Vocareum offers the leading cloud-based computing lab platform for learning and assessment. Trusted by top tier universities and online MOOCs in areas of computer and data science, business analytics and cloud computing, our platform capabilities include grading automation, plagiarism detection, team projects, and peer reviews for improved assignment management, assessment efficiency and student engagement.

As Cohort Chair, I was privileged to mentor and guide some of the brightest minds in the startup ecosystem. Here's what I did:🔹 Mentorship & Guidance: Providing tailored advice on strategy, product development, and scaling.🔹 Networking: Facilitating connections with industry professionals and investors.🔹 Progress Monitoring: Tracking startups' growth and overcoming challenges together.🔹 Pitch Preparation: Helping startups refine their pitches for success.

InterfaceED Solutions provides Decision Support System for Emergency Physicians. The solution has been used in three bay area hospital emergency rooms over last two years. The data collected by one of the hospital for the entire 2015 show the physicians using the DSS are 20-25% more efficient over thousands of patient encounters.

Roambee utilizes a cellular device with attached sensors to provide a reliable and cost-effective end-to-end service to track shipments and their condition in real time. 50+ tier-one customers such as Merck and Glaxo are using Roambee for tracking their shipments.Responsible for three generations product architecture and implementation of Roambee’s loT platform. The latest generation portal uses Docker containers on Amazon AWS using Node.JS and numerous web services. The web client is a single-page application using Durandal. The offering includes a mobile site, Android and iOS app. Also responsible for product management and DevOps.

Viblio used machine vision to automatically organizes personal videos into interesting collections or video albums - by place, person, or activity. Responsible for the portal, webclient, machine vision and resume-able upload program. Built the initial video ingest pipeline and face recognition system.

Responsible for selling of Cortina’s Router Gateway SoC (CS75xx) to the service providers and their suppliers. Built relationships all major operators such as AT&T, Bouygues, Comcast, DirecTV, Orange, Verizon and OEMs such as Actiontec, Arris, Cisco, Netgear, Pace, Technicolor.Managed product roadmap, feature definition and development of Router Gateway chipset including product requirements, IP selection, RTL, DV, FPGA emulation, bring-up, software. Delivered silicon and software within budget and schedule. Verizon FiOS Quantum Router is shipping using chipset.Responsible for strategic market directions for Cortina: analysis of emerging markets, built relationships with ecosystem partners. Evaluated 100+ companies for M&A transactions and successfully executed of all four of Cortina’s acquisitions.

Business Mentor, NSF I-Corps University of Michigan Cohort, Fall 2012 for LSU team on "Toolchain for static program analysis". The goal of the program was to foster entrepreneurship that will lead to the commercialization of technology that has been supported previously by NSF-funded research

Responsible for product definition and architecture for Azanda’s flagship 10G Traffic Management product. Numerous customer presentations and interactions to define and sell to OEMS. Delivered market leading traffic manager with 20ppm traffic shaping accuracy resulting in design-wins at major router vendors.Raised Series-A funding from Tier-1 VCs and recruited starting team. Engaged with multiple potential suitors and successfully sold the company to Cortina Systems.

CoreEl MicroSystems was leading provider of SONET/SDH, ATM and Ethernet intellectual property in the late 1990's using offshore team based in Pune, India. It was sold to Conexant in 2004. Responsible for product definition, managing remote teams, flawless execution to deliver market leadership products, selling to Tier-1 customers such as Intel, Siemens, Exar etc.