Earn a leadership role in IT with a passion to create world class products & services that connect people and make a difference. Information Technology specialist with 16 years of professional experience in complete life cycle of software application development(SDLC/Waterfall/Agile-Scrum) with proven abilities to lead, manage, & deploy software business solutions. Customer obsession, Ownership & bias for action to deliver customer value. Results based delivery & out of the box thinker. Problem solver, detail oriented with demonstrated skills and results to deliver business ideas into viable, effective and robust IT applications. Sensitive about customer/stakeholder relationships with effective and open communications.Trained by Juran Institute professionals in world class practices of continuos improvement and Total Quality Management methodologies. Specialties: Program Management, Product Development, IT Software development life cycle, Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Business Process re-design Specialist, Content Management Systems, New & Digital Media-Music, Digital Content Management, Identity Management, Licensing & Consumer Products Business, Continous Improvement & TQM, Marketing/Business/Web Analytics & Intelligence, Frontend software engineering.

Sr. Manager - Technical Program Management (Mobile & E2E Enterprise Solutions) @ Managing a team of highly skilled technical program managers across US, India and Malaysia to deliver a $14 million annual program that entails next generation customer focused mobile products and E2E enterprise configuration solutions. Also leading agile transformation for nearly ~400 employees and ~31 Feature Teams across the globe. From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Austin, Texas AreaSr. Technical Program Manager (E2E Enterprise Solutions) @ Leading a $14 million program comprised of 10 feature teams across US, India and Kuala Lumpur to deliver customer focused mobile and web products and services around holistic enterprise configuration solutions. Also leading agile transformation for nearly ~400 and ~31 Feature Teams across the globe. . From February 2014 to March 2015 (1 year 2 months) Austin, Texas AreaSr. Product Director @ Led the Mobile team to design, develop and launch iOS7 mobile shopping app called Havvit - rated 4+ stars on iTunes. The app was chosen as one of the finalist for Apply 2014 awards in Retail section. This app went up to be the top 50 free app within retail on the app store. Havvit was designed, developed, deployed and launched in less than 4 months. I was responsible for product specifications, strategy, industry and competitor analysis on the product side. I led the team of in house and external designers, developers and testers to build Havvit. I provided weekly updates to the C team and drove both the technical and business strategy. I helped senior most leadership of the company make a decision on finalizing a design and development partner by interviewing leading mobile design companies from Orange County and all of the USA. I also led customer feedback sessions to get early feedback prior to launch. Eventually I did product presentation to the company board, investors and other stakeholders. Per the feedback I received - This was the most impacting job of my career where I ended up influencing a change in mindset and culture which helped the team and the wider company to "believe" and deliver a mobile product with such high quality and speed which I was told had not happened before at Local Corporation. I also received a Super Player award for excellence from CEO & COO. From May 2013 to February 2014 (10 months) Orange County, California AreaSr. Technical Program Manager (Amazon Appstore) @ Launched Developer Services including Amazon Developer Portal Internationally in EU 5 countries (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain) giving developers the opportunity to sell their apps in multiple countries other than US. Launched Appstore's Multi Binary capability. This helps our developers target Amazon devices with the most effective apk and helps the customer download the most compatible one. All in all, win for both our customers and developers. From February 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 4 months) Sr. Product Manager @ Managing a cloud based product named UltraViolet™; a digital media locker system & more. It is being developed for Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) LLC, a consortium of leading movie studios, media retailers, media content & tech. companies etc. UltraViolet™ is a futuristic industry standard which will hopefully empower the consumer to experience movies/video content on a device, platform and convenience of their choosing. * Product and Program Managed a White Label product solution for a retail store front for UltraViolet, Non UltraViolet, Purchase, Streaming, Download, Rental & Subscription models. * Product Development & Roadmap Management on Web, iPad, Android tablets, Samsung TVs and more. Extensive use of Webkit technology. * Tech. Program managed the CES product on above platforms within 3 months. Rapid product development using AGILE. * HD and SD support. * Widevine packaged protected streaming and partial CFF(Common File Format) file downloads. * Product presentation at CES 2012. Presented product to leadership representation from approx. 