Jun 2017 – Apr 2018 · 10 mos

• Heading Engineering, R&D and Innovation around HID Global's product portfolio and enabling adoption of new technologies Cloud, Mobile and IoT in our solutions.

Mar 2015 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Responsible for setting up HID Global India development, engineering and innovation centre of excellence. This center is to provide key software, firmware, embedded hardware and applications development for HID's portfolio of solutions in secure identity business. Also responsible for attracting & retaining talent, engineering decisions, staff management and product delivery.

Jul 2010 – Feb 2015 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Led Enterprise Systems (Power and z) Firmware & Systems Management Software Development organizations of highly talented professionals in IBM India STG Labs, Responsible for key WW mission including Power 7+, Power 8 systems product line, Management Console, Power IT Elements (Blades) Firmware and PureFlex Programs, Setting up System z FW mission in India and contributions to z196, zEC12 & z13 Systems General Availability. Led STG Independent Software Vendors Enablement & Recruitment mission in India / South Asia. In these roles key responsibilities included defining strategic vision, delivering key systems, products, building and retaining technical & business leadership, relationship building with ecosystem stakeholders and enabling customers and ISVs, in addition drove operational focus and efficiencies improvements across organization.

Jul 2007 – Jun 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Led Power Systems Firmware Development group of highly talented professionals in India Systems & Technology Labs, that included delivering key Systems, H/W Simulation, Power Systems Management SW, HW Enablement & POWER7 System Bring up, as well as setting up groups future direction & strategy, growth, building leadership pipeline, customer focus & influencing product roadmap.

Sep 2005 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Second Line Leader / Sr. Manager for Firmware Dev as well as Simulation & System z Emulation development. In this role I was responsible for various IBM Power products firmware development, validation, quality and schedule. I was also responsible for Independent Software Vendors enablement missions in India - including setting it up as well as getting is up & run from execution point of view.

Jan 2004 – Aug 2005 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Engineering Manager for firmware & microcode development and responsible for Global Firmware development, enhancement and maintenance activities for various IBM Server Systems covering Service Processor Firmware, I/O device drivers, Partition & Virtualization Firmware and Run Time Abstraction Layer Firmware.

Jan 2002 – Dec 2004 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Project and release management for various RISC Systems supporting number of IBM RISK Systems 6000 (RS6K) products including build, release, defect closure, feature enhancements and customer support. Activities also included Risk Assessment, Defect Analysis & Trend and developing key Headlights for project / program health.

Oct 1999 – Dec 2001 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Development, enhancement and maintenance for IBM’s RISK Systems including Service Processor Firmware, Open Firmware (IEEE 1275 Boot Standards), Partition Firmware including functions such as abstraction layers, dynamic logical partitioning, I/O device drivers and boot initialisation. Also leading a team of approx. 15+ developing and guiding them in day to day development process.

Oct 1998 – Sep 1999 · 11 mos

• Staff Software Engineer for device drivers and compilers team, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions development on broadcasting system and telephony APIs, Easel compiler and workspace porting across multiple OS versions, development of dynamic link libraries for Visual Age Java suite of products.

Aug 1996 – Sep 1998 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Engineer responsible for development of virtual memory management interfaces used for Lotus SmartSuite, graphical tool to exercise virtual memory management, development of memory mapped drivers for user specific address space to system specific virtual address space, functional test case development for Visual Age test tool.