SUMMARY:

Hands on Product Management and Engineering Leader with a proven track record of envisioning, building and launching customer focused innovative products. Working with offshore development teams, Product Launch and Product Pricing. Roll up sleeves to get the requirements right and negotiate with engineers and presenting to internal executives for funding commitments as well as presenting to C - level customer executives involved in decision making for product purchase. Also, I have presented to analysts. Current focus on everything public and private cloud products - Cloud Acceleration, PaaS, IaaS and mobile technology. Excellent Big Data Analytics around Salesforce Wave Analytics as well as the in house Big Data Platform built around Hadoop Technology. A Product Leader that has good experience with Software Development, Networks, Network and systems management, Virtualization, storage, system and data security as well as very sensitive and sophisticated Data Center operations. Building SaaS from ground up, Big Data Analytics, Compliance and Data Center Automation and Management. Scrum Agile Product Management methodology for speedy Product Development and rollout along with UX design experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Product Line Manager, Cloud

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Responsibilities:

• Application Migration to Cloud in AWS - Initiated the product move from Enterprise hosted DC to convert into SaaS model deployed in AWS Infrastructure.
• My team is responsible for writing the product requirement to be SaaS model.
• Me and my team manages the whole gambit of AWS Suite of products - Infrastructure/DB/Analytics and other tools that we feel fit for our needs.
• Migration of Home Grown recruiting App to Salesforce force.com Platform - Rolled out to 3 countries in Europe and USA and Canada are coming up soon.
• Product requirement, Communication to the users and adoption of new features offered by Salesforce Platform,
• Big Data Analytics Platform for RH - using Hadoop Clusters (Cloudera Distribution), Pig, Sqoop, HDFS, and all running on Amazon AWS.
• At this point we are importing more than 60 million records per hour. Plan is to have the analytics built for job predictions and adding staffing professionals for uptick in the job market or adjust staffing headcount. The engine that we are building will be able to identify and match the best candidates in RH Database with its clients needs.

Strategic Product Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a product owner - role focused on speed of execution and delivery to the Data Center Engineering, Provisioning, Network Engineering, and AssetForce teams.
• Focused on writing Product requirements documents, and associated user stories, sprint planning, and product ownership, release and customer interactions.
• Excellent working experience with Force.com Platform, Salesforce service cloud and wave analytics.
• Automated control of Data Center - product enhancements and enhancements
• New features and product enhancements for the Data Center Pod Validation Tool wrote the user stories and product requirements for the Compliance tools for Salesforce Compliance team and new features for the Application that helps users to rely more on the tool than the old methodology of using Google Docs.
• Wrote the product requirements and product enhancements for the Data Center Provision and Bill of Materials Template. participated and wrote PRD for the Salesforce GUI Continuous Integration Methodology for automated code release.
• Exposed all Service Management application via Mobile app for all in Salesforces to view and access the applications
• Using Salesforce internal product “Salesforce Wave Analytics” to predict the growth of DC in different Geographic locations.

Group Product Manager - Software (Consulting)

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Several Business Case - Cloud Acceleration Service (IAAS) and PaaS products, Cisco Unified Communications and Video Streaming Server
• Wrote PRD and Use Case for the Cloud Acceleration Service (IAAS) and PaaS products, Cisco Unified Communications and Video Streaming Server
• Product to help Confidential solve the HIPPA/PCI and other regulatory issues.
• Managed and coached a team of 4 product managers
• Wrote product requirements for Manageability of Confidential Vblock using the mobile devices using iPhone, android and Tablets (both ios and Android). We developed Confidential management using both iOS and android native API’s.
• Collaboration with Confidential Channel partners, Confidential sales, Confidential and Channel Consulting
• Presented and spoke at several industry, partner summit and company events.
• Contributed to the Big Data initiative of Confidential in collaboration with EMC.
• Participated in the SDN/NFV strategic decision making for Confidential
• Helped the Pricing Team with the products that I owned.
• Wrote the first draft proposal for the

Director - Product Management and Services

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Providing technical leadership in building on demand services for the Confidential Cloud offering.
• Led a team 5 product Managers, 5 Engineering Managers and 3 QA Managers.
• Managed day-to-day product function of translating product requirements into product delivery and launch - writing PRD, users stories, 2-3 weeks of agile iterations, working with engineering and QA teams.
• Built and managed the entire ECS team from ground up. Was responsible for people management and during my tenure SaaS Platform saw a revenue uptick of about 25% year over year.
• Owned the Confidential in Action Program where we deploy Confidential products in our own production as well cloud operation before releasing to the global customers worldwide.
• Managed Vendor relationship
• Managed the Enterprise Mobility Manager (EMM) Production environment via our SaaS offering. Devices supported were - iOS, Android, and Blackberry.
• Owned the Software Licensing policy for the company.
• Owner for infrastructure build out for production environment - both physical and virtual
• My team Initiated and Implemented Citrix Xen based VDI at Confidential for all employees and we are actively using it for M&A type of activity and for users with Mac and Linux platforms who may want to use corporate Microsoft windows based applications in the hosted or non hosted environment
• Provided backbone for the Security as a Services model for Confidential from inception to delivery.
• Constant collaboration with Channel partners, sales and consulting organizations.
• Building the core infrastructure from ground up for the Confidential SaaS operation
• Team provided the backbone for the Security as a Services model for Confidential from inception to delivery that included working closely with core engineering, QA, UX designers, UAT testing for all the products in SaaS environment for enterprise as well as Consumer portals.
• Presented at a few Security conferences and at customer briefings
• Built Security practices around the SaaS offering and the extended the learning to our customers.

Director- Product and Services

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technical leadership, extending core functions and integration to - Confidential core platform
• Business Requirements and PRD’s for speedy development from our Oslo and Denver labs.
• Supporting Business Development Director as well as sales team
• Product and feature prioritization, scheduling and tracking.
• Development of Use cases
• Developing relationship and building products for solving Cloud computing vendors.
• Utilized my strong development skills to come up with prototype for solutions for customers.
• Collaboration with the Confidential Channel partners, sales and Channel Consulting organization.
• Spoke and presented at many enterprise management forums and conferences, partner summit and at customer briefings

Confidential

Sr. Product Manager (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Product Manager for the integration with Microsoft Advertising product and Confidential Ad platform.
• Support the Advertising platform management when released in production.
• Provided product management help on scaling and uptime of Advertising Platform.

Confidential, San Jose

EMS Architect/Technical Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architect for Confidential Global Data Center Management
• Building Tools in house as well managing Enterprising Management Tools.
• Collaboration with Core Engineering in early stage of Product Inception
• Core Technical Product Manager in the last 6 months - Confidential Financial Engine