Vice President, CoreObjects
India
Vice President, CoreObjects
India
1. Experienced Leader of Engineering, Service Delivery and Sales at global product development organizations.
2. Expertise in consulting with Entrepreneurs and leading Product Development for Startups.
3. Exposure to Business Development and Sales in the India market of Startups and SMEs for product conceptualization & development services.
4. Master level skills in People and Program management, recognized as a mentor and coach for grooming leaders in the organization.
5. Wide range of technical skills in Identity and Access management, Vulnerability and Security Information Management, Web technologies, Date Warehouses, Linux internals, Directory & Database based solutions.
6. Expertise in scoping Business Requirements and product road maps.
7. Strong track record for establishing and managing global product engineering teams from India with Agile development, Open Source and traditional models like Spiral and V.
8. Proven capability to foster innovation and quality while managing costs and efficiency in engineering teams.
9. Experience in building an organization from the ground up. This includes budgets, staffing, administration, training, and organization development.
10. Proven ability to manage complex development programs that span multiple locations and organizations.
11. Specialist leader of Change and Execution with innovations in the people and operations processes.
Product Development for Startups, SMEs and Enterprises. Product Engineering, Project Management, People Management, Coaching the engineering managers, Open Source Software, Agile Methodologies, Security Management, Web Technologies, Enterprise and Consumer products
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Service Management and Sales. Product Engineering, Design and Development. Account Management.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
April 2007 — March 2008 (1 year )
Product Engineering Development for Startups.
Responsible for the Engineering Function for over 20 product teams.
(Public Company; CA; Computer Software industry)
December 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Director in the Security Management Engineering Group at CA, Hyderabad. Products in the area of Identity and Access Management, Threat Management and Security Information Management. Content Research for the Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance.
(Public Company; NOVL; Computer Software industry)
February 1995 — November 2005 (10 years 10 months)
Led the Linux Desktop Group. Established a pioneering engineering group at Novell Bangalore which built the Linux Desktop Product for Novell and contributed to the open source communities of those products.
Led Directory product and solutions development.
Established the ZenWorks product development team in India and built solutions in the Network and Desktop management domain.
(Public Company; WIT; Information Technology and Services industry)
1989 — 1995 (6 years )
Started in 1989 as a Customer Support Executive in Wipro Calcutta. Supported the first generation computerization of the industry in Eastern India. Traveled to factories in the remote corners.
Built database applications for companies like India Foils.
Later worked at Global R&D of Wipro at Bangalore on Unix applications.
Worked on contract at Univel and Novell at Salt Lake City for sometime. Later at NCR, AT&T at Columbia, SC.
MCA , Computer Applications , 1986 — 1989
Lived in Hostel 5 and pretended to study
BSc , Physics , 1983 — 1986
Believed that pursuing pure science was noble and flirted with student politics
AISSE , Science , 1970 — 1983