1. Prakash Kumar
Address : 252/4,Venkatapura 4th Cross, Koramangala 1st block, Bangalore 560 034
Telephone: +91 99805 71299 | Email:prakashk.sara@gmail.com |https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakashk.sara
COMPETENCIES
Entrepreneurship skill ■ Recruitment involving ■ Good Customer & Team Management ■ Good Project/Delivery
Management ■ Good analytical & problem solving ■ Involved in Training, Design, Development & System Integration
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
 A dedicated professional with Master of Science in Computer; possessing over 15 years of experience
including 5 years of experience in project, delivery, team & customer management and 10 years of
experience in development in gaming, interactive application development and EPG development on
OpenTV middleware and being as an entrepreneur also.
 Rich exposure in planning and developing procedures and service standards for business excellence.
 An attitude of excellence & diligence backed with practical experience and strong organisational abilities.
 Possess international experience and the ability to work with multi-cultural team members.
 Expertise in enhancing process operations for optimising resources & capacity utilisation thus escalating
productivity & operational efficiencies.
 Target & achievement oriented with ability to take up challenges & perform in changing work environments.
 Attributes: Comprehensive problem solving abilities, ability to deal with people diplomatically, willingness to
learn & apply practical means and team facilitator.
SYSTEM SKILLS
 DVB, MPEG, Set Top Box
 Requirements Gathering
 Estimations for new features &
change request (Effort/Cost)
 Risk Assessment
 Defects Tracking
 Process Waterfall / Scrum /
Agile
 Clear Quest / Bugzilla / Spira &
Jira
 Java EPG/C EPG application
 Open source & 3rd party
code integration
 ClearCase / Git & PVCS
 Middleware IdWay,
MHCore, OpenTV
 ARM RISC & MIPS
 SGS-Thomson, BroadCom
& Conexant
 RTOS (Linux Ubuntu &ST
OS 20)
 OpenTV application
 VideoGuard-NDS, IdWay-Irdeto & BISS
 C, Core Java, Android
 Network tools WireShark, Packet tracer
 Device driver & kernel programming
 Java Virtual Machine (JVM) HP & Skelmir
 Build tool makefile, maven & Jenkins
 Knowledge of C++, C#, .NET,
ASP.NET, python,Ruby & Perl, OOPS,
OOAD.
Web services XML, SOAP, REST
 Quality Management
CAREER PATH
Twinvaves technologies PVT Ltd, Bangalore May 2015 – Apr 2016
Technical Director & co-founder
Multichoice Africa Pvt Ltd, JHB through Corpus Media Labs, Bangalore Dec 2013 - Mar 2015
Senior System Integration specialist
Cisco Video Technologies Pvt Ltd (NDS PayTV), Bangalore Dec 2005 – Nov 2013
Software Engineer Grade 10, Senior Technical leader, Technical Leader
Digital Multimedia Technology, South Korea Apr 2003 - Nov 2005
IT Expert
Sure Soft Systems(Highgate Worldwide), Pondicherry Aug 2000 - Mar 2003
Software Engineer
KEY ACHIEVEMENT, RECOGNITION & PERFORMANCE AREAS
 Recognized by Senior Management and was promoted in a short period of time for exceptional organisational
ability and increasing & maintaining customer satisfaction levels.
 Best Employee for the team motivation and critical problem solving from Cisco
Customer Relationship and Team Management (2012 – 2016)
 Deal with customers to determine requirements and resolve incidents.
 Ensure customer satisfaction by interacting with clients and handling customer quality calls.
 Fulfil the customer requirements on their work site.
 Manage a team size of 10 and work towards the performance enhancement.
 Involve in monitoring performance of team members to ensure efficiency in day to day operations.
 Facilitate in hiring and recruitment process.
 Identify training needs and arranged for the floor and off- floor team training as per the requirement.
Project delivery and deployment (2010 – 2012)

2.  Monitor service delivery by coordinating with the team.
 Process Improvement Initiative of Inclusive Management; enhanced cross functional collaboration and
more effective solutions 2011 onwards
 Manage multi-functional teams while installing, upgrading and integrating products various individual customers.
 Conduct briefings and de-briefings for setting up daily target.
 Streamline processes to ensure smooth functioning of daily operations.
 Ensure implementation of well documented processes.
 Prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly report, periodic review for all open issues and follow up case.
 Pro-actively led and successfully achieved project, motivating team in spite of having no dedicated
resources.
 Led Automation Team; achieved 45% automation resulting in 45% of time reduction.
System Integration (2008 – 2010)
 Provide QA support for New and Existing services to fulfil the customer requirements.
 Identify and suggest areas of improvement on the process to higher team for review.
 Find out the Root Cause through Analysis of the production failures and Quality issues.
 Take up the Issues to respective Suppliers and drive the action plan and follow up with respective supplier and
customer requirements.
Software development and deployment (2000 – 2008)
 Identify and suggest areas of improvement on the process to higher team for review.
 Started as developer and grew to system integration specialist handling multiple projects for a tier 1 global
customer like KBW and Dogan.
 Successfully migrated from Core 3.1 to Core 4.0 after better understandings and fixed all the issues for
Turkey customers
 International Deputation: Took Ownership, pro-actively resolved technical issues at client site (Turkey,
Germany) to ensure efficient product launch
 Product Development and Deployment (New Arabic font integration, Audience Measurement System) for
the first time in Cisco; product was later deployed for 3 other global customers; received multiple awards.
 Having good knowledge OnScreen Display design, Timer concepts and debugging in OpenTV middleware.
TECHNICAL & MANAGERIAL EXPERTISE
 Worked closely with cross functional teams/vendors across the globe (India / Germany / China / Korea / Turkey)
 People Development: Recruitment, Mentoring, Training, Coaching, Monitoring, Reviewing and providing
feedback
 Hands on experience in Project Execution, Workforce Management, Quality Assurance, Scrum Management,
Risks Management and Delivery along with release planning for field issues and change requests
 Experienced in entire project life cycle management; feature conceptualization, proposals, scoping, estimation,
integration of plans, scheduling, development, testing, defect tracking & management, till delivery /
deployment
 Recognized for excellent customer relationships and prompt decision making abilities
 Actively involved in design and proposes the features like OTT pull VOD / push VOD to the client.
 Good knowledge in software testing (white box & black box) and software test life cycle
 Operated as single-point-of-contact for both global customers and internal stakeholders
 Done integrator role for Integrating the 3rd party components and open source environment in client site and
dealt with all the customers in South Africa
 3 years of experience worked with Korea based company – dealt with driver development and been onsite to
Germany: tested and got the product compliance from Premier Gmbh from Korea based company for PVR
product
 Expertise in development - involved from application to driver from 2001-2010. 10 years of rich experience in UI
Development/Middleware development on STB particularly on OpenTV application on OpenTV middleware
 Adept in Programme Management in areas of software development in JAVA & C in Linux and also in product
development
 Keen on updating the latest technology and finding the possibilities to apply those new technologies into current
domain.
 Adopted very much to the new environment and learnt the company processes very quickly.
EDUCATION
Qualification Institute/Board Year
MSc Computer Science Madurai Kamaraj University 2000
KEY PROJECTS - CONTRIBUTIONS
Twinvaves Technologies PVT Ltd, Bangalore
Project : Revenue Enhancement plug-in thru Ads for content publisher like “AdMobb”
Duration : May 2015 - Apr 2016
Role : Technical Director & co-founder
Responsibilities :  Being as a technical director, involving from recruitment, training, design and developed in
both client (mobile application, DVB T2 dongle based application) and server.

3.  Mentoring and Managing team members size of 5
 Successfully developed mobile application using Android and integrated our plug-in to get
the Ads in that application and its available in google play store.
 Server side, scheduling for bouquet asset sequence creation based on the user profile and
location.
 Designed for android based STBs/TV also.
Multichoice Africa Pvt Ltd, South Africa (through Corpus Media Labs, Bangalore)
Project : Explora - PVR & Zappa – zapper – BroadCom and ST chipsets
Duration : Dec 2013 - Mar 2015
Client : In-House Project – Content provider and OEM for STB business
Role : Senior System Integration Specialist – Integrator
Responsibilities :  Dealt with integration the 3rd party components (Irdeto Middleware IdWay, MCA UI & Driver)
and recommending for the release to the field trialist after validated thoroughly.
