Leading transformation from Media to Media Tech journey in ZEE.Building high-performance and highly resilient in-house media products.Built a highly reliable and scalable live sport ecosystem for Zee5 users.Championing cloud transformation and modernization journeys and leading efforts on multi-cloud strategy and optimised cloud infra cost by 25% through various initiatives.Drove strategic improvements though new technologies and reduced content delivery cost by 30%.Owning video experience KPIs, right from video viewing experience to video delivery experience and proving best in class video experience with top notch quality to Zee5 users.Leading efforts on the business strategy through technological solutions and driving internal initiatives to improve revenue streams.Driving content and data security initiatives to protect IPs and customer data. Working with Global partners and evaluating the best technologies, solutions, and services to enhance and improve offerings and business outcomes.Building highly skilled and performant team. Developed and implemented new strategies and policies in collaboration with executive partners to establish and achieve long-term business objectives, providing the company with strong and sustainable organizational leadership.Publishing various whitepapers and speaking in large media forums and influencing the industry with out-of-the-box approaches.

Responsible and delivering best in class customer experience to 1.2 million CATV and OTT customers across platforms .Responsible for driving day-to-day operations, managed escalations, and ensured customer is successful in all aspects of the Video Service experience.Collaborated with global vendor partners for new product/service evaluations, negotiations, deployment, and support.Championed in strategizing and managing IT Budget Portfolio at group level and also contributed towards Opex reduction by 20% through Process automation.Instrumental in setting policies and processes for enhancing employee productivityAccountable for recruitment, training of new employees, and successfully maneuvering the employee assessment process.Demonstrated efficiency and ensured 100% uptime by managing head-end sites for OTT and Cable Video operationsLeveraged expertise in ensuring continuous process and product improvement by facilitating customer's voices and analyzing the same efficiently.Attained 30% cost reduction on product onboarding through efficient vendor negotiation skills.Judiciously led regulatory and broadcasters' audits in order to fulfill contractual and compliance requirements.

Responsible for driving global key technological product designs and roadmaps with commercially viable end-to-end solutions for Huawei Envision Video Platform in collaboration with top management and strategic customers.Led a 50+ team of video product development vertical comprising of Managers & Architects with the Customer series management globally.Drove and established the technical credibility of Huawei Envision Video Platform solutions with customers and external parties, thereby influencing a revenue upside by 10%.Successful in spearheading OTT and IPTV projects and in migrating customers to the Huawei Envision Hybrid platform.Facilitated Customers build scalable and high-performance platforms to deliver best-in-class video services to their users.Designed and developed technical proposals, SOW, FRS, and present to customers.Displayed specialized domain knowledge by successfully participating in the project solutions and delivery.Volunteered process changes within the customer’s organization to realize value from proposed solutions.Strongly coordinated with top engineering executives and engineering teams and defines next-generation product architecture

As a Product Architect, exhibited technical credibility of Cisco’s key video technologies solutions to customers and external parties.Championed the migration project of leading Pay-TV providers in the Middle East from on prime to hybrid solutions with the support of expert solutions.Accountable for building scalable customers with a highly available, resilient, and high-performance platform to deliver best-in-class video services to their customers.Ensured complete documentation of architectural best practices for systems built on Cisco Video Cloud & DTH Satellite platforms.Steered and influenced Cisco’s Evolution and Infinity Broadcast platform revenue in EMEA.Instrumental in setting up large feature architecture for DTH Platform, STB Middleware, Video on Demand, OTT solutions, and critical design decisions.

• Subject Matter Expert in Video Domain with the involvement in highly complex design and development of mobile multimedia product at various stages.• Hands on experience on working Android and iPhone environment.• Build and structure the teams to ensure maximum performance. Provide purpose, direction and motivation to team.• Competency Development and Training Plan for team in domain, technology and process• Ensure a positive, collaborative work environment for the team• Directly supervise the work of Engineering Leads. Mentor and coach engineering teams.• Proactively identify new technology areas and implement where applicable• Built up teams which can build up highly scalable, efficient and best quality products.• Great Vendor/Stakeholder management and negotiation skills to drive best outcomes for company’s business objectives.• Conducted multiple internal technical training.• Heading Packet Video India operation with direct reporting of 60+ employees.

Subject Matter Expert for Video Technologies

Involved in detailed design and development of various fileformats modules (MPEG4,MPEG2,ASF,AAC,AMR, DivX, RM,WAV and FLV), Interacting with various customers on technical front to analyze their requirements, providing estimates and visualize their need in form of product.Working with geographically distributed teams with strong ownership of multiple modules and great teaming skills. Managing team of 10+ people.Awarded as MVP (Most Valuable Professional) in June 2010 across all PV offices

Provided technical leadership to team working on development of MPEG4 (Composer), ASF and DivX File formats. Primarily worked was in the MPEG4/ASF/DivX file formats wherein developed modules and integrated with PV’s CORE framework. Core technical responsibilities included requirements analysis, design creation, performance engineering, reviews and implementation. Core technologies worked upon are C++, Android, and Symbian.

Involved in development of Multimedia based applications. Worked at PacketVideo Corp San Diego.

Set-top box development on linux based platformDTV Software development

Involved in software development work of Voice and Data communication system