Samir brings in more than 18 years of rich experience encompassing, Product Engineering, Software Quality Assurance & Testing, large scale program management, Delivery Centre Operations Management, Pre-sales and Sales. Building scalable teams, Key Account Management and creating in-roads in difficult accounts through innovative strategies are some strong assets that Samir possess. Before starting with his own consulting firm Ideaom Consulting Services, Samir was associated with SNS Technologies. At SNS in the capacity of Director – Projects, he contributed to transform the software testing specialized organization to a comprehensive IT services providing organization. Prior to SNS, Samir worked with start-ups as well as established large product and service companies such as Geometric, IDeaS (a SAS company), Ruksun and NeilSoft. In these organizations he played various roles that of a test specialist, SEPG Member, program manager of large key accounts. That offered him opportunities to work in various domains such as CAD, device driver development, gaming applications, E-commerce, WAP, Decision Science Technology, PLM to name the few. A graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Pune University, Samir has completed his M.S. from BITS, Pilani. He also holds PGDFM (PG Diploma in Finance) from Symbiosis. As a visiting faculty for the reputed B-schools he has contributes to the subjects such as Software Engineering / Testing, Software Project Management and Requirements Management.