Oct 2020 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Responsible for Telecom Element Management Systems (EMS) Applications, including the Data Pipelines, Analytics and GUI.
• Hired and scaled the teams
• First ever product release with brand new architecture
• Fast paced delivery with rich content
• Agile scrum methodology use in a mostly traditional environment
• Constant focus on automation, efficiency and productivity improvements

Sep 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

Jun 2015 – Jul 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Converged Platforms and Solutions Division - India site lead with direct functional engineering responsibility for hybrid cloud platforms

Jul 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• This role included being the India site lead for the VPLEX engineering team comprising of Development Engineers, Quality Engineers, CPE and Escalation Engineering teams.
• Also head the VPLEX Quality Engineering function globally, with teams in India, USA and Canada.
• Key responsibilities include - Strategic planning (release, roadmap, budget, priorities) along with global stakeholders, driving continuous improvement initiatives, leading teams to deliver a high quality leading edge product and technology and overall India team site management.

Nov 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

• Customer base creation: Based on my prior experience including technology knowledge, in depth understanding of product companies and reputation for good work, was able to get several customers in the first few months.
• Placed people at sr. levels in various companies.
• Worked with small startups to design and grow the organization.

Jun 2007 – Nov 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• General manager role, involving product delivery for products in the manageability space, organization level activities, solution and product eco system interfacing, roadmap decisions, organization development , quality initiatives and hiring. Successfully, handled multiple product and solution transitions from the US. Groomed and mentored technologists and managers successfully. Technologies/products/domains included server diagnostics, infrastructure (server, storage, network) management, performance and power management. Organizational level activities included lead/active role in diversity forums, process and quality forums.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2007 · 7 yrs

• Led a large team of people, which included managers, technical architects, unix systems developers and technical writers. Team core strengths included understanding of the principle of computing, foundations of computer engineering, unix OS, C/C++ and perl programming, excellent analysis, design and problem solving skills. Products were all in the clustering and application management space. Key achievements included, -conception, evangelization & delivery of several new product and module ideas and significant say in product release cycle planning, evolution of processes, tools in a global development environment.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs

• Sr member technical staff - focused on projects in the networking protocol space ( MPLS, ATM)

Jan 1994 – Jan 1998 · 4 yrs

• Worked on projects in the network protocol and cellular digital network space. Mostly focused on voice communication.

Jan 1992 – Jan 1994 · 2 yrs

• First job :-) Worked on network management protocols.(SNMP)