From: sen@levers.enet.dec.com (Saibal Sen)
Subject: Office and IS Project Manager CA area
Followup-To: Candidate Direct
Keywords: Office IS, Project Manager, ALL-IN-1
Reply-To: sen@levers.enet.dec.com (Saibal Sen)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:08:35 GMT


SHANTANU KARVE

Suite #1524, Residence Inn,
321, E. Huntington Drive,
Arcadia, CA 91006
Tel. (818)-446-6500

Work History

PROJECT MANAGER, 1991-May/1992 at National Power plc, Swindon.

Responsible for the Executive Information System project based on 
Pilot Command Center. Managed a $800K budget and team of 5 
analyst/programmers. Introduced the Iterative component of 
Foundation methodology to the project. Negotiated service 
provision with Operations and Customer Support groups. Innovated 
the delivery of a training and awareness program, increasing the 
system take-up three-fold to 150 users. Prepared a business case 
to persuade the executive that the application be ported from an 
IBM platform to a VAX. Hired and managed the staff carrying out 
the system conversion.  
Evaluated and selected on-line information companies. Maintained 
excellent relationships with my customers ( senior corporate 
managers and directors ). Presented to and attended symposia 
organised by the industry organisation EIS FORUM.

ENGINEERING PRODUCT MANAGER, 1985-1991 at Digital Equipment Co.

Responsible for the development and system management of an ALL-
IN-1 software based Office system for Digital's Marketing 
department. The system formed the basis of Digital's Europe wide 
Office System.

Promoted to Consultant to the ALL-IN-1 Co-Operative Marketing 
Programme. Evaluated company profiles and products of third 
parties that wished to integrate their products with ALL-IN-1. 
Provided a consultancy service to these partners on product 
integration with ALL-IN-1.

Promoted to Engineering Product Manager for the British versions 
of the ALL-IN-1 family of software. Followed a formal process ( 
Phase Review Process ) to ensure that the market requirements 
were met, the software engineering was carried out, quality 
assurance criteria were met and the product was packaged to 
standards. Products successfully marketed were ALL-IN-1 2.3, 2.4, 
WPS-PLUS/VMS 3.0 and WPS-PLUS/DOS 2.0 and 3.0. Managed customer-
satisfaction situations. Developed and carried out product 
retirement plans.

Volunteered for temporary hands-on assignments. In 1989, spent 8 
weeks at the Atlanta Customer Support Center, responding to ALL-
IN-1 2.3 service calls. In 1990 was the ALL-IN-1 manager at 
DECville '90, responsible for the system management and 
integration of all products exhibited under the ALL-IN-1 menu 
umbrella that were shown at the fortnight long exhibition in 
Cannes.

SENIOR ANALYST/PROGRAMMER, 1982-1985 at Mar Group Services, Slough

Developed an on-line information system on a VAX platform 
utilising ORACLE Database software. Designed and wrote Pascal 
screen handling and database query modules. Supported real-time 
production control systems built of TI platforms. 

ANALYST/PROGRAMMER, 1979-1982 at RCA System Services Ltd.

I designed and wrote programs for direct digital control of 
plastics manufacture using PDP-11 hardware and programming in 
RTL/2 and MACRO. Wrote operating system kernels and device 
handler software.

PROGRAMMER , 1976-1979 at Shell Research Ltd. Chester UK.

Assisted in developing mathematical models of physical and 
chemical processes and where only approximate solutions were 
possible I wrote computer programs to simulate the problem and 
provide solutions in graphical and tabular form. 

Education

B.Sc. in Math, Bath University, 1975.

Training Seminars in Product and Project Management, Effective 
Communications and Presentations, Perceptive Management.

Areas of Competency

*	Software development project manager, software product 
	manager, line manager, consultant.

*	Application areas include Executive Information Systems, 
	Office Systems, Management Information Systems.

*	product and technical experience includes  ALL-IN-1, 
	WordPerfect, WPS-PLUS, PILOT COMMAND CENTRE, ORACLE, PASCAL, 
	FORTRAN, RTL/2 and ALL-IN-1 Scripts ; VAX and IBM-PC H/W ; 
	VMS, DOS and RSX-11 Operating Systems; PCSA and DECNET. 

*	experienced in Foundation, Phase Review Process, Entity 
	Modelling and Function Point analysis methodologies.

Interests

Reading, gliding, bridge and chess.