Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru

• Enabling and nurturing promising technology startups looking to capitalize on emerging and transformational technologies.

Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led a large-scale organization of over 1200 engineers and technologists as India BU Head, contributing to a Ten Billion Dollar global business within Honeywell, in the domains of Automation and Control Solutions, IOT, Cloud, Mobility, Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR). Accountable for NPI delivery globally, across a broad product portfolio of Fire Safety Systems, Building & Infrastructure Security and HVAC Management Supervisory Systems, Smart Cities Command & Control Systems, Airports Airfield Lighting Systems and Smart Homes.
• Subsequently led Honeywell's Software Transformation charter across all of HTS India, to drive increased New Product Introduction (NPI) efficacy, innovation, speed to market, and swift/recurring revenue realization by embracing contemporary technologies, paradigms and architectures. In alignment with Honeywell’s overarching transformation, the mission focused on drastically compressing the idea-to-revenue curve with first principles of incremental value delivery, change-resilient development methodologies, evolutionary architectures and end-to-end automation.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2016 · 7 yrs · (Formerly EMC Corporation)

• Headed a worldwide product team developing intelligent software systems for next-gen service assurance in physical, virtual, cloud, software-defined and NFV-based data centers, with over 1000 high-profile enterprise customers globally. Business Unit Head for Emerging Technologies Division (ETD) / Advanced Software Division (ASD) in India.
• Roles/Positions:
• Global R&D Head for SA Suite Product line, The Office of Corporate CTO.
• Senior Director and India Site Leader, Advanced Software Division / Emerging Technologies Division.
• Global Director, Smarts/SA Suite Product-line.
• Director, Smarts Continuous Engineering - India COE.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 · 3 yrs · (Formerly INTEC Telecom Systems) Bengaluru Area, India

• Led the Professional Services and R&D teams owning Intec's flagship BSS product, Singl.eView, an industry-leading realtime charging, billing and customer management software system empowering the best-known service providers across the globe. End-to-end accountability for the India Center as the Acting Managing Director and General Manager for Resourcing, Delivery, R&D, Pre-Sales Support, HR, Finance, Facilities and IT.
• Roles/Positions:
• Director, Professional Services and R&D.
• Acting MD, GM and Board Member for INTEC India.

Jan 1995 – Jan 2006 · 11 yrs · (Formerly Bell-Northern Research / Northern Telecom) Richardson, Texas, USA

• Led a global, multi-site development team of software engineers, product architects, managers, contractors and offshore partner-workforce, responsible for delivering Nortel's 3G Enhanced CDMA Base Station Controller System and sustaining the legacy base station system.
• Roles/Positions:
• Senior Manager, CDMA Product Design and Development.
• Manager, 3G Wireless Internet Access Development.
• Technical Lead Member of Scientific Staff, CDMA BSC and BSSM.
• Member of Scientific Staff, CDPD Design, Bell-Northern Research.

Jan 1994 – Jan 1995 · 1 yr · Arlington, Texas, USA

• Assisted in teaching Masters Level Courses: Artificial Intelligence; Design and Construction of Compilers.