Balasubramaniam Sekhar

*, ************ *****, *** ******, Adyar, Chennai - 600020.

ac8khd@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Entrepreneurial MBA professional with 15 years of experience in startup development, team leadership, SW/HW development, research, operations, customer service, QA, project management and program management. Result-oriented decision maker with business experience, technical knowledge, implementation skills, creative thinking and a high level of ethics.

EDUCATION

University of Houston, C. T. Bauer College of Business, USA Master of Business Administration, May 2012, GPA: 3.3/4.000 Graduate Certificate Program in Leadership Development University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

Master of Science in Telecommunications, May 2004, GPA: 3.42/4.000 University of Madras, INDIA

Bachelors in Engineering, First Class

EXPERIENCE

InnoSense USA and INDIA

Founder ( https://balasekhar.wixsite.com/innosense ) (2009-present)

● Devised business model, which assists leaders and teams in optimized decision-making yielding improved turnover rates

● Created proprietary business platform (“The Square”) to assist small businesses with C-level decision-making

● Created a strategic value to the Star of Hope organization in areas of mailing, fundraising, branding and partnerships

Polaris Wireless, Inc. Mountain View, CA, USA

Wireless Systems Integrator and Support Engineer (2007-2009)

● Managed, led and engineered Polaris wireless location software projects worth $4 million

● Led and trained engineers for the setup of offshore team in India during company expansion process

● Performed customer integrations and presentations that led to successful closure of seventy projects

● Collaborated with sales and marketing team to successfully price Polaris software packages

● Cross-collaborated with quality assurance, software development, operations and research teams to solve customer issues

● Designed, authored and reviewed multiple documents pertaining to training, product documentation, proposals and in-house documentations

AT&T Newport Beach, CA, USA

Senior Consultant (SageTel Solutions – Wireless start-up company) (2005-2007)

● Key person involved in advising, acquiring/ implementing projects and development of the startup

● Managed and provided expert assistance to AT&T projects in US worth $10 million

● Led a 5-engineer team to successfully sustain current projects and structure new business proposals

● Prepared training documents and trained project managers and engineers for projects and deliverables

● Initiated productive company recruiting presence at University of California, Irvine career fair led to hiring interns

● Assisted, reviewed and approved multiple training and process documentations Andrew Corporation Ashburn, VA, USA

Test and Commissioning Engineer (2005)

● Accuracy tested and managed AT&T projects in U.S worth $7 million and met AT&T state emergency-911 deadlines

PROJECTS

Cognizant Technology Solutions (INDIA), Software Development Project

● Researched, designed, implemented and coded the Bluetooth protocol stack T-Mobile (USA), Telecommunications Project in Cellular Network Development

● Radio-frequency design, planning and testing of T-Mobile cellular network in Washington D.C. area University of Houston (USA), leadership model development project called INSIDE-OUTSIDE model

● Developed model to explain leadership based on leader’s true values (INSIDE) and external factors (OUTSIDE) that contribute to leader’s iterative growth in his/her decision-making process and action CERTIFICATIONS

● Six Sigma deployment leader (CSSDLTM) (ID: 560***********) - International Six Sigma InstituteTM, Switzerland

● Certificate in Accounting fundamentals, Introduction to corporate finance, Reading financial statements, Fixed income fundamentals and Excel crash course - Corporate finance institute, USA

● Certificate in Currency Exchange and Introduction to valuation and investing – Alison, Ireland

● Certificate in Stock market investing for beginners and Introduction to business ownership – Udemy, USA ADDITIONAL

● Published four International publications in the field of artificial intelligence and telecommunications

● Awarded best employee recognition from Andrew Corporation, SageTel Solutions and Polaris Wireless

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