
FOSS Evangelist and Engineering Manager
India

FOSS Evangelist and Engineering Manager
India
I have been actively participating in Free and Open Source Software for close to 12 years now in various roles of a Systems Engineer, Developer, Consultant, Team Lead, Sales Engineer and Project Manager.
I have both participated and lead distributed as well as virtual teams tasked with delivery of products. I have experience in managing projects of sufficient complexity and modularity. Such projects include both product innovations as well as sustaining engineering of existing services and products.
I have experience of creating, delivering and managing Products and Projects in the area of development and consumption of Free and Open Source Software tools.
I have expertise in speaking about Free and Open Source Software, Open Standards and Public Commons.
I have a functional knowledge in the following organizational units and processes:
+ Systems Engineering
+ Sales Engineering
+ Services Delivery
+ Program Management
+ Partner Management
I have been a Marketing Contact for GNOME as well as OpenOffice.org in India for around 5 years now. I also managed the Public Relations and Community Outreach efforts of the Ankur Bangla Project. I am the Joint Lead for the Bengali (India) locale for OpenOffice.org, Firefox and Thunderbird Native Language efforts. I am a Fedora Ambassador and a member of the Fedora Marketing Team and part of the Fedora Project.
I aim to work with teams innovating in Products or Services space with an emphasis on building Community of Usage around the innovation.
Systems Engineering
Sales Engineering
Project Management
Program Management
IT Consultancy
Public Speaking
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHT; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
+ directing the software systems development function, including the design, development, troubleshooting and debugging of software programs
+ acting as an advisor to subordinates to meet schedules and resolve technical problems
+ develop and administer schedules and performance requirements including budget responsibilities
+ interacting with subordinate supervisors, customers and / or functional peer group managers in issues involving functional areas, other company divisions or units or customers and the company
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)
Marketing Contact aka MarCon for OpenOffice.org in India. I contribute towards building a community of users and contributors to the project.
(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2001 — Present (8 years 7 months)
I am involved in evangelising GNOME, building the community of GNOME users and contributors and generally writing about it.
Free and Open Source Software, Usability and User Interface Testing, Human Interface Guidelines, Accessibility, Product Engineering, Partner Engineering, Management