Shriniwas Kulkarni Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

As a Senior Director, the following are some of result driven achievements:1) Successfully established global Dolby Audio & Dolby Vision professional services and Tier-2 Dolby Vision Product Support & Testing teams, which have enabled us to deliver high-quality services to our customers across the globe.2) Introduced a culture of Scaling and Customer Experience Planning in the support organization which has allowed us to design and implement support operations that efficiently take new products from START to SCALE stages. This has resulted in significant cost savings for the organization, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars.3) Formed and led Cloud support teams which have played a crucial role in providing top-notch support to our cloud customers.4) Devised effective support operations strategies through strategic alliances with vendors, which have helped us improve our support services and deliver better value to our customers.5) Launched OneX (One Screen Experience) to provide an unparalleled customer experience for licensing kits, and to reduce support expenses by offering product & testing information "Where and When You Need It".6) Built Dolby's 1st Product Data Analytics System (DPAS) with run-time Power BI integration. This has enabled us to gain valuable insights into our products and services, and make data-driven decisions to improve our offerings.I believe that my achievements demonstrate my ability to lead teams, drive innovation, and deliver results that benefit both the organization and its customers.

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Senior Architecture responsible for interacting with customers, defining end to end software architecture for Niveus Secure Playback Solution to deliver premium content for TV and studios to PCs and tablets.• Defined End to End Architecture for Niveus Secure Player Pipeline• Designed and Developed DirectShow filters (MPEG-2 Demux, DVR, Transform Filters)• Security and System Integration

Lead a team of 6 to 8 direct reports for developing core products for Rovi Corporation. Lead a team of 6 developers to build flag ship product TotalGuide. TotalGuide is expected to ship around million units per year starting March 2012. Lead a team to delivere advanced advertisement, client security and upgrade features for TotalGuide in record time. Lead a team, to develop/enhance Rovi Media Processing subsystem needed for TotalGuide. Lead a team to integrate Netflix SW SDK and WideVine adaptive Streaming using Rovi Media Processing Subsystem into TotalGuide. Netflix solution was demonstrated in CES and helped Rovi to prove ability to deliver end of end solution (content ingestion, data & content delivery and playback) on a CE device. Lead a team, to develop POC for Broadcast Ad Enhancement using audio watermarking technology for Tier1 customer. Lead a team of 5 contractors for porting Connected Platform DLNA SDK onto various Broadcom & ST STB and DTV chip sets. Suggested scope and process changes and made significant reduction in porting efforts per platform port. Worked closely with Product Management, Architecture, Program Management, Quality Assurance, Documentation and Release Management to get actionable product requirements, define and refine SW architecture, meet program expectations, achieve quality product documentation for releasing the CE products in Rovi.

Project Lead for customer relations and distributed development teams responsible for delivering Linux based Integrated Digital Solution (iDTV). Defined Product, System requirements, Conceptual Architecture and Public Interfaces for Integrated Digital Television software. Defined SOW (Statement of Work), WBS (Work Breakdowns Structure) for product enhancements and integrating IPs (Intellectual Properties) into iDTV solution. Defined and developed software architecture of two chip solution for European market and Application frame work using STFAE and STAPI components. Architected and developed Board Manager to enhance customization in iDTV platform. Initiated development towards defining iDTV software structure, OSAL (OS Abstraction Layer) and release process.

Designed and enhanced navigation software (DVD, VCD, MP3, WMA) for PANTERA based DVD player. Handled customer relation and co-ordination with cross function teams to meet customer productions. Application Engineer for Tier 1 customers, responsible for timely resolution of issues to meet customer productions. Managed Configuration and Release management.

Developed vxWorks based BSP for a VLIW processor

Designed a redundancy system for a telecom switch.

Build a team of 5 engineers. This group executed projects at fast pace giving an edge to our customers. This group was responsible for board bring up, creating simulation environments, porting OS, developingon/off chip device drivers on RTOS (like pSOS, vxWorks and uCOS) and System Integration.

Developed a DVD application using C++ for a PANTERA based DVD player.

Maintained & enhanced emulation software for tapes and discs for IBM Main frame.

B.S, Computer Science And Engineering

Certificate Program In Leadership & Management