Email: jain@cs.stanford.edu                         SANDEEP JAIN
Phone: (650) 814 0528

Objective:  To seek user-centered market problems, and to lead creative solutions lucratively through entrepreneurial action within an organization.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Full-time

ZeeToZed, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA. (April 2010 - present)
Founder/Entrepreneur

• Released You've Got Art! - the first iPad application to publish contemporary paintings as high resolution images, on an ongoing basis from critically acclaimed artists worldwide. It facilitates interaction between art lovers and artists. Also, I completed a prototype for determining 3D position (dead reckoning) using gyroscopes and accelerometer sensors on an iPhone.

• Consulted a niche social networking startup in healthcare, and an Indian outsourcing company to hone their marketing communication and website.

WhereNet Corp., Santa Clara, CA. acquired by Zebra Technologies. (June 2000 - July 2008)
Product Marketing Manager

• Significant contributions in a successful Silicon Valley startup that provided end-to-end solutions for the intranet of assets tracked by location-based radio frequency identification. Responsible for inbound and outbound marketing and product management of 75% of all software products. Revenues grew 4x from 2000 till acquisition. Product deployments ranged from $100K to > $2 M per site. Reported to VP of Software Product Marketing.

• Products owned: Mobile and kiosk applications for non-tech, end-users such as gate guards, shop floor mechanics, forklift drivers, and longshoremen. Core middleware - Visibility Server Software to support infrastructure used across all customers. Vertical solutions for tracking assets and driving location-based workflow such as Vehicle Tracking and Management System in car factories, Yard Management System modules to track containers and hostlers in the distribution center yard, and Marine Terminal map module at sea port terminals. Integration products - WhereNet SDK, and numerous custom integration bridges using a large variety of industry standards. US Patent Appl. 20080262885.

• Customers: healthcare - GE Medical Systems; Manufacturing - Boeing Spirit, Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Nissan factories, Gulf States Toyota; Logistics – Maersk, USPS and UPS mail distribution centers, Anheuser-Busch, and various marine terminals at LA Long Beach. Led 24-hour, site launch support of Yard Management solution deployments.

• Product management - Excelled in UX design, and 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, and conducted strategic valuation of candidate, 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.

• Marketing Communications - Wrote all marketing collateral for products I owned - product sheets, pricing, sales presentations. Worked with Mar. Comm to review and approve press releases, recommended website proposals/reviews, and supported sales at tradeshows. Also, wrote most of the user manuals for products, until we hired a technical writer.

• 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.

• 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. Conducted more than 50 billable, training classes in US, South Korea and Europe, and online seminars.

Senior User Interface Engineer

• 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.

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

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: Practical Product Management, and Requirements that Work – 2006.
Dale Carnegie: Effective Communications and Human Relations - 2007.
Berklee College of Music: 12-Week Full-time Summer Program 2009, with focus on 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++, Objective-C and C#. Extensive experience with many others.
Tools: Microsoft Visio, WordPress, SVN/CVS, Excel-VBA, bug-tracking tools, VMWare, and others.
Platforms: iOS, Microsoft .NET CF, SQL Server, Oracle DB, IBM/TIBCO MQ APIs, and others.

ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS

· Languages: Hindi, French and ‘travel’ Spanish.
· Hobbies: Guitar, vocals, hiking, sea kayaking, and snowboarding.
· International Experience : 18 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, Bhutan, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, and U.K.