Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Responsible for the Sales, Business Development and Growth for the Technology, Retail, CPG, QSR and Commerce across US, Canada and Latam. Responsible for key growth enablers including partnership with Advisory Relations and Marketing. A recognized thought leader in the industry with proven experience in advising major Fortune 500 corporations and CXOs on harnessing the power of technology to drive transformation and establishing strategic partnerships.

Apr 2017 – May 2022 · 5 yrs 1 mo

• Proven industry leader with a rich global experience in the IT Product engineering and services industry driving large transformation programs scaling businesses ground up in the Technology, Retail, CPG and Telecom space. Bringing best of design led product engineering to all partners and managing complex digital transformation programs.

Jul 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Responsible to lead the partnership and multi-million revenue target with Fortune 500 Technology and Big box retailers in helping redefine their digital transformation strategy including building multiple transformational products and platforms ground up. Lead the efforts to shape the holistic omni channel experience
• involving all the customer touch points across digital and physical landscape: customer facing applications, Store applications, Merchandising, Point of Sales and harnessing the power of AI to build next generation Security platform. Drive strategic partnership with big enterprise application players and organizations with specialized pointed solutions to bring digital transformation across the organization.

May 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Built world class eCommerce mobile apps from grounds up for one of the biggest US retailers.
• Handled project/program/account management functions. Role includes Account Management, Program management, Financial forecasting, Planning, Scheduling, Budgeting, Cost, Scope/People/Risk management, Escalations, managing revenue, margins & growth of key accounts.

Oct 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Responsible for global delivery of all Genband SBC software to more then 500+ customers worldwide. Track record in delivering high quality software with 0% variance.
• Program and Project management of Genband Sustaining Engineering team geographically distributed across globe.
• Also effectively managing another development team focussed on developing solutions for wireless service providers for end-end service quality monitoring.
• Managing geographically distributed teams spread across US and India.
• Specialties:
• Softswitch(Class 4, Class5), SBC, Mobile Application Switch, Media gateways, IVRs, VOIP, Wireless
• Protocols :- SIP, SS7, IN, MAP, MGCP, TCAP, M3UA, Radius
• Languages : C++, C, STL, Lua, Perl, Java
• Telecom Tools : INET, EAST
• Databases : Polyhedra, Oracle, Sql Server
• Platforms: Solaris, Linux, Windows
• Tools: Valgrind, Purify, Pure Coverage, Coverity
• Planning: Microsoft Project

Apr 2010 – Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Worked on Session Border Controller(SBC) for Genband.
• Responsible for Technical leadership, managing critical releases in Genband and proven record in delivering back-to-back multiple releases on time with high quality.
• Followed Scrum methodology in delivering 3 critical deliveries of SBC with high quality across all components of SBC with 0% variance.
• Successfully and seamlessly managing cross-geographical teams spread around the world, to make sure key customer deliverables and targets are achieved on time.

Sep 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Responsible for developing and managing multiple mobility projects for 4DK(wireless technology startup):
• Mobility product involved interaction between Mobile clients and Mobile application switches, understanding mobile context and real time decisions and feedback back to mobile applications based on the service/feature involved in the mobile clients.
• 1. Scout: Single handedly responsible for developing the flagship product of 4DK from scratch. Responsible for Design, Architecture, Development and Testing of the innovative product built for large US customers like Verizon.
• SCout, a standards-agnostic telco-grade application switch for the network, facilitates the super-fast adaptation and delivery of feature-rich, user-aware applications. Scout is the flagship SuperConnectivity solution of 4DK. SuperConnectivity SCout addresses wireless service interoperability by removing barriers between the user, the carrier and the content.
• 2. RLS(Regional Location Server) for QChat(Qualcomm): Responsible for managing/developing a highly talented team build from scratch and delivering high quality product in record time to Qualcomm. Used open source technologies like reSIProcate SIP Stack, TIPC, Berkely Database.
• 3. Media Transcoding Application:
• Used open source technologies like PJMedia, PJSIP to build a customized transcoding application responsible for transcoding between AMR-EVRC and vice versa. This was part of the QChat framework which is PTT technology developed by Qualcomm.