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TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS EXECUTIVE

Building and leading global organizations to deliver innovative enterprise, SaaS, and embedded software products/services. Driving software business units through vision, strategy, architecture, execution, operations, M&A and customer engagements. Passion for continuous value delivery, powering quality turnarounds, process transformations, and leveraging latest technologies.

Building and Leading Agile Orgs (200+ employees)

Mission Critical Products & Services ($100MM+)

US, Russia, China, Israel, and India (expat)

Security, Wireless, Collaboration, Mobile

Innovator and Technologist - 12 Patents

Process/Culture Transformations - Agile/SAFe®

Strategic M&A Integration - Technology/People

Leadership in Startup & Corporate Environments

Customer Orientation/Empathy/Partnership

DevOps, CI/CD Retooling, 24x7x365 Operations

WORK EXPERIENCE

CA TECHNOLOGIES 2011 - 2015

VP, Engineering, Massachusetts, USA Security Business Unit: 2012-15

Engineering head for market leading IAM security product lines, CA SiteMinder, AuthMinder, and CloudMinder (SaaS) with a team of 200+ across US and India. Organic and M&A technology growth.

Strengthened portfolio strategy and roadmap in close collaboration with sales, strategy & PM leads.

Energized sales by releasing innovative features & higher performance on a faster release cadence.

Achieved 20% gain in expense/revenue ratio through aggressive work on top & bottom line.

Transformed development methodology (Agile/SAFe®/TDD), mindset (accountability/transparency/ self-directed), and toolchain (devops-modern CI/CD tools) improving multi-site productivity.

Engaged and expanded business with high profile customers like Pfizer, ADP, HP, Amex, Bank of America, & UBS through joint strategy development, collaborative execution, quality improvements and MTTR/backlog reductions.

Sr. Director, Engineering, Hyderabad, India Security Business Unit: 2011

Brought onboard to head the CA security business unit in India and insource execution of the flagship security product line. Delivered full stack organization ahead of schedule within a year.

Reduced expenses by over $4MM/year through planning and executing a major transition from long standing (10+ year) outsourcing vendor to CA India without impacting programs.

Established in-house, full product lifecycle expertise on complex security products by hiring and ramping up a 150+ member engineering organization.

Created strong management and technical leadership that led the team with a can-do attitude to embrace challenge, collaborate, focus on quality, and on-time delivery.

INTEL CORPORATION, OREGON, USA 1993 - 2010

Sr. Engineering Manager Ultra Mobile Group: 2009-10

Led the integration effort for the entire Linux based software stack for Intel's Atom based phones and tablets. Set the vision and established scalable structures, processes and toolsets for quality delivery.

Improved execution and full stack quality by designing and restructuring a multi-site 90 member organization with systems, integration, validation, delivery and support engineers.

Trusted advisor for software. Created strategy for Board Support Packages (BSP) to standardize and scale software platform delivery.

Accelerated development, debugging and maturing of BSP by implementing new metrics, processes and CI/CD toolset (Git, Gerrit, Hudson).

Sr. Engineering Manager Mobile Wireless Group: 2005-08

Engineering leader with responsibility for the notebook WiFi software stack and architecture. Managed overall group budget and planning cycles. Transitioned organization from San Diego to Portland.

Delivered innovation across four generations of Windows/Linux wireless software for Intel platforms

- New UI/UX, WiFi 11n, My-WiFi, Wireless Display, WiFi Protected Setup (WPS), and iAMT.

Demonstrated quality turnaround with newly established 70 member global organization (US, Israel, and India) with reductions in customer reported defects release-over-release.

Raised customer satisfaction scores and won back strategic customers through establishment of

“Customer Driven By” program.

Led strategic cross-industry initiatives on Wireless Security Supplicant, Cisco Enterprise Extensions, Microsoft Wireless architecture, and Linux WiMAX stack.

Engineering Manager Software and Solutions Group: 2002-04

Build and lead a global team to create a new DevOps solution from concept to production – providing support for a distributed engineering group spread across 18 worldwide sites.

Architected, built, and deployed an enterprise solution called Intel Software Factory with an aggressive ramp from concept to launch in 9 months.

Built multi-function engineering teams in US, Russia, China and India from scratch.

Delivered multiple enterprise class tools/services for Intel’s Global Software and Solutions Group.

Established Agile-like practices to drive up product quality through Enhanced Release Model, Virtual Testing Model, Global Infrastructure, Data Accessibility projects and Software Factory.

Senior Staff Software Architect Internet Media Services: 1999-2001

Founding member and software architect for Media Streaming Cloud startup incubated within Intel. Significant contributions in launch of the service and growth of overall business. Later sold to BBC.

Architectural/technology leadership for 90+ engineers across media cloud implementation – Tenant

-Content Portal/High-performance Viewer System/Content Distribution/Data Services/Monitoring.

Delivered patented technology for uninterrupted media streaming across multiple hosting sites.

Data center 24/7/365 operations, support, and on-boarding experience.

Rapid innovation delivery through SaaS development and Continuous Integration-Delivery model.

Senior Software Engineer & Architect Business Communications Products: 1993-98

Architect and lead for the Intel TeamStation System – an industry leading conference room audio, video, and data collaboration solution.

Patented & implemented several collaboration technologies – protocols for multi-phase conference termination, distributed directory, co-browsing, business card exchanges, and document server.

Delivered award winning conference room UX/UI from conceptualization through implementation.

Design and development of common conferencing services for application suite (C/C++, SQL). EDUCATION

Certified SPC, Scaled AGILE Trainer and Consultant, 2015, USA

Multiple Executive Leadership Development Programs, CA and Intel, USA

M.S. in Computer Engineering, 1993, University of South Carolina, USA

B.E. in Electronics & Communications Engineering, 1991, IIT, India

PATENTS

Cloud: US Patent 7,454,485 & 6,317,777

Conferencing: US Patent 5,961,620 & 5,737,530

Collaboration: US Patent 6,108,028 & 6,025,871

Contact Sharing: US Patent 5,774,117 & 5,717,863

Photography: US Patent 6,351,282

Co-Browsing: US Patent 6,182,073; 7,124,355 & 5,983,262

WORK ELIGIBILITY:

US Citizen

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