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Sandeep Tawde |
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Program and Product Manager with an MBA |
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Program Management |
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I have successfully led software product initiatives within given scope, time and budget Symantec Corporation( formerly BindView) 2002-2005 覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧- Led the development for following products at Symantec NETinventory multi-tiered distributed IT asset management application bv-Control for Microsoft SQL Server bv-Control for Checkpoint Firewall Shipped 6+ major releases and numerous hotfixes, SPs in 2.5 years, the total revenue from my products was US$ 12-15 million per year, 1/4 of the total BindView revenue Transitioned the development of these products from Houston, TX to India development center Experienced in software development and project / program management fundamentals(Software Development Life Cycles and Quality Processes, Scope, Cost, Schedule, Deliverables, Change Management, Risk Management, Inter-company conflict resolution) Owner of technical design and architecture of the product quality, schedule, team growth, customers and end to end SDLC
Bridging the communication between R&D and Product Management by writing detailed functional specifications after distilling technical and business requirements by visiting customers like US EPA, Sovereign Bank
Ownership of relationship with customers (2000 customers in the US) and third party vendors like MySQL and Novell
Cross functional leadership working with Product Marketing, Business Development, Technical Support, Professional Services, Release Management and Executive team for status reporting and issues escalation
Setting strategy and goals, translating the goals into day-to-day activities and focuses for the team
Ownership of all strategic and tactical initiatives for the success of the product line
Built from scratch a team of 15 software developers by mentoring and coaching to insure high productivity, teamwork and improve group competency
Received highest performance rating for three years in a row among the peer group
Corel Corporation 1995-1998 覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧覧- Visual Basic for Applications ( VBA) Integration
Technical leadership of a project migrating Corel office products from proprietary automation server to Visual Basic for Application (VBA) server, led the cross functional teams of 5 products, reported to VP engineering
Championed the VBA integration idea within the company and persuaded project leaders of various office products to incorporate the VBA functionality
Scheduled work assignments and supervised the development and integration process with a third party vendor of Microsoft products. Reviewed the object model for CorelDraw 9.0
Received a special award upon successful completion of this project |
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Hands-on Technical Manager
Shipped more than 10 releases in 2.5 years
Program Management in terms of Cost, Budget and Time
Cross functional leadership (Sales, Marketing, Prof Services)
Customer Management |
