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March '09 - Present : Staff Engineer, Qualcomm Inc.'s Advanced Technologies Group, San Diego.
- Developing new products and services, prototyping ideas, and building a business case around them.
- Project Lead, Copacabana – a new service for connecting people and businesses. Developed the idea from concept to a business case for a Qualcomm-run service. In the process of pitching it to obtain funding for feasibility analysis. Built a team to develop a roadmap to prototype. Identified a business unit to commercialize the service.
- Co-inventor on 4 pending patents related to enhanced phone user experiences.
- Awarded a ‘Qualstar’, an internal award for enabling a joint trial with a Japanese collaborator for a Location-based profiling system, driving design discussions and engineering engagement with them.
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June '04 - March '09 : Senior Engineer, Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies, San Diego.
- Led a 5-member team developing software for the core subsystem of the FLO TV Mobile TV platform that delivers Live TV to Mobile devices.
- Drove roadmap, end-to-end design & implementation for multiple features & tools, working with inter-disciplinary teams. Notable examples include strategic objectives such as enabling 3rd party video encoders into the system and high-impact features resulting in 2 additional channels broadcasted by FLO TV.
- Improved software quality and motivated team to meet milestones on time and above expectations, delivering over 10 major features on an aggressive schedule and with a minimal number of post-release issues.
- Streamlined interactions with other teams, increased the visibility into the team’s role & achievements and enabled professional development of team members resulting in higher productivity and satisfaction.
- Joint Inventor on over 5 pending patents related to novel video encoding algorithms, capacity and efficiency improvements, forming key differentiators for FLO technology.
- Awarded a “QualStar”, a Qualcomm award, for enabling MediaFLO integration with 3rd party vendors such as Newport Media Inc.
- Awarded a “QualStar”, a Qualcomm award, for enabling the first FLO TV trial and showcase at CTIA 2005.
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April '08 - August '08 : SpotOn Team Member VentureFest '08.
- Core member of the Qualcomm Innovation Network (QIN) VentureFest (internal Business Plan competition) 2008 Winning Team.
- Originated the idea and built a business plan with an NPV of $200M, opening up a new line of business around using FLO Technology.
- Spearheaded the competition-winning technical demo, acclaimed by Qualcomm’s CEO.
- Drove the use cases and product mockups, and developed a roadmap for the go-to-market strategy and service commercialization. Proposed a solution for integration with an upcoming VenueCasting service provider.
- Co-inventor on 4 pending patents related to the idea.
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May 2003 - May 2004: Research Assistant with the
Computer Vision Group at USC, working with Dr. Isaac Cohen, IRIS on
the Doheny Retina Institute's Advanced
Macular Diagnostics Project.
- Worked on a novel algorithm to extract 'Y' features from retinal images with an aim to improve registration
- Worked on analysis and feasibility of being able to extract the depth information from a pair of retinal images.
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November 2002 - August 2003 : Technical Support and Web Development at
Student Affairs Information Technology
Division, USC. Providing
networking and computer related technical support (installations,
troubleshooting, and maintenance) and developing and maintaining
ASP based websites for departments within the division ( Academic
Integration
Model).
- Maintained and revamped a website accessed by over 2000 students regularly.
- Provided technical support to over 200 people in the department.
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2001-2002 : Lab Setup and Maintenance for VLSI CAD Laboratory
and Networking Laboratory at Nirma Institute of Technology (Undergraduate
University).
- Took the initiative to set up the VLSI CAD Laboratory
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