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Mumbai

Co-founder, Own PnL, Business Strategy, Purchase, Sales, Customer Management - Articulated company goals & objectives - Acquired new customers by identifying their needs, marketing our products and consistent follow-up - Retained old customers by being consistent in quality, business processes and improving through feedback loop - Filtered commodity segments to pick right set by looking at competition and market - Build strategies (buy and sell) by… Show more Co-founder, Own PnL, Business Strategy, Purchase, Sales, Customer Management - Articulated company goals & objectives - Acquired new customers by identifying their needs, marketing our products and consistent follow-up - Retained old customers by being consistent in quality, business processes and improving through feedback loop - Filtered commodity segments to pick right set by looking at competition and market - Build strategies (buy and sell) by analzing historical data, identifying cyclical commodity patterns, supply/demand equation, separating false leads in market trends - Executed strategies, tweaking as per market conditions to outsmart other players - Owned procurement decisions for entry points and ensuring right quality at right price. Frequent travel to Africa, Dubai, Indonesia, Vietnam to meet buyers and get first hand information on supply, quality, geographical issues, etc. - Build and executed plan B - Monitored sales, payments/receivables at regular intervalsResults - FY17-18 Top line grew by 200% with near same margins.- Receivables - 90% at < 60 days - 4 new commodity verticals added that resulted in 50% of topline - Sales - Customer retention highest ever. Repeat orders at its best - Purchase - Best quality at right price achieved. Constant learning for quality improvement at all times - Data systems in place for periodic monitoring of strategies and inventory levels. Show less

India Development Center

1. Owned release of Microsoft Azure Backup Serverhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/azure-backup-introduces-backup-of-sql-hyper-v-vms-and-more/- Analyzed market trends by talking with MVPs, customers, marketing (SMB), etc.- Defined potential opportunity by analyzing SMB market share, competitors, feature gaps- Defined product roadmap, key priority features/geographies, pricing changes- Defined detailed product use cases with focus… Show more 1. Owned release of Microsoft Azure Backup Serverhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/azure-backup-introduces-backup-of-sql-hyper-v-vms-and-more/- Analyzed market trends by talking with MVPs, customers, marketing (SMB), etc.- Defined potential opportunity by analyzing SMB market share, competitors, feature gaps- Defined product roadmap, key priority features/geographies, pricing changes- Defined detailed product use cases with focus on customer experiences - easy to use UI, easier installation and management- Showcased product preview to marketing, sales, MVPs and worked on feedback- Drove decision making with legal and privacy team to ensure license agreements in place - Tightly collaborated with engineering, marketing teams to properly time the market- Delivered Azure Backup talk at TechReady21 in Seattle, Washington with a high satisfaction score of 4.72/5.0- Trained partners through technical how-to product videos for educating customers - Owned announcement/documentation on various social channels, tracked user growth, data growth and other success metrics2. Defined and managed enhancements to SharePoint, Exchange, Azure Express Route3. Active on user forums, blogs, channel9 videos4. Owned strategic technological guidance for acquisition of a business continuity company by analyzing technology, reach and future projections 5. Owned strategic guidance for investments in Direct to Cloud related scenarios by analyzing market, compete and customer focused value Show less

Hyderabad Area, India

• Owned planning, design, testing for Windows 8.1 release of Cloud Connectivity• Managed team of 7, collaborated with partner teams across geographies to minimize randomizations• Shipped Multi-tenant RRAS GW for connecting hybrid clouds, Multi-tenant VPN, Cloud routing via BGP, GW High Availability, GW-QOS features in Windows 8.1 Server• Came up with idea of testing around different random inflection points, evangelized and delivered. Felicitated with… Show more • Owned planning, design, testing for Windows 8.1 release of Cloud Connectivity• Managed team of 7, collaborated with partner teams across geographies to minimize randomizations• Shipped Multi-tenant RRAS GW for connecting hybrid clouds, Multi-tenant VPN, Cloud routing via BGP, GW High Availability, GW-QOS features in Windows 8.1 Server• Came up with idea of testing around different random inflection points, evangelized and delivered. Felicitated with Innovation Award Nomination Show less

• Managed team of 6 to deliver patches for Ndis, Rndis, EAP across Windows releases• Successfully shipped for 18 QFEs, 2 MSRCs. Engineered test follow-ups for fixes, code reviewed changes• Drove Learning Hour with regular rhythm and participation on various topics• Motivated team to think on smart testing by efficiently selecting test matrices thus reducing test pass time without lowering quality

• Shipped 16 QFEs, zero recalls. Owned investigation, debugging, test follow-ups of post release issues• Delivered support on forums, customer interations for any issues in ndis, Rndis across Windows • Presented in TechTalk on Scenario Based Testing which got implemented in the org

Microsoft Redmond

• Writing production quality test code for ndis and device drivers that was used for WHQL logo certification by Microsoft driver partners• Debugged and root caused challenging security bugs in Vista• Owned ndis related communication on forums that led to solving of device driver developers issues• Proposed idea of increasing partner relationship by getting feedback. Visited partner on-premise. Feedback resulted in various action items taken by MS

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