• Building a large team grounds up to develop state of the art, next gen cloud native broadband router and its management application. Developed and managed multiple Cisco management applications and products end to end for Service Providers in Cable, Mobility and Optical domain• Thrive on a result-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution and customer satisfaction. Strong exposure in people management and proficient in developing trusted partnerships with… Show more • Building a large team grounds up to develop state of the art, next gen cloud native broadband router and its management application. Developed and managed multiple Cisco management applications and products end to end for Service Providers in Cable, Mobility and Optical domain• Thrive on a result-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution and customer satisfaction. Strong exposure in people management and proficient in developing trusted partnerships with sales and account teams, development partners and architecture leaders to drive new platform and product development. • Competency in roadmap planning to meet business objectives. Play a lead role in the prioritization and planning of complex, large features spanning across multiple teams and delivered over multiple release cycles. Owned product schedules and feature requirements, agile commits, product schedules aligning with team capabilities, budget and timelines.• Complete ownership of all aspects of software development activities and team management viz. Development, Automation, DevOps teams. Successfully built, developed and managed high performing teams several times, including hiring and mentoring top talents, senior technical leaders, guided them on technical proposals, RFP, RFI etc. Built Cisco lab in Bangalore for accelerated software development.• Lead complex technical and strategic discussions promoting collaboration with multiple teams including engineering, architect, product, customer, and other stakeholders.• Successfully led external ISO 9001 audit for 150 member Bangalore engineering team. Change agent for Agile methodologies.• Got several awards for Customer Focus and Collaboration initiatives and turning around difficult accounts. Show less

• Handling enterprise business from the vendors of Reliance group companies (RADAG) with a sales target of INR hundred million. • Designing and implementing G2M strategy for Small and Medium business segment (SMB) for Enterprise business. Performing competitive bench marking activities and interacting regularly with CMO and COO of enterprise business unit ensuring a steady and sustainable growth for vendor business vertical. • Ownership of vendor business vertical, driving top line… Show more • Handling enterprise business from the vendors of Reliance group companies (RADAG) with a sales target of INR hundred million. • Designing and implementing G2M strategy for Small and Medium business segment (SMB) for Enterprise business. Performing competitive bench marking activities and interacting regularly with CMO and COO of enterprise business unit ensuring a steady and sustainable growth for vendor business vertical. • Ownership of vendor business vertical, driving top line growth, formulating strategy insights for growth opportunities (for both hunting and farming accounts), increasing share of wallet and product penetration. Show less

• Strategic techno marketing role supporting sales and marketing teams for Tier-1 European and Indian Telecom Service Providers for their multimillion dollar projects.• Represented Huawei in global forums (3GPP, TMF) to showcase organization competency. Collaborated with various global players to create a favorable environment for Huawei. • Responsible for arranging activities across organization to improve capability and competency of India R&D members, mentoring and handling various… Show more • Strategic techno marketing role supporting sales and marketing teams for Tier-1 European and Indian Telecom Service Providers for their multimillion dollar projects.• Represented Huawei in global forums (3GPP, TMF) to showcase organization competency. Collaborated with various global players to create a favorable environment for Huawei. • Responsible for arranging activities across organization to improve capability and competency of India R&D members, mentoring and handling various organization level cross-functional activities including strategy to optimize software development process reducing organization effort and development cost. • Handled new business and product development along with China operation center, identifying market requirements, preparing product road map, identifying, planning and estimating new work areas for India operations. Hiring, leading and setting up teams and handling product and release management activities across geographical locations.• Managed across geographical locations product development teams to research, develop and deliver NMS components for cutting edge next generation intelligent networks (NGIN), conducting competitive analysis and identifying areas of differentiation.• Rated as the one of top performers and was featured in Huawei’s internal magazine. Won several awards and patents. Show less

Worked in Lucent's Offshore Development Center focusing on Mobility and UMTS development.

Worked on Optical products of Nortel and Alcatel products in the areas of Access Network, Cross Connect and Circuit Provisioning, Metro core and Long Haul.