30+ companies. * Biz Dev & Sales Support From September 2011 to February 2012 (6 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaManager, Product Development @ Managed iHeartRadio product for iPad, iPhone, Android. Yahoo Connected TV and web media player through the complete SDLC chain. iPad app. reached 3rd position overall and 1st in Music category with 4 stars. Approx. 300K downloads since March 2011. Managed the track to stream iHeartRadio concert LIVE event to all XBOX users in US. Worked directly with teams from Microsoft. Managed Lady Gaga album launch for "Born this Way" in collaboration with CCRD iHeartRadio team, Zynga's Farmville studio, Universal Music Group and Akamai. Approx. 12 million stream views over 7 day promotion with zero outage or issues. From November 2010 to September 2011 (11 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaProject Manager / Sr. Software Analyst @ * Solid understanding of licensing & consumer products business and deliver IT solutions to augment it. * Built e-business security & identity management capabilities using CA's Identity Management/Netegrity platforms, webservices(WSDL & SOAP), J2EE, Ajax providing security around approx. 20K licensee users and 13K Licensee organizations. * Architect, project management & planning, resource planning, risk mitigation & contingency planning, stakeholder reviews/presentations, led design & development (front & backend-databases) managed QA, UAT, Implementation, & hyper care phases. * Worked with SDLC, Waterfall and Agile-Scrum methodologies based on the business & project needs. * Developed long term vision, strategy and road map for the ebusines security, identity management & web analytics areas. * Delivered high quality projects: Least and even zero QA bugs after the 1st QA deploy. * Delivered projects on or before time, within budget and with high quality standards. * Translated complex business requirements into viable, effective and stable IT applications. * Made presentations to senior management & multiple stakeholders and influenced them to support smart IT solutions. * Managed expectations & relationships with multiple customers & stakeholders within Disney and Regional Partners (Japan, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America), IBM, Software Vendors; in order to successfully deliver projects & departmental objectives. * Proven track record with design & delivery of creative solutions within existing infrastructure capacities & internal resources. Such projects are yielding very high recurring dividends in process efficiency, reducing unproductive man-hours & increasing opportunity costs for the business. From May 2007 to November 2010 (3 years 7 months) Sr. Software Engineer @ * Complete life cycle IT development experience SDLC, waterfall and Agile using the best practices for IT projects. Delivered projects on time and with high quality. * Supported New Media and Digital Media strategies with creative IT solutions. * Developed and or worked on teams to develop and deliver: www.cordless.com, www.warnermusic.de, www.warnermusic.cz, www.wordrecords.com, www.warnermusiclatina.com, www.warnermusic.dk, www.warnermusic.fi, www.atlanticrecords.com * Worked with music labels in New York, London, Germany & WM Latin. * Executed the technical design, development and implementation of such tasks Using Java JSP, custom tag libraries, HTML, CSS, Ajax, Oracle, SQL & PL SQL. * Web analytics using Omniture tracking down traffic, usage and browsing behavior. * Designed, Developed and deployed Marketing/Business Intelligence Reporting tool for WMG using Brio/Hyperion Intelligence Suite 8.2 and SQR. * Provided solid ideas and strategy for smart data gathering through marketing surveys which provided smart user data and business intelligence From September 2003 to May 2007 (3 years 9 months) Sr. Consultant / Project Manager @ * Consulted with CGEY on the Warner Music Group projects. * Team Lead to design, develop, implement & maintain custom Content Management system using Vignette tools at WMG. * Lead a team of 4 developers. Led and facilitated client meetings, QA negotiations and UAT process. * Built wireless WAP sites for Warner Music Group for wireless carriers like Sprint PCS, ATT Wireless, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile. * Used Java, ASP, WAP 2.0, WML, XHTML, XML, XSL * Lead developer at Wayport Inc. Austin, TX to develop credit card based transaction system. * Contracted with Northrop Grumman to work on Texas state IT projects in Austin, TX. From March 1999 to August 2003 (4 years 6 months) Sr. Officer @ * Part of the technology team to implement state of the art Cold Rolling Mill. Collaborated and trained with technology providers like Nipon Steel-Japan, POSCO-South Korea and others from Europe and USA. * Shop floor electrical engineer at Tata Steel, West Bokaro. Responsible for maintenance and management of electrical & electroincs equipment like Motors, Variable Drives, PLC's etc. * Trained extensively in TQM, Total Productive Maintenance & Continous Improvement methodologies. * Maintained Quality audit processes and documentation. From July 1994 to February 1999 (4 years 8 months)

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communication, First Class with Distinction @ Mangalore University From 1990 to 1994 High School, Science @ Delhi Public School, Mathura Road From 1988 to 1990 Loyola School, Jamshedpur From 1977 to 1988 Anurag Sharma, CSM, CSPO is skilled in: Product Management, Product Development, Cloud Computing, Mobile Applications, Technical Project Leadership, Program Management, Scrum, Agile Project Management, Quality Management, Software Development, Integration, SDLC, Mobile Technology, Front-end Development, Mobile Advertising