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Cupertino, CA
Posted:
July 02, 2015

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SUDHIR WADHWA, MS(Mathematics), MBA

**** ********* ***** • Cupertino, California 95014

408-***-**** • acqjza@r.postjobfree.com

Utilizing over 20 years of experience in Information Technology and Engineering to drive innovative products from concept to revenue.

Living at the Intersection of Engineering, Marketing, Operations, Sales, Service, Partners and customers, blending innovation and experience to create new products. Interested in building platforms for solving Data Center problems – Log management, Predictive Analytics, Advanced Operational Analytics, Network monitoring, Application Performance monitoring, Correlation of Application and Network services using BIG DATA & Machine Learning technologies. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VP Product Management, FixStream Networks, California • Jan 2014 – present: FixStream Networks, venture-backed start-up is building a Big Data analytics and Correlation platform to visualize end-to-end Datacenter and Cloud environment thru "Single Pane of Glass" along with near real-time assurance capabilities. Two years ago, FixStream hired me as advisory board member to shape the company from product management standpoint. Joined full time employee nine months ago as Vice President of product management and alliances. I booted & created pivot and result was Meridian Enterprise Platform, a product that won “Best of INTEROP 2015 Cloud / virtualization” award (http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/special-events/best-of-interop-awards.php?itc=we_ilv_le_ilv_drp_text) I am driving Product Management Strategy and Execution. Key achievements at FixStream Networks:

• Product Owner and partner with VP of Engineering

• Filed two patents - “Method of Discovering Network Topology using Reduction Method” and “ System and method for creating application business group”

• Signed OEM deal with Elastic and Revenue share deal with WebAction. Created partnerships and alliances with Cisco, Elastic, ATT, EMC Ventures, Intel Ventures ServiceNow, and Pluribus Networks

• Created Product Roadmap for Meridian Enterprise, Meridian Cloud, Meridian Mobile, Meridian OpenStack and Meridian extension packs including Security Overlay, PCI Compliance and Oracle extension pack

• Created PRD for Meridian Enterprise platform followed by user stories and sprints based on approved PRD

• Created pricing model for perpetual and subscription model

• Published installation requirement, development scenarios and acceptance criteria for the Meridian platform

• Shipped Meridian Enterprise 0.9.0 release to 9 customers (5 in US, 2 in India, 2 in Europe). GA is June 2015

• Presented to board members in prioritization board meeting for competing projects. We evaluated 16 epic features and selected 3 for December 2015 release.

• Creating Product delivery platform (Quote to cash) for end-user to buy product online. This includes Entitle management, ecommerce, payment engine, download bits provisioning, product features tracking and license enforcement. Go-live June 2015.

• Managing multiple Scrum teams in US and India ensuring cross-team coordination

• Driving product backlog, Sprint Planning, User Stories prioritization, Release Planning, facilitated Sprint Demos, and coordinated daily Scrum meetings for 30+ Engineers in Bangalore & US.

• Presenting prototype screens using Intuos tablet to show the product idea - for example, currently working on Security Overlay for our platform.

• In collaboration with marketing team, supporting creation of sales enablement and customer-facing assets conveying the Meridian message, including presentations, white papers, web pages, battle cards, sales play-books, blogs, press articles, and promotions.

Director (Cloud) - Product Management: Pluribus Networks, California • Jan 2014– Jan 2015: Pluribus Networks is a leader in performance-oriented network virtualization for private and public cloud datacenter. Key achievements at Pluribus Networks:

• Built and delivered Pluribus Networks’ ecommerce Platform to sell Pluribus Applications

• Created PRD and SRD for Pluribus Networks’ Cloud ecommerce Platform

• Headed an agile team to architect, build & implement PN Cloud Platform. Development teams were located in South Africa, Poland, US and India

• Worked with development teams in detailing business requirements and facilitating product testing Director Business Applications: LEAP Motion, California • Nov 2012– Dec 2013: Leap Motion is Venture backed start-up building next generation motion sensing and control technology. I was responsible for Leap Motion's Global Information technology and building ecommerce platform Key achievements at LEAP Motion include:

• Built and delivered ecommerce Apps platform to sell LEAP applications for LEAP platform

• Setup supply-chain infrastructure to get LEAP manufactured in China and ship all over the world

• Implemented NetSuite ERP for 3rd Party Logistics integration for B2C supply chain, BestBuy EDI integration for B2B supply chain, Reverse Logistics (RMA) implementation, Wells Fargo Integration, Airspace Integration for digital goods, Inventory Management, Arena Solutions integration for BOM control, Customer Care Implementation, Zendesk Integration using Cazoomi, 8 x 8 Voice / Chat Integration, License Management, User Roles Management, ODBC Module Implementation for Business Intelligence dashboards, End to End Business Intelligence dashboards using Birst cloud BI platform

• Implemented SalesForce Sales Cloud for Applications developers management, User Roles Management, Creating custom objects to manage managed-accounts and OEM’s, Integration of SalesForce with 3PM to fulfill “developers” controllers unit, Integration between SalesForce and homegrown database -- Developers login and post contact data, developers’ interest data (Apps, Custom Development), Web to Lead, Email to Lead, Box.net, DocuSign Integration, Custom Reports and Dashboards for Developer Relations, Active Apps, Contact emails, Social monitoring using SalesForce Radian 6

Global Information Technology, Enterprise Applications, Operations & Security, Co-CIO Role at Allied Telesis, Tokyo, Japan • Dec 2010– Oct 2012: Allied Telesis is a world class leader in delivering IP/Ethernet network solutions to the global marketplace.

