Narender Negi
Summary
Versatile Software Development Manager versed in assessing challenges, modernizing, resolving problems and implementing plans to mitigate risk and technical obstacles. Bringing 17 years of experience and expertise in software development and management.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Development Manager
CSG
BANGALORE
04.2020 - Current
- Hired, built and led cross-functional teams of developers, quality assurance engineers and DevOps engineers in development of products(FSM & SCM), tech migrations(DB & AWS) and production support(12X7).
- Collaborated with senior leadership to define requirements and build projects that achieved or exceeded corporate plans.
- Led team of 24 engineers in analysis and rebuild of software from beginning design through completion.
- Built inter-team collaboration guidelines to reduce dependence and redundancy and accelerate development efforts by integrating diverse developer voices.
- Led organization-wide technology strategy development.
- Oversaw multiple projects, monitoring each for development milestone and quality control compliance.
- Offered technical guidance for SCM projects during development meetings.
- Reviewed and revised technical design direction for FSM modernization projects, prioritizing senior leadership's business goals.
- Discussed issues with team members to provide resolution and apply best practices.
- Stayed up to date on modern practice advances while applying best-in-class software development with existing technology.
- Trained engineers in standards and strategies for optimal product development.
- Researched and implemented new technological tools to optimize business process workflows.
- Mentored junior developers and engineers through onboarding process and long-term team contributions.
Software Development Manager
CSG
BANGALORE
04.2019 - 03.2020
- Built and led cross-functional teams of engineers, quality assurance engineers and operational engineers in development of products(FSM & SCM), migration(DB & Cloud) and resolution of product defects.
- Collaborated with senior leadership to define requirements and build projects that achieved or exceeded corporate plans.
- Built inter-team collaboration guidelines to reduce dependence and redundancy and accelerate development efforts by integrating diverse developer voices.
- Led and support the organization-wide technology strategy development.
- Researched and implemented new technological tools to optimize business process workflows.
- Offered technical guidance for FSM project during development meetings.
- Led sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.
- Mentored junior developers and engineers through onboarding process and long-term team contributions.
- Led team in analysis and rebuild of software from beginning design through completion.
Technical Manager - DevOps
Ford Motor Company
Gurgaon
04.2014 - 03.2019
- Lead the global team to build and refine estimates for proposed or assigned work and capabilities to be delivered
- Define, track, and report delivery commitments, including description, date, and dependencies, to the project managers and other stakeholders
- Plan and research tools/applications based on company's requirement/need
- Manage the life cycle for each technology or application owned by the team, and factor this information into estimates, commitments, and roadmaps
- Manage the architectural and related documentation for each technology or application owned by the team, ensuring that the documentation is current and adequate
- Conduct brainstorming session with business and technical architects to ensure functional and technical completeness of the DevOps implementation and integrations
- Implement IT strategies as applicable, such as DevOps or Operational Readiness
- Using Scrum and Kanban methodologies for project deliveries.
- Know and manage the Total Cost of Ownership for any technology or application owned by their team
- Manage the budgets for team (operating and subarea)
- Manage and develop the talent on their team, including engagement, well-being, and IDP creation, refining, and execution, with the goal of building and maintaining a high-performing team
- Serve as the point of contact for project managers (PMs), and business technology leaders (BTLs) that interact with their team
- Experience with resource management and managing direct reports (matrixed or direct reports)
- Understanding and documenting business requirements by attending workshops at onshore location – Detroit, US.
Project Lead
Ford Motor Company
Gurgaon
11.2011 - 03.2014
- Analyzed the business and functional requirements with regular customer interaction
- Managing the team of 4 members based out in Chennai.
- Consolidating & tracking the Project Status reports and share with higher management
- Attending weekly status call with the internal team & customer.
- Requirement gathering from client for new enhancements and
- maintenance.
- Resolving tickets and incidents for supporting the data related issues within SLA.
- Tasks distribution in between the team members based on team bandwidth.
- Code review for enhancements/maintenance done by team members.
- Share availability and event management reports with customer and higher management.
- Using ITSM ways for supporting applications.
- Completed six sigma Green belt project and saved around 7 million dollars annually.
- Received Top achiever rating in 2012.
Senior Consultant
Fujitsu Consulting
Gurgaon
05.2010 - 11.2011
- Experience of working with customer(LexisNexis) in an onsite/offshore model on large scale multi-million dollar projects as part of business process integration
- Global exposure through interaction with customer onsite counterparts on various projects
- Identified key areas in need of improvement and implemented plans to rectify issues.
