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Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

In this dual role as Senior Engineering Director and Site Leader for the Monitoring Solutions business within Life Care Solutions in GE Healthcare, I am responsible for all the Monitoring Solutions portfolio of global products engineered out of India. In addition to the India site, I have teams at other sites (US) which works on my portfolio of products.

Bangaon Area, India

Global Embedded Software Engineering Leader responsible for NextGen Resting ECG Platform & Portfolio of products (Diagnostic Cardiology @GE Healthcare)

Bengaluru Area, India

Bangalore

Management consultant specialized in the area of Product Management & Development using Agile practices with emphasis on Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment in a highly integrated & automated DevOps environment. Consulted for clients of Confianzys Consulting pvt. Ltd. across industry verticals (E-Commerce, Big Data & Analytics, Telecom, Engineering services, Healthcare)- Leading clients: Flipkart, Wipro

Bangalore, India

Led the “Infinite Video” product team in Cisco that built the first SaaS based Cloud hosted video software product delivering video content over the Cloud to Mobile devices (iOS, Android smart phones & tablets) with Digital Video Apps as the front end using award winning Snowflake UI/UX from Studio Design.o This Cloud TV platform helps Service Providers deliver Cloud based Video & Applications to Smartphones & Tablets in EMEA, APAC, LATAM and NA. This platform was developed in an Agile environment using scrum within a highly integrated DevOps environment using continuous integration & deployment. o Video Asset Monetization Analytics: A/B testing as a machine learning tool for video recommendation engine. o BYOD/BYOUX: Led the Mobile Apps API ecosystem for Cisco in helping video service providers to work with 3rd party App developers to develop Apps on their choice of Mobile devices (Android) and deliver video content to those devices. o Being the main interface between the Product Management and Engineering team, led a team of Product Owners of the “Infinite Video” Product. o Collaborated with Architects, UI/UX Experts, Project Management and Account Management teams to realise the product from concept to launch. o Leading customers: Kabel Deutschland GmbH (now Vodafone)Led the Set-top box middleware Product Line deployed in APAC, EMEA, LATAM regions: o Successfully transformed many project specific branches into one Product trunk with one product UX with a rich roadmap. This led to many tier-1 customers adopting our Product instead of custom solution. o Implemented innovative processes for cooperation between Product & Project teams ensuring less deviation from product. o Leading customers: Viasat (in Sweden, Nowrway, Denmark), China Central Television (CCTV), Yes and Hot (in Israel), Astro (in Malaysia), Indovision (in Indonesia), Tata Sky, Airtel, Hathway, Den (in India), TrueVisions (in Thailand) and Oi TV (in Brazil).

Bangalore, India

Led the Bangalore Product Engineering Centre; Responsible for building products that generated recurring revenue; Delivered Media & Entertainment products to DTH & Cable TV Operators worldwide

Bangalore, India

HD iDTV Reference Design Development for the European (DVB) and other markets such as Australia, Taiwan, China, Singapore. Worked with 3rd party software companies in Europe in evaluating and choosing software products for integration into our products. Managed Tier-1 Early Adopters of our Reference Designs and supported them all the way up to production.

Bengaluru Area, India

Managed a team of system software engineers who were responsible for specifying and implementing APIs for one of the new generation Digital TV chipsets. The chipset along with these APIs were used by LCD TV customers. This team was also responsible for the design and implementation of the respective DTV software modules for the reference platform. Other responsibilities included project planning, resource allocation, technical leadership, mentoring the team in achieving the team’s objectives.

Mountain View, California

Developed customized OpenTV middleware solutions for various Digital Television Networks in New Zealand and North America. Responsibilities included software design, development and technical leadership of the team involved in these customer projects.

Santa Clara, California

Developed real time software for the Target (Mips R4700) running VxWorks RTOS using Solaris as the development platform.Developed software tools to test the performance of SCSI, FLASH memory devices on VME bus based single board computers. Wrote many low level APIs that interacted with SCSI devices. Developed tools to measure SCSI read/write performance on VME based targets.

Milpitas, California

Developed SCSI device drivers for the UNIX platform (Unixware OS)

Milpitas, California

Taught SCSI technology to distributors and resellers of Adaptec products Taught a series of classes about SCSI to the Microsoft's Technical Support Escalation Team at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond (June 96)

San Jose, California

Responsible for trouble shooting PC installation problems over the telephone

Executive General Management Program, General Management

Master Of Science, Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Chairman of the computer association at Bishop Heber College (April 92 – March 93)