Mangala Shivakumar

About Mangala Shivakumar

An experienced leader, Technical Program Manager / Agile Certified Product Owner with a proven engineering and product development history, people person with team-leading expertise. Proficiency in embedded software/firmware development with an emphasis on enterprise SSD (NVMe/ PCIe), security (IAM, TCG, Cryptography, key management, FIPS, SED), debug infrastructure, hardware abstraction layer for enterprise customers. Expertise in SDLC using Agile as well as the traditional Waterfall methodology • Management and leading embedded systems firmware development involving security, debug capability features and pre-silicon bring up with multiple products simultaneously• Requirement analysis, translation of requirements into work breakdowns, feature development planning (scope & effort), validation planning, prioritization of work, negotiating, and agreeing to feature development within the budgets and timeline and overseeing the changes needed of systems, processes • Leading and coordinating with cross-functional teams across the globe including product management, engineering development, validation, manufacturing, HW, ASIC, and customer qualification • Conducted risk analysis, capacity management, features vs capacity, schedule tradeoffs analysis, scope creep, and mitigation plans• Successfully lead the team for pre and post-silicon bring-up• Security features roll out from inception to product manufacturing• Leading ASIC/ FPGA / PCB validation • Failure analysis, DFMEA, development of diagnostic tools with FW / HW features• Effectively lead the team in resolving issues for multiple products and transitioned to sustaining• Handling dependencies, change requests and tradeoffs, escalations on the technical constraint’s vs customer requirement, customer escalations• JIRA management• Efficaciously made changes to the process for improvement by working with the process team• Influencing Customer advocacy with the team for enhancing product quality• Strategic planning and development of tools/accessories for validation teams• Agile certified Product Owner and Trained Scrum Master• Execution of daily Scrums, Retro, and other Agile ceremonies Specialties: Agile methodology Waterfall methodology Project / Program Management Team Leadership Process Improvement Disaster Recovery Strategic Planning FIPS Compliance Security Quality Assurance Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Risk Management Incident Management Service Delivery Team Building JIRA management

Experience

1. Engineering Manager Sr Scrum Master

   Hewlett Packard Enterprise

   Sep 2021 — Present · US

Education

• MS Ramaiah

  BS

Skills

• Storage
• Tcp/Ip
• Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Clearcase
• Iscsi
• Software Quality Assurance
• Software Development
• Software Engineering
• Snmp
• Shell Scripting
• Solaris
• Linux
• Fibre Channel
• Operating Systems
• C
• Virtualization
• Test Automation
• Agile Methodologies
• Java
• Cloud Computing
• Saas
• Interop
• Xml
• Unix
• Perl
• Storage Area Networks
• Integration