Sumana Harihareswara
sumanah@panix.com
Astoria, NY 11106
http://brainwane.net
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sumanah

Profile: I lead software development projects and develop and implement 
sustainable processes, with special expertise in open source practices.

Selected Experience:
Wikimedia Foundation
Interim Volunteer Development Coordinator, Feb 2011-present
* Coordinate volunteers and WMF staff to plan agenda and structure for yearly hackfest
* Run Google Summer of Code program (MediaWiki organizational administrator)
* Recruit summer interns

GNOME Foundation
GNOME 3.0 Marketing Coordinator, Feb 2011-present
* Write and disseminate marketing material, including a press release
* Recruit and manage volunteers for marketing tasks

QuestionCopyright.org
Fundraising Coordinator, Feb 2011-present
* Manage fundraising process
* Write and coordinate grant proposals
* Write and recruit articles for website

GNOME Journal (http://gnomejournal.org)
Editor and Release Organizer, Nov 2009-present
* Planned and organized issues
* Recruited, edited, and published contributions
* Wrote articles about the GNOME Desktop Environment

Collabora, Ltd.
Lead Project Manager and Personnel Manager, Apr 2009-Jan 2010
* Managed multiple software projects, including research & development
department
* Reported and triaged bugs, documented, and tested Zeitgeist, Telepathy,
Empathy, and GNOME open source projects: see
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?emaillongdesc1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=sumana.harihareswara%40collabora.co.uk
for some examples
* Liaised with colleagues and clients globally in a distributed workplace
environment
* Led website redesign and wrote or edited all new copy
* Maintained shared documentation on internal and external wikis
* Wrote and managed regular companywide internal communications to highlight
teams' accomplishments and clarify strategic and tactical context
* Ramped up new employees
* Mentored team leads
* Created and executed Performance Improvement Plans for underperformers,
leading to improvement or termination
* Created and ran the performance appraisal system
* Tracked personnel assignments

AltLaw (http://www.altlaw.org)
Product Manager, Jan. 2009-Apr. 2009
* Coordinated volunteers
* Advised developer in developing priorities and new features in open source
software
* Conceived, and headed development of, new product to publicize nonprofit's
services and better serve audience
* Started publicity campaign and publicized organization's work via email
and social media

Behavior, New York, New York
Project Manager, Jan 2008-Nov 2008
* Tested web sites and standalone software, managed other testers, and filed
and managed defect reports
* Led projects from kickoff through scoping, information architecture,
visual design, functional specification, technical build, QA, and deploy
phases
* Produced and maintained project plans, status reports, extranets, and
other necessary documentation
* Managed information architects, visual designers, developers, QA, and
account executives
* Managed several web, animation, interaction design, and print projects of
varying sizes simultaneously
* Held projects within budgets
* Recruited, allocated funds for, and fired contractors
* Led company personnel allocation processes and new internal communications
on resourcing
* Projected costs and wrote copy for pitches and proposals
* Led technology knowledge-sharing initiative and project postmortem
initiative

Fog Creek Software, New York, New York
Software Management Training Program, Jan 2006-Jun 2007
* Tested software and wrote bug reports
* Wrote technical white paper and directed informational video for product
release
* Provided technical support via email, online discussion groups, and phone
* Posted regularly on corporate blog
* Discussed, analyzed and fulfilled customer requirements
* Designed, led and implemented marketing projects

Education:
Columbia University, NY:  Executive M.S. in Technology Management.  2008.
University of California at Berkeley: B.A. in political science.  2002.

Skills:
I'm fluent in expository and persuasive writing, from technical
specifications to user manuals and corporate blogs.  I'm skilled in Linux,
Mac OS X, and Windows, and know Bugzilla, Mantis, Trac, FogBugz, Microsoft
Project, IRC, Basecamp, Microsoft Office, Subversion, OpenOffice, wiki markup, 
XML, QuarkXPress, with some proficiency in HTML, SQL, Python, VBScript, shell 
scripts, git, WordPerfect, VBScript, ASP, FrameMaker, IIS, MySQL, SQL Server,
Russian, French, and Kannada.  I can produce and direct a live or filmed
production, and am an experienced public speaker, teacher and standup comic.

References:
Available upon request