Headline

Product Strategy | Portfolio & Transformation Leadership (MSP®) | Cloud Platforms • AI • Security Governance (CISM)

About

I believe great products begin with empathy. Understanding customer challenges is where every good product decision starts. Over the past 25+ years, that belief has shaped my journey from Solution Architecture to Product Management, Portfolio Leadership, and Enterprise Platform Product Leadership, helping organizations simplify complex technologies into products, enterprise platforms, and business outcomes. I enjoy working at the intersection of technology, business, and customer value. Whether modernizing enterprise platforms, defining product strategy, building cloud-native capabilities, or leading transformation initiatives, my focus remains the same: understand the problem, bring people together, and build products that customers value. Areas of Expertise; — Enterprise Platform Strategy – Define platform vision, product strategy, roadmap priorities, and investment decisions aligned to customer and business objectives. — Product & Portfolio Leadership – Lead the product lifecycle from customer discovery and roadmap planning to commercialization, portfolio governance, and business value. — Transformation Leadership – Lead cloud, AI, cybersecurity, automation, and platform modernization initiatives by aligning Product, Engineering, Architecture, and business teams around a common vision. — People & Performance Leadership – Build and mentor high-performing Product Management organizations by fostering a performance culture grounded in ownership, accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and customer focus. — Empathy-Driven Product Innovation – Listen first. Understand customer challenges. Translate complexity into products that customers adopt and businesses value. Looking Ahead; The communications industry gave me a strong foundation in solving complex engineering problems at scale. Today, I enjoy applying those capabilities across enterprise platforms, AI, cybersecurity, cloud, and intelligent software. Different technologies, same fundamentals—understanding customers, building great products, and helping organizations transform. I believe the next generation of enterprise platforms will be shaped by AI, cloud, and cybersecurity. While technologies will continue to evolve, empathy, thoughtful product strategy, strong teams, and disciplined execution will remain the foundation of products and solutions that matter.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude

gemini

mcp

notebooklm

openai

ChatGPT

Work experience

Senior Manager Product Management & Strategy - 5G Product portfolio at Oracle, Nov 2021 - Apr 2026 · 4 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ~ Product Management Pillar-Lead responsible for 5G NFs, Cloud Native Environment, AI infrastructure, Automation, and Security domains. ~ Defined multi‑year product roadmap for strategic initiatives like Cloud Platform , Automation in collaboration with engineering, sales, targeting improved adoption rate and thus by improving revenue and market share. ~ Spearheaded a dynamic team of Product Managers (TPMs & PLMs) who owns development of roadmap and strategies for pillar and cross-pillar initiatives.

Nokia Software (NSW) Suite Portfolio Manager at Nokia, Aug 2018 - Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, ~Accountable for driving strategic themes like Serviceability Product Excellence (SPE) , Open API adoption across suite of Nokia Core & Business application (BA) product portfolio under Cloud & Network Services (CNS) organization. ~Accountable TCO reduction through automated Zero touch LCM through Serviceability Automation roadmap interlocks with CNS product lines in close collaboration with CTO (Chief Architect’s team) & Nokia Common Software Foundation (CSF) team.

Product Manager - IMS at Nokia, Dec 2015 - Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore, ~ Product manager IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) - CSCF (Call session control Function) responsible for Product feature planning, GAP analysis during the portfolio/product/release/ feature life cycle for IMS & Fixed Access services. ~ PLM accountable for driving ETSI & CALEA based Lawful interception (LI), GDPR and ANSSI compliance features in CFX-5000

Product Manager - Traffica at Nokia, Apr 2014 - Dec 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bangalore, ~ Product manager for Traffica PaCo, EPC, IMS (CEM/OSS BL) and Multivendor EPC networks responsible content planning for the respective releases, providing demonstration for Nokia customers, road map creations, preparations of Price proposal, Sales support. ~ Product Manager accountable for end to end Feature prioritization, screening & securing in to the product back ~ Product Manager accountable for Sales/ Pre sales support of Nokia customer teams, conducting Product demonstration & responsible for providing sales , dimensioning guidelines & bill of quantity (BoQ)

QA Analyst at Subex Ltd, Sep 2008 - Sep 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bangalore, ~Project Analyst for Migration of NetProvision Activator – solution for covering the provisioning and activation domains. (a Syndesis Inc, Canada Product) from LSA to TSA for IPVPN Release and Customised Solution Testing for Bell & Telus Canada on Cisco Routers equipment module (CR - EM) Cisco IOS & GSR’s & Juniper Router (JR-EM) (M-Series) ~Involvement in Project planning to ensure that environmental and test equipment requirements dependencies are factored into the plan. ~Responsible for managing the execution of the Test Cycle(s) for the project based on the Test Strategy & documentation for each project in coordination with the Test Architect based on Customer solutions & requirements like Complex Extranets & Management VPN. ~Participation in the reviews of Customer Functional Specifications and Product Functional Specifications ensuring that the documents provide sufficient information in order to test the solutions. ~Review RCA information for PRs (Defects) found on the field.

IP Solution Management Consultant at Tech Mahindra Ltd, Nov 2006 - Aug 2007 · 10 mos, Bangalore, ~Leading the testing team in achieving the project requirements within the expected time frame for the project BT-21C Activation using Cisco ANA for British Telecom , UK. ~Project lead for Cisco MSS implementation for Cisco Advanced Services for Etisalat, Dubai.(Onsite). ~Handled the operations as SPOC/Business Consultant for Cisco MSS 1.1 implementation for Etisalat, Dubai with Cisco Advance Services (AS)-Dubai. ~Developed methodologies for ISC Deployment in SP Environment & provisioning of ISC Based Managed IP Sec VPNs, NAT & Managed firewall as a part of MSS deployment.

Project Lead at Patni Computer Systems (Acquired by IGATE), May 2006 - Nov 2006 · 7 mos, Dubai, ~ Handling operations onsite at Dubai as System Integration Testing (SIT) Team Lead for their Pioneer Telecom project - Emirates Integrated Telecommunication Company Ltd (EITC/Du) ~ Managing presales coordination with various Telecom equipment vendors (Nokia) for test plan execution & defect management Process. ~ Coordination's with Telecom Vendors responsible for Feature deliveries which are prioritized by the Release Management team.

Education

Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Indian School of Business

Executive Management Development Program, Business Administration and Management, General, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode