Mickey Arora – Software Development Manager

6960 Sunflower Circle S · Cottage Grove, MN, 55016 · (612) 203-7963 · mick007@khalsa.com

 

SUMMARY

              High energy and motivated technology leader with a passion and proven track record for managing development teams delivering sophisticated Web Applications and Desktop software in an Agile environment. With 10+ years of experience, I have held several different software engineering supervisory and development positions across industries ranging from defense to the private sector.  Having extensive experience in development, testing and automation has provided me opportunities for leading and managing all phases of software development life cycle. I take pride in mentoring and developing software professionals to reach their full potential and become an asset for accomplishing organizational goals. Strong communicator for effective message deliverance to executives, management and direct reports.

                                                                           

EXPERIENCE

04/12 – Present              Thomson Reuters, Eagan, MN

                                       Development Supervisor/Agile Team Coach – Web Form Builder Web app and Deal Proof desktop app

▪           Manage a team of twelve Software Engineers by providing leadership and direction for on-time product delivery

▪           Set annual performance goals and conduct semi-annual and annual performance reviews for direct reports

▪           Mentor and inspire direct reports with focus on career and personal development

▪           Hold weekly one on one discussions with direct reports for employee growth

▪           Approve time sheets for direct reports

▪           Resource planning/Capacity forecasting

▪           Recruit and interview Software Engineers for my teams and for the bigger organization

▪           Provide transparency to various levels of management and executives for project status, accomplishments, etc.

▪           First point of contact for business to reach out for assigning personnel to investigate customer issues

▪           Partner with Business, Quality and Project Management for deliverance of high quality products

▪           Conduct daily Standups, Pre-Plannings and Plannings to plan out bi-weekly assignments for the teams to accomplish on multiple projects

▪           Lead funding estimation discussions for future projects

▪           Lead design discussions

▪           Breakdown business project requirements into assignments which developers can then accomplish

 

09/11 – 04/12                            Thomson Reuters, Eagan, MN

                                          AWARDED: AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

                                          Quality Supervisor/Acting Team Coach– Westlaw Next (Website/Document/Shared Annotation)

▪           Held daily Standup, Pre-Plannings and Plannings to plan out bi-weekly test assignments for the testing teams to accomplish on multiple projects

▪           Lead St. Thomas college recruiting effort and a task force for enhancing Thomson Reuters brand recognition

▪           Conducted weekly/bi-weekly one of one discussions with direct reports for employee growth

▪           Assigned and load balanced bugs between team members

▪           Supervised testing amongst different testing teams for Feature Level testing

▪           Point of contact for development supervisors and manager

▪           Ensured testing processes were followed and created new efficient processes

▪           Ensured stories were closed or sent to business for closure at the end of the iteration

▪           Monitored TFS time entry for team members

▪           Created User Scenario testing documents for Feature level testing

▪           Participated in backlog grooming meetings

 

07/06 – Present                            Arora Enterprises, Mahtomedi, MN

                                          Store Manager/Event Organizer/Controller

▪           Manages a team of seven direct reports

▪           Responsible for hiring, training and disciplining sales associates

▪           Responsible for strategizing/organizing different marketing events

▪           Manages company finances

 

05/09 – 09/11                            Thomson Reuters, Eagan, MN

                                          AWARDED: AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

                                          Senior Software Test Engineer in Westlaw Next Product Development

▪           Mentored and coached six test engineers within a year to become productive members of Westlaw Next Website and Mobile testing teams (helped build up the team from myself to 5 team members)

▪           Worked in Westlaw Next Website, Mobile, IPAD Agile Development teams to Architect different automated testing suites and strategies using Selenium, C#, Java, Visual Studio and Eclipse

▪           Participated and lead several cross module teams to plan and execute testing across different modules

▪           Manually tested and automated newly developed functionality in same iteration as development to reduce the amount of bugs created

▪           Defined the testing framework for the Website and Mobile testing team

▪           Lead test planning meetings along with task assignments

▪           Standardized different test processes to work in unison with development

▪           Collaborated with different stakeholders in pre-planning and planning meetings, design meetings to provide testing insights and ensure testing was integral part of the development process

