It takes experience to be a great Product leader. Adapt or stagnate.
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San Francisco, CA
what I do
Product Management & organizational strategy to build modern product led startups
I love to ride bikes, ski, and be an occasional DJ
(Design and Code in my spare time)
I was put on a plane, handed off to a flight attendant, and sent to a military boarding school in Pune, India when I was 4 ½ years old. It was based on a British educational system. I learned to adapt early.
Arrived in the US at 16 to attend college (Engineering).
Got my MBA while working and then moved out to the Bay Area.
Jobs I’ve had:
Pipe fitter and painter in an oil refinery
Working on a barge off shore
Grounds crew driving heavy machinery
Mechanical Engineer
Systems & Software Engineer
Product Manager
3x Director/Head of Product
2x Founder
What’s Your Product Vision, your North Star?
Career Highlights
Present
Product Leadership Consultant
2021
Head of Product @Akash (decentralized cloud)
2019 - 2020
Director of Product @Sysdig
2017 - 2019
Director of Product @Weaveworks
Previous roles
Product Lead, Mesosphere (D2iQ)
Sr. Product Manager, HPE, LinkedIn
CEO/Founder, an e-commerce startup
Software Engineer
Are your teams structured for continuous delivery at speed?
Career Starters
Congratulations! You just got your first offer or want to transition to a product management role, now what?
What’s your 30, 60, 90 day plan?
What steps do you take build your career?
How do you learn to communicate effectively?
How do you manage your inputs and outputs as an individual contributor?
AMA - Ask me any thing!
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Teams
Want to build effective teams that maximizes productivity?
Do you want to eliminate time wasters?
Want to streamline your processes for continuous delivery?
Want to build light weight, yet effective processes?
Want to know what tools will work best for your team?
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Organizations
Focused on startups and mid-tier organizations
Defining your vision, your North Star?
What time horizon should you focus on and when?
How to balance strategy and tactics?
How do you leverage both pull and push marketing and sales strategies?
How do you convert opinion based priorities to data?
How do you put the right systems and tools in place to create effective teams?
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