Senior technology executive with a passion for innovation and a well-established track record of delivering business results through the creation of high-impact software applications. Proven success in creating product vision, strategy, and managing through all phases of the development cycle. Repeatedly recognized for effective leadership skills and the ability to meld groups of technical personnel into highly disciplined, empowered, and productive work teams. Specialties:Product strategy & requirements gathering; Customer insight and value creation, Large-scale software design & architecture; UI/UX design; technical team/staff leadership; change management; project management; scope-schedule-budget determination; executive status reporting; testing & troubleshooting; Agile methodology & SCRUM, Search Advertising, E-Commerce, SEM

Engineering Leader - Amazon India @ Amazon India is a very exciting opportunity to participate and lead the online retail revolution happening in India. Currently it is like the early days of the US market, with many unknowns and even more opportunities to find creative solutions and define the future. I lead the engineering team that is focused on the entire range of seller experiences for Amazon India including "Fulfilled By Amazon", "Merchant Fulfilment Network" and our brand new merchant offering around "Easy Ship". I am looking for strong engineers, architects and program managers to join the team. Please do not hesitate to ping me if you are interested. From November 2014 to Present (1 year) Greater Seattle AreaFounder @ LocalGup is focused on making the process of getting recommendations for your local businesses needs Simple, Quick and Personal. * See local businesses liked by your friends * Ask your friends and get quick recommendations * Help your friends find appropriate businesses for their needs * Automatically store your friends’ recommendations for future use My role is to be the product person, the technology person and the sales person all rolled in one. Give it a whirl at localgup.com and send me feedback ... From August 2013 to Present (2 years 3 months) Sammamish, WADirector Program Management - Skype/Lync @ Leading a new effort to make the meetings experience significantly more productive through the application of machine learning techniques. From May 2014 to October 2014 (6 months) Redmond, WADirector Program Management - XBox Live @ My team is leading the efforts into creating more engaging and personalized experiences for the XBox ecosystem. Key initiatives include o Building mechanisms for collecting various personalization signals like usage, ratings etc. o Creating a User’s Entertainment/Taste Profile using explicit & implicit signals. o Building mechanisms for Social Discovery of Media content o Enabling users to customize the XBox One experience through pins o Driving continuous improvement in engagement, consumption and revenue for XBox through experimentation, data analysis and flighting. From November 2012 to May 2014 (1 year 7 months) Redmond, WADirector Program Management - Bing Ads (aka adCenter) @ Leading the Bing Ads Program Management team focussed on delighting advertisers. My team is responsible for all campaign management functionality including the Bing Ads web interface, the Bing Ads Editor (desktop tool) & the Bing Ads APIs. I am also driving the planning and execution of mobile and local advertising strategies for Bing Ads. From June 2010 to October 2012 (2 years 5 months) Principal Group Program Manager - Bing Shopping @ Ran the program management team for Bing Shopping including the porduct catalog, query processing, ranking & relevance and the user interface. Led the planning process and the identification, definition of key KPIs for the team and led the team to execute successfully against aggresive goals. From October 2009 to June 2010 (9 months) Principal Technical Assistant - Online Commerce Division @ Technical Assistant to the VP, Commerce Search, Platform & Services. Helped formulate and drive the long term Bing Shopping vision, cashback program and shopping related innovation projects. Successfully managed technical Integration of a $500M+ acquisition in Europe including creation of a joint strategy, product plan and execution across the US & Europe teams. From April 2008 to October 2009 (1 year 7 months) Senior Program Manager Lead - adCenter and Bing Cashback @ Led the effort to acquire Jellyfish.com through the process of assessing strategic fit, financial modeling and technical fit. Launched Bing Cashback - a highly innovative and strategic effort for Microsoft Online Division - in record time working very closely with the remote team. From January 2007 to April 2008 (1 year 4 months) Senior Development Lead - IIS, MSN Search, Payments, BI @ Led development organizations in the following areas - Business Intelligence & Customer Intelligence systems - Transaction & Payment Processing - Digital Micro Payments - Windows Communication Framework (.NET Web Services infrastructure) - MSN Search runtime systems - Internet Information Server (IIS) - Host Integration Server From 1996 to 2007 (11 years)

MBA, Entrepreneurship, Marketing @ University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business From 2002 to 2005 M.S., Computer Science @ Dartmouth College From 1994 to 1996 B. Tech, Computer Science and Engineering @ Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi From 1990 to 1994 Saurab Nog is skilled in: Product Strategy, Team Building, System Architecture, Value Creation, Customer Insight, Software Project..., Product Design, Product Development, UI/UX Design, Technical Team..., Engineering Change..., Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Search Advertising, E-commerce, SEO, Program Management, Software Development, Software Design, Executive Management, Designs, Leadership, Product Management, Integration, Strategy, Search, Distributed Systems, .NET, SDLC, Mobile Devices, Business Intelligence, SEM, Start-ups, Databases, Testing, Scalability, Web Services, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Management, Big Data, Architectures, Mobile Applications, SOA, Enterprise Software