5 plus years of experience within Sales & Marketing as a Sr. Product Manager responsible for technical marketing, strategic relationship maintenance and customer project setups, customer/partner/operator RFI/RFQ communication, planning & executing pre-sales and sales activities and collaboration with technical and sales teams for successful product completion and launch. In all, over a decade of experience in system analysis, architecture and design, product & project management, strategic planning, customer relations, product marketing, and development in embedded and real time computing, object oriented technologies, telecommunications and open source software.
Specialties: Architecture, Design & Development, Project Deliveries, Technical Solutions, Team Management, Product/Project Management, CRM, etc.
Career Achievements: Strategic relationship maintenance with partners and customers like Nokia, nVidia, TI, Intel, HTC, LGE, Huawei, Samsung, ZTE, etc. Design technical roadmaps and product configurations for Smartphone Architectures using Open OS like Android, Maemo, MeeGo, etc. Timely execution of pre-sales, sales and after-sales activities, business document deals, SOWs, etc. Designed & implemented byte-aligned "Low Footprint Communications Protocol" with recovery mechanism to replace ASN.1 in C-SAM Inc products. Developed and refined ability of project members to estimate and maintain completion times for tasks. Achieved 95% on-time completion rate for project tasks and successfully delivered a feature phone for Sagem Inc. Application & Framework development in OSE (Successful launch of Sagem 3G phones on EMP U250 platform including clamshell models with dual displays). PKI/PKCS implementation on Windows Mobile & Symbian, IMPS Client development confirming to OMA 1.2 & WV 1.1, Windows (PPC2002/WinCE 3.0) & Linux (2.6.x) driver development.
My responsibilities include architectural analysis, design and implementation of SW running Linux/Android. Also responsible for Hardware bring-ups and modem integration for “Bridge” platforms working with APE baseports, kernel and user space MIS SW. I also regularly interface with customers and customer project organization looking into product architecture and design proposals as well as planning and release commitments. Also chairing COPL within Ericsson and representing Ericsson in MIPI SWG.
Own and create product strategies and roadmaps for Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian and MeeGo operating systems. Maintain relationship with partner companies and executing functions for joint marketing/promotion of products. Plan & execute pre-sales/sales activities and enhance product portfolio to produce interesting product offerings across multiple market segments and various product domains. Streamline requirements by interacting with the market, customers, trends and ecosystems. Startup projects with customers and handle the delivery plans till a successful bring up on customer HW and handing it over to CS for full execution. RFI/RFQ communication, delivery planning and follow-up, feature phasing, product planning, etc. were also part of the job.
Working with Ericsson Mobile Platforms (EMP) in the Product Management team at EMP, Sweden, responsible for detailing out the product requirements, interaction with marketing and technical teams and plan the product delivery/roll-out schedules.
Communication with the customers regarding the project deliveries and project schedules. Interaction with stake holders/vendors to ensure all the technical issues are resolved and the project deliveries take place on time. Looking into the technical feasibility of the functionalities of various modules and the responsibility of solving any technical issue for the entire projects. API designing for Open Platform API (OPA) and the customer/3rd party applications for native application development/porting. Debugging of applications on the hardware using JTAG and Trace32 Debugger. Course/Delivery planning, team handling and team motivation. Software Design and implementation on EMP platform using both emulators and actual hardware.
Responsibilities include design and coding of multiple applications as well as giving support to testing team. I was also leading a team of people for handling and delivery of 5 different applications in the overall product suite.
Design and implementation of the OneWallet and MerchantWallet softwares on various platforms like WinCE and Symbian. Various other utility programs were also developed on Windows platform during the tenure.