NIKHIL  KARKHANIS                                                                                                                                                                                   

RESUME

Objective                               Test unit delivery head position that challenges scaling up of present responsibilities thru a responsibility of mentoring novice test leads; strive to contribute in the growth of a global IT company that provides the work environment that cultivates global competitiveness and stimulates creativity to invent world-class solutions using leading edge tools, technologies and processes.

E-mail                                    :           nikhilkar@yahoo.com

Experience                :           16 years

Profile                         :           Project / Product / Delivery Manager (PMP Eligible)

Countries / Visa       :           US from Mar. 98 to Feb. 2000 with the H-1B visa.

Employers                 :           Aztecsoft, IBM, C-DAC, Forbes, Vertex Logic

Phone                         :           91-(0)-98 22 33 44 89

Education                  :           M.C.S. – Master in Computer Science (1994),

University of Pune, <st1:country-region w:st="on">INDIA</st1:country-region>.

Address                     :           C-808 Shilpa CHS, MIT College Road,

Kothrud, MH, Pune - 411 038. <st1:country-region w:st="on">INDIA</st1:country-region>.

Foreign Languages  :           Certificate Course in Japanese, University of Pune.

Memberships                        PMI (Project Management Institute, Pennsylvania, US.)

SVPMA (Silicon Valley Product Management Association, San Jose, <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region>)

Technical Summary

PM / CM Tools           :           MS-Project, CMVC, SCCS, PMBoK

Hardware                  :           IBM PC, DEC 5100, VAX

O/S                             :           Windows 2003-95, Unix-BSD, MS-DOS, Novell, CP/M,

RSX-11-M (PDP-11)

Software                    :           MFC, C/C++, Assembly (8086), VXML, Java - Servlets,

Websphere, IBM Voice Server for Websphere, VisualAge for Java, SQL, Pascal, Fortran, BASIC, Cobol

Executive Summary

·         Product QA cycle management

·         Working with largest independent test service provider in <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>

·         Managed outsourced QA for topmost global ISVs

·         End-to-end test delivery management

·         Delivery responsibilities  ~ 1m, Unit size – 35

·         Managed multiple projects simultaneously up to – 3

·         Total test passes managed > 50

·         Project artifacts developed > 20

·         Managed maximum single team size up to – 28 as well as small teams of size 3

·         Product development perspective - software development as well as marketing

·         Test management - Process engineering, proposal engineering, delivery management, project audits, staff selection

·         Product Lifecycle Background - C-DAC (Development), IBM (IT solutions), Webtrans (Internationalization), Vertex Logic (QA), Aztecsoft (QA)

Experience Details

Nikhil is currently working as Sr. Test Lead while taking the role of a senior test delivery manger for Bangalore based Aztec Software (http://itest.aztecsoft.com/) , a CMMi Level 5 and a product engineering company which has Microsoft’s preferred vendor status. He is involved in delivery management from proposal through delivery up to customer success. His current management portfolio is encompassing testing engagements of few off-shore outsourced products from worlds leading ISVs that targets market segment sized about a billion. Nikhil, to his credit has the launch of the Microsoft CRM v3 and v3i after its successful QA pass. The product is expected to create the annual revenue of $450 million this year. Please read ahead in Project Work section to know more about his role here.

At Aztec Nikhil has been currently implementing test plans for medium size enterprise applications for global ISVs. In his career of 16 years, he has worked in various roles in software engineering in multiple organizations, and has evolved into a competent technical leader. He holds a good academic background and has worked with reputed organizations including IBM and C-DAC. Prior to Aztec-Disha, Nikhil has also worked as Project Manager in the role of Product Manager for a Silicon Valley R&D organization Vertex Logic. Before that he has been actively involved in business delivery models on top-notch industrial assignment at IBM, where he contributed in technology implementations and assisted global delivery account of top credit card supplier in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region>. The off-shore development and outsourcing model generated a $10 million account. Ramping up sub-projects through managing a pool of two hundred odd IT professionals, placing the resources to beat the lateral Indian competition and aggressively driving the recruitment pipeline were the key challenges faced there.

At the beginning of his career that he started with four year long contribution to Center for Development of Advanced Computing, the computing pride for India, as a Project Associate, in GIST group, the group that pioneered the delivery of embedded system implementation for Indian as well as South-East Asian languages to bring them in the world of computing. The language training utility he conceptualized and created caused 60% increase in the user base. Following this, over a period of three years, he delivered various network projects to Forbes Marshal, a good enterprise example of developed company in the developing country like India, for its Enterprise Network comprised of distributed head-office, multiple manufacturing sites, managerial houses, county-wide branches, and globe-wide principle MNCs in the US, UK and Japan. There was growth of 20% in the turnover while giving the ROI in just less than a year.

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