Summary


More than 13 years of experience in managing, planning, controlling multiple large projects facilitating company s growth. Lead cross-functional teams with diverse technical backgrounds. Adept in executing projects/ programs, consensus building, crisis management, problem-solving, negotiating, exceptional people management.
I have transferrable IQAMA visa : Electronic Engineer, Resident Permit Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Global Experience Worked in Belgium, Germany, Spain and USA on various project assignments.




Employment

November, 1998 -  March, 2009
Company Role To Wipro Technologies Project Manager

Technical
Operating Systems : Unix, Windows-XP, Windows Vista and RTOS VxWorks, pSOS, Chill
Languages/Tools : C/C++, XML, Shell Scripts, GDB
Configuration Management : Clear Case, Visual SourceSafe
Technologies : DSL, ATM, GSM, UMTS, Telecom and Embedded, Microcontrollers

Project, Office : Excel, Word and Power Point

Possess experience in account management, software engineering, maintenance and development of IT/ Telecom and embedded systems or Software applications.

Experience in installation, configuration and system integration of IT or Telecom systems.

Experience in managing, planning, controlling multiple large projects with headcount of 30+ people

Experience in defining the transition approach, planning and execution of outsourcing opportunities more than 1M USD in various client scenarios.

Experience in multi-site program execution and coordination

Excellent sales experience anchoring large proposals, RFP s, SOW s for different type of clients and working on solutions with technology groups.

Experience in management reporting, financials, billing inputs, resource utilization, risk management.
Adept in end-to-end development and maintenance of software applications or products from requirement analysis, designing, testing, documentation and implementation.

Proficient in Project Management activities which includes Schedule preparation, Effort estimation, Staffing, Customer facing, Issue Resolution and Process compliance.
Proficient in SDLC lifecycles Waterfall, Agile, CMMI and 6 Sigma, LEAN.
Creation and enforced performance metrics for 30 developers and testers.
Customer Satisfaction rating of 4/5 and 92% of Project Metrics met new SLA in last 12 months.

Has significant experience working on various technologies which includes C, C++ and Client Server architecture in a paced complex environment involving architecture, design, implementation, configuration of application servers.

Certifications and Educational Qualifications
Received Best Project Delivery certificate for NTP Pilot Project and ASAM Maintenance Project
Received Certificate of appreciation for driving team in resolving HOT Field Reports Fault Reports executed 6 Sigma Project for improving Productivity in ASAM maintenance Project and awarded certificate.

Graduation : Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Communication Engg from Osmania University 79% - 1995 First Class with distinction

Intermediate : Special Diploma in Electronics with specialization in Industrial Electronics and Instrumentation - 75% - 1992 Duration : 3.5years First Class with distinction

Xth Standard :
SSLC : State board of Secondary School Education, A.P 73% - 1988

Key Projects Handled at Wipro Technologies
Title : Microsoft Protocol documentation Validation, Microsoft Corporation - Redmond USA

September, 2007 -  March, 2009
Role : Project Manager/Program Manager

Scope : Understanding the Microsoft protocol technical documents and derive requirements. Develop test suite to validate the technical correctness of the document and File issues.

Contribution : Project Initiation, planning, execution, control and risk management

Communication with client and status reporting
Requirements collection and analysis
Offshore, Onsite coordination
Finalizing the development Strategy and end-to-end delivery of suites
Compliance with quality processes
Staffing and Team appraisals

April, 2003 -  June, 2007
Role : Project Manager

Scope : Feature development and maintenance of ATM based Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer DSLAM software.

