Harman

•    Strong handson experience on the agile and scrum concepts.
•    Has applied the real scrum concepts to make the project agile and has successfully handled multiple scrum teams.
•    Practical thinking and a good attitude to handle difficult situations
•    Good communications skills

1.    Having decent years of experience in handling Scrum teams. Currently he is handling 4 teams. 
2.    Practical experience and knowledge is good. Able to answer most of the questions
3.    Seems to be honest in his work – based on the answers and response provided during interview.
4.    Have sound knowledge on Scrum practices

•    Ensuring that engineering department goals, metrics and objectives are met
•    Establish and audit standardized tools and templates to use when leading cross functional team meetings
•    Create and manage schedules based on approved project scope
•    Control project scope and delivery variance
•    End-to-end project management for both software and hardware based projects up to and including building products in a factory
•    Help drive the sharing of best practices across the project management team
•    Managing internal and external resources
•    Communication with senior management as well as with the team
•    Continuously evaluate the new product design, development, and release processes and suggest improvements to reduce product cycle times
•    Create project plans including schedule creation, gathering development cost estimates, and target cost information
•    Identify risks in the project schedules and assist in the creation of mitigation plans
•    Ensure that the VPD DPT corporate project tracking tool is kept up to date
•    Manage the gaps between functions to guide projects though the phase gated development process up to and including the launch to Sales
•    Some travel may be required

•    Minimum Bachelors in Engineering or related discipline
•    3+ yrs of Project Management experience in an engineering or new product development environment
•    3+ yrs of experience presenting to Senior Management
•    Experience with waterfall, iterative and agile design methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:
•    PMP or equivalent certification preferred
•    Experience working with diverse teams in multiple sites
•    Expertise in Project Management Methodologies
•    Understanding of CMM or CMMi best practices
•    Excellent leadership skills
•    Detail oriented with good time management and multitasking skills
•    Excellent people skills including coaching and mentoring
•    Excellent interpersonal skills required to negotiate priority with those that do not report to them
•    Excellent written and oral communication skills both up and down the organizational chain
•    Must be a self-starter, achieving great results with minimum supervision
•    Must have a history of taking on and meeting challenging objectives
•    Experienced with standard project management tools such as Microsoft Project
•    Prior Experience of successfully managing New Product Development projects in the role of project manager
•    Technical background with an understanding of what it takes to complete embedded system designs