Aug 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Noida Area, India

• Our goal is to impart working knowledge and professional skills necessary for today’s UI/UX roles in software industry. To that end, Gradient imparts short duration, interactive, classroom based, focused Design training to students, young and seasoned professionals. Addressing the skill gap in the software design industry; we specialize in career transformation and in creating industry ready design professionals. Gradient Learning also provides the right designers for permanent/contract assignments across the industry.

Nov 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida Area, India

• Built a team from scratch, engaged in technologies like xAPI, Caliper Analytics, LRS, Python, Core Spark, Spark Streaming, Scala, Event Store, MongoDB, etc. for some eLearning giants in the industry. QDSA is an affiliate of QA Infotech.

Feb 2010 – Apr 2015 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Noida Area, India

• Built a team of 320 plus multi-disciplinary / specialized technical workforce for various Adobe products. The team was responsible for Data Science and Analytics (Big data), licensing, internationalization, installer, updater, provisioning, subscriptions technologies, user experience, enterprise tools, worldwide beta test programs and help technology. Have been a part of organizational transition from perpetual desktop products to SaaS world of subscriptions with cloud integration.

Jun 2004 – Jan 2010 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Noida Area, India

• Handled a team to deliver core technologies and services for different Adobe products. Joined as a Senior Engg. Manager of a small team (< 20) and grew it multi-folds over the years earning multiple promotions thru' the journey.

Sep 2001 – Jun 2004 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Built and directed a team of 75 people consisting of PMs, TLs and software engineers. My teams worked on future cellular phones critical to the success of PCS, Motorola, USA. The projects were in the areas of color user interface layer for video capture, playback, still images, graphics, dialogs, formatters etc. for 3G, 2.5G, iDEN phones of Motorola. After the successful spell in 3G phone s/w development, grew the testing unit (for 3G, 2.5G phones) of Motorola, Hyderabad.

Dec 2000 – Aug 2001 · 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Ran the New Delhi office for a mobile middleware product of a Silicon valley startup, as Head of Software Services (Asia Pacific). Major responsibility was to build a software development team from scratch.

Jan 2000 – Nov 2000 · 10 mos · Noida Area, India

• Built the mCommerce group from ground up. Created technology white papers, business and revenue plans. Trained marketing teams in HCL America offices on mCommerce, WAP etc. Visited and evaluated a startup company Hiugo, in Milan, Italy for direct investment from my organization.

Sep 1990 – Jan 2000 · 9 yrs 4 mos · Noida Area, India

• Developed a mobile/handheld based product (Mail on the Run!) from conception to customer support. It was a TCP/IP based client server app with POP, SMTP, ODBC capability that worked over wireless (packet data) and wireline networks.
• Ran a business unit for telecom and delivered projects (software services) for companies like Sprint, Harris Corporation, Itronix etc.
• Developed two major components of Graphical User Interface (GUI), namely Bridge Performance Graphics and Legend of LAN Network Manager 1.1 at IBM.

Jan 1987 – Aug 1990 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Lucknow Area, India

• Developed the communication interface for a UNIX based control station residing over an optical fibre highway of real time distributed process control system MAX-1 (a Leeds & Northrup product, a General Signal company).
• Designed and developed real time application software for data loggers and designed PC based intrinsically safe, distributed data monitoring and control system.

Jun 1986 – Dec 1986 · 6 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Joined the compilers group and developed an API set for linking C and COBOL programs. Implemented in C on Olympia-32 running XENIX. Development of diagnostic procedures for COBOL compiler, primarily to test the COBOL-UNIFY link.