Director at Burntsand corp
San Francisco Bay Area
Director at Burntsand corp
San Francisco Bay Area
Ø Advising business and technology leaders on adopting technologies to solve their business or technical problems for collaboration, business intelligence, portals, systems integration etc
Ø Running a consulting practice with responsibilities for P&L, revenue targets, practice growth, resource and utilization management, customer acquisition, solution-based selling etc
Ø Creating and delivering webinars & seminars to take ideas to customers
Ø Evangelizing key technologies and concepts to benefit the business productivity such as collaboration, Web 2.0, Enterprise Mobility
Ø Evangelizing and convincing customers for adopting Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint
Ø Creating niche solutions for Knowledge workers and business productivity gains, which help in collaboration and save money for enterprises.
Ø Creating new ways to deliver “technology value” and “technology service products” to customers, through innovation, organizational changes and creating processes to take differentiated skills to customers
Ø Introducing key innovations that give sales and engagement managers a clear leg-up over consulting competitors – innovation that reduces the cost-of-sales and fundamentally change how we take solutions to customers
Enterprise Architecture, Solutions Architecture, Application design, Microsoft solutions and Technologies, .NET, SharePoint 2007, Project Management, Business Intelligence, Team leadership, Consulting, Engagement Leadership, Solution Selling, Collaboration, Web, Usability, Leadership and Management, Business management
(Public Company; BRT; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Practice Director for Microsoft Solutions Practice (Collab) in US West region, based out of Silicon Valley, CA.
- Collaboration and portal solutions
- Business Intelligence solutions
- Application Integration solutions
- Custom Application Development
Specific Domain offerings are:
- Customer Listening Portal for High-Tech and Product companies
- Information Xposure solution for Business Insights
- Product Lifecycle Management solution
- Supplier Collaboration solution for High-tech and LifeSciences
- HealthCare Content Management solution
- Project Central
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 7 months)
Ø Architecture and technology consulting at customers to proactively reshape customer’s business agility
Ø Help define solutions and technologies, that leverage my skills and use innovation to provide customer’s a better way of doing business
Ø Work with customers to strengthen the trend of taking ideas to customers – mapping technology disruptions to business value for our customers
ØManage and provide technology leadership to large, complex technology definitions and deployments, at key customers
Ø Work with larger team to innovate and create Intellectual property definitions, that allows clients to leap-frog its competition
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2005 — April 2006 (6 months)
As a Senior Technology Consultant in Advanced Technology and Advisory Services practice of Fujitsu, I provided Enterprise/Solution architecture consulting services to Fujitsu's clients.
- Led a major EAI project at a leading pest control manufacturer
- Led a Business Intelligence and Web-services based integration project at a major client
- Provided advisory services to a large company for their new systems architecture
(Computer Software industry)
November 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 1 month)
As a Manager of Product Development-
-Responsible for leading product development for Digital Video Auditing system product.
-Lead a cross-functional team to make a very complex product in a complicated setup
-Successfully delivered a highly efficient product/solution which contributed to company's business and bottom line.
- Mentored a team of developers on new technology and got them conversant on best practices
- Put in place enterprise and solution architecture which was vetted by microsoft
- Created AVIAN system framework for all future product development
See this : http://www.unitedtoll.com/openroadtolling.html for DVAS and Live Video Surveillance. These were the 2 products created by my team.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2000 — November 2004 (4 years 4 months)
Joined Telezoo, a dot com start up in August 2000 as a Web Architect and contributed in creation of web's first telecom B2B platform. Rose to become Director of Technology and helped cut costs for Telezoo while delivering business critical solutions for the clients which enabled Telezoo to gain valuable clients like Cisco, Siemens etc. Sadly, Telezoo had to close operations.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 7 months)
As a Software Consultant at Xansa, I worked at various clients of Xansa.
- At Roche Pharmaceuticals, contributed in creation of Sales Force automation system
- At Glaxo, I played a leadership role in creating various intranet sites like knowledgenet. Led development of internet sites for Glaxo like tums.com, avandia.com boostenergy.com etc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 1995 — February 1999 (4 years 1 month)
In my 4 years working at Rolta, I got experience working on different groups, doing different exciting things. I got trained on CAD/CAM software, customised software like Imagineer Technical for Rolta's client and participated in custom software development. I also got my first experience in marketing and sales.
MCTS , SharePoint- WSS and MOSS 2007 , 2008 — 2008
PMP , Project Management , 2002 — 2008
CSA , Agile and SCRUM methodologies , 2006 — 2006
Certification , Enterprise Architect , 2006 — 2006
BE , Electronics and Power , 1990 — 1994
Entrepreneurship, Leadership, IT, Technology, Geeky Stuff, SOA, Business/IT strategy and solutions, Reading, Writing, Scriptwriting, Moviemaking
The OPEN group, PMI, IEEE, WWISA, IASA
National Scholarship Award Winner - Twice
Branch Topper in Engineering Program
Best Overall GPA for 4 years