Program Manager II at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area
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- Program Manager II, DRM Team at Microsoft Corporation
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- Leader of Vice President Appointed Leaders for TVM (TV, Video, Music) Group for the Giving Campaign at Microsoft
- Program Manager Anti-Spam Team at Microsoft Corporation
- Program Manager/Researcher/Developer, Open Source Project CRM114 Discriminator at CRM114/Debian Linux
- Summer Intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
- Teaching Assistant at University of California
- Summer Intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
- Summer Intern/Program Manager/Researcher/Developer, Project SupReputella at University of Milan, Crema and Politecnico di Milano , Italy
- Summer Intern, Project SECSI at LSV, ENS De Cachan/INRIA, France
- Distinguished Student Fellow at Indian Academy of Sciences and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
- Education
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- University of California, Riverside
- Institute of Technology, BHU
- Campus School, Pantnagar
- R. A. N. Public School
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Shalendra Chhabra’s Summary
5 years of Product Development experience across various technologies and disciplines
Seasoned in building everlasting partner relationships
Experienced Technical Program Manager with a powerful drive for delivering exceptional results
Best described as "Makes it happen" kind of guy!
Shalendra Chhabra’s Specialties:
Program Management, Product Management, Project Management, Anti-Spam, DRM, Storytelling, Inspiring, Problem Solving, Fundraising for charities
Shalendra Chhabra’s Experience
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Program Manager II, DRM Team
Microsoft Corporation
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Key member of the PlayReady DRM technology team delivering solutions for making DRM invisible to consumers by offering a great degree of portability similar to non-DRM content. Microsoft's PlayReady technology is the future of industry's DRM entertainment. See
http://www.microsoft.com/PlayReady/Default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/PlayReady/News.mspx
Successfuly shipped various versions of the PlayReady DRM porting kit to both Microsoft external and internal customers
Filed a few patents
Worked with Nokia for enabling PlayReady DRM technology on Series S60 (N95) phones and OVI service
Currently working with various internal Microsoft teams for enabling a great customer experience for music, video and games across various Microsoft properties -
Leader of Vice President Appointed Leaders for TVM (TV, Video, Music) Group for the Giving Campaign
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
September 2009 — October 2009 (2 months)
In addition to my day job of Program Management in the PlayReady DRM team, I also played a key role in helping Microsoft raise a total of approx 70 million $ for charity during the annual October Giving Campaign
Led a rockstar team of 7 other people to jointly envision strategy and orchestrate a plan for TVM org for the Giving Campaign for both Microsoft Redmond and Silicon Valley Campuses
Rallied and obtained executive support for the plan both financially and morally
Executed the plan with my team and delivered above expectations financial results for the organization (a few million $ within a month) through several events, auction, excitement drives etc.
Gave a series of talks at different organizations within Microsoft and inspired through storytelling
Orchestrated and executed a plan for a first of a kind event in Microsoft’s history called “Soccerpalooza” in collaboration with a non profit organization “Soccer Saves” and “Seattle Sounders FC”.
Helped “Soccer Saves” raise over 10K$ in 2 days, double of original targets. The event was very successful and noted in every exec email company wide -
Program Manager Anti-Spam Team
Microsoft Corporation
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
October 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 8 months)
Successfully delivered anti-spam technology aka "Junk Email Filters" in Outlook 2007, Windows Mail (Outlook Express on Vista), Windows Live Mail Desktop and Entourage for Mac
Developed great relationships with various Microsoft internal teams and helped orchestrate, deliver a smooth update process for spam filters for Microsoft email clients on a monthly basis through Microsoft and Windows Update channels
Conceived a few heuristics for detecting phishing emails for email clients and Internet Explorer's "Phishing Filter"
Orchestrated and drove real time reputation systems plan for future versions of Microsoft email clients
Represented Microsoft at the MIT spam conference 2006 -
Program Manager/Researcher/Developer, Open Source Project CRM114 Discriminator
CRM114/Debian Linux
(Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 10 months)
Invented new algorithms, spam filtering models and helped deliver various releases of the open source spam filter CRM114 Discriminator during my MS in Computer Science by partnering online with Will Yerazunis in US, Fidelis Assis in Brazil and Christian Siefkes in Germany
http://crm114.sourceforge.net/
CRM114 is currently used by several companies for filtering millions of email accounts and is also shipped in Debian Linux
Published several papers, thesis, invited post at Slashdot, gave several independent talks while as a student at the industry events, Cisco Systems, MIT, Stanford of my work
See
http://www.shalen.net
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~schhabra/thesis.html
http://www.sigmod.org/dblp/db/indices/a-tree/c/Chhabra:Shalendra.html
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~schhabra/
http://books.slashdot.org/books/05/08/15/1838246.shtml?tid=111&tid=6
Talks
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~schhabra/cisco18.pdf (Talk at Cisco)
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~schhabra/ceas05.pdf (Talk at Stanford)
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2005/01/21/spamconf.html (Talk at MIT) -
Summer Intern
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
(Public Company; Research industry)
June 2005 — September 2005 (4 months)
Designed a beowulf cluster and helped shiping new releases of the CRM114 anti-spam project
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Teaching Assistant
University of California
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
2003 — 2005 (2 years )
Teaching Assistant for Computer Organization and Assembly Language class. Taught and managed a class of around 40 computer undergraduate students. I'd lot of fun teaching!
