Prabhakar Kandasamy

Technical Program and Quality Management • Program Management: o Drive product releases working with stake holders in Product and Engineering. Create Project requirements and Plan execution, milestones for Immersive Media platform and Gaming applications. o Successfully delivered 6 events for NFL, NBA, NCAA, Olympics o Present project outcome and progress in weekly program review to Executive Management teams and stake holders.. Identify risks and create mitigation plans. o Drive event launches, engage content producers and marketing teams for dry runs leading to events. o • E2E Technical Program Manager: o Plan engineering sprints, drive E2E features across 4 different components. o Manage daily stand-ups, scrums, help prioritize, organize demos and drive retrospect’s o Driving release milestones for mobile applications and platform services in AWS Cloud. • QA lead, o Work with engineers on Unity and C# tools. Managed and developed automation plan for E2E system testing. Setup CI/CD using Jenkins tools and integrate test-tools for daily builds. o Create quality test-plan for all components and delivered multiple mobile streaming applications, using VR handset, iPhone and Android devices. o Created tests and measured performance of streams on multiple networks. o Developed tests and automated tools to validating Content Management Platform services. o Root-cause production issues and provide post-production support to Content Units o Publish release quality reports at various milestones, track critical features progress leading to general availability

Project Manager, working at Intel-Sports. Managed development and delivery of VR mobile applications for sporting events, PGA, NCAA (March Madness).

May’2005 – Till Date: VMware Software India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India Growth Path / Deputations: May’2005 – Oct’2005: Manager - Sustaining Oct’2005 – Jan’2008: Sr. Manager - CPD Jan’2008 – Jun’2014: Director - CPD Jul’2014 – Aug’2016: Sr. Director - CPD Aug’2016 – Till Date: Sr. Director - On-Prem Maintenance Delivery Key Achievements: • Built the Sustaining engineering and Quality organizations ground up with more than 200+ engineers. Analyze and trouble shoot customer issues. Provide relief via patches and updates. • Delivered more than 100 releases for flagship enterprise virtualization software. Address any critical security issues • Managed, co-managed India R&D initiatives for more than 10 years. Lead programs to drive innovation culture, college recruiting, and standardize global programs • Created program to extend general support for enterprise products, driving additional revenue to business in excess of $10 million

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