Feb 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · United States

• Opportunity does indeed knock twice. After a successful three years at LegalZoom and a exciting and experimental 18 months at Brainbase, I am joining ZenBusiness today.
• As Head of Product for the Website Division, I continue in my quest to make it easier and fun for entrepreneurs like me, to form, launch and run their businesses successfully.
• ZenBusiness is a radical company in this space where passion and accountability meets honesty and kindness. I sincerely believe that we are going to transform the company formation and ownership experience for all variety of entrepreneurs and dreamers - the ones that are building a better tomorrow, in the post-pandemic transformed world.
• The gateway to success opens at zenbusiness.com !

Aug 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• After three extremely productive years at LegalZoom, today I am starting as SVP of Product at Brainbase Inc.
• I am excited to join Brainbase and help build new products in the Intellectual Property Management space.
• They have been innovating this space in licensing products for enterprise and I hope to further that innovation.

Aug 2017 – Aug 2020 · 3 yrs · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Innovating the legal space by capitalizing on my background in technology & innovation. Making it easier and fun to make your will, than putting together a Pinterest board, incorporate your startup while having coffee at Starbucks and protect your idea for that great 'umbrella-cupholder-chip dispenser' by filing a patent as you lie on the beach taking in the sun...

Sep 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Zowdow is a Series A-funded startup from the Idealab incubator run by Bill Gross. Zowdow will transform mobile search, delivering highly relevant and mobile-optimized search results to consumers across all channels.
• I lead the Product Development team in designing and building highly accurate, ultra-fast search experiences on mobile and desktop platforms.

May 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• I worked on the next generation platform & mobile apps for smart WeMo Home Automation products at Belkin.
• WeMo products let you make smart decisions about energy usage and help automate your lifestyle. These include wifi enabled LED bulbs, Light Switches, Motion Sensors, Video Cameras and routers.
• Created the product roadmap for integrated WEMO platform of Server APIs, Firmware and mobile apps. Managed multiple app releases on iOS and Android along with integrating new WEMO products like LED Lights, Crock-Pot and Humidifier.

Sep 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 8 mos · United States

• Scrutineer for Formula-1, Formula-E, and WEC (World Endurance Championship) auto races managed by FIA.
• Scrutineered the following races:
• Sep 2013 - WEC, Austin, USA
• Sep 2014 - WEC, Austin, USA
• Apr 2015 - Formula-E, Long Beach, USA
• Apr 2016 - Formula-E, Long Beach, USA
• Oct 2016 - Formula-1, Austin, USA
• Jul 2017 - Formula-E, Brookyln, USA
• Sep 2017 - WEC, Austin, USA
• Oct 2018 - Formula-1, Austin, USA
• Feb 2020 - WEC, Austin, USA
• Jul 2021 - Formula-E, Brookyln, USA

Sep 2011 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Sunnyvale

• Product Manager in the Mobile & Emerging Products (MEP) group at Yahoo!. I managed the Identity Management SDK for the MobileSDKs team.
• The Identity Management SDK provided Authentication, Password Recovery and Multiple Account Management features.
• It also implemented for the first time on iOS a Single Sign On (SSO) functionality that was later adopted natively in iOS. This allowed users to login once to any Yahoo App and they were automatically logged in to any subsequent Yahoo apps that they installed and launched.
• While at Yahoo, I also filed two patents for mobile account verification and authentication. These patents were later granted by USPTO.
• The Identity Management SDK was adopted by all Yahoo Mobile apps and I worked with every mobile app team to ensure successful integration and roll-out.

May 2011 – Present · 15 yrs · Greater Los Angeles Area · Hybrid

• Appmosis builds delicious apps & companies to disrupt any marketplace and sometimes to invent new markets.

Apr 2010 – Apr 2011 · 1 yr · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Mobile Software Products in the Medical applications space.
• Conceived and built maxRVU, the first HIPAA compliant mobile app for ICD/CPT coding and billing to help practicing physicians. Lead a team of iOS Developers, Designers and Ruby On Rails Developers that built the iOS app and the Web based dashboard at https://www.maxrvu.com.

