I have 16 years of global experience leading, designing, developing and delivering to market software products. Over 10 years of experience in internet search engine technology and my expertize is in all aspects of search technology from search relevance, recommendation systems, online ranking, user data analysis, search personalization, offline content acquisition, crawling and large scale data processing. I am currently Director, Product Management at Audible and responsible for product initiatives relating to Audible's core membership program. Prior to this I was Director, Search Program at Rediff.com and was responsible for the product direction and strategy of all search and data mining activities at Rediff. I enjoy designing and creating innovative products that use technology solutions to meet business needs and to provide a great user experience. Prior to my move to Product Management, I have been a software development manager and this experience helps me understand the challenges of leveraging technology to meet business needs. Specialties: Product Strategy, Product Management, Search engine technology, Recommendation systems, Ranking and search relevance, Business impact analysis, Data Analysis, Product users data analysis and heuristics, Search monetization, Big data, Search personalization, eCommerce Search, News search, Questions and answers technology solutions.

Sr. Director, Product Management @ From November 2013 to Present (2 years 2 months) Director, Search Program @ Head of Rediff’s search team. Responsible for the search product strategy aligned towards business growth. Led innovative product development in news search, eCommerce search and data journalism for both desktop and mobile devices. Filed 3 US patents for new technology built. Led, from product conception to deployment of http://realtime.rediff.com (instant news search engine covering news from over 30,000 sites), http://localnews.rediff.com (an intuitive map based Indian local news discovery product), http://realtime.rediff.com/images?src=home_images (image search engine based on images in news). Actively enhanced search and discovery including retrieval and recommendation systems for eCommerce shopping and books. Spearheaded data journalism projects using historic trend data analysis and data patterns for elections - Rediff Sentimeter From February 2011 to May 2013 (2 years 4 months) Senior Product Manager @ Led the product initiative for Ask.com's Answers from web strategy - to extract, retrieve, match and rank answers for question queries. Product Manager for Related searches. Earlier product responsibilities include various search technology offerings at ask.com From January 2009 to July 2010 (1 year 7 months) Manager, Software Engineering @ Managed a team of software engineers responsible for projects involving web search, including Signals for ranking, localized search and contextual search From 2007 to 2008 (1 year) Senior Software Engineer/Software Engineer @ Worked on end to end product development cycle from requirements analysis, design, implementation and successful deployment of several projects on various components of the search engine such as duplicate elimination, freshness, internationalization. From 2002 to 2007 (5 years) Software Consultant @ C++/Internet development consultant for Deutsche Financial services eCommerce solutions From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Senior Software Engineer @ Worked on system software projects including Data Link file system with collaboration with IBM Almaden (USA), Availability and Operations Manager Project for IBM Boeblingen (Germany) From 1996 to 1998 (2 years)

M.S, Computer Science @ Rutgers University-New Brunswick From 2000 to 2002 B.Tech, Electronics @ Anna University From 1993 to 1996 Kalpana Banerjee is skilled in: E-commerce, Product Management, Search Engine Technology, Search, Analytics, Software Development, Product Strategies, Product Design, Data Analysis, Recommender Systems, Big Data, Data Mining, Algorithms, NoSQL, Mobile Devices, Software Engineering