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Launched Cognosos in 2015 along with two other co-founders to develop a wireless technology that is suitable for IOT applications. The innovation was on 2-fronts. One technical, the other business model.The key technology innovation was the use of software-defined radio (SDR) and cloud-based signal processing to dramatically lower the cost and power required for wireless sensor transmitters. The result, RadioCloud, was created with the belief that businesses of all sizes should be able to use ubiquitous, low-cost wireless technology to harness the power of the Internet of Things (IoT).The business model innovation was to offer a hardware-enabled sensor platform on a SaaS model, called 'Sensing-as-a-Service'. This resonated well with companies still on sidelines with regards to huge upfront investment for typical IoT projects.Since then, Cognosos has had success in multiple verticals, including automotive, manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare.Besides the usual responsibility of a startup founder such as creating the business plan, attracting initial funding, team building, etc., also responsible for architecting and implementing the core application platform, inventing an ML based, patent pending indoor location technology, and directly managing the Software, Firmware, and QA engineers, Product Managers, and Field Services team.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

eVestment is a fintech company that brings transparency and efficiency to the global institutional market, equipping managers, asset owners and consultants to make data-driven decisions, deploy their resources more productively and ultimately realize better outcomes.Led the Product organization consisting of Product Managers, and Solutions Architects to build out the product suite for both institutional investors, as well as fund managers.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Director, Product Management - Network Services Responsible for the entire product line, from initial market strategy through product development, launch, life-cycle management, product operations, and financial management.• Led cross functional group to introduce a fiber-optics based Metro Ethernet product offering.• Negotiated preferable terms with other fiber providers like Zayo, TWC, TW Telecom, etc., to extend the Cbeyond Fiber footprint to provide high bandwidth coverage in over 50% of the target market.• Drove product strategy, pricing, positioning, and tactical marketing plan in conjunction with Finance, Marketing and Network Engineering.• Created business case to conduct ROI and break-even analysis for Fiber investment.• Lit 500 buildings across 4 markets with Fiber in a short span of 18 months• Created advanced predictive analytics tools to help senior executives make informed business decisions• Worked with the Sales Execution team to provide them with training, tools, and guidelines necessary to support the sales staff, as well as monitor their performance.Director, Mobile TechnologyKey member of the MVNO business at Cbeyond, responsible for growing the business by introducing innovative mobile products. • Negotiated favorable contractual terms with Sprint and Clearwire to offer state of the art 3G as well as 4G Mobile devices. • Created a Mobile SIP product by integrating Cbeyond’s Broadworks switch with the Sprint IMS network, enabling the Mobile phone to act as a Cloud PBX end point.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Turned around Air2Web India business unit from a verge of collapsing to a highly profitable business.• Restructured the organization and put in place top management team consisting of a VP of Sales, VP of Operations, and a Controller to stabilize the operations and put Air2Web India on a fast track. • Grew the top line by over a 120% in 2008. • Turned the business into a highly profitable one with Gross Margin of 65% and Net Margin of 23%. • Diversified the product line by introducing some of the Air2Web USA products, as well as enhancing the existing products to support richer, more value added functionality, thus differentiating the offering from a pure commodity play. • Negotiated preferable terms with key suppliers to fundamentally change the business dynamics, thus resulting in a huge increase in the gross margin. • Started a new R&D initiative in Pune, India to introduce products on newer platforms such as iPhone and Android.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Led the Product Development organization of 30 employees comprising of Software Engineers, QA, Product Managers, and Sales Engineers in delivering all of the messaging products. Some of my key accomplishments include: • Successfully initiated, developed, launched, and performed life cycle management for all of the Air2Web Products. • Built a highly scalable Cloud based mobile messaging platform. • Utilized state of the art Java-based technologies such as JSF, Maven, ActiveMQ, Struts, etc. to continually bring innovative mobile products. • Launched AirCARE, a RESTful API set, by creating strategic alliances with business partners in the BPM and SOA space and integrating the mobile messaging platform. • Created award winning SaaS based Campaign Management tool with very intuitive user interface to enable enterprise customers create marketing campaigns with just a few clicks, as well as view advanced graphical reports online in real time. • Spearheaded the adoption of agile software development methodology using Scrum based techniques. • Worked with cross functional teams comprising of Product Managers, SME, Software Developers, and Graphics Designers to build the “right” product with high quality on a tight schedule. • Managed the organization by setting and maintaining high standards for individual and team performance as well as by building effective teams and cross-functional relationships. • Setup SDLC processes such as Agile development, Architecture and Code Review, etc. for a predictable and repeatable product release cycle. • Successfully transitioned a majority of engineering and support functions to outsourcing partners in India resulting in over 50% reduction in the operational costs. • Managed carrier relationships in the US, as well as worldwide for better coverage and economics.

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Started a software development group in Atlanta for the E*TRADE International. • Initiated the Atlanta based software development group for E*TRADE International by building a team of developers and QA engineers. • Designed an application framework based on J2EE technologies to expedite introducing new country deployments. • Successfully deployed E*Trade sites in the Nordic countries, and Japan.

Founding member of Synchrologic, Inc., the creator of market leading data synchronization product, Mobile Data Suite. Mobile Data Suite consists of Email and PIM Synchronization, Device Management, and Enterprise Application Synchronization. My accomplishments include: • Employee number 4 of this successful startup that got acquired by IntelliSync which later got acquired by Nokia. • Inventor and lead architect of Mobile Data Suite’s core synchronization platform, Data Sync. Data Sync, built on the Microsoft software development stack in C++, was the first bi-directional data synchronization platform that provides a “data centric” approach to updating databases on computer systems of an intermittently connected database system. In this approach, the storage and processing complexity of the database server are de-coupled from the number of clients to be supported, thereby, improving the scalability of the server. Instead of focusing on the data required by individual clients, this method tracks changes to data subsets pertaining to groups of clients. • Created an advanced rules based engine for flexible configuration of data set in a diverse environment.

Key member of a start-up company that introduced one of the first application development tools for windows based applications. Being the 5th employee of this successful startup, had multiple responsibilities including Sales Engineering, Customer Training, Support, etc. Matesys Corporation was acquired by KnowledgeWare , Inc.

Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor, Finance