Anima Ade

Product Manager

Bangalore Rural, Karnataka, India28 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Product Management within Telecommunications.
Proven track record in managing complex engineering projects.
Strong leadership in embedded systems and software development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications Product Manager with extensive experience in embedded systems and project management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProgram ManagementProject ManagementEmbedded SystemsNetworkingSoftware Development

Other Skills

ScrumManagementRTOSTeam LeadershipWireless NetworkingTelecommunicationsSystem IntegrationRoadmap ManagementEngineering DeliveryCustomer Management3rd Party / Vendor ManagementContract ManagementAgile MethodologyRequirements AnalysisResource Management

Experience

28 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

16 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Alcatel-lucent

Senior Product Manager

Jan 2010 – Present · 16 yrs 5 mos

Alcatel Lucent is a French Global telecom equipment company, with focus on fixed, mobile, and converged networking hardware, IP Technologies, Software and services. Alcatel Lucent also holds Bell Labs, one of the largest R&D facilities in the communication industry.
Responsibilities:
 SPOC for Project Delivery of Integrated Control and Monitoring System (ICMS)
 PLM - Product Management for Intelligent Travel Time System (ITTS)
 Managing Business Case and Vendors
 Creating and Managing Product Roadmap
 Converting Roadmap items to Engineering requirements
 Engineering Delivery and Processes Management
 System Integration with potential Partners and Products
 Managing customer trials
 Product Promotion, Marketing and Documentation
 Certification of Hardware Components
 Patent (pending) jointly with Bell Labs for Alternate Energy Sourcing of Outdoor equipment

Software DevelopmentProgram ManagementScrumEmbedded SystemsManagementRTOS+5

Sonim technologies

Project Manager

Mar 2008 – May 2010 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Sonim Technologies India Pvt is a Start-up company, Pioneer in building World’s toughest GSM Phones. This also is one of the best End-To-End Solution provider for Voice Over IP – Push-To-Talk technology. Sonim has won many awards and acknowledgements for their Rugged Handsets catering to much geography.
Responsibilities:
 Single POC for all Native and Java Applications for variants of Sonim Handsets
 Managing Engineering Projects for Push-To-Talk, Native and Java Applications
 Engineering Delivery and Processes Management
 Customer Management across all Geographies
 3rd Party / Vendor Management
 Contract Management
 Process Enhancements and Implementation company-wide
 Operations and Support Interfacing for Engineering Deliveries

Project ManagementEngineering DeliveryCustomer Management3rd Party / Vendor ManagementContract Management

Techmahindra

Project Manager

Jun 2006 – Feb 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos

Tech Mahindra Ltd (formerly known as Mahindra British Telecom) is India’s topmost Service providing company in the Telecom Domain. It caters to complete telecom eco-system including leading service providers, equipment manufacturers and independent software vendors worldwide.
Responsibilities:
 Offshore Development Centre (ODC) Management
 Project Management of Embedded and Mobility CSU in the Set-Top-Box domain
 Handled 2 projects – 1 using ISDB-T standards and other DVB-C
 Customer Delivery Management
 Process Management – Adopting and Implementing Agile Methodology
 Architect for End-to-End Solutions for Multi-Function Set-Top-Boxes
 Requirements Analysis and Designing
 Resource Management
 Technical White Papers Presentation
 Pre-Sales and attending to RFPs

Project ManagementEmbedded SystemsAgile MethodologyRequirements AnalysisResource Management

Tivo

Senior Systems Engineer

Jun 2004 – May 2005 · 11 mos

Evangelist, Creator and Leader in DVRs set-top boxes catering to world leaders like Sony, Panasonic, Phillips, etc for various cable television service providers.
Role: Sr. Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Led team to provide RTOS portability layer on TiVo’s Set-Top Boxes using C++ library, on x86 and MIPS processors.
 Provided features - memory management, threading, sync, program startup and shutdown
 Interface registry and simple data structures
 Designed and implemented Semaphore APIs for multi-threaded Media Object Models
 Mounted NFS for TiVo DVRs and test on it
 Programmed proprietary libraries for Embedded Linux kernel

RTOSC++Embedded SystemsMulti-threadingMemory Management

Enterasys networks

Senior Systems Engineer

Jan 2000 – May 2004 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Worked on designing & developing Enterasys' Next Generation Secure Network products like Wireless Access Point (802.11b), Wireless Network Adapter, Ad-hoc Wireless Networks etc.
 Designed and developed SNMP Agents for Wireless LAN access point management
 Implemented support routines for IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.1x, EAPOL & RADIUS
 Generated & managed MIB handler for standard RFCs & proprietary
 Adhoc Wireless Network's Dominating set for ensuring complete connected topology (for both Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 protocols)
 Planned and coordinated the development efforts with third party vendor for Wireless Network Adaptors for Mac OS

Wireless NetworkingSNMPIEEE 802.11RADIUSNetworking

Microsoft corporation

Systems Engineer

Jun 1999 – Dec 1999 · 6 mos

 Ported Windows Media SDK over to Mac OS for the Net Show Streaming Media
 Designed and developed Digital Audio/Video client Playback engine for Mac OS
 Provided Networking over OpenTransport Layer on WinNT server with TCP/IP and UDP connections

Digital Audio/VideoNetworkingOpenTransport Layer

Apple inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 1996 – May 1999 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Responsible for design and development on Mac platform of presentation software tools - Show Maker / Slide Maker, and Network interface - OpenTransport.
Also worked on Newton Press embedded platform (A first of its kind PDA)
 Team Lead for this Golden Master shrink-wrapped product running on Mac and Windows, for Newton Press, Show Maker / Slide Maker
 Designed and developed a Non-Linear Audio/Video Editing Package, an Analog/Digital video & audio playback application which is used to create Production/Shows. Also an application suite that creates slides, capable of exporting non-editable PICT or QuickTime movie, containing editable objects, including pictures in multiple layers
 Implemented features like real-time anti-aliasing, transparency on bitmaps, multi-layered objects manipulation, special effects (blur, fire etc.) and transitions effects

Software DevelopmentPresentation SoftwareEmbedded Systems