Contribution : Project Initiation, planning, execution, control
Worked at customer site Belgium for 6 months to study product and client requirement
Installation and configuration of DSLAM
Creation of road map for various release cycles
Planning for Regression, Stress, Functional test-passes
Compliance with quality processes

Communication with client and status reporting
Team appraisals
Planning Bug Fixes and tracking bug resolution
Executed 6 Sigma project for bug fix productivity improvement

April, 2001 -  March, 2003
Title : Base Station Controller

Scope : Feature Development and Maintenance of GSM Base Station Controller

Contribution : Involved in project requirement specification, designing, coding.
Writing Design Specifications and writing detailed Test Plan and Test Cases Black Box and White Box
Participated in code reviews
Installation and configuration of BSC
Lead Telecom supervisor module and enhancement of RFMGT features
Fixing the field fault reports
Project planning, execution, control
Offshore, Onsite coordination
Communication with client line managers

Title : Implementation of UTRAN Iu User Plan Protocol, Alcatel - Germany
Team Size : 3
Role : Project Leader
Duration : October 00 to March 01
Software/Tools/Technology : C++, DSP BIOS, ClearCase and understanding of UMTS 3G
Operating System : Sun Solaris, Windows 2000

Scope : This project is implementation of the Iu User Plan Protocol stack IuUP on a Texas Instruments DSP TMS 320C 62XX in compliance with the 3GPP TS 25.415. This is protocol is part of the 3rd generation UMTS.

Contribution : Involved in project requirement specification, designing, coding.
Complete responsibility for protocol delivery
Developed functional group test FGT specifications

Travelled to Germany for integration testing of IuUP protocol with other modules of transcoder 3 months

Title : Frame Relay Server Card FRSC : design and development, Alcatel - Belgium.

November, 1998 -  September, 
Device Driver

Scope : Development of features, customization of pSoS for Frame Relay Server Card FRSC. FRSC is part of Multi-Service Access Network MSAN Line Shelf LiteSpan-1540

Contribution : Written detailed design document of Narrow Band Common Part, Configuration Interface module
Designed and Developed Software Timer module, VA protocol, configuration interface module
Designed and developed drivers for CAM and LCIA devices
Involved in design and code reviews.

Involved in onsite activities like system integration of the FRSC with other Line card in the MSAN shelf at Alcatel- Belgium for 3 months and Final Integration testing FIT at Alcatel-ASD, Spain for 2 months.

Communication with client with status reporting
Offshore, customer coordination

Key Projects Handled at R and D Centre, VXL Instruments Ltd

March, 1998 -  September, 1998
Role : Module Leader

Scope : Ethernet Card sits in PCI slot and provides the Ethernet interface to the system It supports both 10/100 BaseT interfaces with an additional on system flash disk which works as a bootable floppy disk. The EaziTC is a plug in card that converts existing PC into a hardware Windows base terminal.

Contribution : Designed diagnostic Software
Unit testing of Ethernet card.

May, 1997 -  February, 1998
Role : Project Engineer

Scope : This is termed as Windows NT terminal with Pentium mother board. All the processing is done at host side, few tasks will executed at user terminal and hence the name ThinClient. It uses Citric Software ICA protocol to interface with host system.

Contribution :
Involved in Board design, designed and developed diagnostic software to test the chipset and peripherals VGA, Ethernet Controller, serial and parallel ports.

September, 1996 -  April, 1997
VGA Controller

Scope : EtherTerm ET3735 is designed for use with legacy Unix systems. Equipped with Ethernet connectivity. It supports various emulations like December, Wyse, TVI and ADDS.
Contribution : Designed and developed the logic board.
Designed and developed the diagnostic software

March, 1996 -  August, 1996
Role : Project Engineer

Scope : This is Unix dumb terminal VM29XX is designed to be direct replacement for the VT510 from Digital. This is designed using AMD s 80C186 processor, 16C552 UART and VXL s ASIC Vx7200 which has CRT controller and NVRAM interface.

Contribution : Designed and developed the logic board.
Designed and developed the diagnostic software
Developed serial driver interface and involved in developing the VT510 emulation software.

November, 1995 -  February, 1996
Role : Project Engineer

Scope : This is a standard AT and PS/2 keyboard designed using 80C51 microcontroller. This keyboard automatically checks whether it is connected to a XT or AT machine and then sets its protocol and key codes accordingly.

Contribution : Designed and developed the logic board matrix.
Designed and developed the keyboard software. The communication interface is written in assembly as it needs to have exact timing and key scanning software was written in C.
Testing of the keyboard.

Passport Details

Given Name : Karimulla Saheb Surname : Shaik

2007 -  Present

Miscellaneous

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