Guri Singh
Interested in starting a company using mobile technology as it's focus. Mobile techie working as a Senior product manager.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Industries: | Information Technology, Retail |
| Skills: | Engineering, Software Engineering |
| Groups: | BASES |
| Visas: | US, India |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Starting a company |
| Schools: | Coe College, University of Iowa |
FULL BIO
The ultimate goal being is to create something that is useful to the users (via mobile channel) and is exciting to create and grow. In the interim period, I have two small micro businesses that I like watching grow.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Available upon request |
| Position: | Sr. Product Manager |
| Time period: | November 2006 - Present |
| Description: | • Create product roadmap and marketing strategy.
• Design and deliver Short Message Service (SMS) and Mobile browser based (WAP) banking services. • Define requirements and document functional design docs for Mobile banking. • Work with Legal, Compliance and Risk teams to get approvals of requirements and design. • Discuss security/risk concerns and provide alternate solution. • Work with User Experience team to design the optimal functionality. • Work with Development (agile) teams to address technical and resource constraints. • Study new mobile technologies and perform vendor analysis. • Create prototype using available resources. • Recommend technical options for business needs. • Customize and configure out of box solution. • Assist in usability study. • Manage User Acceptance testing phase. • Use Wiki to collaborate with project stakeholders across the org. • Work with the SMS Gateway team to help provision the short code, well versed in MMA guidelines. Collaborate with carriers to address their security and compliance issues. |
| Employer: | Name available upon request |
| Position: | Technology Manager (E-Commerce B2C, B2E and B2B products) |
| Time period: | September 2002 - November 2006 |
| Description: | • Manage a team of 4 Analysts responsible for Requirements Analysis for all B2B, B2E and B2C websites. Working Manager, did the work and managed team members.
• Mentor and coach to my direct reports. • Create and document requirements and detailed design documents. • Use best practices from Agile Modeling to work with a Agile Development team. • We designed functionality that increased the volume of leads into home loans, made the sales force more efficient and helped our business partners (Brokers) be competitive. • Collaborate with cross-functional technical teams to deliver the solution on time and within budget. • Developed processes and best practices to deliver using Agile methodology. |
| Employer: | Cpower Inc, Dovebid, Sigma Networks, Chalknet |
| Position: | Independent Consultant (Contract) |
| Time period: | November 2000 - March 2002 |
| Description: | • Responsible for accurately creating the WBS for the project, managing the schedule and available resources for Java/EJB/Oracle and ASP/COM/MS SQL projects.
• Led engineering teams in analyzing software maintenance issues. • Developed and managed alliances with BEA Systems, Oracle, Microsoft, Sun, and Segue. |
| Employer: | The Dialog Corp. |
| Position: | Software Design Engineer/Business Analyst |
| Time period: | May 2000 - October 2000 |
| Description: | • Develop a UML model of the Search and Alerts engine using Rational Rose.
• Assisted the Architect to determine the database schema and Java classes using the data and process-modeling tool, Rose Modeler. • Prepared the use case specifications and developed prototype, JDK 1.2. • Assist with project planning. • Rational Unified Process (RUP) evangelist |
| Employer: | Rockwell Collins, Inc. |
| Position: | Senior Software Engineer |
| Time period: | February 1996 - April 2000 |
| Description: | Senior Software Engineer, Boeing 747-400 IDS and 767-400 Program
• Worked on the Navigation Display system on 767-400 display systems. • Delivered numerous iterations of the Boeing 747-400 Integrated Display System (IDS) software to Boeing on or ahead of schedule. • Worked at Rockwell for 5+ years which includes one year in 1993-94. Learned a lot about real time embedded systems and software development. Most of the programs I worked on were SEI CMM III programs. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Iowa |
| Time period: | 1998 |
| Degree: | Computer Science (Software Engineering), MSc |
| University: | Coe College |
| Time period: | 1993 |
| Degree: | Business Administration and Computer Science, BA |
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Scott Raspa
VP, Sales and Marketing for software company.
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Israel Kloss
Journalism graduate from University of South Carolina. Founder of CellAlert.net and Midlandsfood.com.