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.