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San Jose, Ca, Us

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Executive advisor to the leadership team driving the Solution Strategy and Business Development with end-to-end technology, SoC performance, and performance engineering services to customers, ranging from MDCs, cloud service providers, SoC chip makers, enterprises using clouds/confidential computing, and big IT solutions providers.• Collaborated with the leadership team in creating cloud ISV performance engineering solutions, services positioning, and company business development and growth strategy• Led Cloud performance engineering for standard and confidential computing, Sandbox automation/Cost Savings GTM tools and ISV performance solutions running on various clouds and hybrid environments• Enabled enterprise customers to select performant cloud infrastructure and help with cloud migration

Santa Clara, California, Us

Executive leadership member and advisor driving the mission to deliver innovative SaaS products for educating and mentoring millions of small businesses and startups using Generative AI-based services tools!• Created AI-powered Product strategy for infusing Generative AI – GPT, Bard, NLP, LLMs like PaLM, Llama 2, etc. and prompt engineering• Led product key use cases, customer-facing validation, collaboration with engineering, and fundraising • Mentored various SMBs on business plans, raising funds, product positioning, go-to-market, and company growth strategy. This has been very empowering as we help SMBs to restart after the lingering macro post-pandemic challenging times.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Led worldwide Cloud Solutions Eng team with applications workloads performance characterization and optimization of AMD EPYC system-on-chip(SOC) for applications and internal properties on all clouds including AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, IBM Cloud, Ali, Tencent, and other clouds.• Founded Cloud Solutions Charter to turn around cloud customers’ sentiment from “Why AMD” to “Why NOT AMD” in the Cloud by leading strategic collaboration with all leading Cloud Service Providers incl AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, and IBMCloud, Ali, Tencent, etc. Delivered 400+ AMD-powered offerings in IaaS, PaaS, and various cloud-native services on CSP Marketplaces.• Created AMD EPYC™ powered Cloud Compute and drove ecosystem of ISVs solutions that use the compute via the cloud marketplaces by building a team of cloud solution engineers, PMs, and performance architects delivering ISVs workloads characterization, optimization, and performance benchmarks for Containers, Web Servers, Big Data, Databases (SQL, NoSQL etc.), Java Apps, K8s(native, hybrid), AI/ML workloads (NLP, Recommender system etc.)• Drove collaboration with various Cloud ISVs and Cloud providers’ product teams, from cloud instance designs to target workloads to ISV performance optimization, resulting in superior performance and linear scalability on AMD EPYC-powered clouds and delivered via marketplaces• Optimized and enabled Cloud Internal properties to adopt AMD-EPYC powered instances or platforms delivering price/performance leadership and/or targeting new user segments• Delivered technical thought leadership to AMD/Cloud providers’ sales teams, marketplace GTMs, and cloud product teams for positioning the AMD-powered cloud instances and services with optimal performance for ISVs marketplace offerings. Delivered over 60 cloud solution papers.• Started AMD Cloud reference lab for showcasing app workloads blueprints for Cloud customers. Created ISVs forum for workload–centric inputs into nextgen AMD EPYC SoC.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead product management of Cisco's Multicloud Portfolio across multiple business entities, drive Multicloud solutions and integrations between Cisco products and hyperscale cloud service providers including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform and others. Deliver thought leadership for putting together a structure simplifying multicloud complexities and enabling customers to adopt Multicloud in a much faster way. It is a multicloud world!Delivered Cisco Cloud Strategy with simple yet powerful Cisco Multicloud Portfolio framework, consisting of Cloud Connect, Cloud Protect, Cloud Consume and Cloud Advisory, driving relevant multicloud use cases, selecting the right capabilities and creating solution journeys for customers with cloud networking, security, analytics and management. e.g. Cisco-Google solution leverages Multicloud Portfolio and use-case led integration with GCP. Azure leverages the framework directly as Azure Connect, Azure Protect and Azure Consume.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead broader Solution PMs teams driving next frontier in clouds solutions delivering applications and software defined everything including storage for fast evolving DC/Cloud infrastructure and hyperconvergence. Deliver leadership in application economy with comprehensive solutions for many cloud domains and applications including enabling SDN/SDDC, SaaS, DevOps and IOT.

San Jose, California, Us

Led Big Data and Analytics strategy for SaaS Platform and CA Products.Was at CA Technologies in the Office of CTO!Leading new products and partnerships in emerging technologies and opportunities* SDN - Started partnerships with Cisco, Insieme and more* DevOps * SaaS/Cloud Platform Services InnovationLed Product Management of Next Generation Service Management products portfolio at CA.Helped build vision, strategy, industry landscape and competitive analysis.Defined product requirements - application and infrastructure, solution and integration requirements.Delivered innovative, Web 2.0, Social Business Networking and SaaS-based products along with supporting various ITIL v3 functions in service management - from incident management, problem management, change management, configuration management, release management, service lifecycle, SLA and portfolio management etc.

