Summary

• Product Engineering executive with 14 years of experience seeding, ramping up managing Multi-Geography product teams, providing direction and oversight in business and technology roadmaps. Takes pride in understanding Technology as a space and predicting future trends in technology. Adept at performing high-profile executive roles and making high-stake decisions as well as in creating innovative solutions to complex challenges with a hands-on, lead-by-example style that fosters high team morale, shared mission and dedication to operational excellence. Effective in competitive, stressful and fast-paced environment while juggling multiple priorities. Major highlights include:
• Leading the vision and development of new Location Based Services LBS and solutions offering to allow Pitney Bowes to enter Enterprise Consumer Social-Local-Mobile SoLoMo space.
• Global product development responsibilities for Web Mapping product lines from Pitney Bowes with a revenue around 10 million.
• Setting up 9 product development teams in India for Location Intelligence product with overall yearly revenue of close to 90 million.
• Built a Global Professional Services team for consulting around our Products worldwide. Executed 33 successful deliveries for 16 countries across 3 LOB.
• Led the Australia Post Digital Mailbox delivery of the Volly product line enabling digital mailbox management for potentially 22 million citizens of the country
• Helped conceptualize JiyoKode and Hack-days based innovation events in the company. Later authored helped institutionalize the Innovation Shepherding process which helps at Commercializing Innovation.
• Leading and have led various disruptive innovation projects initiatives which resulted in new product lines or feature add-ons LBS, Volly, Stratus, Permits, HTML5 Mobile mapping
• Architected, designed and developed various large scale enterprise solutions in domains verticals like Location Intelligence, GIS, Energy, Restaurant Retail, E-Commerce, Media Insurance
• Experience Confidential Director, Product Development,
• Leading the development of new Location based services LBS and solutions. Responsible for technology development and the delivery of the following capabilities:
• Mobile Local Search Proximity
• Tracking GPS, WiFi, CellID , Indoor positioning
• Geo-fencing, Geo-triggers Mobile, Social and Enterprise
• Geo-Actions Notifications, Enterprise callbacks
• Geo Behavioral analysis.

Director, Product Development, Confidential

Responsibilities include

• Drive operational efficiency between product lines and functions. Responsible for budget planning and development for respective product lines.
• Responsible for the communication of the company vision and a key contributor to the Vision and strategic planning for the line of business.
• Directs team planning activities and assists in the departmental planning communication.
• Responsible for understanding both business and customer needs and balancing those with prioritizing the projects in accordance with Product Management guidance.
• Responsibility for a thorough understanding the business as it relates to their product line and knowledge of the other offerings in the business.
• Directs projects according to business needs, corporate strategy, technical feasibility and resource availability people, money, time .
• Manages a team of Managers and/or Supervisors, and in absence of a Manager or Supervisor, manages more junior staff.
• Working with On-Demand, Customer Success and Consulting teams to help onboard and manage customers

Products include

• Stratus: Pitney Bowes Multi-tenanted Cloud SaaS offering allowing businesses to upload, host, visualize and share Location Intelligent Map data for their Enterprise and end users
• Hosted across 3 Data centers worldwide NA, EMEA, APAC this system has over 50 live tenants and 120 trial customers
• Zero Downtime deployment with 99.9 availability
• Exponare: Hybrid Client-Server and Web Mapping solution allowing Enterprises to access data within an organization, irrespective of the format spatial or non-spatial and integrate with existing enterprise applications.
• WayPoint: Premier Site Selection and sales forecasting solution which helps Retail chains analyze the demographic and segmentation patters of their existing customers to help determine the best suited location for upcoming stores. Existing customer base includes Home Depot, Denny's, Vitamin Shoppe, Qdoba Mexican Grill
• Australia Post Digital Mailbox: Delivery of the Volly platform to Australia Post to helps citizens of Australia, migrate their physical business communication to a digital mailbox for easy management and bill payment.