- System software migration from Solaris environment to windows server and customize scripts compatible with windows environment.
- Identified business issues through careful collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Requirement gathering from client for enhancement and maintenance.
- Project enhancements done in windows environment by creation of new modules, jobs and scripts
- Tasks distribution in between the team members based on bandwidth.
- Resolve Editors issue and bugs related to data and system usage.
- Code review for team members.
Senior Software Engineer
SDG Software
Noida
11.2007 - 05.2010
- Experience of working with customers in an onsite/offshore model on large scale multi-million dollar projects as part of business process integration
- Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
- Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects.
- Worked as part of advanced solutions practice group providing support, solution and 24/7 application maintenance for customers.
- Responsible for reviewing changes to the existing business process as part of the development effort for various client projects.
- Involved in business process, re-engineering, requirement and impact analysis for various projects for the client.
- Coordination with the Business Users and the Enterprise Architect team as part of Requirements gathering and analysis.
- Delivering High level and Low Level Design Specifications for the various streams of the project.
- Assists in the monitoring, managing and coordinating of the Development, Test, QA and Production environments.
- Creation of data connectors in JoinEngine tool to flow the data across the servers and server level modification of connectors to synchronize the data across servers.
- Provide Level 3 support to customers and resolve tickets within SLA.
- Received recognition for star performer award in 2009.
Software Engineer
Dimension E Services
Gurgaon
03.2007 - 11.2007
- Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
- Responsible for reviewing changes to the existing business process as part of the development effort for various client projects.
- Worked as part of advanced solutions practice group providing support and solution for customers.
- Involved in business process, re-engineering, requirement and impact analysis for various projects for the client.
- Single point of contact for driving daily deliverables, updates, reporting and delegation of tasks from offshore for multiple projects.
- Coordination with the Business Users and the Enterprise Architect team as part of Requirements gathering and analysis.
- Delivering High level and Low Level Design Specifications for the various streams of the project.
- Assists in the monitoring, managing and coordinating of the Development, Test, QA and Production environments.
Software Developer
Thomson Digital
Noida
10.2005 - 03.2007
- Responsible for reviewing changes to the existing business process as part of the development effort for various client projects.
- Worked as part of advanced solutions practice group providing support and solution for customers.
- Involved in business process, re-engineering, requirement and impact analysis for various projects for the client.
- Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.
- Discussed issues with team members to provide resolution and apply best practices.
- Single point of contact for driving daily deliverables, updates, reporting and delegation of tasks from offshore for multiple projects.
- Coordination with the Business Users and the Enterprise Architect team as part of Requirements gathering and analysis.
- Preparing high level and technical design documents and working towards their baseline by following process laid for client review.
Education
MBA - Information System
Sikkim Manipal University
Delhi07.2009
Bachelor of Arts - General Studies
Delhi University
Delhi06.2007
Three Year Diploma - Computer Engineering
Ambedkar Polytechnic
Delhi06.2005
Intermediate - Science Stream
Kendriya Vidyalaya
Delhi05.2002
Skills
- IT Staff Leadership - Hiring / Build Teams
- Technical Innovation / modernization Expertise
- Technical/Business Process Improvement
- Software Development
- Project lifecycle management
- Agile framework / Sprint Tracking
- Performance Review / Appraisals
- Budget administration
- Requirements analysis
- Technical Design Review
Certification
- AWS Certified Solution Architect (Associate) - 2019
- Professional Scrum Master(PSM) - 2018
Timeline
Senior Software Development Manager
CSG
04.2020 - Current
Software Development Manager
CSG
04.2019 - 03.2020
Technical Manager - DevOps
Ford Motor Company
04.2014 - 03.2019
Project Lead
Ford Motor Company
11.2011 - 03.2014
Senior Consultant
Fujitsu Consulting
05.2010 - 11.2011
Senior Software Engineer
SDG Software
11.2007 - 05.2010
Software Engineer
Dimension E Services
03.2007 - 11.2007
Software Developer
Thomson Digital
10.2005 - 03.2007
MBA - Information System
Sikkim Manipal University
Bachelor of Arts - General Studies
Delhi University
Three Year Diploma - Computer Engineering
Ambedkar Polytechnic
Intermediate - Science Stream
Kendriya Vidyalaya
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