Rahul Jain

Summary

Senior product leader with sixteen years at Cisco across India and the US, spanning solution architecture, presales engineering, and product management, with a consistent pattern of turning expert-only work into tools: Easy Migrate portal 2010 ($5M in weeks), Migration Scoping Automation in Raleigh (weeks to hours), Branch Upgrade Automation in Gurgaon (80% manual reduction, $15M+ revenue), and compliance audit automation in 2024 (eight-month cycle to three, across 1,200 sites). Now building InnovRent, a B2B device-leasing business for Indian Enterprises, and working as a product consultant focused on AI innovations.

Experience

Founder

Nov 2024 – present

InnovRent Services Pvt. Ltd.

Gurgaon

• B2B device leasing for Indian Enterprises.
• Capex purchases turn into op-ex subscriptions, paid through payroll deduction.

Product Consultant

2025 – present

InfoCzar

Gurgaon

• IT product development and deployment consulting.
• AI workshops, implementations, and product design advisory.

Product Manager (Compliance)

Apr 2024 – Nov 2024

Cisco Systems

Gurgaon

• Built end-to-end audit automation for hardware and software compliance across 1,200 sites.
• Audit cycle: eight months to three. Effort halved.
• Earned ISC2 Cybersecurity and Microsoft AZ-900.

Product Manager (Services)

Oct 2019 – Apr 2024

Cisco Systems

Gurgaon

• Owned three products end-to-end: Digital Twin, Branch Upgrade Automation, Endpoint Classifier.
• Built the AFM framework. Lead outcome: Branch Upgrade Automation, with 80% manual reduction and $15M+ in service revenue.
• Cross-functional execution across product, sales, delivery, legal, and finance.

Presales Solution Architect

Jun 2012 – Sep 2019

Cisco Systems

Raleigh, USA

• $100M in services sales over four years.
• Built Migration Scoping Automation: weeks compressed to hours. Adopted as a global standard.
• Led 2,000 change windows at Verizon Wireless with zero outages.
• Six-month rescue at Rockwell Automation; turned customer sentiment from negative to positive.
• Earned a Data Science Level 1 at NC State.

Network Consultant

Aug 2008 – Jun 2012

Cisco Systems

Bengaluru

• Service Provider migrations for AT&T, Vodafone, STC, Airtel, Turkcell, DU Dubai, Sprint, Paetec, and Reach Telecom.
• Built the Easy Migrate portal in 2010: Cisco Migration Services at 25% of the previous price. $5M in orders within weeks. Inaugurated by Wim Elfrink, then CEO of Cisco India.
• Built Quick Check, a post-migration verification tool licensed to 10+ customers.
• Designed and deployed the Commonwealth Games 2010 video transmission network.
• Won the Cisco Appreciation Programme award for an IOS-XR lab workshop spanning 5 Cisco teams and 8 Indian Telecom SPs.

Education

Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh

2004 – 2008

B.E. (Hons.), Electronics & Electrical Communication.

• PECFEST 2005, SMS marketing. Ran fest marketing on SMS when SMS was still the only channel that landed at scale. Built the registration system; 1,200+ signups in three days.
• Hostel LAN, 2006. Pooled funds with fellow students to build the first hostel network. Laid cables, deployed switches. A 100+ computer star topology, fully resident-funded.

North Carolina State University

2015

Data Science Programme, Level 1.

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