Summary

Sudhi has over 22 years of diverse experience in Project, Product, People, Program and Technology management.

Entrepreneurial ecosystem expertise in building a startup from ideation to acquisition.

Design and development for product strategy and market analytics for product positioning and deployment.
Built and managed successful QA groups focused on product R&D in System software and Storage Technology.

Implemented Product development process and delivered products and programs successfully from concept to market phases
Driven many of the organizational initiatives in implementing and facilitating continuous improvements to achieve enhanced product quality.

Championed Organization wide CSR initiatives.

Skill Set

• Project, Product, People, Program and Technology management

• Product roadmap development and NPI process

• Lean Stack approach for startup business model assessment

• Building and managing teams focused on product R &D

• Building Testing Center of Excellence (COEs)

• Customer and Stake holder management

• PMO Community of Practice (COP)

• Change Management

• Market Analytics and Business development

Technical Skills:

• Operating Systems: HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, Windows.

• Hardware: HP PA-RISC Servers, HP IA-64 Servers, HP Proliant Servers, HP Storage Works Disk Arrays, EMC Symmetrix, EMC CLARiiON Disk Arrays, Fiber Channel SAN Switches.

• Storage Resource Management (SRM) product suite

• Test methodologies

• Protocols:

• SCSI and Fibre Channel

• Familiarity with Ethernet, iSCSI and FCoE

• Quality Process: SEI CMM Model.

Professional experience

Aahar Vihitatva Sep 2017 to Till date

Designation: Co-founder, Chief Strategy Office

Conceived and develop the business model for Aahar Vihitatva, a comprehensive dietary food partner for Hospitals

In one year, the achievements include

• Innovative Patient dietary food business model first of its kind in India

• Achieved a turnover of Rs 5 Crores in the first year of operation

• 365 days, 24x7 operational Kitchen and services

• Created employment opportunity for 100 people

• Enabled technology penetration into Patient dietary services.

• Operational in 7 major hospitals in Bangalore

• served more than 100000 patients’ days

• served more than 175000 attenders and staff meals

Getting acquired by a food chain and making a successful exit.

Hewlett-Packard, India Software Operations Nov 2010- Sep 2017

Designation: Engineering Program Manager II

Joined HP BCS (Business critical Systems) group focused on program and product management of I/O Solution on HP-UX and Open VMS operating systems.

• Part of a team in developing I/O strategy for HP-UX operating system

• Developed 3-year road map for Storage and Networking I/O cards

• Developed Product development process for the lab

• Customer interface contact for BCS group for I/O h/w and Drivers

• Completed a market study on HP-UX market in APAC region and EMEA region

• Worked on reviving SCSI card on HP-UX servers and worked with Marketing for NPI on BCS Servers.

• Developed a forum for HP-UX customers to enable Beta testing rings at customer places for new development.

• Driven Change management in the organization though structured change management process/program

EMC Corporation, Bangalore, Karnataka. May 2009 – Nov 2010

Designation: Manager Software QA Engineering

• Managing QA team focused on Storage Resource Management Solutions in its IONIX Division (team size: 13 engineers)

• Holding the “Product owner” responsibilities which include acting as the single point of contact for product manager and engineering.

Convert customer use cases into engineering requirements and derive product road maps

Driving customer engagements providing presentations and demos EMC road shows

• People management including hiring, training, mentoring team members, goal setting and tracking. Conducting performance appraisals for team members.

• Interfacing with various teams within EMC such as SRM, array firmware, Level3 support and Program management to ensure complete co-ordination between various teams.

• Co-ordination of product test activities with different test teams across the globe within EMC

• Leading organization effort in adopting to agile methodology in product life cycle with result-oriented SCRUM

Hewlett-Packard, India Software Operations Sep 2000- May 2009

Designation: Engineering Manager (Testing) -Mar2006 to May2009

• Managing the SAN Infrastructure solutions test team (team size: 12 engineers) focusing on project planning, scheduling, estimation and tracking activities for HP StorageWorks Performance Advisor product

• People management including hiring, training, mentoring team members, goal setting and tracking. Conducting performance appraisals for team members.

