Avinash is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. His current role is Senior Director of Product Management at Uniphore. Avinash has experience defining strategy and roadmap for products ranging from products that have been in the market for over a decade to launch a brand new product to the market.Before moving into the Product management role, Avinash has played multiple roles within the product engineering, delivery and pre-sales organizations like Product Architect, Solutions Architect, Technical Sales, etc. Avinash has experiences ranging from - Performing market research, roadmap definition, assessing the competitive landscape - Customer-facing roles like pre-sales business case development, product demonstrations, and presentation, solution definition - Core product design, development, and engineering.Avinash possesses strong Communication and interpersonal skills. He is tasked regularly to influence executive leadership teams of enterprises with his presentations. He is also a great team player. He is working closely with multiple standards definition bodies like the Asset Management group of TM Forum, FASG group in GSMA in defining Business process and Technology standards for Telecom Service Providers. He has delivered a talk hosted by Nasscom to help budding product managers with the topic of "Building Products That Customers Love".Avinash interacts with customers, partners, and colleagues from all around the globe. He also is a keen traveler and has visited many countries. This exposure has enabled him to be appreciative of and sensitive to regional and cultural diversities. Avinash holds a Masters's degree in Telecom and Software engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, US and a Bachelors's degree in Electronics and communication engineering from RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, India.Besides his profession, Avinash is an enthusiastic photographer, an amateur painter, loves to travel, interested in astronomy and is also very keen to experience various adventure sports.