Samir Sawant
Electronics Engineering graduate from University of Mumbai, with MTech from IIT, Bombay, currently pursuing MSc at MIT. Worked at Analog Devices Inc for 7 years.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Architecture, Business, Design, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Product design, Public Relations, Sales, Software Engineering |
| 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 |
| Tags: | audio, consumer electronics, customer management, dsp, embedded systems, High Tech, iit, leadership, marketing, mit, mobile, partner development, product management, risk assessment and management, streaming, technical product management, video |
| Schools: | Indian Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Analog Devices Inc, Software and & System Technology Group, Norwood, MA |
| Position: | Various positions |
| Time period: | January 2000 - November 2007 |
| Description: | Technical Product Manager, Networked Surveillance System, 2005-2007
• Led technical product management process from India; consulted with global cross-functional and cross-cultural teams including marketing (30 members), sales (100 members), distributors and legal teams. Efforts resulted in aligning product roadmap to identify opportunities with Global Tier-I customers of Analog Devices. • Led efforts to present product capability to 10 of fortune – 500 companies, 5 times design got selected for potential $500 million yearly revenues. • Developed Partner Technology relationship with 15 companies to develop new competitive product features. Effort resulted in developing scalable product platform and definition of new product design with TAM of $2 Billion (2008). • Increased product awareness by creating product collaterals and participating in trade shows, such as CES, IFSEC, ISC West. Effort resulted in 100% increase in customer inquiries, which led to revenue of $5M/yearly. • Created and delivered 1/3-days training workshops to educate pre-sales and customer engineering teams. Effort resulted in benchmarking performance matrices for product reference design. • Wrote technical content of business proposals and customer license documents. Technical Product Engineer, Networked Surveillance System, 2003-2007 • Led four engineering teams (30 engineers) to design, develop and support product modules. • Managed integration team to develop scalable product architecture to reduce time to interface and test product modules, improve bug fixing. Efforts resulted in reducing schedule slippage by 50% and Quality Improvement by 150%. • Headed customer requirement gathering workshop several times aimed to consult with customers, analyze features and performance requirements, and offer chipset with estimates of time/resources. Effort resulted in ensuring excellent customer service during pre/post sales phases. • Developed cross functional expertise within engineering teams, which resulted in maintaining 95% resource utilization and 15% reduction in costs. Developer, Embedded Video Technology, 2000-2005 • Designed and Developed Embedded Consumer Electronics Products Reference Designs, such as VideoPhone, VOIP Phone, Portable Multimedia Players, IP Camera, etc. • Integrated and profiled product systems to find out bottlenecks in system performance. Effort resulted in developing optimization strategy, which resulted in 200% increase in system performance. |
| Employer: | Nucleus Software Offshore Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai, India |
| Position: | Senior Software Engineer, Citibank Custodial Services |
| Time period: | June 1997 - June 1998 |
| Description: | • Implemented and Supported various modules, such as settlements, objections, CA for CitiBank Custodial Services; Researched support request, developed and deployed reporting applications. Effort resulted in reduction in support requests by 50%. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2009 |
| Degree: | Engineering and Management, MSc |
| University: | Indian Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2000 |
| Degree: | Master of Technology in Communication Engineering |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | Co-Author of Research Paper: “Pre-decision Strategy for Coded/Not-coded MBs in MPEG4”, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Sponsoring primary education of five (5) children within community. |
| Awards: | Venture Plan for “Citizen Reporting System” selected as semifinalist of Dell Social Innovation Awards Competition’ 2009.
Awarded 1st place in “Design Challenge” competition among 10 teams, Placed 3rd in “Innovative Product Design” competition among 15 teams, Achieved 3rd place in “Technology Strategy” competition among 15 teams. |
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