Walchand College of Engineering

Sr. Director, Product Engineering

Korn Ferry

Responsible for the software architecture, development, delivery and continual evolution of the software development approach utilizing Lean and Agile methods and practices to ensure continuous delivery of features in a synergistic manner.
Worked on solution design to ensure efficient and effective solution to the business problems.
Involved in Hands on coding for critical system components or urgent support issues.
From different applications being used by different user groups, created one common enterprise application suite. Designed common framework that could be used by different application modules. 
Redesigned poorly performing modules to increase performance and scalability.
Managed on-site and off-shore software engineering teams for multiple projects in Retail, Commercial and Healthcare space.
Set the guidelines for engineering teams for design, development, testing and troubleshooting to ensure design consistency leading to application quality and scalability.
Oversee the design and architecture on ongoing basis to make sure changes comply with the set standards.  
Set and documented the SDLC process including requirement management, estimation, development, Quality assurance, configuration and release management. Mentored the team to institutionalize these processes.
Changed the existing waterfall development approach to adopt agile methodology and guided the team to mature in it. 
Defined the metrics for productivity measure and implemented them with TFS.

PRGX Global Inc.

Solutions Architect at PRGX Global Inc.

Built, developed and managed performing team of 8 developers to deliver Quality Management Applications in Life Science and Automotive industries.
Defined goals and milestones for Application Development department and managed them.
Set new processes for enhancement, integration and migration to make process lean, efficient and repeatable under CMMI guidelines. 
Collaborated in setting policies and procedures for Software Development including Code Review Process, Unit Test Process, Configuration Management Process, Risk Management, Change Management and Requirement Management.
Taken the role of Scrum Master and Technical Lead when needed. 
Worked with cross functional teams to ensure quality delivery of the project deliverables like technical documentation, validation, test scripts.
Designed the business layer and framework for web based applications in VB.NET and C#.
Developed 3-tier architecture for proprietary framework using VB.NET and ASP.NET to be used for building scalable and reusable application modules for “SmartSolve”; quality management software. 
Architected four modules in the quality management suite to bring over client/server application to web based application. 
In addition to Engineering, managed Technical Services division for around 6 months based on organizational needs. 
Designed and developed Custom Enhancements on SmartSolve Out-of-Box application as per customer requirements.
Designed and developed Integration projects to third party systems with SmartSolve as per customer requirements.

Pilgrim software Inc.

Application Development Manager

Based on the concept of EAI, designed and developed different adapters using actional SDK to connect with various systems including NEON, COM, CORBA, SOAP switch and EJB systems.
Lead the team of 5 developers for successful completion of Actional adapter starting from analysis design until customer acceptance. 
Architected new adapter for New-Era-Of-Networks including messaging through IBM MQSeries.
Developed the adapter in C++ for different applications.
Integrated the automated test routines for the new adapters calling New-Era-Of-Networks APIs.
Developed Web Interface using ASP and VBScript and COM components.
Developed Free Threaded Clients in C# .NET VB .NET using SOAP Web Services.
Developed Profile Editor using VC++ and MFC.

Kishor Nadgauda