and the support infrastructure. My refinements have enhanced my departments' productivity & established positive reputation for my teams. Work well in start-up environment in a larger company. Professional Experience: - Software Engineering Manager/Release Manager - Technical Project/Program Manager/Scrum Master - Software Engineer Notable Past Employers: - Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA - Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA Specialized Training: - Stanford Certified Program Manager (SCPM) - Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - SDRM - Risk Management Specialties: Releasing top quality SW on time & under pressure. Experience in producing enterprise & consumer SW for over 15 years on multiple platforms - mobile (iOS, Android, Win 8), major desktop & server (Win Server 2013, Unix/Linux) and the Cloud. Scrum & Kanban. CI/CD & TDD Simplifying complex problems in to deliverable tasks. Operational Streamlining Strategic Planning; Risk/Change management Managing challenging projects. Supervising release & automation engineering teams. Self-motivated, proactive with attention to details. Coordinating tasks among cross-functional teams. Resourceful, adaptable, & creative problem solver with demonstrated critical thinking. Process improvement to enhance effectiveness & efficiency. Expertise in rapid software releases for addressing security & customer critical escalations. Automating & streamlining tedious steps for improved reproducibility & time-to-deliver. Excellent written & verbal communication skills. Tools Experience: Perl, shell, Ruby, Python, Jenkins, make, Perforce, GIT Building C, C++, Objective-C & Java code MS Project, Jira, VersionOne, Confluence, MS SharePoint, Bugzilla

Senior Technical Program Manager/Software Release Manager, Cloud Volumes (Consultant) @ - Driving the next major release of VMware's newest acquisition, CloudVolumes' flagship product, "App Volumes", from development complete to GA. - Leading a "Release team", consisting of a Product Manager, Development, Build, Documentation, QE, Legal, Launch, and other functional team managers, to execute the master release plan (schedule, dependencies and risks, etc.) and to deliver the release with excellent quality. - Proactively identifying risks, issues and driving their resolution across different areas of the company. - Report regularly, independently & accurately, the project status (in-person & digitally) of CloudVolumes release to executive stakeholders. - Taking release deliverables live after spearheading legal compliance, documentation completion and launch activities. - Managing bug review meetings and ensuring important issues are quickly resolved. From September 2014 to Present (6 months) Palo Alto, CATechnical Software Project/Release Engineering Manager, Flash Runtimes Engineering @ From February 2012 to January 2014 (2 years) San Jose, CAOwner & Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master/Kanban Coach @ From April 2013 to August 2013 (5 months) Santa Clara, CASenior Software Release Manager & Scrum Master, Adobe AIR (Flash Runtimes) @ From March 2008 to February 2012 (4 years) San Jose, CASenior Software Release Manager, Production Engineering, Acrobat @ From December 1997 to February 2008 (10 years 3 months) San Jose, CAVice President, Marketing and Operations @ From April 2001 to August 2007 (6 years 5 months) Santa Clara, CAMac OS and Software Installer Engineer @ From August 1996 to November 1997 (1 year 4 months) Santa Clara, CAVice President Marketing and Sales @ From May 1996 to November 1997 (1 year 7 months) Santa Clara, CAIntegration Engineer @ From April 1994 to August 1996 (2 years 5 months) Software Engineer and Configuration Manager @ From May 1990 to March 1994 (3 years 11 months) Cupertino, CASoftware Localization Summer Intern @ From June 1989 to September 1989 (4 months)

Professional certification in progress @ Stanford UniversityStanford Certified Project Manager @ Stanford University From 2011 to 2013 BA in Computer Science @ Hampshire CollegeUCSC ExtensionBSc 1st Year @ St. Xavier's CollegeK-12 @ La Martiniere College for Boys, Calcutta, India Shad DevOps is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Software Development, Perl, Software Engineering, Perforce, Unix, Mobile Applications, Signing, Linux, Android, Release Engineering, JavaScript, Mobile Devices, Integration, Windows, Java, Distributed Systems, Objective-C, OS X, C++, Eclipse, Python, Object Oriented Design, Enterprise Software, Testing, Automation, Virtualization, Software Design, Test Automation, Certified Scrum Master..., Cross-platform..., iOS, Git, Project Management, Release Engineering..., Cross-Platform..., Cross-Platform tools in..., Release Management, Subversion, Program Management, Management, Jenkins, SDLC, Software Project..., Agile Project Management, Cross Functional..., Kanban, Cross-Functional..., Cross-functional Team...