Rinka Singh

Current

Portfolio Manager at IBM India

Past

CoFounder and CTO at Afford Computing Solutions Pvt., Ltd.,
Sr. Manager, Software Engineering at Novell India
Sr. Project Manager at CoSystems

Team Lead at Future Software
Project Lead at Future Software Pvt Ltd
Engineer at Riverrun Software

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Rinka Singh’s Summary

Organization and business: I have defined business plans and objectives and setup systems to deliver these. I have worked with stakeholders to align their needs into my objectives and deliver.

Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship: I have co-founded one startup in the past. I have been part of a team of founders who have incepted and built a startup, defined and implemented its policies, systems and processes. I have been involved in various business negotiation scenarios including outsourcing contract definition, negotiation and implementation. I have also been involved in raising funding for the startup.

Products and Technology: Most of my experience has been with products. I have successfully owned and delivered products out of India. I have participated in various forums to represent my organization.

My core technical skills are in networking protocols, operating systems (including RTOSs) and in related hardware. I understand this space well enough to understand the business directions this field is taking, translate this knowledge into features, components and products for the future.

Management: I have defined and setup teams, control systems, project offices to define goals and realize business objectives. I have defined, managed to budget and have had cash flow oversight.

People: I have hired, managed and mentored experienced architects and setup multi-site delivery teams totaling to 120 people. My teams’ attrition usually has also been below the mean. My team members have been involved in various initiatives including producing patents, organizational change, mentoring, coaching and in becoming leaders.

I am on SPIN Bangalore’s Executive Committee. We are one of the main reasons for Bangalore having the highest concentration of SEI-5 organizations in the world.

Rinka Singh’s Specialties:

Business architecting, Organization definition and delivery
People management
Product delivery and technical management
Infrastructure and operations management.

Rinka Singh’s Experience

Portfolio Manager

IBM India

(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

Between Oct-06 and Aug-08, I was a Sr. Delivery Manager at IBM's AT&T account. At AT&T, I managed a few AT&T applications and my team was instrumental in delivering about 16000 function points over two years. We also improved the quality of our deliveries and doubled our productivity.

I am a Portfolio in IBM's American Express account. At AXP, I am responsible for implementing a contract that consist of outsourcing support services to India.
CoFounder and CTO

Afford Computing Solutions Pvt., Ltd.,

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Afford Computing is an angel funded early-stage startup and was focussed on low cost computing. I cofounded Afford with four other friends.
Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

Novell India

(Public Company; NOVL; Computer Software industry)

February 2000 — April 2005 (5 years 3 months)

I was responsible for leading teams porting eDirectory on various platforms.

After that, we took over and managed the various protocol stacks within Novell. My team was completely responsible for defining the roadmap, implementing it and for support of the TCP/IP stack and also the IPv6 stack. I was Novell's IPv6 evangelist both within Novell and to the outside community.
Sr. Project Manager

CoSystems

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1997 — January 2000 (3 years )

I managed and participated in the definition of the ATM stack. After that, I took over the PPP team and managed it's deliveries out of India. We developed the VPN protocols (L2TP & PPTP) and integrated them into the stack. I also subsequently managed the ISDN stack.
Team Lead

Future Software

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1994 — 1997 (3 years )
Project Lead

Future Software Pvt Ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1994 — 1997 (3 years )
Engineer

Riverrun Software

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1991 — August 1994 (3 years 5 months)

Engineer