SUMMARY

• Heading the Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence practice for Confidential, I help customers envision, plan, create, implement and reap the rewards of a Big Data vision.
• Strong practitioner of data science, infrastructure and analytics including Machine Learning, Data Modeling, Hadoop, Spark, Complex Event Processing including Lambda Architecture with Storm, Kafka on AWS and HDFS. Data virtualization correlating data from multiple sources and placing in a data warehouse.
• Dynamic hands - on technologist with a strategic view - a visionary leader with a demonstrated track record of creating and delivering innovative technology. I most recently created a Center of Excellence for Big Data Analytics and Data Science for Confidential in North America. This was grown from scratch to 100+ professionals, going from zero to $28M of revenue in one year. Have created teams to deliver value - with high quality work products in the Big-Data/Data Science/Cloud/DevOps space.
• An effective communicator, I have lead technology teams, New Ventures/ Emerging Technologies, P&L, multinational teams (USA, Europe, India) to achieve technology objectives, creating major wins with key customers. I build high end products - hiring world-class teams, implementing to budget and per plan. Having run both IT as well as Development organizations - I believe in DevOps.
• Hadoop/Spark/Lambda-Architecture, Data Science/Machine Learning (R) and eco system
• TV/Multimedia analytics for connected TV, Audience measurement using Set-Top-Box data
• Data driven WiFi Analytics for MSOs, theme parks and corporations
• Connected vehicle data analytics and Smart city analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT)
• Business Intelligence to Big Data Analytics transformations (Netezza, Teradata, Hadoop)
• I am a visionary and a pioneer in the application of technology in multiple areas. In the last year, I have built a business in the analytics of IoT - using WiFi devices, the data from such devices and user behavior info. In the past, I’ve been responsible for numerous innovations, including being an OTT video pioneer (I even hold the patent), a Metro Ethernet pioneer, and being the Netflix-style video delivery pioneer (I built Confidential in 1997).
• Goal focused sales, business and strategy professional, using technical strength to strategically create tactical wins that add up to long term success. Create new opportunities by understanding the needs of the business and aligning them with the needs of the customer leading to success for both.
• I have built several companies from the ground up, been part of raising over $85M from VCs, and been the driver for consummating two M&A transactions. I am on the Boards of multiple companies helping them with their strategy, tactics and driving acquisition efforts.
• Having lead guerilla technical marketing for startups and large companies, I am a regular author of cutting edge articles published on various online outlets. I have personally written dozens of white papers in areas as diverse as NFV, SDN, Cloud and Big Data Analytics.
• Working closely with the team, proactively drive recruitment, planning, DevOps cycle for delivery, using Agile methodologies, to guide teams deliver on-time, high quality product.
• Proactive business development capabilities. Ability to evaluate, initiate and nurture strategic relationships and take them to mutually beneficial and successful end goals.
• Deep technical and business knowledge of Cloud technology, OpenStack, OpenFlow, DevOps, Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, Big Data with Hadoop, Video Delivery, Internet Video, IPTV, CDN as well as Enterprise, Internet and Telco/MSO/Media domains.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Big Data
• Hadoop
• Data Science
• R
• Spark/Storm/Kafka
• OpenStack
• SDN
• NFV
• DevOps
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Development
• OpenFlow
• Virtualization
• Cloud
• IP routing / IP Video
• Web Video
• Telco/MVPD Architectures
• TV Advertising
• Streaming Video
• IPTV
• OTT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vice President, Big Data Analytics

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Head up the Big Data practice - 100+ resources dotted line between US and India
• Built the Data Science practice - Machine Learning (R, Hive/Pig, Spark-ML, MLlib, etc.)
• Lead both delivery organization and business organization
• Soundly beating delivery targets by 14 times (started from zero - no funnel) in two quarters
• Big Data (Hadoop, Lambda Architecture) Consulting Sales and Implementation leader
• Built team, directed efforts to address requirements in TV Analytics, WiFi analytics, and theme park analytics, IoT, Connected Car and Smart Homes
• Leading team evaluating possible analytics solutions in Carrier Grade WiFi for MSOs
• Created comprehensive Sales and Business Development plan for Telecom verticals
• Forged relationships with cutting edge startups and partners (inside and outside of Confidential )
• Implementation of Big Data infrastructure using Hadoop (offline and real time streaming data)
• Creating actionable insights by implementing big data analytics and machine learning

CEO

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Big Data (Hadoop) and OpenStack (Cloud) Consulting leader
• Driving Technology Evangelization for NEC America - Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking with OpenStack for Carriers and Enterprises
• Developed in-depth understanding of SDN concepts - the customer use cases and views
• OpenStack knowledge leveraged to write pithy and effective white papers and articles
• Frequent and active participation in OpenStack and SDN/NFV events
• Chief Editor for OpenNetwork Summit 2014 articles/blogs
• Chief Editor for Internet of Things
• Powerful team set up, new IP invented in Big data and analytics space and Sales pipeline created
• Hands on with OpenStack and OpenDaylight as well as Hadoop/Big-Data
• Standing up and exercising REST APIs for OpenStack (Nova and Neutron networking focus)
• Created customer traction in a very short period of time by solving real problems
• Evangelizing Virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) for Network Function Virtualization

