Anand Akela

1535 Jamestown Drive, Cupertino, CA, 95014

408-203-6698

Objective

A product management position that leverages and enhances my skills in managing product lifecycle and cross-functional value-chain to deliver product, solution or services to customers.

Profile

· Proactive, self-motivated professional with major strengths in managing product lifecycle, new product introduction and managing value-chain to enable the product lifecycle.

· Strategic business problem solver with a passion for championing customer needs and ability to identify market opportunities.

· Communication expert who provides bridges among all parties involved in the product life-cycle, with a unique understanding of the interplay among technical and business issues.

· Skilled in providing vision, direction and leadership for teams formed across multiple corporate divisions and geographical locations.

· Proficient in managing customer relations and translating customer business need into requirements for engineering teams.

Experience

Hewlett Packard Company, Cupertino/Mountain View, CA 1998-Present

SSenior Product Manager, Windows Solution on HP Integrity Servers. (2004- Present)

· Developed strategy for 64-bit Windows solution on HP Integrity servers to ensure that the solution has the connectivity and manageability capabilities that our customers need.

· Owned the product roadmap and worked with engineering organization on solution releases.

· Supported pre-sales teams by providing collateral and training.

· Worked with external partners, customers and HP front-end organizations to understand and prioritize functional requirements and integration points with partner solutions.

PProduct Manager, Utility Data Center (UDC) Solution. (2002- 2004)

UDC is a leading-edge integrated solution for IT data centers that enables efficient management and sharing of resources among various services without needing physical reconfiguration.

· Managed the customer requirements gathering process, use case development and roadmap for the solution.

· Managed solution lifecycle of designing, building and delivering multi-million UDC solutions to initial customers with help of worldwide value-chain partner teams.

· Developed repeatable processes and tools for front-end organizations to collaborate with value chain partners to efficiently sell and deliver the UDC solution to customers.

Marketing Program manager, OpenView Business Unit, (2001-2002)

· Managed a partner program to promote Open Management Interface (OMI), a XML/SOAP based interface for managing business processes and web services, among partners and web services platform vendors.

· Represented HP in standards body Oasis to standardize the OMI technology.

· Developed technical marketing material for pre-sales consultants.

EEngineering Manager, Web Services Operations, (1999-2001)

· Managed the development of multimedia portal solution in collaboration with Helsinki Telecom, Finland and successfully deployed the solution at the University of Helsinki.

· Managed development and deployment of an e-Speak, a proprietary web services platform by HP, based marketplace solution to integrate various buyer and supplier enterprises.

· Managed relationship, contracts and deliverables from external system integrators who helped deploy the e-Speak based solutions.

· Led discussions with existing e-Speak customers and planned their migration to web services platform so that HP could efficiently sunset e-Speak.

· Managed a team of 23 engineers worldwide to release the developer edition of HP Web Services Platform that included UDDI server/UDDI4J client, SOAP server and HP application server and to support existing e-Speak customers.

· Planned strategy for supporting web services platform and built a team of support engineers.

Project Manager/Architect, HP Customer support R&D, (1998-1999)

· Managed software releases of Call Management System (CMS), a three-tiered Client/Server software system used by worldwide HP response centers to support the customers.

· Coordinated with cross-functional organizations and worldwide users to collect new maintenance and enhancement requirements for the software.

· Translated the business needs into requirements for engineers and worked with local and offshore team in Bangalore to architect, design, develop and test the releases of CMS.

Poorva, Inc., San Jose, CA 1997-1998

A software company that developed software role based database security.

Software Project Manager/Analyst.

· Started as the first employee of the company with an idea to develop a middleware product for database security and developed initial prototype using Java, C++ and CORBA.

· Built a team of 15 engineers and worked with them to develop the product.

· Worked with venture capitalists, potential customers, partners and software vendors on licensing various software components.

Hewlett Packard Company, Mountain View, CA, Bangalore, India 1995-1997

Project Leader, HP Customer Support R&D (1996-1997)

· Led a group of 10 engineers in Bangalore who worked on maintaining, troubleshooting, supporting, and enhancing the HP Call Management System.

· Collected requirements from the worldwide users and the business team and worked with engineers in Bangalore to develop and test HP Call Management System releases.

Software Programmer/Analyst, HP India Software Operation. (1995-1996)

· Developed front-end GUI client and the middleware for the HP Call Management System.

Earlier Experiences

· Godrej & Boyce, Mumbai, India. - Software Programmer/Analyst.

· Central Water & Power Research Station, Pune, India – Programmer.

Education and Certifications

MBA (Fuqua Scholar), Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, North Carolina

BS, Computer Science, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, University of Pune, India

PMP® (Project Management Professional) certification by PMI® (Project Management Institute)