Gunjan Doshi

Current

• Founder, Management Consultant at Instrumental Services Inc.

Past

• Vice President of Product Development and Process Excellence at Community Connect Inc.
• Process Consultant, Analyst at Time Inc.
• Senior Consultant at Noblestar Systems Inc.

• Senior Consultant at Charterhouse Systems Inc.

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Education

• Columbia University - Columbia Business School
• London Business School

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Industry

Internet

Gunjan Doshi’s Summary

- Currently running a strategy and process consulting firm to help startups and executive teams build sustainable high performing organizations with powerful business models, product strategy, product marketing, product management, product development and operations functions. He has successfully coached more than 40 teams and helped them launch 60 different online products.

- Led the launch of popular social networking sites: BlackPlanet.com, Migente.com, AsianAvenue.com, and Glee.com. The sites combined attract over 2 million unique visitors doing over 20 million-page views a day. Instrumental in transforming a chaotic environment to a world-class product development environment. Led and managed a team of 30 developers, Directors, Project Managers, and QA professionals to rapidly deliver a world class, social networking software.

- Previously founded a process coaching and consulting firm and had successful stints in pharma, entertainment, travel industries like Community Connect Inc, AOL Time Warner, Merck, Cendant Corp, EDS, MDS Sciex, ADP. As the principal consultant of the company, transitioned 30 teams from mediocre performance to high-performing self-disciplined teams.

- Worked in USA, Canada, Europe and India across domains as diverse as pharmaceutical, finance, media, construction, hospitality, research, Internet media and publications.

- Coached and mentored executives, management and other members of multifunctional teams on the disciplines of project portfolio management, process assessments, agile software development & management, risk mitigation and project retrospectives Designed and taught several popular courses and boot-camps for several clients in United States, Canada and India.

Gunjan Doshi’s Specialties:

Early to mid-stage internet start-ups, Executive team building, Lean Org Design, High-growth Cultures, Business Models, Internet Product Strategy, Market Analysis, Web monetization, Business Processes, Software as a Service (SaaS), Agile software development

Gunjan Doshi’s Experience

• Founder, Management Consultant

  Instrumental Services Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  February 2002 — Present (7 years 10 months)

  Founder of a Web 2.0 strategy and professional services firm that helps companies finalize and implement their social media and product strategy. As the principal consultant of the company, transitioned 40+ product development teams to high-performing self-disciplined teams. Worked in USA, Europe and India across domains as diverse as pharmaceutical, finance, media, construction, hospitality, research, internet media and publications.
  
  Some of the recent clients include Silverpop, TheMarkets.com, LinkExperts.com, Time Inc., Cendant Corp, ADP, EDS, Cutter Consortium, Industrial Logic. Coached and mentored executives, management and other members of multifunctional teams on the disciplines of project portfolio management, process assessments, agile software development & management, risk mitigation and project retrospectives.
  Designed and taught several popular courses and boot-camps for several clients in United States, Canada and India.

• Vice President of Product Development and Process Excellence

  Community Connect Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 4 months)

  Led the launch of popular social networking sites: BlackPlanet.com, Migente.com, AsianAvenue.com, and Glee.com. The sites combined attract over 2 million unique visitors doing over 20 million page views a day.
  Instrumental in transforming a chaotic environment that had not released a product feature for two years into a world class agile software development environment that currently delivers new features to production every month.
  Architected the development process based on principles of agile and lean development methodologies. Rolled out processes across the organization from software development and project management to sales and human-resources.
  Responsible for leading and managing a team of 30 developers, project managers and QA professionals.
  Responsible for coordinating delivery and execution of product initiatives. Part of the executive management team and tasked with delivering the vision and roadmap for all of our sites. Report directly to the COO.

• Process Consultant, Analyst

  Time Inc.

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TWX; Computer Software industry)

  July 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 7 months)

  Successfully coached the content management team at Time Inc. The team had no process and was transitioning to Java platform. Actively led the release planning and iteration planning meetings & helped the customers with stories and acceptance tests. Mentored the team in test-driven development & merciless refactoring.

• Senior Consultant

  Noblestar Systems Inc.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2000 — July 2002 (1 year 9 months)

  Deliver custom-built agile business solutions using controlled iterative and incremental delivery model. Was involved in several iterative projects with different clients where I applied Extreme Programming practices, design patterns and frameworks, quality engineering, performance benchmarking.

• Senior Consultant

  Charterhouse Systems Inc.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  May 1999 — August 2000 (1 year 4 months)