Email: sandeepblues@yahoo.com                                            SANDEEP JAIN
Cell: 97-11-899751  (India)

Objective:  To seek user-centered market problems, and lead lucrative innovations through entrepreneurial action within an Indian start-up.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Full-time

Product Marketing Manager, Zebra Technologies, Santa Clara, CA. (Jan 2007 – July 2008)
Product Marketing Manager, WhereNet Corp., Santa Clara, CA. (April  2006-Jan 2007)

• Significant contributions in a successful Silicon Valley startup, acquired by Zebra Technologies for $126 million in 2007.  WhereNet provided total enterprise solutions for supply chain visibility using RFID and location-based services.  I was responsible for inbound and outbound marketing and product management of 75% of all software products.  Product deployments ranged from $100K to > $2 M.  Reported to VP of Software Product Marketing.
• Product management -- Excelled in a cross-functional role in leading product life cycles across customers, sales, executives, and HW/SW engineering.  Led customer interviews for requirements and gap analysis, led brainstorming sessions, conducted strategic valuation of potential product features with internal functional groups.  Led product phase approval meetings with top-level executives.  Comfortable with conventional and Agile product management.  Commended by supervisor, executives, and engineering for outstanding communication skills – written and verbal, including explaining technical concepts to non-technical management.  US Patent Appl. 20080262885.
• Consulting Services - Provided billable consulting services for software integration advice, gathering custom product requirements, and product training to end-users from supervisors to gate guards at Toyota, Nissan factories, mail distribution centers, and various marine terminals.  Led 24-hour, site launch support of Yard Management solution deployments. 
• Project Editor of ISO 24730-1 (ISO Standard) - the common API for Real-time Locating Systems.  For demonstrating technical leadership within the company, the company sent me as a member of U.S. delegation to ISO meetings.   Authored and led the committee thru all official stages culminating in international approval. ISO 24730-1 standardizes an RTLS, Web Service.  Core presentations in all committee meetings in the US, South Korea and Japan, and industry seminars.  
• Customer Training – Recognized within the company as a key resource for providing training to customers on various products.  Regularly conducted multi-day, billable, training classes in US, South Korea and Europe, and online seminars.

Senior User Interface Engineer, WhereNet Corp., Santa Clara, CA.   (July 2000-March 2006)

• Assisted Product Marketing with user interface design for a variety of users – from internal, field service engineers, to novice users, such as truck drivers and security gate guards, to high-level executives of the customers.  Reported to the V.P. of Software.
• Document Coordinator of ANSI 371.3 (ANSI Standard).   Worked with competitors to protect WhereNet's interests, to instill a shared interest in pursuing a common industry standard, and to resolve disagreements. Elected as chair of an ad-hoc committee by competitors.  ANSI 371.3 standardizes an RTLS, Web Service.
• Managed an offshore development team in Bolivia to develop enterprise PDA/mobile applications.
• Represented engineering in key sales meetings.  Provided consultation, specifications, and prototypes of user interfaces to internal developers. Wrote most software product documentation.  Built a reputation internally for robust software development with minimal bugs, as noticed by Quality Assurance team.

Core Systems Engineer, Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, CA.  (July 1996-July 1998)

• Design and implementation of SGI user environment called Interactive Desktop (IRIX 6.3-6.5) in C++ and X/Motif. Design and implementation of GUI tools, in Java, for system administration of N-node High Availability clusters consisting of high-end SGI servers.  U.S. Patent  6,971,086 granted.

Part-time

Research Assistant, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. Developed the Stanford Medical Media Server for search and retrieval of medical images and videos using cgi-bin, Perl, and SQL on Oracle, and personalized web search to online medical databases for continued medical education. (October 1998 - June 2000)

Summer Intern, Merrill Lynch & Co, Inc., Cambridge, MA.  Interface design of website for discounted, online investment. Conducted 10 ethnographic interviews of  financial consultants and their trainers.  Based on interviews, designed prototype of 5 collaborative tools for FCs to send customized messages to clients en masse, in an effort-efficient manner. Prototypes presented to senior VPs. (June-September 1999)

Graphics Software Engineer, Nihon Silicon Graphics, Tokyo, Japan. Summer Internship. Created prototype of 4D GUI invention. Patent granted for use of texture maps in UI.  Presentation to promote OpenGL at High End Graphics Computing Seminar to a Japanese audience of SGI employees, customers and distributors. (June-September 1995)

EDUCATION

Stanford University, CA. M.S., Computer Science, specializing in Human Computer Interactions. (September 2000).
Stanford University, CA. B.S., Computer Science. (June 1996).

Continued Education

Pragmatic Marketing, CA: Practical Product Management, and Requirements that Work.
Dale Carnegie, CA: Effective Communications and Human Relations.
Berklee College of Music, MA: 12-Week Full-time Summer Program, specializing in jazz guitar.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Diverse and deep technical background for picking up any new software languages, platforms, or tools for achieving product management goals.

Languages: Proficient in C++ and C#.  Extensive experience with others, including Java, VB, Perl, PHP, SQL.  Will pick up any language at will.
Tools: Microsoft Visio, CVS, Excel, bug-tracking tools, VMWare, and many others.
Platforms: Microsoft .NET CF, SQL Server, Oracle, Zebra/Intermec printer APIs, IBM and TIBCO MQ APIs, Cisco Unified Wireless Platform w/ Location Appliance and others.

ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS

· Languages: Hindi, French and ‘travel’ Spanish.
· Hobbies: Guitar, vocals, hiking, sea kayaking, and snowboarding.
·  International Experience : 16 years in US, 10 years in India, 4 years in Singapore, 3 years in Pakistan, and 5 months in Japan. Traveled in Antarctica, Australia, Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, Bhutan, Belgium, Egypt, France, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, and U.K.