Management Manager

Ramesh Neelmegh Phone: 510-***-****

*** **** ******, *******, ** 94539 Email:

*********@*****.***

A senior technical role in a fast paced high growth company.

Summary of Professional Skills:

A results oriented, hands-on leader with over 20 years of engineering,

project management and marketing experience in the network infrastructure

and network security industry.

Track record of recruiting top talent, building effective teams, processes

and delivering products on time and within budget.

Proven ability to communicate with customers and various functional groups

at all levels of management.

Ability to resolve conflicts and prioritize demands in a dynamic

environment to meet company objectives.

Have managed multi-site teams in the US, India, Rumania, Taiwan working on

multiple products and parallel releases.

Strong system and software background in large networking systems for

telecom and enterprise markets. Domain knowledge of networking, switching,

IP routing security, MPLS, VPNs, Network Management, ATM, broadband

cable & wireless networks

RMN Consulting, Fremont Ca 2008- 2010

Technology & business

strategy Consultant

. Executive consultant to startups in the area of networking technology,

business strategy and customer engagement. Companies include a

technology outsourcing company that is a leader in video processing

and networking

o Represented company as the key network technologist to customers

o Helped company win key accounts in the bay area

o Provided leadership to the Engineering team in India

o Performed due diligence and helped with M&A of another

networking company

. Technical & business advisor to a wireless mesh company serving the

far east market

. Help a smart grid startup with network planning for their key power

utility companies

o Help utilities migrate to IP networks and achieve NERC/CIP

compliance

.

Ixia, Calabasas, Ca 2006 to 2008

Director, platform

& protocols

Ixia is a leader in IP performance testing with 2006 revenues of over $170M

and over 700 employees.

. Managed a team of sixty plus QA professionals for IxOS platform and

IxNetwork (Routing, switching, security protocols) product lines.

Teams located in Southern California, India and Rumania.

. Represent QA at cross functional teams. Managed four major releases

and eight Service Packs releases to Enterprise customers such as

Cisco, Alcatel, Juniper and Service Providers. Responsible for

feature, system testing & automation.

. Interfaced with customers to better understand their requirements,

managed customer bake-offs against competitors, visited customer sites

to handle priority issues

Secured Streams

2003- 2006,

Founder, CEO &VP Engineering

The product is a Content Security appliance that prevents accidental or

intentional leakage of company confidential information and helps

Enterprises meet regulatory compliance. The patented technology based on

UCB patents and work done at Stanford University, offers unprecedented

protection of unstructured data located on information repositories.

. Defined the business plan for a content security product after

validating the product idea with senior executives of Fortune 500

companies. Made numerous presentations to investors to raise seed round

funding for the company

. Recruited the core engineering team and developed a fully functional

prototype of the system. The prototype detected confidential

information leakage of any file type over web mail or IM channel. Signed

up two Fortune 500 companies as Beta customers. The prototype was used

to raise additional capital and to sign up additional

customers.

RMN Consulting 2003-2004

Consulted for a startup on delivering a wireless mesh solution for Service

Providers overseas. The product is now being sold in Malaysia & China.

Xpeed Networks

2000 - 2003, VP Engineering &CTO

Xpeed is a maker of broadband access customer premises equipment based on

XDSL technology such as bridges, router, PCI, USB adapter, and Intelligent

Access Equipment (IADs), xDSL modems, routers that would serve as mini-POP

for the Service Provider. The company filed for IPO in 2001 with over $20M

in sales and later merged with a private company. Development teams in

California and in Bangalore, India.

. Worked closely with Marketing, Sales and customers to define product

feature sets. Lead a multi-disciplinary Engineering & QA team of over

eighty through multiple releases of MTU, XDSL Routers, bridges, adapters,

eNDIS drivers for Windows PC. Protocols supported Frame Relay, RIP 2,

PPP over ATM, IP over ATM, MPoA, MPoFR, Web & AdventNet based Network

Management.

. Worked closely with customers such as NTT, KT, Hanaro and Softbank to

meet and exceed customer's unique requirements under very tight time

pressure while managing multiple parallel product releases on schedule.

