About

Dara Singh Hooda is a customer and product-focused professional with over 18 years of progressive expertise in leadership and problem-solving through participation and leading SDLC stages. He has experience in managing onsite, offsite, and outsourced multisite, multicultural cross-functional teams across geographies, especially in Europe, USA, and Asia. He has expertise in agile (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, Scrum-ban) and waterfall methodologies and has deployed scrum and lean principles based scaled agile framework for his R&D function as agile deployment manager and coach. He is a SAFe Agilist, CSPO certified, and PMI-ACP trained. He has a proven track record to build and lead teams to deliver projects successfully in constantly changing and challenging environments while keeping team inspired to meet organization goals and customer satisfaction via design thinking and agile mindset. He has excellent project execution capabilities with a track record of delivering things on time. Dara has comprehensive software development and management experience in varied SW domains such as Telecommunications, 5G RAN, Mobile applications, Modem-APE integration, Modem SW platform development, Smart cards, Transit, Identity and Payments, IoT, Web development, security, and cryptography. He has effective customer and vendor management skills. Currently, Dara is working as a Sr. Program Manager at Mavenir. In the past, he has worked as a Technical Project Manager at Darkmatter LLC and Sr. Project Manager at NXP Semiconductors. At NXP, he managed projects on embedded secure identification, mobile payments, IoT, and MIFARE. Dara completed his B.Tech in Electronics from YMCA Institute of Engineering, Faridabad, India, in 2002. He also attended Kendriya Vidyalaya. He has a skillset in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Project/Program Mgmt, Line Mgmt, Rally, GIT, svn, Jenkins, C/C++, Java, Jira, ARM, Operating Systems, Embedded systems, Smart cards, eID, mobile payments, Identification, transit, MIFARE, AWS, Cloud computing, DevOps, CI & CD, IoT, iOS, Android. With almost 18 years of relevant experience, Dara is a consistent performer, genuine team player and leader, and a valuable asset to any organization.