Jun 2009 – Apr 2010 · 10 mos

• Big Nerd Ranch Inc. is the premier training company for Mac and iPhone development. I started the Mobile Software Development business for Big Nerd Ranch and built 5 branded apps for the iOS platform.
• During my tenure, we also built apps for Ben & Jerry's Ice-Cream, Cyanide & Happiness Comics, Riff Raters Music Social Network and Teavana.

Apr 2008 – May 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Sr. Product Manager in the Yahoo! Search Marketing team in Burbank, CA.

Nov 2005 – Mar 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• I have been instrumental in designing and developing five major products that generate a total revenue of over $10 million per year for UOL.
• Significant products are:
• Symantec Security Suite | NetZero DSL | NetZero Games
• As a Senior Product Manager, I was involved intimately with all issues for UOL products. These include Access (Dial-up and Broadband), Premium Content, Games, Symantec Security Suite and Voice.
• My duties were:
• 1. Analyzing price points and existing billing policies for all UOL products.
• 2. Innovating and enhancing the existing product catalog.
• 3. Identifying and implementing new payment methods such as PayPal, In-Store Payments etc.
• 4. Optimizing and reducing payment/billing overheads.
• 5. Streamlining anti-fraud policies and reducing financial risk of fraud.

Apr 2001 – Oct 2005 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• 1. Conceived and implemented award winning, patent pending consumer Voice Messaging application - RMS(Rapid Message Service).
• 2. Developed RMS through three major releases and two enterprise deployments for multinational mobile phone carriers in the USA and Europe.
• 3. RMS has won over 5 major awards including "Fierce 15" and "Product of the Year" from Communication Solutions magazine.
• 4. Managed large offshore development team (30+) in India ensuring timely product delivery and quality products.
• 5. Actively involved in product Packaging, authoring Documentation & Technical White Papers.
• 6. Setup and implemented multi-country QA Analysis and Application Testing programs.
• 7. Enhanced technical skills by hands on research, attending seminars and workshops in new technologies like VoiceXML, Speech Recognition, VoIP, SIP, Mobile Device Application development and Wireless messaging.
• 8. Authored all technical product specifications and patent application documents.

Oct 1999 – Apr 2001 · 1 yr 6 mos

• As founder and CEO of moreLinux.com I was responsible to secure $5 million in funding and expand the company to more than 50 employees. At moreLinux I designed and developed Linux desktop products like Luk-N-Feel (a precursor to Wiki's and content management systems) and Q-Traffic (web traffic analyzer).
• moreLinux Inc was sold to Chilliware Inc from Los Angeles, CA and then resold to Codito Pvt. Ltd of Pune, India.

May 1999 – Dec 1999 · 7 mos

• In my role as Senior Consultant I was involved in designing and developing a online web based business portal - Bizli.com. This was developed using open source tools and was completely automated and scalable.

Jun 1998 – Dec 2000 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Pune, India

• Co-founded India's first online streaming radio station, Musicurry in 1998 with Mandar Agashe and Adinath Mangeshkar.
• Digitized IMA's entire Hindi and Marathi film music catalog and offered it for streaming using RealAudio.

Jun 1997 – May 1999 · 1 yr 11 mos

• As founder and CEO of WMI I was instrumental in designing and deploying India's first private ISP - WMINet. This grew from my previous venture of JabberWocky - Pune's first online bulletin board system (BBS).
• WMINet was profitable within 7 months and grew to a subscriber base of over 50000 users withing three years.
• I sold WMINet to Weikfield Industries in 1999 to start moreLinux Inc.
• WMINet still continues to provide Internet services to the citizens of Pune, India.

Jan 1994 – Jan 1996 · 2 yrs

Jun 1993 – May 1997 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• With a loan of Rs.100,000 from my parents to buy a computer and two telephone lines I started JabberWocky BBS in 1993 to introduce email to the citizen's of Pune, India. With invaluable guidance and support from Suchit Nanda at LiveWire BBS in Bombay and tremendous effort and help from my brother Vikram Godse, we built the service to provide email and internet access to over 3000 people within the first 8 months.
• This was a runaway success and we had over 8000 subscribers by 1997. For most people in Pune, jwbbs.com was their first email address ever.