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Work History
Education
Skills
Software
Certification
Timeline

Vaibhav Pitre

Sr Manager Software
Pune,MH

Summary

Accomplished Sr Manager with a proven track record at EXFO, specializing in strategic planning and talent development. Excelled in operations management, enhancing team productivity by over 30% through effective resource allocation and cross-functional collaboration. Demonstrated expertise in driving project success and fostering professional growth within teams. Forward-thinking Senior Manager adept at managing teams of 35+ employees with 20+ direct reports to accomplish challenging objectives. Imparts clear vision to guide cohesive, high-performing teams.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates

Work History

Sr Manager (Development Manager)

EXFO India Private Ltd.
Pune, Maharashtra
01.2024 - Current
  • Implemented and developed operational standards, policies and procedures.
  • Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
  • Led cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliver high-quality results.
  • Collaborated closely with peers from other departments to drive organizational success jointly as one cohesive unit.
  • Reduced costs, optimized resource allocation, and improved efficiency in managing projects.
  • Mentored junior staff members for skill development and career progression within organization.
  • Boosted team member productivity by enhancing performance monitoring and instituting motivational approaches.
  • Achieved operational excellence by streamlining processes and implementing best practices.
  • Evaluated employee performance and conveyed constructive feedback to improve skills.
  • Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
  • Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated to other team members.
  • Recruited, interviewed and hired employees and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement.
  • Launched quality assurance practices for each phase of development
  • Improved overall project efficiency by setting clear goals, milestones, and expectations for development team.
  • Managed 4 individual feature teams simultaneously for product lifecycle development.

Technical Manager (Software Development)

EXFO India Private Ltd.
01.2016 - 01.2024
  • Mentored junior staff members, fostering supportive environment and promoting professional development.
  • Communicated project status, delivering audience messages, and change management with clients.
  • Managed deliverable estimates, negotiated resource conflicts and allocated resources.
  • Optimized team performance by establishing clear roles, responsibilities, expectations in accordance with best practices.
  • Spearheaded process improvement initiatives, identifying inefficiencies and implementing solutions to optimize operations.
  • Managed budgets and resources effectively, optimizing resource allocation to maximize project outcomes.
  • Conducted thorough risk assessments for each project phase, proactively addressing potential issues before they escalated into costly problems.
  • Enhanced team productivity by implementing agile project management methodologies and streamlining workflows.
  • Communicated cross-functionally with technology leaders across analysis, architecture, build, quality assurance, deployment and support teams on project execution.
  • Recruited and trained IT team members.
  • Completed more than 80% of features in time, and highlighted and mitigated risk of incompletion by negotiation of contends with Business thus still having product in hand to sale and start taking orders
  • Increased efficiency by 25% in manual regression by building strong validation through automation

Technical Leader (Individual Contributor)

EXFO India Private Ltd.
08.2007 - 01.2016
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop high-quality software products within tight deadlines.
  • Streamlined development processes by introducing agile methodologies, resulting in faster project completion times.
  • Assisted in the design and implementation of scalable software architectures, facilitating future expansion and adaptability.
  • Optimized code quality by performing thorough reviews and implementing best practices in coding standards.
  • Contributed to the successful completion of multiple projects by providing strong leadership and expert technical guidance.
  • Enhanced software performance by identifying and resolving technical issues through rigorous debugging processes.
  • Mentored junior developers, improving their coding skills and fostering a positive team environment.
  • Improved systems with addition of new features and infrastructure.
  • Conducted data modeling, performance and integration testing.
  • Designed and developed forward-thinking systems that meet user needs and improve productivity.
  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
  • Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.
  • Managed cross-functional teams for optimal collaboration and results-driven performance.

Software Developer

Spectrum Business Support Ltd
03.2006 - 07.2007
  • Developed software for desktop, integration, enhancements and improvement in application. Release if GrandJURIX product every 3 months.
  • Development of WEB application e-JURIX, end to end development C++ Back end, Database (WordMINER) , SQL, Front End ASP.net, web technologies HTML, JS, AJAX etc.. C# as middle layer, completed the development of product in 6months along with the team of 6 tp 8 Developers
  • Performance improvement on the proprietary Database WordMINER, helping the search performance improvement
  • Streamlined workflows by creating reusable code libraries for common functions and features across multiple projects.
  • Boosted customer satisfaction rates through timely resolution of reported technical issues during the support phase of projects.
  • Enhanced user experience through designing and implementing user-friendly interfaces.

Sales and support engineer

Spectrum Bussiness Support Ltd.
Mumbai, Pune, Maharashtra
11.2004 - 06.2006
  • Improved customer satisfaction by training customers for product (GrandJURIX).
  • Improved customer satisfaction by promptly addressing support tickets and providing accurate solutions.
  • Increased client retention by building trust through excellent communication skills and timely issue resolution.
  • Reporting customer cases to technical teams for quality resolutions
  • Investigation and planning visits with prospective cusotmers.
  • Lead the team of data entry operators for SBSL's product DataMiner
  • Helped the team to correct the data entry using MS-Access and MS-Excel micros

Education

Bachelor of Electronics Engineering - Electronics Engineering

Finolex Academy of Mgmt. & Technology, Ratnagiri, India
08.1997 - 06.2002

Skills

Strategic Planning

Software

C (Current)

C# (Last used 2007)

HTML (Last used 2007)

JavaScript (Last used 2007)

Python (Current Beginer)

Certification

PG DAC - CDAC Acts Pune

Timeline

Certified SAFe® 6 Agilist

05-2025
Sr Manager (Development Manager) - EXFO India Private Ltd.
01.2024 - Current
Technical Manager (Software Development) - EXFO India Private Ltd.
01.2016 - 01.2024

Professional Scrum Master 1 (Scrum.org)

07-2015
Technical Leader (Individual Contributor) - EXFO India Private Ltd.
08.2007 - 01.2016
Software Developer - Spectrum Business Support Ltd
03.2006 - 07.2007

PG DAC - CDAC Acts Pune

03-2005
Sales and support engineer - Spectrum Bussiness Support Ltd.
11.2004 - 06.2006
Finolex Academy of Mgmt. & Technology - Bachelor of Electronics Engineering, Electronics Engineering
08.1997 - 06.2002
Vaibhav PitreSr Manager Software