Archana Khetan Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Portfolio Strategy, Market Research, Pricing, Cloud/AI journeys, Profitability and Growth - Advisory services on Product Management and GTM

AI in Networking Research Paperhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdC_tXzCRvg&t=8s

San Jose, CA

Product Management lead for $3B Enterprise Routing/SD-WAN Infrastructure, Cloud delivery and GTM teams. Led the Tier 1 launch of Catalyst 8000 Edge Series – a complete portfolio refresh across physical, virtual and cloud form-factors to enable customer transition to multi-cloud, SD-WAN/SASE and 5G. Finalized new subscription-based pricing models, conducted.

Greater New York City Area

Led Product Strategy and PortfolioManagement for EMC group (formerly Motorola Solutions/Symbol), the #1 market leader of mobile computing platforms and mobility software solutions in Retail, T&L, Manufacturing and Health Care. The EMC business grew double-digits from $1.3B to $1.7B and significant market share growth during my tenure.Full stack.

Portfolio Management lead for Cisco's $6B DCS group encompassing Compute (UCS), Switching (Nexus), Storage (MDS), Virtualization and Cloud Management offerings. Created Cloud and Application centric, Unified DC vision and strategy for business and technology decision makers. Presented to Senior Customer Execs (CIOs, LOB users, Infrastructure directors).

Incubated Juniper’s EX Ethernet switching product portfolio from inception to a ~$500M annual business. Built Product roadmap with differentiation around virtual chassis technology and drove product platform, software features and network management requirements. Defined silicon and product level requirements for differentiation on network visibility.

Product management lead for various strategic initiatives involving integration of acquired NetScreen Security (Firewall, IDP, SSL VPN) and Peribit WAN Acceleration Services technologies into JUNOS.Managed Software roadmaps for Branch routing, Security and WAN Acceleration services.

Drove the product strategy and software roadmap for High Perf Computing (HPC), Internet Exchange Point and Large Data Center deployments of Force10 E-Series, industry’s highest performing Ethernet switch-router. Released full FCAPS capable Element Management System (EMS) from definition to launch in 3 months with a team of 2 developers.

Drove product roadmap and subscription based pricing model for SmartPipes site-to-site cloud-based VPN service activation software that was sold through Service Providers.Defined a better architecture for solution scalability by using GRE tunnels to carry reachability information. Submitted as an IETF draft.

Consultant on various Projects driving business strategy, infrastructure and security architecture for enterprise (Intel, Bank of America, PG&E, Savemart) and service providers (PacBell NAP).

WAN Architecture lead. Led the RFP process and vendor selection for a new ATM/FR/IP Backbone.

Executive Program, Leadership And Strategic Marketing

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

4.0 GPA

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Graduated as University Topper, Gold Medalist.