Nov 2012 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Shipped Charts, Shapes features for Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Android Tablets
• Microsoft Office is going multi-platform, the latest addition to the list of supported platforms being Android tablets. With this offering Word, Excel and PowerPoint will now be available in Google Play Store for users to create, view, edit and share Microsoft Office Documents from local file systems, emails, SharePoint, One Drive and Dropbox.
• Accomplishments
•  Product owner for Shapes and Charts components for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - defined the scope of functionality and experience for shapes and charts in the Office applications
•  Reduced engineering cost by ensuring the team shift from traditional number based performance classification to experience based performance measurement and classification
•  Managed cross team dependencies (both local and cross boundary), ensuring that they were delivered on time and with quality for consumption by my team. Kept the partners informed about progress and expectations
•  Participated in user studies to get user feedback on the interaction design. Changed design based on user feedback to make it more intuitive for the users
•  Increased the product quality by dogfooding the Office applications on Android tablet and logging bugs
•  Ensured top user problems were addressed by constant monitoring of the user forums and interactions with Beta users
•  Ensured high product quality and on time ship by running triages effectively, arriving on data driven decisions and assigning correct priority to bugs
•  Contributed to making Word, Excel and PowerPoint on Android tablets secure by ensuring all security vulnerabilities/threats are mitigated for all graphics objects

Dec 2009 – Dec 2012 · 3 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked on the following products
• 1. Microsoft Office on iPhone
• 2. Microsoft Office on Symbian Platform
• Core responsibilities
• Certain platform restrictions and business requirements made way for presenting Office Suite as a single application on iPhone. I designed the interaction of the three apps and worked on unifying their entry points.
• Designed, prototyped and executed the editing feature in Excel Mobile.
• Designed, prototyped and executed to unify the comments functionality for both Word and Excel on the Symbian platform.
• Worked on localization for the Office Suite and also the redlining aspects of these applications.

Jun 2004 – Sep 2006 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked on Microsoft CRM Connector for Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains
• Was responsible for specification review, prototyping, design, design reviews, coding. Played a key role in making the Microsoft CRM Connector for Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains a secure product. Contributed to the threat models of various modules, analyzing the threats and mitigating them.
• Awarded a patent titled “Framework for multiple app integration using MS BizTalk Server”

Sep 2006 – Dec 2009 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Noida Area, India

• Worked on the following products
• 1. Adobe Reader X
• 2. Monetization of Adobe Reader 9
• 3. Adobe Acrobat 9
• 4. Adobe Reader 9 for Unix
• Core Responsibilities
• Was responsible for specification review, prototyping, costing, UI iterations, designing coding of various features like Preference Synchronization, designing and serving content related advertisements in the pdf documents.
• Also filed a patent application titled “Authored-in advertisements for documents”

May 2003 – Nov 2003 · 6 mos · Noida Area, India

• Worked for client - ABN Amro Services Company for MTG Escrow Disbursement Tracking for Refi Loans
• Was responsible for Presentation Tier of the Application. Implemented client side pagination for the loan records (received from the server) using DHTML, based on a configurable number of loan records per page.