As the founder and COO of a digital publishing company, I was part of a two member team that successfully built and launched a platform for ebooks and audiobooks. This involved managing all aspects of the product development process, including market research, product management, marketing, partner acquisition, HR, and operations. Currently building a very interesting Creator economy product for India.

As Head of HR, Admin and Operations at Appify (earlier named as Turbo Systems), a silicon valley based product startup, I was involved with - Designing and implementing systems and processes for recruitment, employee onboarding, appraisals, rewards and recognition, prevention of sexual harassment, intelligent leave policy, work from home and employee engagement policies.- Played an instrumental role in hiring some of the best backend, frontend, full stack, android and iOS developers, graphic designers, QA engineers and leads, product managers for the startup. Scaled the headcount from 15 to 30 in a span of 6 months. - Implemented processes for running operations of the India site

Senior Business Consultant handling business development for Consulting, Training and Staffing verticals of business at Aritha Consulting Services.Consulting:Agile Consulting and TrainingStaffing:One Time, Contract Staffing and RPO services for Start-Ups, Product Development and Service Based IT firms in the Telecom, Storage, Embedded Systems, Wireless and Networking domains.Training:In-House and Corporate Training services onTechnical skills like DevOps, Big Data, Full Stack JavaScript, Python etc.Agile and Agile Engineering Practices like TDD in C, TDD in Java, eXtreme Programming etc.

Scrum Master for Cisco Collaboration Portfolio of Products Jan’14 - Dec '17Worked for Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group as a Scrum Master on Cisco's Prime Collaboration Assurance, a product with comprehensive video and voice service assurance and management system with a set of monitoring, troubleshooting, and reporting capabilities. As a scrum master, I am involved with Release planning, Sprint planning, Complying with DoD, Removing Obstacles for the team and helping the scrum team deliver quality deliverables. QA Lead for Cisco Collaboration Portfolio of Products Jun’08 - Dec’13Worked as a QA member and later as a QA Lead on Test and Automation of Cisco Collaboration Portfolio products like Unified Communication Manager, IM&Presence, Unity and Expressway doing feature functionality test, system performance test, regression and sanity test using both Agile and Waterfall software development methodologies. Extensive experience in requirement gathering, test strategy, test plan development, test bed setup, test execution, issues reporting, customer interaction and tracking defects to closure.

Worked as a QA Lead handling Test and Automation of IMS/SIP Engine on Linux Java Platform of Motorola Phones. Extensive interaction with Marketing and Development team in delivering flawless 3G Video/Audio experience on Motorola LJ series of Phones.

Worked with Bank of America ODC as a Business Consultant in customizing bank's IVR application to give end customer a flawless experience in interacting with it. Involved with extensive interaction with Customer, Development and Test team in addressing key end customer challenges.

Worked as a QA analyst testing promotional web portals developed for real estate and banking firms. Was involved with Test strategy, Test plan development, Test case review, Test execution, defect filing, log analysis and defect verification.