Ipshita Nag Deepak
Electronics and Telecommunications engineer currently System Design and Management fellow at MIT Sloan. Last worked at Aricent Technologies as an Engineering Project Manager.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Business, Copy Writing, Design, Editing, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Languages, Law, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Product design, Writing |
| Location: | Cambridge, MA |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | ARICENT Technologies, Gurgaon, India |
| Position: | Engineering Project Manager |
| Time period: | December 2005 - November 2008 |
| Description: | • Managed the development and sustenance of multiple product lines (Diameter and SS7 stack layers).
• Achieved 50% reduction in sustenance cost on SS7 product line. • Achieved 100% SLA for a year on all customer service requests on SS7 products. • Supervised a team of 20 engineers by career planning, appraisals and compensation management. • Collaborated with multiple stakeholders (Customers, Quality Department, Finance, Sales) for business development and software development. |
| Employer: | PricewaterhouseCoopers, New Delhi, India |
| Position: | Senior Consultant |
| Time period: | December 2005 - November 2006 |
| Description: | • Managed and co-designed the country wide data network – SWAN program, a USD 750 million initiative by Government of India to expand data network for e-governance applications in India.
• Assessed IT requirements at the government headquarters at block, district and state level. • Performed ‘Public Private Partnership’ (PPP) based vendor selection process for network operator. |
| Employer: | Infosys Technologies Ltd, Bangalore |
| Position: | Various positions |
| Time period: | December 1999 - November 2005 |
| Description: | Onsite Project Leader 2005
• Managed onsite project requirements, status reporting, and issue resolution among multiple stakeholders (internal groups and external vendors of the client) • Managed global teams to deliver an automation testing project which reduced the time to perform readiness testing of soft switch by 75%, by effective test automation. Project Leader 2004 • Led a team of 4 engineers to develop ‘message waiting’ feature, a unique solution which provided voice mail feature to regular phone lines and VoIP lines. • Won the first prize for authoring a technical paper on ‘Voice mail services in a converged network’ Onsite Coordinator and Developer 2000-2003 • Rolled out offshore development model to provide 24 hour testing support • Performed solution testing of the ‘Microsoft Solutions for Management’ guide by evaluating the requirements of Microsoft’s enterprise customers • Designed Toll Free services based on AIN (Advanced Intelligent Network) for Canadian market. • Implemented a zero defect feature for AIN-Office wide Public feature code. • Enhanced the switch maintenance process to reduce the time taken to upgrade the switch by 95%. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2010 |
| Degree: | Engineering and Management, MSc |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Product development and management, innovation, entrepreneurship, mobile technologies for development, mobile and telecom technologies, internet applications |
| Memberships: | IETE (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications), India - Member 2006
Certified Software Quality Analyst, Quality Assurance Institute, USA 2003 |
Ipshita Nag's Startups (2)
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School Health for 1 Billion Children
School Health for 1 Billion Children (SH1BC) provides a gaming platform that engages individuals and teams to step up and pursue child health through schools by playing a reality online/offline role-playing game.