Delivery Head - Hadoop and Big Data

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Hortonworks Hadoop standup and re-architecture (Ambari/Hue/Nagios/Ganglia)
• Guiding Hadoop/HBase/Machine Learning and Hive/Pig based effort by team
• Implemented prototype using Python and MongoDB (NoSQL; Map/Reduce)

VP Consulting Western US head

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Lead teams implementing multiple solutions while creating a new business presence in OpenStack, Cloud, Data center migration, Big-Data and related fields
• Developed brand new presence for the company in the space of SaaS, IT, Cloud Computing (AWS, Openstack) and DevOps (Chef/Puppet, etc.) in Silicon Valley
• Developed deep understanding of Enterprise technology needs in the IT, Cloud and Big Data space.
• Solved myriad practical technology problems for customers across the spectrum.

VP Video Streaming (CDN)

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Spoke in Cable/Telco/MSO/OTTOT at key events - CES / NAB / TelcoTV etc
• Developed mindshare from “slideware” and took through customer labs successfully
• Dived in at short notice and stabilized existing customers, neutralized problems
• Proactively created a strategy on expansion, went after new accounts and consequently generated new customer relationships and business in new areas for company
• Smashed into major Content Delivery Network customer business, new customers with relationships created from Engineers to Business, from C-levels to lowest level workers
• Verizon, Cox, Limelight, Videotron, Level 3, Rogers, Cogeco, AT&T are selected customers
• Mentored the supporting Sales team for clear communication internally and with customers
• Consistently acted as liaison between Product Management, Engineering and Sales team - ensuring each was working together in order to close current deals and generate future deals

VP Emerging Technologies

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Started from an idea, brought to product stage, introduced to multiple customers
• Put together a world class team, with top tier members, and built a superb architecture
• Technology focus on video streaming for Mobile devices
• Created business plan, executed to plan, worked closely with Board to approve budget
• Built iPhone and iPad applications, addressed Android SDK as well
• Developed a visible presence for my company in the heart of Silicon Valley
• Worldwide presence - speaking at new media events like CES, NAB, etc. every quarter

CEO

Confidential, California

Responsibilities:

• Created SaaS offering and brought to market, including product, team and eco system
• Assembled top team, launched product, motivated and managed 40+ employees across Silicon Valley, and offshore - Poland, Belarus, New Delhi (India), Pune (India), Trivandrum (India)
• Invented Moveez - Cable TV’s answer to Netflix, leveraging IP Routing Technologies
• Spearheaded implementation of i2TV broadcast, VOD channel, web-to-TV, online, mobile
• Blasted into, closed deals - tier 1 and 2 IPTV, Cable MSOs, Broadcasters, Content providers.
• Steered operational deployment of open-source technologies to support over 1,500,000 TVs
• Formulated a multi-Billion dollar eco-system of companies including Blue-Chip public, and private companies, to support the Moveez service for deployment to over 50M TV sets

Director Technical Marketing

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architected development of, sales strategies for, and launched 10Gbps IP transport products.
• Scintillating articles authored in trade, smashing presentations made at major conferences
• Roadmap visionary - responsible for managing multiple roadmap items vs. available resource

Director/Co-Founder

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technical focus on Cable TV, MSO market, created new Intellectual Property there
• Built and implemented technology roadmap and delivery plans
• Reinvigorated company, generating many new customers by focused efforts
• My efforts culminated in a successful sale of the company

Director, Software and System Architecture

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built software team from scratch. Interviewing, courting, hiring 20+ top-notch engineers
• Managed multiple software teams for development, software release and deployments
• Created a scalable, reliable software engineering architecture for Terabit MPLS routing
• Implemented OSPF, RSVP-TE, CR-LDP on system supporting 80Gbps fabric
• Actively led our participation in Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), IEEE and IETF
• Solicited customers at standards bodies and brought in Sales at the right time

Founder

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created full website and shopping cart single handedly, maintained site, updated daily
• Secure shopping cart and interface with SSL system from bank implemented
• PHP and MySQL, Apache based on Linux systems

IP Routing and MPLS Software Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Software design team manager and project manager - MPLS for Terabit IP and MPLS Router
• Implemented OSPF-TE, RSVP-TE, LDP control planes, Architected MIBs and OA&M
• Bay Networks and Phase 2 IP/MPLS implementations, C/C++ on Linux, Posix

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Software team leader developing telecom software for next generation voice switch
• Became “Connections” expert - the heart of the system was designed by me
• Cutting edge exercise in meeting real time constraints while using Object Oriented Programs
• Go-to guy for all software issues that needed solving in a short time - well trusted

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented various reliable embedded subsystems for the SS7 telecom system
• Architected Posix like solution for multi-threaded task delivery, implemented scheduler
• Designed, developed and tested the congestion avoidance and congestion clearance system
• Developed end-to-end architecture of the standards based routing for congestion control
• C implementation on Unix and VAX/VMS, with real time extensions