Product & Collaboration Leader

Product-driven Collaboration & Customer Experience leader with 14+ years in enterprise voice transformations using Cisco Collaboration (CUCM, Webex, Expressway, Contact Center). I align stakeholders, ship outcomes, and automate at scale across global environments.

  • 14+ yrsEnterprise Voice & Product
  • CCIE #55471Collaboration
  • CloudAzure Architect • GCP ACE
  • PMPMP • CSPO • ITIL

About

Product-driven Collaboration & Customer Experience leader with 14+ years in enterprise voice transformations using Cisco Collaboration (CUCM, Webex, Expressway, Contact Center). I align stakeholders, ship outcomes, and automate at scale across global environments.

Based in Bengaluru, India. Open to Product Management and Collaboration leadership roles.

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Experience

Lead Digital Product Manager (official designation: Lead Infrastructure Engineer) — Wells Fargo

Jan 2024 – Present
  • Own roadmap & backlog for enterprise voice (CUCM, Webex, Expressway, SBCs).
  • Drive OKRs, quarterly planning, stakeholder alignment across operations, security, and business.
  • Shipped automation for site builds & migrations; reduced delivery time and change failures.
  • Led hard-phone reduction & conferencing optimization; improved CX and reduced costs.

Unified Communications & Collaboration Engineering / Program Delivery — Cisco / AT&T / Dimension Data / Birlasoft / TCS

Prior experience
  • Built and migrated CUCM clusters globally; Expressway, Unity, CER, SIP trunks, SBCs (Ribbon/Cisco).
  • Greenfield rollouts, relocations, and decommissions with UAT and cutover leadership.
  • Automation with Python and CI/CD; proactive monitoring and compliance.
  • Partnered with cross-functional teams for risk control, DR, and global standardization.

Selected Projects

Seekhu.com

AI-powered learning platform to generate personalized lessons & quizzes using GenAI.

Impact: Demonstrates product thinking, prompt design, and shipping a full-stack MVP.

CUCM Site Build Automation

Python + APIs to template and provision CUCM builds and bulk configurations.

Impact: Cut provisioning time; fewer manual errors; repeatable rollouts.

Webex Migration Program

Migrated legacy endpoints and conferencing to Webex, aligned global policies.

Impact: Higher call quality and 50%+ reduction in conferencing spend.

Skills

Product

  • Roadmaps
  • Backlog Prioritization
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Agile / Scrum / Kanban
  • OKRs
  • Budgeting

Unified Communications

  • Cisco CUCM
  • CER
  • Unity
  • Webex (On‑prem/Cloud)
  • Expressway
  • Jabber
  • SIP Trunks
  • SBCs (Ribbon/Cisco)

Cloud & Automation

  • Azure Architect
  • GCP Associate
  • Python
  • GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD
  • IaC basics

Leadership

  • Cross‑functional Coordination
  • Risk & Compliance
  • Vendor Management
  • Training & Enablement

Tools

  • Jira
  • Azure DevOps
  • Confluence
  • Git
  • Postman

Certifications

  • CCIE Collaboration (#55471)
  • PMP
  • CSPO
  • Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • Google Associate Cloud Engineer
  • ITIL Foundation

Let’s connect

Have a role or collaboration in mind? Send a note and I’ll get back quickly.