Responsible for sales, marketing and vendor management. This includes building the lead pipeline, building and managing relationships with potential, existing clients, partners and vendors.Developing email and LinkedIn campaigns for different target markets.Conduct research to identify new markets and customer needs.Arrange business meetings with prospective clients.Promote the company’s products/services addressing or predicting clients’ objectives.Meeting prospective clients to understand their needs and meeting existing clients to build long term relationships.

Help raising funds/grants.Spread awareness for this cause on social media.Help with potential partnerships with enterprises.

Being able to keep things in right perspective is an understanding we all need to develop. Practicing yoga helps us develop this understanding. It helps us cruise through different situations of life without being touched by them. And I feel that we must help our youth develop it from the get-go. That is why I value this opportunity of teaching yoga to our teens.At 2:38 in this video is the reason why I teach youth classes.

Successfully product and project managed an initiative to build several Intranet sites and tools for collaboration of six nonprofit organizations under the umbrella of Emerson Collective. It involved working with the management team for high level requirements, writing PRD and then working with the designer and engineering team to bring it to reality using bi-weekly sprints.Managed multiple projects for the IT team e.g. Enterprise-wide transfer users from Box to Google Drive, A/V Installation of new offices, Enterprise-wide Box Training etc.

Owned Product Requirement Roadmap for module that takes care of Logistics of all Walmart online orders.Worked with business stakeholders to keep the features of this module in synch with business requirements. Sized those requirements into story points and sprints with the help of engineering leads and then worked with engineering team to deliver on those requirements using agile methods of bi-weekly sprints.Communication of release of features to business teams and collecting their feedback.

Helped launching pilot of revamped Cisco.com online support experience with few select customers. It involved completely new personalized search experience for a logged-in support customer. Helped leading customer research (“Follow me Home” methodology) effort and then design of above experience based on that research and other parameters.

CarpoolAssist is an innovative web portal that helps people connect to setup carpools for work, school or special events. This project is well under its way in fulfilling it's vision - to fill every vehicle traveling on the road to 60-80 percent of its seating capacity - as it has around 284 schools throughout USA that are enjoying it's services. So far regular carpools that have been formed through CarpoolAssist are saving around 5000 miles (1480 Kgs of CO2 is being saved from going to atmosphere) of driving each day.The biggest achievement, while doing this project, for me was to see two neighboring parents or co-workers getting connected using CarpoolAssist to carpool to their school and work.From conception to beta/launch and re-launch, this project so far has been the most rewarding experience in feeding my entrepreneurial and simple-yet-savvy product design appetite. Outsourced development to a team of 3-5 engineers in India, whom I was able to manage using my engineering background. Wore all hats for this project (product management, marketing, sales, customer service and occasional development work) to bring this baby to its teens and now to early adulthood. Product Management tasks I have carried out have included: ***Writing the business plan, all-features SRS, PRD and test plans;***Creating Wireframes for UI design; ***Understanding, tracking and analyzing user behavior for every click and button;***Carrying out all marketing activities of cold calling and emailing; ***Designing marketing and training materials using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and iMovie;***Utilizing Google Analytics to target web searches; ***Providing customer service; putting up booths in schools to reach target parents; ***Writing blogs; issuing press releases and doing other SEO activities using Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn; carrying out A/B and usability testing; and hiring freelance(elance.com) contractors.We shut down operations of CarpoolAssist.

Redesigning and improvising B2B SaaS based social media marketing platform and mobile app based on user feedback.Managed end to end implementation of key product features: content discovery, search & relevance, personalization & recommendation, analytics & reporting dashboard. Launched data visualization product for Twitter trends & insights. Drove product integration with Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter & major publisher sites.

Redesigning of SaaS based app based on user feedback. Training CS/Sales on new design. Devising the pre-release, release and post release strategies. Releasing new UI to thousands of existing clients in a seamless manner. It involved working with Engg., QA, Release, Ops, CS, Sales teams. Also had many feedback webex sessions with clients to hear if they had any concerns.

Drove the delivery of a very high ROI feature to Kohls.com in the record time of 3 months. This feature enabled Kohls.com to ship LTL products directly from vendors’ warehouse. The complexity of delivering this feature was enhanced multifolds given the number of dependencies on multiple downstream systems. It involved a lot of collaboration and communication with cross functional teams in multiple time zone.

I was responsible for managing testing effort of Netflix application on Sony TV and Wii. In the course of testing this app. I found few significant Sony TV issues with it's networking module. Sony TV was already in the market for 3 years and Sony appreciated my efforts by sending a separate email for that. Segregated pre-existing test cases that were relevant for these platforms otherwise the team was wasting a lot of time while testing as they had to read through each of them and then decide. Completed the test document by adding new test cases which were specific to these platforms. Carried out black box testing, filed issues/bugs using Mantis and Bugzilla and prepared test reports on Confluence and Testlink.

