Sr Product Manager
Motorola Solutions
Total years of experience :19 years, 5 Months
Managed mobile wireless VoIP, SIP based Push-to-Talk over cellular (PoC) product including its supplemental services and mobile client specifications for 50 wireless carriers worldwide deploying the product mostly Tier1 and Tier2
Managed OMA PoC standards-based offering and its associated rich-media enablers such as XDMS and Presence/SIMPLE and other IMS-based applications.
Maintained product roadmap and provided strategic refinements reflecting market and business dynamics.
Managed to transform product provide product enhancements and performance optimizations to fit deploying under multiple underlying network infrastructures such as CDMA EVDO, UMTS and LTE.
Acted as a SME (subject matter expert) supporting customers directly and through sales and field teams with product materials, features design, customer clarifications, presentations and strategic directions.
Provided continuous business process enhancements to reduce cycle time, maximize product reliability and quality and reduce risk for requirements churn.
Managed multiple integration projects to interoperate product and other PTT services such as LMR (Land Mobile Radio) to PoC through gateways and API’s & SDK
Authored feature requirements, customer requirements documents, product MRD’s, generic and customer-specific presentations, white papers and other marketing and technical collateral materials.
Provided contiguous market intelligence information gathering on competition, customer’s competitors and overall market direction for the product.
Managed multiple interoperability agreements and multilateral IOT events such as OMA PoC test fests.
Took ownership of leading teams supporting RFI’s/RFP’s response and solution architecture.
Managed multiple customer field and lab trials for early deployments of product features enhancements and trials intended for market and product evaluation.
Managed a WAN optimization and acceleration product targeting enterprise customers in a technology breeding environment.
Provided in depth analysis of market requirements, features design, partners and suppliers collaboration to achieve the best product design within the cost and time constraints.
Authored white papers, application notes. Supported sales and field teams to communicate product advantages, case studies, ROI gain, comparisons to competitions and responded to RFI’s/RFP’s
Authored product MRD’s and PRD’s and provided continuous coordination between teams located onshore and offshore.
Led an integration engineering team for validating, testing and integrating core network products features incorporating L2 and L3 routing and switching functions.
Authored and reviewed test plans, integrations plans for Lucent’s ATM and IP core products (formerly Cascade/Ascend communications) targeting Tier1 ISP’s and wire-line operators.
Provided cross-functional coordination with multiple engineering teams, development, quality assurance, NPI (new product introductions, sustaining engineering and systems engineering.
Ensured software daily-build sanity and quality benchmarks and identified s/w defects on a continuous basis.
Participated in new features design and integration of product with other Lucent’s product lines.
Joined a team simulating a major tier1 customer’s pre-deployment and identified gaps, defects and known anomalies.
Acted as a subject matter expert for product features spanning L2 switching for Frame Relay, ATM, ATM SVC’s, and Frame Relay to ATM interoperability (FRF.5 and FRF.8), traffic management, shaping & policing, Quality of service, L3 routing involving Lucent’s proprietary Pre-MPLS (VNN) feature, Multicast explicitly IGMP and PIM-SM, OSPF, BGP and RSVP-TE.
Supported integration of an acquired product (Nexabit) into Lucent’s NMS and domain routing to fit within end-to-end product portfolio.
Participated in OIF (Optical Internetworking Forum) testing events validating G-MPLS
Provided pre-sales and deployments to turn-key networking deployments for ISP’s and enterprise customers.
Supported Bay Networks (later Nortel) routers and Ethernet switches routing configurations, VLANs setup, structured cabling system deployments and supervision, Network management installation and configuration.
Worked as a intstructor for Novell Netware training courses (Obtained CNE certification)
Supported early deployments of ATM switches (Centillion), RADIUS authentication systems and TDM switches.