Ghanshyam Sharma

About Ghanshyam Sharma

I love building amazing products, that provide market differentiation and leverage bleeding edge technologies, I am fascinated with what positive self motivated and enabled teams can achieve and I am extremely focused on career progression and well being of my teams and colleagues - Deep love for Cybersecurity - At Salesforce, moving the needle on Trust (Trust is the highest of four values at Salesforce) for thousands of Apps and Data, In the past managed SAAS Security platforms for Exostar with $23 M P&L, leveraged by Fortune Aerospace & Defense and Life Sciences leaders to secure there supply chains, Delivered Physical Security & Logical Security solutions for HID Global- Product Innovation - At Salesforce drove Innovation (One of the four key values, Trust, Customer Success, Innovation & Equality), focused on Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence and Customer Zero adoption for new Salesforce products. At Exostar drove SAAS Security products, that secured around 60% of DOD spend and at BCT drove product strategy for Enterprise Integration products- Entrepreneurship Flavor - 5th US employee of BCT, supported scaleup from start-up to $250 Million in revenue, BCT is a business Case in Stanford MBA curriculum. Delivered Cuecent line of products, led large 200+ global teams and managed fortune clients.I have practiced deep meditation techniques for three decades, my first book on meditation (Experiments in Consciousness) has touched Amazon Best Seller rank, I have spent numerous weekends in deep conversations with executives talking about work life balance, stress management and the art of leveraging motivation and compassion as primary management tools.

Experience

1. Sr Director, Product Management

   Salesforce

   Aug 2022 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Enterprise Architecture Operations- Project Execution, focused on Artificial Intelligence, AgentForce, Enterprise Architecture Review Board Processes and Knowledge Management- Product Line Manager for Application Portfolio Management & Business Capability Management (ITSM)- Security Adoption Programs including Authentication (OKTA), IGA (Identity governance & Administration), RBAC (Role Based Access Control), PAM (Privileged Access Management), DLP (Data Loss Prevention), DnR (Detect & Respond), Citizen Development Security Risk Mitigation. Coverage around hundreds of Apps and thousands of Orgs and dozens of active programs.

Education

• Himachal Pradesh University

  Masters in Computer Applications, Computer Sciences

  1992 — 1995

• Guru Nanak Dev University

  BSc., Non-Medical Sciences

  1989 — 1992

• MHAC Nagbani

  High School

  1985 — 1989

• Columbia Business School

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General

  2006 — 2008

Skills

• Program Management
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Vendor Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Paas
• Oracle Soa Suite
• Mobile Applications
• Secondary Mortgage Market
• Software Development
• Life Sciences
• B2b Integration
• Consulting
• Oracle Fusion Middleware
• Integration
• Saas
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Government
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Product Management
• IT Strategy
• J2ee Application Development
• Software Engineering
• Pmo
• Leadership
• Soa
• Strategy
• Governance
• Data Integration
• Weblogic
• Professional Services
• Payments
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Global Delivery Management
• Managed Services/Operations Management
• High-Tech Industry
• Webcenter Portal Development