Creating two software platforms. The software platform in payments enables banks to provide solutions to its enterprise clients to make payments as per payee choice. The software platform for insights facilitates virtuous decision making by executives with a real-time birds eye-view of operational KPIs, anomalies and root cause analysis for rapid decision making and enhance operating efficiencies.

Leading product management and solutions of smart video AI platform to enable enterprises to simplify their business work flows with remote work-forces recording their operations by short 30-second, 60-second videos and remote triaging to improve safety, reduce cost of operations by avoiding travel by supervisor and auditors and improve quality of work. Solution successfully deployed at a leading utilities in water, electricity, gas and telecommunications.

Rebuilt Nokia cloud services product line management function as Solutions CoE to grow Nokia CloudBand-product-portfolio services revenues non-linearly with better margins. Solutions spanned building automation frameworks for cloud deployments, orchestration and closed loop automation for VNFs, creating costing templates and pricing guidelines for sales. Played key role in bringing focus and depth with hardware providers.In nine months, witnessed unprecedented quality and responsiveness in offer development, better adoption and adaptability of multi-vendor ecosystem, increase of margins in commodity deals and better value realisation in value-added engineering deals with clear segmentation of strategy.

1. Brought engineering mindset to transform services organisation to a solutions organisation with own IP. Incubated product engineering and product management function for Incedo leveraging AI/ML technologies and SaaS model. Built a Natural Language Processing Platform with portfolio of SaaS applications. Two platform use-cases which generated bookings include a financial adviser onboarding application for our financial vertical and Knowledge Management application for life sciences vertical.2. During incubation of this new function, continued to lead software engineering for our communications vertical.

Unprecedented hatting during stay at Incedo1. Engineering head of Communications Engineering vertical2. Pre-sales head of Communications Engineering vertical3. Product Management head In Communications vertical, delivered engineering transformation with focus on creating depth with around 150 resources in multiple countries across multiple delivery centers. Key technologies included industrial switching and routing, OTT solutions and digital technologies.Completely re-hauled pre-sales function seeing an uptake of opportunities with better deal size, sustainability. Bookings increased from 25% of Communications Engineering vertical to around 55% in a span of around one year. Positive client ratings and employee ratings increased manifold; delivery structures became harmonious and strongly autonomous.

Double hatting at Lepton with responsibility for:1. Rapid conceptualisation and launch of products to diversify revenue and make entry into international markets2. Re-energising software engineering team of forty five people for improving software quality and predictability of outcomesIn a short span of three months and with deep support of company's investors and management, we achieved success in diversification of company revenue streams and brought many in-progress initiatives to completion.(i) Re-positioning and re-factoring our on-premise FTTx network planning and inventory product to cloud leading to signing of our first multi-year cloud deal for a leading service provider in India. First sales out-of-country in Nepal as pilot.(ii) Accelerated development of strategic decision planning platform leveraging location analytics with use cases for retail, banking, education. (iii) Leveraging concept of minimum viable product and channel strategy, pre-launched the product to a leading service provider to enable joint selling to their large enterprise clients.(iv) Created a product to track people and assets with sale to a leading service provider and another sale to a government of India enterprise in transportation solutions using a third-party vendor.(v) Multiple PoCs to commercial deals created with service providers e.g. for LoS calculation for microwave planning using 3D MAPs, analytics tools for small cell planning.(vi) Opened up another revenue stream with successful accreditation as Google Cloud Partner to compliment organisation's existing Google Premier MAP Partner business.

Founded a new service line with independent P&L, for intelligent testing using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to realise long-term vision of tester-less testing. Creatively syndicated around 1250 engineering resources from vertical client teams to build our horizontal testing practice in 4 months. Testing service-line was acknowledged as hot-bed of innovation selling solutions that solved clients problems.Brought the art of adding logos of all sizes at-will, an art that I had grown earlier in products unit.On-boarded and groomed highly motivated specialist sales and solution architects in service line for offering development, pre-sales and assets development. Stretched the charter of service line and incubated PoCs and solutions frugally in many emerging areas of SDN/NFV, AI/ML, CI/CD, security and automation with negligible funding. Most solutions being successful, were adopted by products service line chartered for growth of software frameworks business in the company in the following fiscal.

Led development of business and technology solutions for network equipment providers and communication service providers in Europe.

Developed and championed offering model for diversification. Instrumented strategy for telecommunications, software and internet services business.

Revenue, P&L account management responsibility for business in US West Coast & Central business. Full accountability for opportunity identification, creation, pre-sales and contract closure.

Accountable for revenue growth, margins and client relationships in Europe and Asia Pacific region.Deep focus on new market penetration for Aricent products and service offerings. Made inroads in S. Korea and France. Grew business significantly in UK, Germany, Nordics, Japan and India.

Built new engineering practice in LTE and multimode 3G/4G small cell solutions from late 2009 till early 2011 with overlapping role of heading services business for Europe and Asia. Developed deep partnerships with all semiconductor companies for our software products business for cellular access technologies.

Product management of wireless access stacks and core network solutions in 2G and 3G.Created significant market awareness through international speaking engagements at trade shows, conferences, customer & road shows.

Setup product engineering team and product management function in India.

Engineering manager of Aricent ‘core network’ & Intelligent Networks (IN) application products. Managed largest and most complex program in Hughes by volume of product deliveries.

Team Leader at a start-up. Lead project teams in Barbados working with teams in US and UK to create software for a leading financial bank in Wall Street.

Executed multiple projects for government, public sector and private organizations. Developed the settlement system of a regional stock exchange in India. Developed criminal tracing system for a government organization.