Pravin Mahajan
• India
• telecommunications
Current: Marketing Manager, Cisco Systems
Past:
Principal Consultant - Global Accounts, Cisco Systems
Senior Consultant, Cisco Systems
Pravin Mahajan
Address: San Francisco Bay Area
Current:
- Marketing Manager at Cisco
Past:
- Principal Consultant - Global Accounts at Cisco Systems
- Senior Consultant at Cisco Systems
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Education:
- S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
- Birla Institute of Technology and Science
People Network: 119
Industry: Telecommunications
Websites:
Pravin Mahajan’s Summary
Objective
Position where extensive sales, technical and communication experience will add to profitability.
Profile
Accomplished, high-energy professional with over 10 years of versatile experience. This includes solution selling to global accounts with long sales cycles with multiple decision-makers, hands-on implementation & project management. Educated at top schools providing a value-driven, self-motivated work ethic with excellent communication and team building skills. Contributes to both long-term strategy and daily tactics and tempo. Delivers award winning work resulting in numerous benefits, both measurable and intangible. Successfully navigated global cross-geographic team composition, as well as individual operations.
Pravin Mahajan’s Specialties:
Functional: Customer relationship, technology planning & design, services/business modeling, account/sales ownership, mentoring.
Technical: Carrier protocols (TCP/IP, Ethernet, Frame Relay, ATM), Routing protocols (MPLS, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP), Multimedia (H.323, SIP, MGCP), Signaling (T1/E1, ISDN, SS7), Media (Broadband, Wireless, Dial, Satellite), Security (Firewalls, DDOS prevention, IPS), Network Management, Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel, Juniper, Huawei, Force10 products.
Marketing Manager
Cisco
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Telecommunications industry)
April 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for Service Provider Core Products & Systems marketing globally. Lead cross-geographic, cross-functional programs targeted around Next Generation Network messaging. Deliver on time within budget. External interaction includes press, industry analysts & customers. Transferred from India to the Corporate HQ at San Jose, CA, USA.
Eductional Details:
S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research
MBA, Technology Management, 1996 — 1998
Pravin Mahajan’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
Additional Information
Pravin Mahajan’s Websites:
Pravin Mahajan’s Interests:
A keen mind, learning and exploring new perspectives. Professional- Strengths in the soft skills of communications, presentations & documentation. Well-versed with Microsoft Office tools. Sound expertise in Data, Voice & Video communication technologies & products. Familiar with IT Strategy, Systems Analysis, Databases, Programming in C/Unix. Recreational- Swimming, traveling, calligraphy & contemporary English literature. Enjoy the Internet & popular music. Learning French. Committed to social causes.
Pravin Mahajan’s Groups:
Hold affiliations with IEEE Computer Society, The Council of Communications Advisers of the Gerson Lehrman Group, Sage Research Panel
- CISCO Affiliates member
Pravin Mahajan’s Honors:
General-
Frequent presenter at reputed industry forums (SANOG, Globalcomm, Networkers India, Economic Times Summit, Internet World)
Cisco Systems-
Rotated in diverse markets (North India, East India/Bangladesh, West India, Global) and all verticals (Service Provider, Enterprise, Commercial). Earned multiple awards for Customer Satisfaction & Team-work at annual Sales Meetings. Winner of Global level Security Messaging competition in August 2005.