 Automation the SI sanity test cases
 Proposed head end solution for critical problems and make sure, it won’t affect the existing
deployed open TV boxes
 Proposed an Idea to develop the MVC design pattern for UI development
 Involved in design and implementation of below features:
 XtraView 3 feature
 Usage Monitoring (Audience Measurement System)
 Over The Top Pull/Push Video-On-Demand
Cisco Video Technologies Pvt Ltd (NDS PayTV)
Projects : Generic like ST, BCM and Conexant chipsets
Duration : Dec 2005 - Dec 2013
Client : Dogan – Turkey, KBW – Germany, MediaScape – Philippines
Role : Engineering Manager, Software Engineer Grade 10, Senior Technical Leader in Middleware
Responsibilities :  Interact with Customers and Requirements gathering.
 Prepare Use cases & sign-off from customer.
 Plan & estimate the work involved for whole client software BU.
 Collaborate with different BU’s to come up with single integration plan for the whole
product/project end to end solution.
 Execute Project: Work breakdown and Resource Management, Monitoring/Mentoring
technical tasks.
 Track/monitor work and guiding technically for team size of 5.
 Identify/Mitigate risks associated.
 Test Planning, Test Estimation, Test Spec Identification, and Bug tracking.
 Assign/Track CQs & Maintaining Top 10 CQ's for project.
 Conduct Engineering release meetings & provide contents for release notes with known
issues/fixed issues.
 Perform weekly review of project plan and providing visibility to higher management.
 Accountable for timely escalation of critical issues that could impair operations.
 Provide strategic directions during the implementation stages.
 Manage client expectations by ensuring on time delivery with good quality.
 In-charge for collecting customer feedback and driving actions to resolve any grievances.
 People Management Activities: Monitor team performance and assist the resources with
training needs.
 Internal and External Stakeholder Management
 Pro-actively monitor field issues and prioritize fixes depending on severity.
 Plan and release periodic maintenance updates.
 Involved actively for Continuous Integration and monitor the status very periodically
 Experienced in the driver both CDI & HDI
 Middleware new features developed and bug fixes and ported the code from OpenTV after
analysed the feasibility
 Merged Core 3.1 – zapper and Core 4.0 PVR into single core after better understanding of the
business requirements
 Deployment of SD/ HD Zapper & SD / HD PVR for Tier 1 customer in various customer
 Development of Java EPG for Media Highway Core middleware
 Development of EPG Application in C for OpenTV middleware
 Involved in application based on Java EPG from the design to coding
 Integrated the virtual machine from HP
 Proposed and implemented the automation testing for soak/stress testing
 Proposed and implemented the design patterns MVC for Java EPG application.
 EPG grid (TV Guide) application development, Timer module development, open source
gaming porting into native OpenTV environment and interactive TV applications, Games on
OpenTV middleware.

4. Digital Multimedia Technologies, South Korea
Projects : Generic to all ST Platforms & ST PVR
Duration : Nov 2004 - Nov 2005
Clients : Premiera Gmbh, Germany
Role : IT Expert – Design/Driver Developer
Responsibilities :  Designing and developed the middleware and driver components
 Validating the driver component after got the release from ST
 Guiding 3 engineers from UI team
 Developed the PVR Drivers and SOP for chip vendors
 Developed the middleware as what UI expectations.
 Been onsite to Germany, successfully got the compliance certificate from Premiera
 Ported the Open source code for attractive Games.
Sure Soft Systems (HighGate Worldwide & Co), Pondicherry.
Projects : Generic to all ST Platforms
Duration : Aug 2000 - Mar 2003
Clients : China & Taiwan
Role : Software Engineer – Developer
Responsibilities :  Development and Testing of eGOS based application for various STi5518 as per design
document and coding standards.
 Development of Loader for downloading the new software.
 Proposed idea to store the resources like still picture, Image, Font in Flash.
 Ported the code from code development from in client place Taiwan/China and recognised
well from the customer.
 Mentoring new Joiners about coding standard, Naming convention and good programming
skills
PERSONAL DETAILS
 Date of Birth: 12th Feb 1976.
 Marital status: Married and have 5.5 year old son.
 Hobbies: Reading about historical place, Heritage things and world Economics.
REFERENCES
Mr. Padmakumar Menon
(Founder, Twinvaves Technologies)
Bangalore – 560 036. Ph: +91 98450 28644