• Represented R & D group in HP storage ambassador’s program and lead customer champion role

• Focused on product ownership and successfully owned product roadmap, development and testing within STSD division in Bangalore

• Interfacing with various teams within HP Storage Division such as SAN Infrastructure, array firmware, disaster recovery solutions, Level3 support to ensure complete co-ordination between various teams.

• Co-ordination of product test activities with different test teams across the globe within HP

• Focused on product ownership and successfully owned product roadmap, development and testing within STSD division in Bangalore

• Taken decisions on hiring test team, built a product test team from scratch to 20+ member strong team

• Responsible for Quality metrics definition and metrics data collection and analysis and reporting to senior management.

• Responsible for quarterly budgeting, planning and h/w procurement and forecasting growth needs of the test h/w

• Participated in Culture Works Program, HP internal organizational workforce culture assessment and development program

• Driving customer engagements providing presentations and demos for HP customers on storage products/solutions at the STSD

• Built competitive intelligence of storage arrays and provided product ideas which were included in product road map.

Designation: Senior Software Engineer & Test Lead (Sep 2004-Feb 2006).

• Started working with HP-ISO in its Storage Labs under Systems Technology &Software Division (STSD) at Bangalore. Primary area of work involved in the testing of a high-availability, high performance storage software products for HP storage arrays in SAN environments, on HP-UX Operating environment.

• Involved in Idea Conception to Release to Market phase following solutions

• Lead a team of 10 test engineers focusing on testing above mentioned SAN infrastructure-based solutions

• Involved in the product requirements review, test strategy development, test planning, test design, test execution in different phases of test.

• Build test rings for integration & System testing comprising of multivendor fabrics.

• Help team members in test execution & problem reporting

• Verify test reports from all test partners before entering release engineering.

• Verify completeness for product quality from release check list & Document any known issues in user manuals or Release Notes before sign off for Release

• Participation in presentation and product demos on Storage products for customer visits, as part of field engagement.

• Worked with Pre-sales team in providing technical guidance in datacenter solution requirements from various customers.

Designation: Senior Software Engineer (Sep 2000-Aug 2004).

• Started working with HP-ISO in its Storage Labs under Systems Technology &Software Division (STSD) at Bangalore. Primary area of work involved in the testing of I/O multipathing solutions for HP EVA and XP disk arrays in SAN environments, on HP-UX and Linux Operating environment.

• Involved in the product requirements review, test planning, test design, test execution in different phases of test.

• Build test rings for integration & System testing comprising of comprising of interoperability test rings for SAN Infrastructure, array firmware, DR solutions.

• Involved in tracking defects & monitor them till closure with the help of defect tracking tool

• Re-production of customer issues and resolution for released products.

MphasiS-BFL Software Ltd., Bangalore, Karnataka. Dec 1996 – Sep 2000

Designation: Systems Engineer.

• Started working with BFL Software Ltd., from December 1996 in their Compaq Development Center at Bangalore. Primary area of work involved the testing of device drivers on Compaq Proliant servers on SCO UNIX & Banyan Vines Operating System.

• Was involved in the test planning, test design, test execution in different phases of test.

• Interaction with Compaq QA team for problem analysis and interaction with developer for Bug fixes

Computech International Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore Oct 1996 – Dec 1996

Designation: Customer Support Engineer

• Worked as Customer Support Engineer.

• Here I was responsible for Installation and Maintenance of Computer Networks at various customer locations in Bangalore and Chennai

Sphinx Systems, Bangalore, Jan 1996 – Oct 1996

Designation: Customer Support Engineer

• Worked as Customer Support Engineer.

Here I was responsible for Installation and Maintenance of Computer Networks at various customer locations in Bangalore

Patent Profile

Patent application 20080256323 - The invention relates to a method and apparatus for reconfiguring a portion of a storage area network by establishing one or more auxiliary data paths, configuring the storage area network to re-route communications from the portion of the storage area network to be reconfigured to the one or more auxiliary data paths and reconfiguring the portion of the storage area network while the communications are being re-routed.

Education

• Engineering Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engg in the year 1995

• Completed a Course on Advanced Hardware & Networking from APTEC Hardcode in 1996