VP of Engineering @ Accept Software
San Francisco Bay Area
VP of Engineering @ Accept Software
San Francisco Bay Area
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Experienced and very accomplished Software Development Executive with extensive experience leading and managing successful software engineering organizations in start-up, mid-size and Fortune 100 sized companies. I bring a valued and strategic background in engineering leadership to your organizations through a collaborative, yet decisive management style.
I am currently the VP of Engineering for Accept Software an Enterprise Web 2.0 SaaS Application company developing applications for management of Innovation/Ideas, Product Requirements & Portfolio (web communities/portals, etc.), utilizing Agile and proven enterprise development methodologies.
Prior experience includes:
- VP of Engineering for Asoka Inc.,
- Senior Vice President of Engineering for Anthology Solutions, provider of the Yellow Machine, a NAS 1TB RAID consumer appliance for aggregation and management of digital multi-media content, with development teams in the US and India.
- VP of WW Engineering for Wyse Technology, leading all new and sustaining development with development teams in the US, India, China and Taiwan.
- VP of Engineering for OnDemand Inc..
My career spans both start-up ventures and a lengthy and progressive career at HP where I led a number of very successful software development teams such as Storage/System/Performance Management Apps, Operating Systems (MPE and HP-UX) High Availability and Performance product definition, design and development.
A strong commitment to customer aligned/focused engineering, executive presence with customers, demonstrated through responsiveness, effective presentations, communications, strong technical leadership and follow through, have all led to success in the Executive positions I've held. I have a verifiable track record of developing strategies, plans, roadmaps, leading and bringing together geographically dispersed development teams to successfully deliver new products to market.
- Decisive/collaborative management style
- Web based enterprise application dev (Java/J2EE/Oracle/mySQL)
- Web 2.0 SaaS Platform development (Ajax, PHP, Liquid Layout, Zul, etc.)
- Unix/Linux/Embedded/Windows OS Dev
- System, Perf and Storage Mgmt Dev
- Creation/leadership of several productive off-shore development teams
- Customer focused SW Development
- High Availability
- Bringing order out of chaos - Engineering Turn-Arounds
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
2008 — Present (1 year)
Accept helps companies significantly improve the commercial success of their products and turn product innovation into a competitive advantage. We deliver on-demand innovation management solutions that combine automated voice of market discovery, strategic alignment and unified plan of record execution capabilities to help create successful new products with certainty and speed. With Accept, companies can innovate ahead of market demand and increase the certainty of new product success.
I currently lead teams in Fremont, Ca. and Pune India developing an enterprise Web 2.0 SaaS application (Java, Oracle, mySQL, LAMP, etc.) which provides the capabilities loosely described in the above paragraph (Idea/Innovation Management, Community/Portal, Requirements Management & Portfolio Management).
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)
Senior executive consultant on off-shore development and engineering turn arounds
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)
This position is an advisory position to the founders of the company. I have advised Pano on their technology, markets, competition, customers, strategy, staffing, etc.. I've been basically on call by the founders to assess different situations and provide my insight, guidance, experience in helping them initially get VC funding (which they have successfully done) and now more so on strategy, competition, etc...