Dr. Saurabh Sikka, M.D.

Program Manager at Ericsson

January 2024

1   Introduction

I trained as a medical doctor, got my postgraduate degree in Internal Medicine and started working in the Intensive Care Unit. In between waiting for patients, I had the option to emulate Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and write fiction, but I chose instead to explore the world of FOSS:GNU/Linux and try to connect the Echocardiograph machine to a laptop and extract patient information via a bash script.This prompted the hospital chief to put me in charge of designing a new Hospital Information System connecting the chain of hundred hospitals across the Indian subcontinent.

From that Product Owner role came about a career switch that was perhaps inevitable. This is what followed:

1.2   Experiences

Program Manager - IMS Common Tools  Ericsson   Aug 2023 - Present

Product Owner  Ericsson   Feb 2022 - Aug 2023

Senior Business Analyst  EPAM Systems  Sep 2020 - Feb 2022

Product Security Master - Ericsson Network Location  Ericsson   Mar 2020 - Sep 2020

Scrum Master - Ericsson Network Location  Ericsson   Jul 2019 - Mar 2020

Product Owner - Multimedia Telephony Application Server  Ericsson   Dec 2016 - July 2019

1.3   Education

National Board of Medicine  Diploma in Internal Medicine  2005 - 2008

Royal College of General Physicians, Glasgow, U.K.  Diploma in Family Medicine  2004

Savitribai Phule Pune University  Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.)  1993 - 1999

St. Columba's School - India   High School Diploma   1980 - 1992