- From inception to release of minimum viable product in App Store in 5 months. I led design and development of iPhone app with off-shore company in agile fashion. Hands-on development on back-end hosted on Amazon’s infrastructure. Used Flurry SDK & internal metrics for continuous feedback and app enhancements.- Grew user base to over 25K users organically in total bootstrap mode. - Fund raising and business development.

Managed a team (50+) of software engineers, architects and product managers in an agile development environment. The team was completely distributed across USA, EMEA, India and Russia with a mix of employees and external contractors. Responsible to assemble the team through internal recruitment, new hires and external contractors.Main responsibilities included product definition and direction through direct interactions with high-touch customers along with Product Management; Planning and delivery, support.More specifically, I managed the Prime Infrastructure Solutions team responsible for building value add solutions around the core Prime Infrastructure management platform for large, high-touch customers and metro-wifi providers. Some examples include:o Prime Infrastructure Cluster Solution.o iPhone/iPad mobile app development for on-the-go network troubleshooting. o OSS/BSS integration through APIs into the management platform. o Device Support Team for “Day1” management support of new Cisco hardware as they appear on the market. Cross-Business Unit collaboration to ensure manageability of any new Cisco Hardware platform. Support team is based in India.

Acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. in 2007Tigerstripe offered a network design and modeling environment based on the Eclipse platform to automatically generate custom integration APIs. The product was developed, tested and maintained with a mix of employees and overseas contractors.Responsible for product design, engineering and support, from inception, funding rounds to acquisition by Cisco Systems.Worked through successful deployment with large customer (Cisco) and support. Leadership and hands-on role throughout the process managing customers and board members expectations.

Established as a free-lance consultant focused on business critical Operational and Business Support Systems in the Telecom industry, leveraging a strong network within the industry.Engagements ranged from Business Process engineering, to information modeling, strategic recommendations, to managing RFPs for production systems and their integration. Over a period of little over 1 year engagements with Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), QPass (now Amdocs), Cingular (now ATT wireless), Intel, British Telecom for about $190K of revenue.

Managing a software development team, focused on driving new technology and innovation into existing product line for Network and Service Assurance Management.Established company visibility amongst multiple telecom consortiums and standard bodies to influence and drive decisions in the interest of the company. This lead to conducting POCs and demos with customers and partners.