Product manager for a high volume enterprise security product portfolio (SRX Series) with over 20K customers.
Successfully launched two products reaching more than 1000 customers with active deployments.
Develop product vision, roadmaps and execution plan with executive management to expand on network security and SD-WAN solutions.
Shepherded products from its inception to customer sales and deployment along with driving product positioning, messaging and managing go-to-market activities.
Drive business and investment strategies based on data-driven financial analysis.
Evangelize product vision and roadmap with key stakeholders from across organization to design and shape features, products and solutions.
Spearheaded implementation of critical features driving business growth (SaaS app management, AppQoE (Quality of Experience) and other SD-WAN features).
Work closely with large customers and partners to identify key use-cases and requirements.
Technical Marketing Engineer
Juniper Networks
November 2015
to December 2018
Sunnyvale
United States
Prepared demos, configuration guides and reference architecture new products, features and solutions.
Subject matter expert in Secure SD-WAN connectivity, NGFW and Universal CPE.
Engaged in technical customer meetings, including detailed product overview/demos, and in-depth technical conversations.
Sales enablement activities focused on network security products and solutions including SRX, vSRX and related security technologies.
Engaged in GTM activities including design of marketing materials for new products and solutions.
Developed and conducted technical field training and solutions deep dive for sales team, partners and targeted customers.
Performed business and technical competitive analysis including Cisco, Meraki, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and others.
Worked with engineering to design, implement and improve features and solutions.
Test Engineer
Juniper Networks
September 2013
to November 2015
Sunnyvale
United States
Designed and executed customer profile use-cases and test plans.
Tested end-to-end firewall features and services such as Polices, NAT, AppSecure, UTM, IDP, IPsec VPN, HA of Juniper SRX Firewalls.
Performed firewall capability testing in a simulated environment using 3rd party tools, viz. Breaking Point, Ixia - IxExplorer/IxLoad and Spirent.
Designed complex automation test infrastructure for the team and writing automation scripts in Perl for performing test execution.
Mentored interns and new hires by providing training and guidance.
MSS Security Engineer
Symantec Corp
June 2013
to September 2013
Herndon
United States
Provided technical support to customers to monitor and manage their network security devices.
Provided on-demand support to customers by live troubleshooting and resolving network issues.
Engineering Intern
Affirmed Networks
June 2012
to December 2012
Internship
Boston
United States
Telecom services such as MMS, Video and Image transcoding on an end to end call flow testing.
Developed and maintained log management automation tools using LAMP (Perl) stack.
Test Engineer
Infosys Limited
June 2008
to August 2011
Chennai
India
Prepared Test Plan, Design Document and generated Test Cases
Created Business Components for automation test cases using BPT framework in QTP
Managed a team of 10 by delegating and coordinating tasks, handling training sessions for new joiners
Periodic tracking and maintenance of defects, created and maintained Defect Prevention Plan document