Komuraiah Poodari
Details
Marketing, Strategy and Finance
University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business
Nano Degree : Self Driving Car Engineer
Autonomous Systems
Udacity
2017 : 2018
AI Nano Degree
Artificial Intelligence
Udacity
2017 : 2017
CFA Level 1, 2 & 3
Investments and Portfolio Management
CFA Institute
2007 : 2010
2019 : Present
Lucid Motors
Senior Manager, Connectivity, Cybersecurity Solutions
Number Theory is an innovative data science/autoML solutions – services and platforms provider, enabling enterprises across the globe enhance their competitive advantage. As a trusted partner, Number Theory has been helping its customers gain actionable insights cost-effectively and monetize the insights in a timely fashion.
I am helping Number Theory on enhancing market traction.
2019 : 2019
Number Theory
Business Consultant
Technology & business consulting on the intersection of networking, security, semiconductors, IoT and autonomous systems
2018 : 2019
Aarna Networks, Inc.
Consultant
• Owned product management & marketing of commercial networking & security software solutions generating multi-million $ revenue/year and used solution selling as a competitive advantage for securing silicon design-wins. Product Management activities included product planning, road-mapping, working through software development processes (waterfall / agile), competitive analysis, positioning, launching, and training. Marketed pre-integrated and optimized solutions spanning silicon, SDK and middleware software.
• Extensive customer-facing presales, marketing and business development experience in the positioning of embedded software development kits and integrated system-level reference kits value proposition, e.g. ease-of-use, quality, time-to-design/integration, performance/watt/ $ on selected h/w platforms.
• Won deals by proactively collaborating with cross-functional international and geographically distributed teams in teams in Japan, Taiwan, India, and Europe : customers, ecosystem partners, and intracompany teams.
2015 : 2018
NXP Semiconductors
Senior Product Marketing & Business Development Manager
Product management and Marketing of Deep Packet Inspection solutions for secure routers, Mobility Transport solutions for eNodeBs and Software Defined Networking solutions product launches
2013 : 2015
Freescale Semiconductor
Product Marketing Manager
Skills
Product Marketing, Business Development, Telecommunications, Competitive Analysis, Pre-sales, Go-to-market Strategy, Strategic Partnerships, Product Launch, Wireless, Cloud Computing, Sales Enablement, Product Launches, Presales & Deal closures, Software Defined, Network Function, Investment research, Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization
About
Experienced Senior Product Management and Marketing Manager with a proven record of securing and enabling customer design success.
Product Management & Marketing
• Owned commercial networking, security software solutions product management, and marketing.
• Used s/w portfolio as a competitive advantage for securing silicon design-wins, and improve margins.
• Extensive customer-facing, presales, marketing and business development experience in positioning and messaging of networking s/w value proposition.
Cross-functional Collaboration
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to close deals involving international and geographically distributed teams: customers, ecosystem partners, and intracompany teams and drove multi-million dollar design-wins using solution-centric approach, in a semiconductor company.
• Extensively collaborated with extended teams, customers and partners in the Americas, Japan, Taiwan, India, China, and EMEA.
Technologies
• Conversant with Firewall, VPN, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, NG Firewall, SDN, NFV, IoT/Edge, 5G technologies, and relevant open source initiatives.
Emerging Technologies
• Passed Udacity Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree.
• Passed Udacity AI Nanodegree with Computer Vision/Deep Learning.
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