Network Peripherals

1997-1999, VP Engineering

NPI is a pioneer in FDDI technology and was the leading supplier of FDDI

adapters and switches to Enterprises. . NPI is also a supplier of Ethernet

switches and a pioneer in stackable IP switching/routing products aimed at

the SME market. Development teams in California, NY, Texas, Hsinchu and

Taipei, Taiwan.

. Managed a multi-site US and overseas team of over eighty Hardware,

Firmware, Network Management, QA and Program Managers. Successfully

released six products that contributed to more than sixty percent of

company revenues.

. Improved the quality and timeliness of product releases by instituting a

Product Life Cycle Process. Rebuilt QA team in Milpitas and built a

Network Management team in Milpitas to manage next generation products.

. Lead three separate product lines- low to medium density Ethernet

switches, NuSwitch Layer 3 Gigabit IP (OSPF, RIP 2, BGP) switch/router

plus NuVision NMS through numerous releases on an aggressive schedule and

met all delivery commitments. At the same time supported large OEM

customers such as 3COM, Sun Microsystems with feature enhancements on

legacy FDDI products without impacting development schedules.

Hybrid Networks

1996-1997, VP Engineering

Hybrid Networks is a pioneer in IP based broadband cable modem and wireless

products with the largest deployment of last mile wireless products through

its carrier partners, AT&T, Sprint and MCI. Product consists of cable

modem, head end and Management Station.

Lead the Engineering team in the development of industry first IP based

CMTS, Cable modems and Management System. Built the Engineering

organization to over thirty people and a built the SQA team from scratch.

Team consisted of Embedded, Protocol, Network Management and QA Engineers.

Served as Interim Director of QA Instituted SDLC with formal reviews of

deliverables at every phase of the project.

Successfully released two products and took a third one to Beta trial. Met

the needs of demanding customers such as AT&T and Sprint resulting in high

degree of customer satisfaction. Supported domestic and overseas customer

commitments with limited resources and at the same time staying on track

with long term deliverables. The success of these products resulted in the

company going public.

National Semiconductor Corporation

Senior Marketing Manager

1993 to 1996

. Lead the Product Marketing initiative within National in ATM and

Ethernet switching. Performed detailed analysis of market size,

competition and differentiation, revenue plan, go to market strategy

and presented business case to higher management.

. Responsible for overall product, road map, product development,

project management, releases, pricing, and OEM launch of the industry

first ATM OC-3 adapter with LAN emulation and signaling. Continued to

support several large OEMs after the product release. Trained sales

force on product capabilities, industry trends and value proposition

to customer. Launched next generation development. Represented NSC at

the ATM forum Traffic Management group

. Next, working with other team members defined the networking strategy

of the BU and identified companies for acquisition and partnering.

UB Networks/Tandem Computers

Director of Software,

Previously Senior Software Manager

1990 to 1993

. Headed a team of protocol and driver developers.. Developed industry

first TCP/IP, XNS 32-bit VxD stack for Microsoft. Developed industry

first STREAMS driver for intelligent TCP/IP adapters for SCO Unix.

Developed TCP/IP and OSI protocol stacks for DOS, Windows/NT and Unix.

Developed industry first DHCP jointly with Boeing, Partnered with FTP

software to develop a suite of Windows GUI applications such as FTP,

Telnet & Ping.

. Ported SMB client/server over NetBIOS and Lan Manager. Developed NetBIOS

Name Server jointly with Microsoft to reduce SMB/NetBIOS broadcasts.

Ported SMB server over TCP & SCO Unix.

. Developed Network Management products (both embedded and GUI) SNMP agents

for UB's Access/One terminal servers, bridges and NMS GUI applications

over UB's Network Management platform, NetDirector to manage the above

devices.

Bell Northern Research/ Nortel (Member of Scientific Staff,

Integrated Voice and Data Systems, 1982-1989)

Educational Background:

MSEE, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD

BSEE, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD

(BE honors) PSG College of Technology, University of Madras, Coimbatore,

India

ATM Forum Ambassador 1994

Granted three patents in the area of broadband Internet Access technology

Continuation Education in Computer Science and Business Management at North

Carolina State University and Stanford University

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