Director, Confidential

Confidential , which brought together the best of talent from 3 Lines of Businesses LI, CCM, CAI and helped deliver consulting services around our products to our global customer base. This helped combine and augment resource utilization requirement from all regions, which helped maintain high levels of utilizations and deliver these services at high margins.

Responsibilities included:

• Developed a blended Offshore Onsite delivery model for Global project execution
• Hired Ramped the team up from 0 to 60 in less than a year
• Participated in Pre-Sales, RFP response, Cost estimation, Budgeting and Financial performance monitoring activities.
• Managed a team of Service Delivery Managers and Solution Architects
• Worked with Stakeholders of various geographies and customers to assure quality and on-time deliveries
• Executed 33 successful deliveries in 16 countries across 3 lines of businesses with 100 success rate at UATs.
• Customer included AT T, Telenor, MTN Nigeria, Guy Carpenter, GE Money, Bank of Ireland, Scottish Power, Du Telecom, OSys, Dunkin' Donuts, Telstra, Municipality of Madinah
• Model was then adopted by the company for all regions and the Indian operation was made major resourcing hub
• Additionally the team helped develop the SAARC region and helped win and deliver key customer deliveries in the region including, MTS, GE Money, GrameenPhone, BSNL, Reliance, etc
• Developed and leverage local Tier 2-3 vendor for additional flex resourcing.

Confidential

Senior Project Manager Project Manager

Responsibilities Included:

• Hiring, training and ramping up of engineering team for multiple product lines in Location Intelligence.
• Guide and support project execution, ensuring priorities, coordination, and predictable schedules.
• Provide leadership and direction to project teams by managing scope, team staffing training, project execution, project monitoring, and in successful product releases
• Provide value addition to the customer on a continual basis, published metrics on a weekly basis online for all the teams, set project goals for the offshore team, monitored, tracked and reported the status to management.
• Maintained strong focus on processes that led to a high quality of deliverables and more business.
• Develop a strong relationship with the customer and coordinated activities with stakeholders Customer Engineering, Product Management, Field Solution Engineering, Professional Services and Customer Support by driving cross team, cross company cooperation effectively
• Help establish various development, IT and HR processes required for a new center to become operational and contribute quickly.

Products Include:

• Spectrum Technology Platform earlier CDQP : Pitney Bowes' flagship platform offering which brings together the best of Data Quality, Data Governance, Location Intelligence and Address Management capabilities together for enterprises.
• Envinsa: SOA based Web Services platform delivering capabilities like Mapping, Geocoding and routing to help enterprises derive Location Intelligence from their data and even deliver OGC compliant WMS, WFS, OpenLS services.
• MapXtreme .NET: GIS software development kit for Microsoft .Net, providing support for embedding mapping and GIS capability into business applications. With it, developers can build custom mapping and spatially enabled applications
• MapXtreme Java: leading software development kit SDK for integrating location intelligence into both desktop and Web based systems. Written explicitly for the Java environment, MapXtreme Java allows developers to build custom mapping applications for a variety of deployments

Confidential

Technical Specialist Project Lead Senior Software Engineer Software Engineer

As a Technical Specialist last held role , I was responsible for leading projects from a technology point of view and providing Architecture, Design and development oversight.

Responsibilities Included:

• Participating in Pre-Sales, RFP response process and leading the technology proposal creation.
• Requirement gathering and conversion of Business requirements received from clients to Software requirements, which could be passed down to the team for implementation.
• Architecting and designing large scale enterprise solutions, which could be broken down into low-level design and development specifications for the team could develop the solution to.
• Demonstrated strong applied knowledge of layered architectures, databases, reporting tools, middleware, security, monitoring and high availability systems.
• Mentoring team members and conducting design and code reviews for team members
• Hands on development of major modules of the subsystem and important integration components/systems.
• Authored the Technical Solutions TS and co-authored the Decision Analysis and Resolution DAR definitions for the CMMi implementation in the company.
• Skills: Java/ J2EE, GOF Design Patterns, Web Services, EAI, SOA, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Unix, Linux, Solaris, HTML, JavaScript, Hibernate, Struts