pankajv

Product Strategist /Technologist,Experience with Incubation / Fund Raising. domain:
e-learning, social networks

Summary
visualization, strategy and Implementation for highly scalable products/solutions in domains of
e-learning and internet advertising.
Specialties
- Current focus on high traffic hosted e-learning solutions and in evolving community portals in
education niche areas.
- Developed high traffic self-service/lead-gen solutions for ad network majors on CPC/CPM/CPA
models.
- Co-Founded Seeknet Technologies (eventually acquired by Tribal Fusion Inc) – company in
federated search for travel domain. Incubated Tribal fusion Inc’s India Office.
Experience
Co-Founder, V.P. (Products) at Vriti
September 2006 – Present (2 years 3 months)
- Designed / Implemented scalable e-learning hosted solutions. Drove Marketing
Initiatives/Business Development/Revenue Models for the same.
- Evolved niche web community for students preparing for entrance exams – www.goiit.com. Portal
touched 10000 alexa worldwide and 680 in india, 2.5 million pageviews, 220k visitors a month
within 10 months of launch. Identified core/peripheral revenue streams for the same.
Director (Engg) at Tribalfusion, Inc

May 2005 – September 2006 (1 year 5 months)
- Incubated India office for Tribal fusion Inc.
- Conducted initial contract/vendor negotiations.
- Product Strategy and Implementation for self service application on contextual technology.
Co-Founder, Director (Product Dev) at Seeknet Technologies

May 2004 – April 2005 (1 year)
- co-founded the entrepreneurial venture targeted to real-time search.
- main work involved building/evolving the flagship product “Smart Rover”, which catered to
real-time federated search for smart-fares in airline industry.Microsoft did a case study on the
product (http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=53132)
- the company eventually got acquired by ad-space majors Tribal Fusion

Sr. Software Engineer at GlobalLogic
October 2002 – April 2004 (1 year 7 months)
- Part of first few globallogic employees (then named E.B. Providers)
- Worked with the pivotal team that successfully delivered company’s first few critical projects.
Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
5 Year Integrated M.Tech., Computers & Mathematics, 1997 – 2002
Activities and Societies: Mathematics Society, Theatrical Group, Cultural Festival Organizer Team.