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Canada

Business manager (founder) and product manager Town Ticks at Novelma. Town Ticks mission is to be a responsible social media, best city information system and best business updates platform. We are the world first responsible social media product and the only place in internet dedicated to giving business updates. Our city information system is competitive being not too narrow to force citizens visit many websites and not too broad to overwhelm. Best one stop-shop to get a diverse snapshot of a city. We prefer information over entertainment, Businesses trust us to give us updates meant for their customers, as business updates is one of our main newsfeeds and we deliver business updates in most effective manner. Town Ticks is also the best city social network for citizens with motto, a better urban life means better life.

Canada

Research on tech adoption models for smart glass wider consumer penetration. Moreover, research on sharing economy business models & profitability and recommendations for Uber. Research was done as part of MBA.

Canada

A short term co-op on market research and analysis of satellite imaging industry.

Global

Single founder, worked on Strategy, Product Management, Sales, HR, Fundraising, Innovation and Market Research. We made products with vision of a) making internet mobile on smart phones through contextual intelligent services b) consildation of digital services for business through omni channel SAAS platform.Company stopped operations in 2018.2011-2013Company first product vision was mobile based voice bio-metric service at a country level to authenticate people by Gov, before they can make social media profiles / use any E-Government or Financial Service. Targeted to end fake social media & digital identity plus end of internet passwords.2014-2015Company second project was business mobile apps platform to bring businesses to smart phone to exploit smart phone mobility angle where content could be contextual and personalized unlike web or social media.2016-2018Previous Qairus mobile business apps platform was transformed to omni-channel platform for businesses and contextual application for consumers. The vision for business was to reduce internet services fatigue for businesses through one platform for all non ERP and external digital needs. The vision for consumers side was to offer one super app with morphing interface that worked inside business venues (contextual) and outside for any generic consumer business interaction.

Did research on energy optimization for video at algorithmic level (parametric video codec).

Helsinki

Participated in Nokia attempt to enter home electronics market (CPE) to make mobile remote control of home. Work was related to smart home domain.

Helsinki, Finland

Participated in development activities in Maemo (Linux OS) and Nokia internet tablet series.

Helsinki, Finland

Research on sensor networks communication for internet of things relating to performance enhancement of IOT sensor networks or Adhoc networks. Developed dynamic adaptable routing algorithm (Modified AODV) on multi-hop, distributed wireless Adhoc connected nodes (Handheld Linux Devices in project.). The algorithm would enhance battery life of individual nodes and lifetime of whole network. The proposed routing algorithm also avoided the congestion by traffic distribution, normalization and routing paths adaptation.

Audio and Video Codecs (mpeg4, AAC, mp3, H.26x ) software real-time execution performance enhancement by re writing whole codec software and signal processing algorithms. Optimization was done by exploiting advanced compilers features, 64-bit processors architectures, special instruction set, assembly and parallel processing. Moreover, wrote real time multithreaded demo audio video applications and done fixed point software analysis in MATLAB.

Masters In Business Administration

Finance, Investments & Business Strategy.

Masters In Telecommunications, Mobile Communications

Bachelor Of Science In Electronics, Computers Engineering, Signals Processing