Jul 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

• A successful joint effort between Google and Samsung to launch the Sports feature on Samsung S25.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv90mHcFLkc&t=1s

Apr 2019 – Jun 2023 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Managed the successful launch of a brand new, industry first service - Backup for GKE ( https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/add-on/backup-for-gke/concepts/backup-for-gke )
• Managed customer engagements involving over a 100 enterprise clients across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia regions.
• Successfully re-organized and optimized the GCS (Google Cloud Storage) program execution and operational health assessment related processes.

Apr 2014 – Apr 2020 · 6 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

• www.cricTube.us: An interactive Sports (Cricket) Data Visualization website
• Created the concept and vision
• Developed Wire-frames and UX design
• Developed the Front-end using Javascript, D3.js, SVG, JSON, CSS3, HTML5 technology stack
• Implemented as a Single Page Application (SPA)
• Currently re-architecting the code for better maintainability and upgrades
• Azure Inspector: Collaborating on an easy to use tool for Enterprise that can detect common vulnerabilities in Azure resources.
• Coeval: An ambitious project to visually document the history of the mankind as a single, contiguous fabric rather than disparate, detached, localized histories. A visual graph that spans across time and space and helps uncover erstwhile unknown relationships between people and events.

Mar 2008 – Oct 2013 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Redmond, WA

• Office 365 for Education:
• Developed the strategy for the Education group for developing rich authoring experiences for educators, and managing education workflows built on top of Office 365.
• Managed several demos and presentations to customers and Executives
• Wrote several specs for rich, interactive Educational content for Educators including - Text, Web content, Videos, Office applications integration, interactive Quizzes.
• Worked with the IMS consortium to incorporate standards in the Microsoft offerings.
• Owned the end-to-end in-class / live lecture experience for Educators and Students using Lync and OneNote
• Worked with the Office Web Apps team to prepare POC's for assessment and grading tools for Educators.
• Semblio:
• A media-rich content authoring platform for Educators.
• Managed the vendor relationship for the development of clients for Mac OSX, Web and Mobile, with the Windows development (WPF) done in-house.
• Microsoft Sway (www.sway.com) - An interactive story telling tool that applies design principles automatically on the user content.
• Wrote specs for multi-media content authoring and playback.
• Streamlined the Design to Development pipeline.
• Owner of Rendering and Interaction Model, Audio and Sound, Motion and Animation, Accessibility and Localization.
• ThinkWeek paper on e-Publishing, including Authoring, Collaboration, Distribution and Consumption experiences across multiple platforms with XAML based serialization.

Jun 2001 – Jan 2008 · 6 yrs 7 mos

• Inspired and led the client engineering team to design and develop the next generation of user experience.
• Successfully led the launch of immensely successful new generation of user experiences across several platforms ( Windows, Mac OSX, Web browser ) and form factors ( Desktop, mobile ).
• Execution details:
• Established and managed several product groups in the Enterprise division for publishing software and image management services and tools.
• Managed team sizes up to 50 engineers, UX designers, product managers and project managers.
• Created vision and strategy for the Enterprise Publishing Clients development team
• Directed the architectural, Technology, Hiring/mentoring and development process management
• Successful overhaul of the legacy cross-platform C++ based client stack to a modern native stack (.NET/C#/Managed C++ for Windows, Cocoa/Objective-C for Mac OSX, and AJAX/HTML/Javascript for Web)
• Successfully introduced and managed Agile development practices
• Product Owner for Image management services and clients for Windows, Mac OSX, Web and Mobile
• Also managed the development of Catalogs Publishing Products, Digital Content Management and Publishing, Rich content authoring and reviewing tools.

Jul 1997 – Jun 2001 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Developed the Citibank Warrants website.
• Used Cold Fusion, HTML, Javascript, Oracle, C/C++ for development.
• Used Photoshop and Word for graphics design.
• Managed the On-site development team of 8 engineers at New York, NY.
• Worked with business stakeholders and translated business requirements into functional and technical specs
• Used IBM MQ Series and MQ Formatter, C/C++, Unix Shell scripting to develop the middleware.