Summary
Senior product leader with sixteen years at Cisco across India and the US, spanning solution architecture, presales engineering, and product management, with a consistent pattern of turning expert-only work into tools: Easy Migrate portal 2010 ($5M in weeks), Migration Scoping Automation in Raleigh (weeks to hours), Branch Upgrade Automation in Gurgaon (80% manual reduction, $15M+ revenue), and compliance audit automation in 2024 (eight-month cycle to three, across 1,200 sites). Now building InnovRent, a B2B device-leasing business for Indian Enterprises, and working as a product consultant focused on AI innovations.
Experience
InnovRent Services Pvt. Ltd. · Gurgaon · Founder
Nov 2024 – present- B2B device leasing for Indian Enterprises.
- Capex purchases turn into op-ex subscriptions, paid through payroll deduction.
InfoCzar · Gurgaon · Product Consultant
2025 – present- IT product development and deployment consulting.
- AI workshops, implementations, and product design advisory.
Cisco Systems · Gurgaon · Product Manager (Compliance)
Apr 2024 – Nov 2024- Built end-to-end audit automation for hardware and software compliance across 1,200 sites.
- Audit cycle: eight months to three. Effort halved.
- Earned ISC2 Cybersecurity and Microsoft AZ-900.
Cisco Systems · Gurgaon · Product Manager (Services)
Oct 2019 – Apr 2024- Owned three products end-to-end: Digital Twin, Branch Upgrade Automation, Endpoint Classifier.
- Built the AFM framework. Lead outcome: Branch Upgrade Automation, with 80% manual reduction and $15M+ in service revenue.
- Cross-functional execution across product, sales, delivery, legal, and finance.
Cisco Systems · Raleigh, USA · Presales Solution Architect
Jun 2012 – Sep 2019- $100M in services sales over four years.
- Built Migration Scoping Automation: weeks compressed to hours. Adopted as a global standard.
- Led 2,000 change windows at Verizon Wireless with zero outages.
- Six-month rescue at Rockwell Automation; turned customer sentiment from negative to positive.
- Earned a Data Science Level 1 at NC State.
Cisco Systems · Bengaluru · Network Consultant
Aug 2008 – Jun 2012- Service Provider migrations for AT&T, Vodafone, STC, Airtel, Turkcell, DU Dubai, Sprint, Paetec, and Reach Telecom.
- Built the Easy Migrate portal in 2010: Cisco Migration Services at 25% of the previous price. $5M in orders within weeks. Inaugurated by Wim Elfrink, then CEO of Cisco India.
- Built Quick Check, a post-migration verification tool licensed to 10+ customers.
- Designed and deployed the Commonwealth Games 2010 video transmission network.
- Won the Cisco Appreciation Programme award for an IOS-XR lab workshop spanning 5 Cisco teams and 8 Indian Telecom SPs.
Education
Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh
2004 – 2008B.E. (Hons.), Electronics & Electrical Communication.
- PECFEST 2005, SMS marketing. Ran fest marketing on SMS when SMS was still the only channel that landed at scale. Built the registration system; 1,200+ signups in three days.
- Hostel LAN, 2006. Pooled funds with fellow students to build the first hostel network. Laid cables, deployed switches. A 100+ computer star topology, fully resident-funded.
North Carolina State University
2015Data Science Programme, Level 1.
Certifications
Recent (2024)
- ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity
- Microsoft AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals
IT Service Management
- ITIL Service Transition Specialist
- ITIL Foundation
Cisco
- CCIE Service Provider (Written cleared)
- CCIP, CCDA, CCNA
- GTAP Graduate
Selected projects
Skills
Geographic timeline
Panchkula → Chandigarh → Bengaluru → Raleigh → Gurgaon. Arrows draw in chronological order.