Jul 2008 – Present · 17 yrs 10 mos · India, Bangalore

• Incubated and led complex IOT (Internet of Things) enabled vertical end to end solutions in health care and transportation, including product conceptualization, design engineering, biz models & GTM
• Championed Product strategy, execution & biz model definition in close collaboration with local ecosystem & global customer to enable end to end IoT (Internet of Things) solution offerings for transportation segment
• Formulated world-wide Go-To-Market strategy for deployment of products to end customers, distribution channels & ecosystem partners.
• Structured & negotiated complex strategic partnerships with OEMs, contract manufacturers, system integrators . VARs across consumer, industrial & retail markets within India & APAC.
• Co-founded local Intel India incubation team to conceive, enable & deliver new products & services for emerging markets. Core member of the BU Strategy and Planning team
• Conceptualized, incubated & productized the rugged Universal Handheld Device handheld based on Intel architecture targeted towards retail, banking, sales force for emerging markets
• CORE COMPETENCY
• In a leadership role successfully led cross functional, multi-geo engineering product incubation & business partners to enable Intel with IoT enabled solutions and services for transportation telematics & other adjacent markets
• Extensive experience to lead & managed diverse engineering team including tier-1 system integrators, outsourcing partners, ODMs to deliver end to end products & services for global customers
• Provide thought leadership to local site strategy and business units on emerging technologies , green shoot use cases & business models in the field of embedded & IoT applications
• Independently established backend supply chain for taking new concepts / products into DFM (design for manufacturing) stage and achieve mass production readiness for global delivery.

May 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As part of the Embedded Communication Group within Intel India, in the capacity of senior program manager ( SDLC/ Agile/SCRUM ) led several cross functional, multi-site product development teams in delivering multi-million dollar products & solutions from concept approval to final product launch as part of Intel’s embedded network processors & low power chipset line of products (IXP 2400, 2350 and 2800 series, Intel’s embedded low power scalable product line & IA-IXP Converged Processor SoC platform). This included delivery of key software platform ingredients in the Intel embedded low power chipset line of products targeting the wireless, storage, security market segments.
• Led >25 member product development teams comprising system software, firmware, BIOS & expertise to deliver infrastructure software for Intel’s Embedded Communication BU’s SoC product line