Ricoh supports WSD Devices, WSD Scanner Services and WSD Printer Services to support Printing and Scanning on its MFPs through Microsoft Vista. When I joined Ricoh there was no formal test process and test team in place for these implementations. I developed complete test strategy for testing of the above firstly by creating functional Test Plans based on WSDD, WSDP, WSDS, ES and RPWS Specifications(around 600 test cases), secondly by automating parts of these test plans using freeware tool SOAP UI. This effort reduced the testing cycle from 6 days to 3 days for every major new release. After seeing my work I was assigned to create vulnerability test plan documents for all Ricoh MFPs.

Tellme Networks hosts IVR solution for 411 applications of different carriers e.g. Cingular, Verizon. BellSouth. When BellSouth came on Tellme's board as a new client, it's 411 app needed to be integrated with Tellme's IVR. I was the designated owner for making sure that this integration happens successfully and within the allocated time. For this task I wrote the test plan for Tellme’s VoIP Interoperability Requirements document (that required a lot of understanding of DNS RFCs-3263 & 2782, SIP RFCs-2327, 3261, 3264, 4028 & 3311 and RTP RFCs 2198 & 2833 protocols) and Customer Acceptance Test Plan that had to be signed off by BellSouth. I was responsible for testing BellSouth's hardware through which this traffic would come to Tellme on VoIP as per Tellme’s VoIP Interop Requirements and that included working a lot with Ethereal and analyzing TCP/UDP packets. Carried out lab to lab, integration and Pre-FOA testing with BellSouth hardware Vendors- this included documenting different issues pertaining to different parties(Tellme, BellSouth) found during integration testing and then following up on them. After this testing BellSouth successfully launched their 411 directory service that landed on Tellme's IVR.My efforts were extremely appreciated by my manager at Tellme for strong communication skills and BellSouth's team on East Coast for being a great team player and being a great liaison for getting all issues resolved in a timely fashion.

Infoblox is developing DNSOne (DNS & DHCP) and RADIUSOne appliances, called Network Identity Appliance. Wrote PERL scripts to develop tools to automate testing of SNMP agent (SNMP walk & SNMP traps). Developed a complete automated framework for functional regression testing using PERL scripting language - this included writing the test plan for sanity check, developing utilities for the back end communication using external APIs provided by the engineering for communicating with the appliance and then implementing test cases as per the test plan.

The Vpacket 6100 Series had the voice/data router for converged voice/data over IP network applications. A full array of WAN and LAN interfaces supporting SDSL, T1, FXS, T1/CAS, and 10/100 Ethernet for support of existing voice and data environments. Given my strong background with networking and SNMP protocols I was hired to implement standard and private SNMP MIBs on their devices e.g. MIB-II, SNMP MIB, T1, T1CAS, PPP, Voice QoS MIB, feature key MIB, ftp MIB, upgrade MIB, restore MIB etc. etc. All of this development was done using C programming language. I was also responsible for writing MIBs for supporting a number of features on the box from NMS side e.g. Voice QoS, ftp, feature key, software upgrade and restore on the box etc.

I was single handedly responsible for protecting the entire enterprise network against all sorts of malicious software attacks by deploying different types of security and anti-virus softwares at different entry points e.g. Websense for unwanted URLs, E-Safe for unwanted SMTP, FTP & HTTP traffic. And was responsible for deploying, configuring and upgrading the antivirus software i.e. McAfee's TVD on the corporate environment i.e. around 8000 NT workstations 200 NT servers and 45 exchange servers. I was involved in setting up test bed environments before putting any applications in production. Successfully executed Antivirus Softwares Evaluation Project. The purpose of this project was to shortlist an antivirus product based on the fact that it generates minimum traffic on the network so that it can work efficiently even on our extremely slow (16k) WAN links. This involved setting up a lab, having NT domain structure simulating slow links.

The DVD Analyzer is a tool for analyzing data of DVD (Digital versatile disk) streams. The tool would be used by DVD authoring systems. Designed and implemented reports generation part. Wrote Unit tests. Fixed bugs for the whole Analyzer tool that were filed by test team.

This toolkit supports SNMPv1, v2 and v2C. It also supports abstraction of administration and security modules of SNMPv1and SNMPv2. It can be customized to any MIB. This toolkit is basically a library for decoding and encoding (BER) all types of SNMP packets. For developing a complete SNMP agent system using this toolkit, only access functions for all MIB variables are to be coded by the user. Later this toolkit was extended into an SNMP Agent Emulator. The purpose of this emulator was to test any SNMP Manager application. The team of two of us was responsible for designing this toolkit using OOD, implementing it using C++, writing unit test cases and then integration testing. Later I was single handedly responsible for extending it into SNMP Agent Emulator.