User:VerizonIndia/Manishi Sharma

Manishi Sharma is Delivery Head of Enterprise Ordering at Verizon Data Services, India. He is associated with Verizon for last 11 years. He reports to Radhika Venkatraman who is Vice President of IT - Enterprise Sales Life Cycle and Ordering systems at Verizon. His portfolio is responsible for design, development, implementation and support of sales life cycle systems, CRM ordering platforms and End-to-End order work flow automation for the Enterprise and SMB groups on a global basis. He brought in new leadership approach to the team and replaced command and control with commitment and cohesion. He strongly believes in creating a disipline by focusing on purpose and that communication is the key performance of the team. He is the pioneer in using Chatter as a means of communication and was the recipient of Performance Excellence award in the year 2012.



Career at Verizon


He joined Verizon as Telecom Software Engineer in April 2002 in US. He worked for Verizon in Dallas upto September, 2005 before relocating in India for good. In October 2005 he was promoted to Program Manager. As a Program Manager he was handling the overall program management in the CMB space. He was instrumental in setting up the video Head-end Equipment in Hyderabad office as part of the FiOS dev lab. It became operational in year 2010 and helped the team in testing and coming up with new products. He was promoted to Delivery Head of Enterprise Ordering in November 2011.



Specialties


His Specialties are Product Design & Development, Telecommunications forecasting - Wireless and Broadband, Program Management, Offshore account management. He has extensive experience in telecom industry. He is exposed to wide array of telecom applications from Ordering/Billing/OSS solutions to product development on converged platforms. He Interested in opportunities to bring innovative telecom products on quadruple play platform (Mobile/Digital Voice/Broadband/TV).



Other work
 After completing his graduation he joined Siemens Public Communication Networks Ltd. as Software Executive in 1996 and served the company through the year 2000. After that he started working for Unique Computing Solutions, Inc. as Consultant in September 2000. He left Unique Computing Inc. in April 2002.



Education


He completed his graduation in Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics in 1996 from Madhav Institute of Technology and Sciences, Gwalior. Then he started working at Telecom Industry. In 2003 he decided to do MBA in Telecommunications systems management. He completed his MBA in 2005 from The University of Dallas.



Patents


Manishi Sharma holds a patent along with inventors Michelle Felt, Nader Gharachorloo, Donald H. Relyea. The Topic of patent was "Systems and methods for casting a graphical user interface display of a mobile device to a display screen associated with a set-top-box device". Its US Patent Application number is 20110074794.

Abstract: Exemplary multi-screen casting systems and methods are disclosed. For example, systems and methods for casting a graphical user interface display of a mobile device to a display screen associated with a Set-top box device". are disclosed. An exemplary method includes a multi-screen casting system establishing a multi-screen display relationship between a mobile device and a set-top-box device, identifying data associated with a graphical user interface display of the mobile device, and transmitting the identified data associated with the graphical user interface display of the mobile device to the set-top-box device for display by a display device associated with the set-top-box device. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

He filed the patent in September 29, 2009 and it was issued in March 31, 2011. It was assigned by VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING, INC.