Prem Akella
Electrical Engineering graduate from IIT, MSc from University of Massachusetts. Experience in contemporary networking technologies, coupled with a fine aptitude and penchant for business development and marketing. Now at Cisco Systems, Inc.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Languages and Platforms, Marketing, Software Engineering, System Administration, Unix, Windows |
| Groups: | BASES |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, University of Massachusetts System - Amherst |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Cisco Systems, Inc., Data Center Business Unit, San Jose, CA |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | April 2005 - Present |
| Description: | • Worked on Fiber Channel Port-Manager, the governing component for interfaces on the MDS 9XXX Director Class Switches
• Designed and developed network management support through SNMP for the control of several significant components of the MDS Director Class Switches • Was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award in my team for two consecutive years (2005 and 2006) |
| Employer: | University of Massachusetts, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Amherst, MA |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | January 2003 - March 2007 |
| Description: | • Designed and developed PANORAMA – Pervasive Networking Architecture for
Transmission of Multimedia Data in Battlefield Scenarios • Marketed PANORAMA through presentations and demonstrations to DARPA officials in IEEE MILCOM 2004 for potential funding opportunities • Worked in a team that developed a full –fledged business plan for a fledgling bio-medical company associated with my research community |
| Employer: | GE, India Business Center, Hyderabad, India |
| Position: | Graduate Engineer Trainee |
| Time period: | September 2002 - January 2003 |
| Description: | • Designed, developed and marketed a methodology to automate the design process of a
specific class of motors manufactured at GE, which brought down their design time from 3-4 hours to a maximum of 19 minutes. • Worked as a part of the Value Engineering group that developed software for improving the braid design in GE circuit breakers. This software helped save $0.5 Million for every batch of circuit breakers manufactured in GE • Nominated for the prestigious Information Management Leadership Program, to help GE execute and manage its global information technology incentives. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Massachusetts System - Amherst |
| Time period: | 2005 |
| Degree: | Computer Systems Engineering, MSc |
| University: | Indian Institute of Technology, Madras |
| Time period: | 2002 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering, BTech |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | “PANORAMA – Pervasive Networking Architecture for Multimedia
Transmission in Battlefield Environments”, Premchand Akella and Aura Ganz, IEEE MILCOM 2004. |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | • Youngest employee at GE, Hyderabad, India to be nominated for the prestigious
Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP 2002). • Nominated for one of the best paper presentations in IEEE MILCOM 2004. • Secured 418th rank in the All India Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE 1998) for the Indian Institutes of Technology, out of 100,000 students who appeared for the examination • Twice Gold Medalist in the Regional Mathematics Olympiads (1995, 1996). • Recipient of the National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) Scholarship, India (1996-2002) |