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Summer Intern
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
(Public Company; Research industry)
June 2004 — September 2004 (4 months)
Designed, developed and presented a three dimensional audio system for automobiles
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Summer Intern/Program Manager/Researcher/Developer, Project SupReputella
University of Milan, Crema and Politecnico di Milano , Italy
(Computer Software industry)
June 2003 — September 2003 (4 months)
Designed and implemented a new protocol "SupReputella" for deterring malicious downloads in P2P networks on top of "Gnutella". The protocol was officially published at "Database and Expert Systems Applications, 15th International Workshop on (DEXA'04) August 30 - September 03, 2004, Zaragoza, Spain". See here
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~schhabra/pdmst04.pdf -
Summer Intern, Project SECSI
LSV, ENS De Cachan/INRIA, France
(Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — September 2002 (4 months)
I was one of the very rare individual invited by a special French research agency to think and identify security weaknesses in the SSL protocol at their French facility while I was in 3rd year of my undergraduate studies in India
During my work I interfaced with some of the best cryptographers and security experts around the world including creator of SSL (Paul Kocher) and NIST scientists
I can't share any specific details about the project
I also gave a talk at Southern California Linux Conf in 2005 on a primer on SSL
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~schhabra/scale05.pdf -
Distinguished Student Fellow
Indian Academy of Sciences and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
(Computer & Network Security industry)
May 2001 — August 2001 (4 months)
While I was in 2nd year of my undergraduate studies, I was one of the very rare students to receive an opportunity to work as a "Distinguished Student Fellow" at TIFR, a premier institution in India for Post Graduate studies in Maths, Physics and Computer Science
http://www.tifr.res.in/About_TIFR/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Institute_of_Fundamental_Research
I worked extensively on the authentication protocols and BAN logic
Shalendra Chhabra’s Education
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University of California, Riverside
MS , Computer Science , 2003 — 2005
Distinguished Dean's Fellow during MS
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Institute of Technology, BHU
BTech , Electrical Engineering , 1999 — 2003
Cleared IIT-JEE in 1999
Selected among 0.1 % of approx 1 million students
Graduated with Honors
Interned at several premier Indian, French and Italian agencies upon exclusive invitations for advanced research and development during Summer of 2001, 2002 and 2003 respectively
Winner of All India Engineering Paper Presentation Contest 2003, Medal from IEE UK
Honorable Mentions at ACM Asia International Collegiate competitions
Winner of several other National inter-college competitions (that list if too long)
At one point was also the captain of my class' cricket team -
Campus School, Pantnagar
Intermediate (10+2) 1997 — 1998
Winner of the Versatility Contest (Senior Category)
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R. A. N. Public School
High School 1992 — 1996
Highest score in the entire State in High School
Winner of Gold Medal from Lion's Club
Awarded Merit Certificate by the Govt. of India
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Shalendra Chhabra’s Groups:
Anti-Spam, TiE, Dale Carnegie, NWEN, BEAN
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Microsoft - Alumni and FTEs (Official) -
Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) -
Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi (ITBHU) Alumni -
Biznik: business networking that doesn't suck.
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