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Vikas Burri

A dynamic management generalist with ~4 years of professional experience in Mobile, Internet Product strategy, Private Equity, Design thinking, Startup Incubators & accelerators and ~5 years of active volunteer experience in executing global launch marketing and developer community campaigns for Mozilla in ASPAC; spent most of my career in both high ambiguity and fast-paced environments with strong ownership,analytical and problem solving as natural strengths. I look forward to opportunities which challenge my domain expertise and pushes me to up the game while creating an impact on the economy around.
National Institute of Smart Governance - Govt. of AP - DCF Ventures
GITAM University
Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Professional Background

  • Current status
  • Profession
  • Fields
    Corporate Support
  • Work experience
    2-4 years
  • Management
  • Skills
    Program Management
    Startup Consulting
    Strategy Development
    Project Management
    Private Equity
    Innovation Management
    Emerging Technologies
    Design Thinking
    PowerPoint
  • Highest level of education
    Bachelor

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    Senior Manager
  • Desired work locations
  • Freelance

Work Experience

Consultant

Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
1 yr 2 mos
Spearheaded emerging technology partnerships to create new CoEs in the state of AP by partnering with HPI, Unity3d for additive manufacturing and Gaming/AR/MR Responsible for Stumagz, TrakInvest,WiT by loopreality and Unity 3D product partnerships with GoAP Host Organizer( GoAP - Flagship events)- Vizag Fintech Festival 2018 with Singex Holdings & AP Cyber Security Summit 2018 with Mastercard; engaged ~2000 industry leaders in Fintech and Cybersecurity domains Spearheaded Industry Academia Conclaves and proactively supported Digital Education Summits engaging ~15,000 youth towards career development Initiatives and 100+ industry stalwarts in a effort to bridge industry-academia gap

multiple hats

Nov 2012 - Dec 2017
5 yrs 2 mos
Delivered growth of 2000+volunteers through Firefox student ambassador program & mentored regional marketing ambassadors for ASPAC and Kenya Led firefox OS bus campaign across 21 states connecting 30 launch events across India for FxOS India Launch Handled Firefox decade campaign for India in Hyderabad #Fx10; 5 M+ Twitter Impressions created Organised ~50 web literacy/ TTT /hackathons for both community engagement and onboarding new developer contributors for firefox-addons/FxOS-apps across India

Senior Manager

Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
7 mos
Managed product strategy for Brand360.io; pivoted to brand360app Responsible for recruiting the early business team of ~5 from IIM-A Led design thinking learning programs internally for product leaders

Manager-Seed Investments and Community

May 2015 - Apr 2016
1 yr 0 mos
Spearheaded PPP accelerator end to end development; Managed the portfolio of 6 startups with 1 acquisition and 1 follow Up fundraise @ Pre-A Responsible for Stakeholder management both internal and external with a successful cohort of startups exiting the accelerator program Made it to the top 1 in accelerator performance assessment by KPMG for PPP accelerators in the state of Andhra Pradesh(2015-2016)

Education

Engineer’s Degree
Computer Science
2011 - 2015
Activities and societies
Started volunteering for Mozilla in 2012; Part of India Taskforce-2013, Founded hive learning network Vizag -2014, Connected devices SIG at Mozilla Leadership Summit SG-2015, grown 10-1000+ active volunteers in Andhra regional community of developers, designers and Open web activists.