(Vk) Vipul Kumar Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Driving the global practice of Platform & API engineering and GTM strategy. Responsible for technology and computing platform incubation, building industry led solution offerings, data harvesting and ISV led platform revenue growth. Focus areas to target and fill lot of white spaces across industry with modern architecture and platform approach.
Exciting times.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

VKDesignLabs is my thought delivery vehicle. Plenty of my creative sides and out of the box thinkings are expressed via this website. Be it technology, innovation, business, even some of my travelogues. Sole purpose of this website is to share and learn knowledge. It's like sharing my 2 cents to already super knowledgeable communities around :)
The ideas, thoughts and stories shared here are completely based on my own experience of things and have no conflicting interest with any of my professional work. Further more, this is a non-profit initiative of mine.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Creating business opportunities in AR VR, Enterprise Wearable, cognitive and learning next wave of digital revolutions bringing the "Internet of Value"
1) Created "WorkWear" - KPIT Wearable Platform for AR / VR/ Mixed Reality
2) "KwikPick" and "Respial"- AR VR Smart Glass accelerators supporting Smart and Industry 4.0 eco-system
3) Cognitive and AI / Machine Learning - Experimenting with industrial use case :)

Responsible for;
- Ideate and create global product offerings.
- Create scale-able and sustainable business values.
- Set up and mentor lean start-up teams.
- Create competencies and values in Cognitive & Machine Learning, Robotics
- Evangelism and mentor ecosystems of Customers, Product partners and tech enthusiast.

Pune Area, India

The World's Largest Entrepreneur Training & Start-up Launch Program.

Goal: To empower entrepreneurs to build next generation of technology companies.

Pune : (Exploratory phase is now open). More info at www.fi.co
A structured approach of;
1) Idea and customer development
2) Company and Team formation
3) Product development and distribution
4) Go to Market, Bootstrapping & Fund raising.
Please see the curriculum here: http://fi.co/curriculum

I look forward to connect with great Mentors for the "Founder Institute". As a Mentor, you give a 30 minute talk on a business building subject of your choosing. You then answer some questions through email, and, if you want, you can meet with founders for coffee. In exchange, you receive equity upside in all of the graduating businesses.

The list of over 2,500 Mentors worldwide includes Marc Pincus, Aaron Patzer, Phil Libin, Jason Calacanis and Naval Ravikant.

There are a number of subjects that might be a good fit for you:
- Vision and Ideas
- Research and Customer Development
- Revenue and Customers
- Naming and Positioning
- Mentor Idea Review
- Startup Legal and IP
- Team and Advisors
- Product Development
- Mentor Progress Review
- Sales and Traction
- Branding and Marketing
- Bootstrapping and Fundraising

If this is something that you are interested in, you can write me back or just sign-up below:
- http://FI.co/mentor/1171

Pune

Key accomplishments :

1. User growth: Wiztango penetration increasing from 0 to 3000+ in 6 months.
2. New launches: From Beta to Full fledged roll out, Wiz on Android, Wiz 2.0, Learner’s Marketplace, OS commerce with Citi and PayPal gateway.
3. First: Social & Informal Learning platform from AWS cloud.
4. Historic Moment: 2013 Aegis Graham Bell Award, 2013 Red Herring 100 Asia winner,
5. Market expansion: Through direct sales, 300 % growth in 8 months. Won two of the largest training company in India.
6. India to APAC: Expanded to Singapore and Japan in last 6 months.
7. Affiliate partners: Initiated. Target to go from Zero to 10 in 6 months.
8. Team retention: 90%+, Burn Rate reduction – 70%+

Few failures;
1. Build a start-up culture in India (Struggling)
2. Secure 3rd series of funding from Indian VCs

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Wiztango creates a free social engagement wrapper for any real-world (classroom or virtual) training activity. The training activity can be transacted upon by the Users in The Learning Market (TLM) and expand their sales reach thru various sales channels. The learner achieves learning in a collaborative social network with the training activity as the context.

Wiztango serves its three stakeholders Corporate, Trainers & Learners with a distinct & measurable value for each.

Wiztango has been conceived and developed by Metabridge Pte Ltd., a Singapore corporation founded in 2011. The technology development and support centre are based in Pune, India.

Drop me an email to explore synergies to learn, collaborate and to be associated with us. vk@wiztango.com.