Key achievements at Allied Telesis:

• Global SAP implementation: Project included making SAP Global Budget, SAP Schedule management, SAP Project Planning, SAP Infrastructure Strategy, SAP DR Strategy, SAP global communication management, hiring SAP teams in Japan, USA, India and EMEA, SAP Global Validation phase, SAP Blueprint workshops globally, SAP realization phase, SAP QA, SAP training to end users and SAP Post implementation support. It also included supporting SAP by a 24 x 7 Global Application Maintenance team in Japan and India. I headed SAP implementation from conception phase to go-live.

• Global SalesForce Sales Cloud Rollout (US, EMEA, APAC and Japan) Global IT Director, Corporate IT Applications & Release Engineering at Canesta (acquired by Microsoft), Sunnyvale, California • April 2009– Dec 2010: Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services, devices and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Key achievements at Canesta/ Microsoft:

• Played Key role in Canesta Acquisition by Microsoft

• SERUS ERP implementation

• Managed Release Engineering from code to production

• Managed multiple data centers

Worldwide Director, Corporate IT Applications & Release Engineering at StarCite Inc. (acquired by Active Network), San Jose, California • May 2007– April 2009: Active Network built the largest network of events and organizations for people. It’s a global community of millions. Key achievements at StarCite/ Active Network:

• Played Key role in M & A process

• Managed Global IT Budget (CAPEX / OPEX)

• Managed vendors like HP, Cisco, VMWARE, Data Domain, Riverbed, Hitachi, RSM, Microsoft, HCL India, 1800 services Shanghai, Alliance India, 247 Guatemala to procure IT services and solutions

• Led broad range of global projects such as Cisco Collaboration tools rollout, Marketing Automation system, HP PPM, HP BAC, Service Delivery Platform and content management systems implementation. Responsible for Internal IT Helpdesk, MPLS WAN network, Wireless, Cisco IPCC, Cisco VOIP telephony, Call Centers, Cisco based LAN, Security and compliance

• Migrated office and Data Center from Santa Clara to San Jose successfully with 100+ Employees, 800+ Servers, Cisco VOIP telephony, Cisco Call center infrastructure, Cisco routers, switches and firewalls providing mission critical services to internal IT, QA, and Release engineering. Responsible for Development, QA, UAT and other Release engineering environments based on LAMP (Linux / Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack

• Managed IT core infrastructure services like Exchange server, backup servers, WAN circuits, Voice and Data network, and global help desk management

• Established Call Centers in Shanghai and Guatemala to manage customer calls IT Manager (IT Applications, LAN, WAN) at Altera Corporation, USA • Dec 1995– Dec 2006: Altera provides FPGA, SoC, CPLD and power products.

Key achievements at Altera:

• SAP implementation, SAP Landscape management, SAP performance management of 89 SAP Servers, SAP load testing using HP load runner and product suite

• Part of team to manage 24 x 7 available Data Centers (15) and LAN /WAN / Wireless LAN for 80 locations, 230 business critical WAN circuits, 500+ network nodes & 2000+ Servers. MPLS migration for 48 global sites, WAN optimization & Intelligence

• Introduced and managed methodologies for application profiling, trending, signature patterns, monitoring, security testing, load testing, and apps slowness troubleshooting

• Co-managed cross-functional, cross-team projects of roughly $9.5 million/ yr. Resources include cross-functional global team (SJ, NJ, Ottawa, Penang, UK, HK, and Japan)

• Part of the team to gain SOX 404 compliance for Altera MS – Mathematics

Delhi University, New Delhi, India

MBA– International

University of California, USA

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES

Worked with technology stacks to build end-to-end products – Kafka, Spark, ES, WebAction, REST, D3, and Angular JS. Expertise of elastic products including Elastic search, Logstash, Kibana, Sense, Marvel, and Watcher. Hands-on with R, RStudio to create R products, R packages, and R applications and publish them on web using R Shiny. Extensive experience with Machine Learning algorithms such as Regression, KNN, Random forest and their practical applications in Data Center environment. Knowledge of Hadoop Distributed File System(HDFS), YARN MapReduce v2, Ambari, Oozie workflow, R Hadoop connector, Hive SQL Query, Hbase Columnar store, Sqoop Data exchange and Flume Log collector. Getting hands-on with Spark with Scala & Spark Streaming with Scala. Worked in Cloudera CDH, Hortonworks Hadoop environment. Implemented HP OpenView, BMC Remedy, Nagios, ServiceNow, Solarwinds Orion, Splunk, nGenius, RTM, Sniffer, WildPackets, and Infinistream,

CERTIFICATIONS

Certification in Practical Machine Learning, R Programming, DATA Science Toolbox, CCNA, CCNP, Cisco Wireless, Certified Scrum Master, ITIL and PCI QSA Certifications.



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