Aug 2024 – Sep 2024 · 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Took a long breath before going after my professional passion again. Spent the time with family, traveled in Egypt performed music shows, played a lot of football, met incredible leaders across companies and segments and read close to 15 books

May 2017 – Jul 2024 · 7 yrs 2 mos

• Owner of the product portfolio at Simplilearn (Ranked among the top training providers globally and focused on transforming organizations and individuals). The owner of all product decisions from the day to day tactical to the long-ranging strategic.
• Ecommerce and Growth Platforms: Drive traffic and lead growth through the 8Million MAU online portals. Also own the sales automation tools and hence drive traffic to lead and lead to order for this platform. As part of this platform, drive growth of the SkillUP platform where free articles, videos, webinars drive 30K monthly certificate shares and constitutes a large part of the top of the funnel
• LMS, learning tools and learner operations: Product manage and own the platform for 70K paid users (MAU) and 1M free users (MAU). The platform is AI enabled and has AI driven evaluations and AI interactions. The entire platform and operations delivers CSAT of 4.6+/5 and a completion rate 5x the industry norm.
• Programs: Product manage, develop and deliver the programs and the curriculum that is delivered in partnership with some of the biggest university names in the world (MIT, Caltech, IIT Kanpur, Purdue, Imperial and so on) and also with some of the biggest industry names in the world (Amazon, Google, KPMG, IBM and Microsoft to name a few). Pricing, promotions, product, place and people sits with this team This platform operates across B2B and B2C.
• Overall experience and scale owner for the business across growth, conversion, experience, completion and placements.

Mar 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Accountable for everything from product vision through delivery via the product management, design, engineering/QE and the content teams. Owner of the customer experience, the product roadmap and product delivery helping drive the company's financial goals.

Jul 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Austin

• Lead the compute public cloud portfolio of products (largest cloud portfolio within rackspace at ~$400M annual revenue) for the public cloud business within Rackspace. Owner of the Strategy, P&L, roadmap, customer voice for this IaaS cloud business across the virtual cloud servers and bare metal cloud servers.
• Grew the compute revenue ~25% during my leadership period. Some Examples: Carina Beta (Container as a service offering) that grew from 0 to thousands of user in 6 months. OnMetal (bare metal server offering) that has exceeded business goals immediately after launch and is continuing to exceed forecasts.
• Install base growth owner for the public cloud, driving 25% growth among the top strategic accounts over a 6 month period during my ownership. Won critical account deals through product delivery and partnership with these accounts. Owner of the Install Base growth plans and P&L goals. Drove a 75% improvement in product reliability leading to greater growth in the install base and turning around reliability NPS to historical highs for the business.
• Managed a team of product managers guiding, mentoring and serving them to allow them the greatest latitude and growth possible, while leading the business outcomes of a matrixed organization across product, engineering, support, marketing and UX around my products and domains.

Feb 2014 – Jul 2014 · 5 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Took a break from the workforce to explore various interests such as music production, golf, advanced swimming and music composition. Connected more with the family and spent as much time as I could with them. Introspected and passively looked around for exciting workplaces that had a people strategy aligned with my own views (servant leadership, transparency, direct honesty and a maniacal focus on results). while allowing me to make a real difference to their bottom-line. Came out refreshed, clearer about what I was passionate about and even more connected to my family.

Jan 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Championed product management, portfolio planning, and business development for >$600M line of storage and cloud computing products.
• Closely partnered with customers, sales, advanced engineering/CTO team to create real products and offerings spanning cloud, XaaS, storage, converged solutions and big data domains.
• Resourcefully initiated and provided influential business concepts and requirements for next-generation high-end portfolio products encompassing storage solutions for SMB, large enterprise, Big Data and XaaS/Cloud space.
• Oversaw P&L management as business owner of Dell mid-range and high-end storage platforms, licensing system, associated software systems and third-party integrations.
• Drove concepts for virtualization and XaaS markets including hyper-converged solution built in-house alongside partnership with key market disruptors.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs

• Top ranked program management leader at Dell. Consistently above goals in all dimensions.
• Exercised sharp organizational skills toward holding cross-functional, general management and portfolio ownership across three lines of business for network attached storage (NAS) business. The product line received multiple industry awards for innovation, quality and competitive differentiation subsequently (searchstorage.com award for quality, storage vision award for innovation to name a few)
• Directed, motivated and supervised core business team (services, quality, marketing, engineering/test, sales, factory, product support) to achieve targets for P&L and customer satisfaction.
• Drove extensive "Go to market" plans in action including the first of its kind channel strategy, special pricing for acquisition customers and sales commitments to drive increased P&L realization 10% in excess of goals for the year.
• Grew new business (NAS/File systems) from the grounds up (Revenue=$0) to an excess of $100M in 2 years. Proposed expansion strategies to fuel the next generation of growth beyond the current plan.
• Drove specific action plans around customer quality and experience issues resulting in a 25% improvement in portfolio quality.
• Key leader in the post M&A integration of 4 Dell Storage acquisitions (Exanet, EqualLogic, Compellent and Ocarina) with the explicit target of successful people and process integration alongside new value creation through the development of the NAS portfolio.
• Key driver of the OLP process (SDLC for Dell) and owner of the early concept process integration into the larger funding model. My process was adopted company wide to fund/develop and transition early ideas to delivery teams.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs

• Tasked with delivering UEFI based embedded systems management solutions for server portfolio by efficiently directing, mentoring and guiding team of 60+ engineers and technicians through seamless release via integrated Agile approach.
• Recognized as division’s Agile roll-out champion, successfully increasing Agile reach and effectiveness 100%.
• Strengthened defect early detection and closure rate by 15% and employed Agile methodology to
• deliver 20% more features than originally planned.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr

• Earned promotion to manage team of full-time employees and interns and strategic direction for the NI-Serial product line.
• Devised product roadmaps and other executive communication presentations.
• Steered efforts to propel revenue growth by 14% for product line within 24 months.
• As lead recruiter for group and division, surpassed assigned goals through excellence in onboarding and recruitment of top talent.
• Slashed process costs by 35% as software engineering process co-owner for company.

Aug 2003 – May 2006 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Embedded software engineer for USB, Ethernet and GPIB products.
• Large scale architecture with a clear focus on good architecture and solid coding standards. C++ and Design Patterns based code base.
• Business owner, Product lead and Lead engineer for this product line.

Jun 2001 – Aug 2003 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Embedded software engineer for USB, Ethernet and GPIB products within large scale architecture.
• Demonstrated proficiency in programming with C++ and Design Patterns.