▪           Communicated upcoming development features learned about in different development meetings to the testing team

▪           Ensured all testing stories were completed on time by the team before the end of iteration.  Load balanced defects using TFS

 

12/05 – 03/09                            PTC, Arden Hill, MN

                                          Software Engineer in Windchill Product Development (PLM Application)

▪           Worked in SCRUM teams to develop Windchill 10.0 following AGILE methodology

▪           Contributed towards development of Part, Part Instances and Part Configuration for Windchill 9.0 and 9.1 using Java, XML, JSP, HTML SQL, JavaScript, Rational Rose, Ant, Eclipse, Apache, Tomcat, Method Server and JCA framework

▪           Played a critical role on WA&D development team for upgrading Windchill 8.0 to Windchill 9.1

▪           Worked closely with tech support and development teams to resolve Critical Software Problem Reports

▪           Created Customer Patches for Windchill 8.0, Windchill 9.0 and Windchill 9.1 to resolve customer issues

▪           Conducted project managements tasks for WA&D CFTs and Configuration Management

▪           Implemented developer tests in JUnit to ensure high quality of code produced

▪           Helped Quality Assurance group with Build Check Out

                                         

03/03 – 12/05                            Lockheed Martin, Eagan, MN

                                          MEMBER OF Engineering Leadership Development Program

Software Engineer in the OHIO class Submarine program

▪           Created online help design for Submarine Systems in Java, HTML and TOGETHER

▪           Assisted in producing detail design for restarting different non-functioning active devices in a circuit

▪           Worked on fixing problem reports

▪           Used Earned Value Management System to keep track of schedule and budget

 

Software Engineer in IRAD

▪           Researched different Regions of Interest (ROI) algorithms for Automatic Target Recognition (ATR)

▪           Presented findings of the research to the ROI group

▪           Implemented ATR algorithms for human detection and tracking in Matlab

▪           Wrote a white paper describing the implementation and test results of the ATR algorithms

                                         

Mechanical Engineer in the JSF (Joint Strike Fighter) program

▪           Worked in Pro Engineer to create and update several models and drawings

▪           Conducted and moderated periodic peer reviews for provided Harris documentation

▪           Worked on simple thermal and pin location analysis

▪           Tracked actual cost spent on purchasing several items

 

Software Engineer in the F 35 (Joint Strike Fighter) program

▪           Worked in Factory Acceptance Test developing the MIL-1553 System Integration Test (SIT) and Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) for the ICP in C

▪           Worked in Functional Checkout Unit (test unit) developing graphical user interfaces for the ICP in Java

▪           Worked towards developing different Software Requirements Specification (SRS) documents and Software Design Documents (SDD)

▪           Wrote several test plans and test cases for testing the code

▪           Conducted and moderated peer reviews

 

CLEARANCE              Secret

 

CERTIFICATIONS              Graduate certificate in Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology

              Certified in Configuration and Data Management from NDIA

 

EDUCATION               University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, MN

              Master of Science in Technology Management, Spring 2007.  GPA: 3.7

 

              University of Minnesota (Institute of Technology), Minneapolis, MN                                         

              Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Spring 2003. Major (emphasis) GPA: 3.64

 

Languages Used:              C#, Java, C/C++, JSP, JavaScript, Perl, CGI Programming, Visual Basic, ASP.NET using VB.NET, SQL, XML, UML, HTML, Scheme, Matlab, MIPS Assembly and BASIC

 

Frameworks/              MVC, REST, Angular, Selenium

Architecture:

 

Tools:                                          TFS, Visual Studio, Eclipse and Rational Rose

 

Servers Used:                            Apache, Tomcat and Method Server

 

Other:                                          Oracle, SQL Plus and Microsoft Office

 

ACHIEVEMENTS              Thomson Awards of Excellence – Gold, Bronze, PTC Acers tennis team Captain and lead them to WTT National Championships, Engineering Leadership Development Program, Started Network of Minority Culture Affinity Group at Lockheed Martin-Eagan, Dean’s List, Martin Luther King Honor’s List, VP, Nachda Punjab (dance group), U of MN Certification of Excellent Achievements in the field of Math and Science, and outstanding contribution to the Youth Advisory Committee and Youth Care