Jul 2025 – Oct 2025 · 3 mos · London, Ontario, Canada · Remote

• The role reports to the Chair, Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management (https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/lawrencecentre/)
• Evaluating impact of U.S. trade tariffs on Canada’s $100B+ automotive industry to identify new market opportunities, optimize client and product mix for auto suppliers, and draft strategic recommendations to safeguard industry competitiveness.
• Day-to-day roles:
• Operational workstreams: Create project presentation decks, provide weekly updates to the Chair, Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management (https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/lawrencecentre/), and monthly updates to the Dean, Ivey Business School, and to the Partner team at Business Development Bank of Canada (www.bdc.ca/en)
• Literature Review
• Market research
• Stakeholder management
• SME interviews

Apr 2025 – Jul 2025 · 3 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

Feb 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Reporting to the CEO and working in conjunction with the Board Members (https://csa.org.in/our-team-members)
• Led enterprise-wide technology transformation by developing and executing a multi-year tech strategy.
• Built the business case to decommission the legacy ERP and transition to a modern SaaS-based ERP platform, aligning with long-term business objectives.
• Directed end-to-end strategy including vendor evaluation and selection, product requirements documentation, and implementation partner management.
• Orchestrated a 3-year roadmap that drove data migration to Salesforce and integrated Tally to create a single source of truth for organizational financials.
• Day-to-day role included:
• Operational Workstream: Present weekly updates to the CEO and quarterly updates to the managing board, create presentation decks and meeting minutes, and drive collaboration across senior leadership.
• Project Management: Engaged with stakeholders across all business units to identify, refine, and finalize business requirements. Maintained and prioritized the project backlog, leading sprint releases, and collaborating with the engineering team to drive timely and efficient product development.
• User Acceptance & Testing: Designed and facilitated user testing processes, contributing to high adoption rates and seamless transition to new systems.
• Market Research of Payment Gateway: Conducted a comprehensive analysis of payment gateway providers and spearheaded the integration of a selected payment gateway, ensuring secure and efficient online transactions.
• API Development: Led the API integration of Salesforce with Tally ERP, overseeing the development of a custom API for Tally.
• Performance Tracking: Collaborated with a key business unit to define performance KPIs and subsequently led the design and project management of a Power BI dashboard to provide real-time insights.

May 2020 – Sep 2020 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked directly with the founders.
• Designed a data-driven customer rewards system, leveraging purchase behavior insights to enhance repeat purchases and engagement, ensuring alignment with the brand’s sustainability mission.
• Developed impact tracking frameworks to measure and report the company’s social and environmental contributions, enabling data-backed storytelling for stakeholders and impact-driven decision-making.
• Led onboarding sessions to integrate new hires into the company culture, while also building strategic partnerships with educational and research institutions to support long-term growth and innovation.

Apr 2019 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Reported to the CEO and worked in conjuncton with the C-suite of the organization.
• Led enterprise-wide program management for data collection, governance, and reporting, creating a single, transparent view of key KPIs across program, finance, and marketing teams to drive data-driven decision making and organizational alignment.
• Day-to-day role included:
• Operational Workstream: Present weekly updates to the CEO and the organization, create presentation decks and meeting minutes, and drive collaboration across senior leadership.
• Designed and managed ETL pipelines to enable real-time updates for fundraising analytics, integrating data from multiple sources to ensure 100% data accuracy. Developed Power BI dashboards for senior leadership, enhancing revenue tracking and decision-making, contributing to a 20% increase in fundraising performance.
• Led the project management and implementation of an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to streamline recruitment operations, define system requirements, and oversee end-to-end deployment.
• Project managed and executed a 23-city virtual recruitment drive, coordinating 300+ volunteers and 50 managers through a centralized digital platform, ensuring 100% recruitment targets were met while optimizing hiring processes for scalability.

Jul 2018 – Apr 2019 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Dec 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune Area, India

• Developed KPI dashboards using Power BI, integrating HR and payroll data for 200K+ employees, enhancing real-time performance tracking and operational visibility for senior leadership.
• Automated 10+ digital solutions, optimizing workflows and reducing manual effort, saving the client 100+ hours per month, while improving data query efficiency by 20% through optimized database schema design and indexing strategies.
• Collaborated with product owner to architect and implement cloud migration strategy for SaaS platform serving 200K+ users, ensuring zero downtime while optimizing system architecture for scalability and resilience.