Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Investments in Multi domain, Multi Technology startups.

Dec 2021 – Apr 2022 · 4 mos

• Collaboration with executive leadership & Defense Contract Program Managers to define Priorities, SLAs & benefit realization plans from a Program Management perspective on defense contracts with the Indian Armed Forces
• Built a standardized Program Management Office (PgMO) organization following industry best practices, adaption of standards for program & deliverables with early risk identification & mitigation
• Began initiatives for continuous process improvements and automation to eliminate waste on programs
• Creation of the Program Management Information System Dashboard in collaboration with Boeing IT&DA in India.

Jun 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Close collaboration with senior leadership to define strategy, priorities, planning & benefit realization plans across multiple geographical locations
• Stakeholder management across peer managers, suppliers, vendors, manufacturing houses, global trade control, IT Operations, human resources, staffing & legal
• Built a standardized PMO organization following industry best practices to streamline multiple standards for projects all the way from Initiation till closeout with special focus on product safety, quality, early risk identification & mitigation
• Spearheaded various initiatives for continuous process improvements and automation to eliminate waste on programs
• Serve as the liaison representing Engineering , Test and Technology Operations on the State-of-the-Art Boeing India Campus Program at the KIADB Aerospace Park at Devanahalli, Bangalore
• Capacity Management & Utilization, optimizing usage of Real estate, R&D lab design and enablement for the campus
• Lead the virtual efforts on “Return to Office” planning for the entire engineering organization spread across multiple locations
• Project Management Trainer for Boeing India and have lead several workshops

Jun 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr

• Successfully built and lead a teams of Expert Dev Ops Engineers & Automation change leaders to modernize application delivery.
• Accountable to deliver value faster and more efficiently to Boeing & its customers through the efforts of CI/CD specialists
• Committed to creating usable capacity via automation & lean methods to deliver the second century of applications
• Creation of a standardized application assessment & deployment model to enable faster turnaround times
• Accountable to hire and retain a strong talent pool
• Diversity & Inclusion Champion - Treasurer & Communications Chief of Boeing Women Inspiring Leadership (BWIL - India Chapter)
• Full Accountability on Budget & Spending Control for events
• Responsible for group communications
• Moderating various Inclusion themed panel discussion
• Collaboration with SWE and other external technical affiliations

May 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Built and lead a team of over 60 IT Security Compliance, Ethical Hackers & Audit professionals to combat the growing need for secure application deployments and compliance to aviation regulation.
• Brought down cycle time of IT security compliance deliverables by 42% while leading a team of 60+ IT Professionals who excelled in Information Security & IT Business Continuity
• Responsible for building niche skill teams for Identity & Access Management provisioning & reconciliation
• Lead one of the largest IT teams to complete 5900+ deliverables for over 2000 applications in less than 6 months
• Established and streamlined methods & process to enable globally dispersed teams to function efficiently
• Leveraged the true potential of time-zones & deliver value while the business follows the sun model
• Setup Boeing Women Inspiring Leadership, India’s first business resource group in partnership with the Global Diversity & Inclusion organization

Jul 2016 – Apr 2017 · 9 mos

• Lead a team of Analysts, Developers and Operations personnel supporting fleet, flight, marketing, sales and digital aviation products.
• Pioneered offshoring efforts on critical statements of work
• Responsible for Materials Management Systems deployed to various airlines for expendable and rotable Parts on offer
• Responsible for application delivery & visual dashboards for material management teams
• Accountable for incident management operations on business critical applications
• Accountable for application support for business and operations applications

Jan 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Responsible for scaling up the abilities of a remote center to support multiple client projects while also performing business analysis of critical projects.
• Clientele: Vodacom in 4 African countries (subscriber provisioning and admin), Standard Bank, South Africa (mobile forms), Raptor - an In-house ERP solution (Altech ISIS)
• Hire and setup a team comprising of Developers, Testers, Database specialists and ETL experts
• Responsible for complete lifecycle on various projects being handled by the offshore team in collaboration with Onshore teams
• Controlled architecture and design and provided feature specification on the in house workflow management tool (Raptor) along with Requirement elicitation & solutions design
• Recommended multiple improvements on the ERP tool to meet CMMI level 3 compliance for project management processes

Nov 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Senior Development Engineer on a versatile subscriber provisioning and administration application for Vodacom Subscribers deployed across four counties in the African subcontinent.
• Responsible for project estimations, resource allocations and delivery of components adhering to Quality Standards
• Part of the team that designed and developed the new acquired project “FleetCall” in South Africa for Radio based telephony billing and management
• Responsible for development & successful deployment of Vodacom's Gifting engine for South Africa
• Responsible for requirements engineering on Raptor, an in-house ERP management tool
• Designed, developed and integrated the biometric access system into the workflow management tool for employee time tracking
• Mentored a team of engineers to design and develop applications and ensure on-time quality delivery

Sep 2007 – Nov 2012 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• Systems Engineering Team Lead coaching a team of business analysts for AT&T's service assurance application and trouble ticketing management system.
• Served as an offshore project coordinator for a cluster of operations support systems applications and lead tracking efforts on project deliverables
• Accountable for requirement elicitation and solutions design analysis leading a group of analysts supporting various applications
• Author requirement specifications for various projects created to support LTE, client specific VPN services and technologies like IPAG and PIVOT
• Responsible for curation of over 150 custom designed circuit diagnostic tests made available to field technicians
• Responsible for estimations and resource allocation to projects based on requirement
• Coach development teams and review work products including systems design, development artefacts and comprehensive testing deliverables
• Spearheaded initiatives on improving performance and fallout reduction of the application and introduced numerous early warning mechanisms
• Development on core java and I-log JRules and memory leak diagnostics