Apr 2020 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs · India

Oct 2017 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Startup Mentor Investor at IIIT Hyderabad Seedfund Group and Hyderabad Angels network ;
• Working on Products in Emotional Intelligence and NLP/Image processing and AI ;
• Drive leadership sessions in these related topics to promote career growth and drive awareness.

Dec 2015 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• 90% of the reasons why a startup fails can be addressed if right amount of groundwork is done early on to validate the idea, check on the viability, to research on the real need in the market. Next step is to define your business model and the market strategy to establish your concept. Then Investor readiness is critical to procure external funding to scale and grow. If this is what you are looking for, Earlypad is the right place. We are here to enable , scale and help grow your startup from idea stage to a successful startup and make you a successful Entrepreneur.
• Earlypad is designed to encourage entrepreneurs, innovators and startups launch new businesses, enter new markets, commercialise breakthrough ideas. Also provide mentorship/advise to enable them to become investor ready!
• As a founder played a key role to enable all functions , build processes and setup systems for the firm rendering services for Entrepreneurs.

Apr 2006 – Jun 2014 · 8 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Program Manager driving strategy and leading large teams in partnership with business and support Industrial Solutions P&L by providing IT services for OTR and other Functions like Manufacturing, Finance, Quality, Sourcing functions. Strategic leader for applications simplification driving cost-out, resource re-alignment and road-map.
• Other Role(s) : Support Latin America IM team with OTR/ITO processes; Ombudsperson for hyderabad IT team for Industrial Solutions business; GE Womens Network HealthAhead co-leader for Hyderabad site of 600+ employees; Launched Communication and Public speaking Toastmasters club for IIC Hyd location.
• Programs Engaged :
• Drive Strategy and programs like SNet migration, MES-SAP gap analysis and Operations Manufacturing and supply chain applications.
• Manage people and projects/enhancements for the Industrial Manufacturing and Motors team
• Managed Consumer & Industrial SAP & Portals teams and Applications in SAP and J2EE technology
• Managed Siebel team in service delivery & drove SDLC processes. Streamlined project planning & resource activities
• Managed service delivery team for Siebel CoE supporting EIM, Siebel Admin & QA teams.

Jan 2005 – Mar 2006 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore, India

• Lead the hiring, processes and setup of off-shore / on-shore model across Bangalore, India and San Jose, US teams for key verticals of Cisco.com team. Enabled the new hire orientation and induction programs and explored cost effective partnerships with third party vendors on Support and QA activities.

Aug 2000 – Mar 2004 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Jose, California, USA

• Lead the team , designed and developed the Information Object repository model for Cisco.com auto website rendering engine for Cisco's external website. Evaluated various content management tools and applications. Lead the applications to track the business development business processes for the Executive Business Development teams in Cisco corporate department.

Aug 1998 – Jul 2000 · 1 yr 11 mos · Redwood shores, California , USA

• Worked on sales web portal for the North American Sales team. Designed and Developed Oracle Sales portal for sales force with personalised UI and preferences, with role based access to the Sales data. Solutions developed were incorporated into Oracle CRM. Lead and delivered media training solutions for Oracle Education in Java platforms.

Aug 1997 – Jul 1998 · 11 mos · San Ramon, California, USA

• Web design and development for KIOSK and web platforms. Did projects for Siemens and SAP in SF, Bay Area.