Komuraiah Poodari

Collaborating on connectivity, cybersecurity, safety and data aspects of next-generation mobile systems

San Jose, CA, United States

Details

Education: MBA

Marketing, Strategy and Finance

University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business

Nano Degree : Self Driving Car Engineer

Autonomous Systems

Udacity

2017 : 2018

AI Nano Degree

Artificial Intelligence

Udacity

2017 : 2017

CFA Level 1, 2 & 3

Investments and Portfolio Management

CFA Institute

2007 : 2010

Experience: - Leading the cybersecurity requirements/risk analysis and secure vehicle access controls involving BLE, NFC, UWB, and LF technologies.

2019 : Present

Lucid Motors

Senior Manager, Connectivity, Cybersecurity Solutions

Number Theory is an innovative data science/autoML solutions – services and platforms provider, enabling enterprises across the globe enhance their competitive advantage. As a trusted partner, Number Theory has been helping its customers gain actionable insights cost-effectively and monetize the insights in a timely fashion.

I am helping Number Theory on enhancing market traction.

2019 : 2019

Number Theory

Business Consultant

Technology & business consulting on the intersection of networking, security, semiconductors, IoT and autonomous systems

2018 : 2019

Aarna Networks, Inc.

Consultant

• Owned product management & marketing of commercial networking & security software solutions generating multi-million $ revenue/year and used solution selling as a competitive advantage for securing silicon design-wins. Product Management activities included product planning, road-mapping, working through software development processes (waterfall / agile), competitive analysis, positioning, launching, and training. Marketed pre-integrated and optimized solutions spanning silicon, SDK and middleware software.

• Extensive customer-facing presales, marketing and business development experience in the positioning of embedded software development kits and integrated system-level reference kits value proposition, e.g. ease-of-use, quality, time-to-design/integration, performance/watt/ $ on selected h/w platforms.

• Won deals by proactively collaborating with cross-functional international and geographically distributed teams in teams in Japan, Taiwan, India, and Europe : customers, ecosystem partners, and intracompany teams.

2015 : 2018

NXP Semiconductors

Senior Product Marketing & Business Development Manager

Product management and Marketing of Deep Packet Inspection solutions for secure routers, Mobility Transport solutions for eNodeBs and Software Defined Networking solutions product launches

2013 : 2015

Freescale Semiconductor

Product Marketing Manager

Company: Lucid Motors

Years of Experience: 29

Spoken Language: Telugu, Hindi

Skills Product Marketing, Business Development, Telecommunications, Competitive Analysis, Pre-sales, Go-to-market Strategy, Strategic Partnerships, Product Launch, Wireless, Cloud Computing, Sales Enablement, Product Launches, Presales & Deal closures, Software Defined, Network Function, Investment research, Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization

About Experienced Senior Product Management and Marketing Manager with a proven record of securing and enabling customer design success.

Product Management & Marketing

• Owned commercial networking, security software solutions product management, and marketing.

• Used s/w portfolio as a competitive advantage for securing silicon design-wins, and improve margins.

• Extensive customer-facing, presales, marketing and business development experience in positioning and messaging of networking s/w value proposition.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to close deals involving international and geographically distributed teams: customers, ecosystem partners, and intracompany teams and drove multi-million dollar design-wins using solution-centric approach, in a semiconductor company.

• Extensively collaborated with extended teams, customers and partners in the Americas, Japan, Taiwan, India, China, and EMEA.

Technologies

• Conversant with Firewall, VPN, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, NG Firewall, SDN, NFV, IoT/Edge, 5G technologies, and relevant open source initiatives.

Emerging Technologies

• Passed Udacity Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree.

• Passed Udacity AI Nanodegree with Computer Vision/Deep Learning.