Lets Learn – lets Wiztango
Visit my "Social-in-Learning" activity here: bit.ly/10S94UN
Wiztango Trainer' Intro: bit.ly/1e4vEBZ

Pune

Top achievements;
1. Customer Satisfaction: our graduates are deployed and successful on global projects & overseas assignments
2. Track record: Japan’s top corporations and 95% repeat
3. Trainees range: from fresher to mid management
4. Programs: our ability to deliver core curriculum in multiple disciplines through both open & customized programs
5. Full control: from sales engagement, orientation, delivery, continuous feedback & response (no outsourcing)
6. Cross Culture: Deep understanding of Japanese corporate mindset and requirements
7. Location: India-based training provides first-hand experience of working in fast-growing economies and cross-culture work scenarios
8. Risk Management: State-of-the-art systems, processes and relationships for managing the risk associated with having overseas trainees in India comparable to global best-practices

We help enterprises build a truly global employee resource pool ready to take leadership positions anywhere in the world

What I am doing now;
1. Researching and creating next gen Online training delivery methodology (Disruptive)

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Softbridge offers its highly successful structured and customized corporate training programs to some of the top enterprises in Japan
• Our delivery model leverages India as a global training destination with state-of-the-art training infrastructure and faculty with the added advantage of first-hand cross-cultural training and experience for trainees
• Our training programs help our customers to train their human resources on technology and management disciplines with a global perspective and with a thorough grounding in English communication to create the next generation of global employees

Pune

Achievement:
1. Build and sold for US $ 500,000
2. Product and Technology: Product definition and development for Core Banking Systems, Financial Inclusion, Micro Finance solutions and many other products related to e- Governance.
3. Revenue and Growth: Primary target market engagements (District Co-op banks), New market penetration strategy, Govt. Alliances, Strategic Partner Associations, Securing Investor Funding,

Mumbai Area, India

Failed:
Sold the stocks and exited. Realized early that this is not what I want to do.

Spent my time on:
1. Conceptualized the product.
2. Done the framework and architecture. Ruby on rails.
3. Proud of: Start-up team building and mentoring. Hiring from IIT
4. Go to Market strategy, Zero cost.
5. Investor Pitch and Pre Series A funding plan, US $ 250,000 (Partially successful).
6. Partner Alliances.

Mumbai Area, India

Top achievements;

1. Technology Cost reduction of 30%+, Team retention-100%.
2. Guaranteed Uptime of 96%.
3. Business time to market reduced by 50%.
4. New Launches: Online trading system. Moved 20% of Equity trading on Online.
5. Historic Moment: Build Tier 4 Data center to feed 60+ odd locations.
6. Initiatives: Made Distribution business plan and executed for over 6 months.

Mumbai Area, India

Top achievements;

1. Technology growth: 300%+
2. Designed and developed some 40+ applications / Platforms - Front office, Back office, Distribution.
3. First - Enterprise level Sugar CRM rollout 1600+ users.
4. Process: Solutions catering to Cost reduction and optimization, Process and Productivity enhancements.
5. Market Expansion: 60 to around 500+ locations in less than 2 years.
6. Historic Moment: Re-branding with Ogilvy & Mather.

Pune Area, India

1. Technology Lead Consultant, Offsite Account and Delivery Manager for Aurora Loan Service (A Lehman Brother Company),
2. Development and delivery of multiple programs Java and .NET platforms.
3. Proud of: Interface development and data parsing with the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
4. Historic Moment: Led the SEPG driving group for CMM Level 3 certification.

Pune Area, India

Top Achievements:
1. Flagship clients: BNP Paribas Security Services, Paris. Capital One, UK, Deutsche Bank, UK.
2. Proud of: My Exchange side programs Written for Clearing & Custody, matching and simulation engines.
3. Learned: Collaborative development, J2EE, Extreme and Aglie.
4. Recognition: Best Project Manager in BNPP team.
5. Responsible for: P& L (Capital One Account)

Vancouver, Canada Area

Key Contributions:
1. Developed: Java Call booker for DDS's world leading automated taxi dispatch product, "Pathfinder".
2. Proud of: My dispatch algorithm in Java & PL/SQL
3. Historic Moment: Making in Production at Taxi Stockholm, Sweden.

New Delhi Area, India

Key Contributions:

1. Software Programs in C, C++ for Internet based loan origination system (IBLOS).
2. Development Projects in Java for Standard Chartered bank Mutual Fund Division
3. Learned: Legacy to Java Migration

Engineering, Electrical & Electronics

Activities and Societies: Convener of Vandana fest for 2 years. Organised university level tech expo.Studied and learned many elements.

Mba, International Business