Vijaykumar Balasubramanian

Hi, I'm Vijaykumar Balasubramanian, Vijay Kumar or simply Vijay or just VJ. I am a product manager and photo enthusiast developing products for Near Field Communication (NFC), Storage when not taking pictures.

Vijaykumar Balasubramanian is a Technical Product Manager with a MBA and strong experience in developing hardware and software products from conception to release, interfacing with customers, and managing offshore teams.

Senior Product Manager at SCM Microsystems

June 2009 - January 2012

Identifying blue ocean markets and authoring go-to-market strategy for the same. Overseeing and contributing to technical incubation of embedded solutions, user level software and securing customer buy-in for the same. Product Life cycle management with ownership of entire product lines including technology roadmap.

Product Manager at SCM Microsystems Inc.

October 2006 - April 2011

Technical Product Support Manager at SCM Microsystems Inc.

October 2005 - October 2006

- Project Manager and Field Application Engineer for Digital TV and Digital Storage products

Senior Systems Engineer at SCM Microsystems Inc.

April 2004 - October 2005

Daily: • Product feasibility study • Customer relations Weekly: • Co-ordinate status of different projects with the engineering team in India. • Consolidation of the status through reports and team meeting in the US.

Contributor at Articles And Content

2005 - 2005

Senior Software engineer at SCM Microsystems (India) Pvt. Ltd.

2000 - 2001

Software Engineer at Shuttle Technology

1997 - 1999

Senior Product Manager at Identive ID Infrastructure Division

November 2011

Product management and business development for retail and OEM products concentrating on NFC and Digital Media.

University of Phoenix

2004 – 2006

MBA

Mepco Schlenk Engineering College

1993 – 1997

B.E

Concentration: Electronics and Communications

Madurai Kamaraj University

1992 – 1997

BE

Concentration: Electronics and Communication

Chinmaya

1991 – 1993

High School

Photography, Writing, Cricket, Startups