* Led Nimsoft Monitor for VDI and Cloudstack/CloudPlatform with close partnership with Citrix* Lead product management for Nimsoft Unified Monitoring of SaaS, and created many "first in the industry" monitoring for Virtualization, Clouds infra and private/public/hybrid clouds such as Vblock, FlexPod,VMDC,VSPEX, RHEV, Vmware/vCloud, Cloudstack, AWS, Google Apps, Google App engine etc.* Delivered industry first SaaS DCIM monitoring supporting convergence of ITMaaS and DCIM!* Led product management and program management of the exciting new Nimsoft On Demand(NoD)Offering and Unified monitoring.com targeting growing enterprises and MSPs/CSPs for their elastic IT Services* Defined and delivered actionable vision,strategy and requirements with agile fast paced execution while working with customers, partners and engineering team members spread globally.* Delivered CSP-friendly innovative usage monitoring and billing metering for Nimsoft unified monitoring for "See As You Go―Pay As You Go" Monitoring with integration into Salesforce.com* Drove multiple SaaS major releases and added new cloud monitoring in last few months.Nimsoft is now completely absorbed into CA!

Senior Consultant in Product Management and Marketing for GLG, Guidepoint, Vista Research(S&P company), startups and VCsDelivered on products strategy, customer requirements and business plan analysis on various consulting projects in Enterprise software companies with B to B and B to C products• Delivered business plan analysis and due diligence for a virtualization/SaaS/cloud startup for VC funding• Delivered SOA Products due diligence in terms of competitive positioning and identified products value gaps, partnerships and business opportunities• Performed extensive analysis of ALM enterprise products, tools, Open source, marketing positioning, and competition. Presented analysis and recommendation to VC investment groups

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• Managed products suite strategy and delivered BEA’s 1st AquaLogic SOA suite with integrated AquaLogic products: Enterprise Service Bus, Data Service Platform, Process Integration, BPM and SmartConnect ERP connectivity like SAP• Led BEA’s WorkSpace360 vision and definition including SOA Composite Application lifecycle solutions including SOA Integration and SOA Governance.• Responsible for AquaLogic suite roadmap, compatibility and interoperability by leading PMs team, engineering and other cross-functional teams• Led strategic Enterprise SOA initiatives by evaluating competition, risks and benefits. For example: SOA Service Component Architecture (SCA), Policy management, SOA Application Governance and SOA Service Lifecycle• Other responsibilities included delivering best practices white papers, analysts’ discussions and framework for PMs for PRDs, product plans, analysis of market trends-needs for productization, field and partner sales enablement.

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Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

Responsible for leading worldwide field-focused technology marketing organizationCreate and manage critical solution technical assets helping Borland field win big enterprise ALM dealsProvide inputs to products roadmap planning benefiting enterprise dealsCollaborate and direct field-based products specialist organization for winning ALM dealsIdentify technology trends and strategic areas for Borland to invest in.Be part of the corp team to define the future at Borland

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

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Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

Working as the Director of strategic product management of Borland’s Software Delivery Optimization solutions for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) space. Also served as the Sr. Product manager of Borland Optimizeit performance products business at Borland, led the Java,/J2EE and .NET performance management products sales growth effort, accomplishing total revenue increase of 400% in 2 years, streamlining the product bundling strategies and cross-sell opportunities with JBuilder. Launched new business with Optimzieit ServerTrace successfully achieving double digit growth qtr-to-qtr. Cultivated and drove sales growth strategies and led strategic alliances effort for joint solutions

A startup in Silicon Valley.• As the Sr. Director of Solutions marketing at Arula Systems – a startup in Silicon Valley with DataCenter management appliances, led the solutions marketing targeting various production monitoring vendors including HP Open View, Micromuse. Helped develop a sales-oriented alliance with Cable & Wireless resulting in 30% of company’s revenue. Successfully assisted CEO of the company for merger with a bigger company in the market space.

Houston, Texas, Us

• As the Director of Product marketing at HP, launched web-services based e-payments solution business in partnership with Citibank and negotiated cost-effective partnership agreement for solution rollout in Citibank sales channel.• At HP, led the new business creation and launch of Enterprise Business Portal Solution with HP collaboration technologies and several key partner products achieving $million revenue for HP targeting big enterprises. • At HP, as the Product line manager of e-CRM solutions led a successful technology deal with a Fortune 100 company yielding $120 million with product line merger and joint solutions together. Also worked as the Solution alliance manager leading joint solution initiatives with ISV partners like PeopleSoft, Microsoft for mid-market• Worked as the lead PC Server Networking Architect for HP NetServers

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

a.k.a Convergent Technologies• Managed the diagnostics software engineering team of six senior software engineers for designing, developing and implementing complete Computer System diagnostics (Customer, Bring-up and Manufacturing) • Led the program for OEM products for a PC Server diagnostics leading cross-functional teams• Responsible for people performance management, budgeting, and project planning.

Chesterfield County, Virginia, Us

Convergent Technologies was acquired by UnisysFor experience see position description with Unisys

As the Co-founder of Comline Products Inc., marketed PC network printing products through the retail channel. Led pricing and business rollout strategy successfully yielding very high profit margins. Customers included Siemens, Phillips and Computer VARs.

Designing And Building Ai Products And Services, Ai-Based Products And Services - From Design To Delivery

Mba, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Management

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Bs Ee, Elecrical Engineering With Computer Software Concentration

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