Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

May 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

Jan 2016 – Apr 2020 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

• Lead business innovation projects, internal & external ventures, taking hands-on coaching responsibility following design thinking, lean start-up principles, engaging experts and leveraging rapid prototyping capabilities to develop first of a kind digital healthcare propositions.
• Drive Innovation & Strategy workshops with business leaders, customers and R&D units to identify new business opportunities for both internal & external collaborations.
• Manage the startup accelerator program in India to develop breakthrough innovations leveraging ecosystem partnerships eg: Industry bodies, accelerators, venture platforms.
• Curate and mentor the cohort of external Healthtech startups helping them reach their milestones and grow to full potential by identifying collaboration opportunities with Philips businesses & customers globally. 3 cohorts successfully completed
• Lead global healthcare innovation projects from early concept to MVP. 7 propositions successfully incubated and transferred to respective business roadmaps.
• Develop business models, business case and technical feasibility report for new Healthcare business opportunities.
• Product owner and lead for best-in-class rapid prototyping team to deliver 15+ breakthrough prototypes (leveraging IoT, cloud, mobile, AI, AR/VR, Blockchain) from concept, design & development to pilot launch.

Sep 2013 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• Led the internal incubation environment in India focusing on digital healthcare propositions for the emerging markets (India, China, Africa) across different Philips businesses.
• Instrumental in the setup of Digital Accelerator program, an internal new business incubation program, in Bangalore to facilitate businesses to innovate via information technology and accelerate new healthcare propositions to market.
• Managed cross-functional, multi-disciplinary teams comprising of business, marketers, technologists, designers and customers to execute digital innovation projects.
• Managed the operations of the Digital Accelerator program in Bangalore. 10+ propositions incubated and transferred to business.

Oct 2011 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Led the Functional Application Management (FAM) team of (20+) business analysts and engineers to provide support services for business critical applications in HR, Finance, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting domain.
• Develop the competency and capacity of the Off-Shore FAM Center anticipating the future demands of the global FAM team.
• Implemented a phased resource optimization plan for the team across 9 services to provide 20% cost savings to Philips.
• Managed a team of 12 software engineers in Microsoft competence group to maintain business critical applications in HR, finance, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting sectors. Followed Agile Scrum as the software development methodology.

Jul 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Led a team of 5 software developers in developing next generation organ transplant & clinical data management application using SOA principles and agile software methodologies for MSA's, a market leader in information management specializing in data management and business analytics, life sciences division. Responsible for integrating widely disparate legacy applications supported on different platforms through interoperable services.
• Assisted in defining product vision and creating product roadmap in collaboration with management team.
• Established Agile project management methodologies such as scrum. Ran daily stand-ups and bi-weekly sprint meetings. Utilized MS Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 framework to aid the scrum process.
• Identified project deliverables, created work breakdowns and estimated work efforts. Employed MS Solutions Framework for Agile Software Development process template to define and assign work items to team members and track work progress.
• Implemented release and change management procedures by managing software defects, issues, risks, software change requests and identifying release cycles utilizing MS Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Managed test plans through MS TFS and assisted the QA team with defining regression and stress test suites. Improved code modularity, introduced unit-testing utilizing VS Unit Testing framework and integrated with Team Foundation Server (TFS).

Feb 2007 – Jul 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Led a cross functional team of 7 comprising of business users, vendors and software engineers to implement a Merchandise Planning and Allocation application for AEO, Inc, a $3 billion global apparel and accessories retailer with 1000+ stores worldwide, to analyze seasonal location and merchandise plans, size profiles and generate store allocation targets.
• Acted as a strategic business partner to non-technical business users and liaison with them to propose solutions and enhancements.
• Responsible for integrating SAS assortment plan and store clustering modules with merchandise allocation application.
• Developed BI dashboards to report on key metrics such as sell thru, gross margin, days of supply, same store sales by store and store groups. Responsible for the overall modeling of the data mart.
• Streamlined the size-profile generation process, reduced the data delivery, and processing times from a week to a day.
• The allocation application decreased the response time in peak season by 20% through efficient allocation processes and helped attain annual turn goals through effective inventory management.

Mar 2006 – Feb 2007 · 11 mos · Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Responsible for requirements gathering, design (UI and architecture), development, documentation and deployment of web and data-warehousing applications for First-Tek clients in Telecom and Printing industry.
• Responsible for requirements gathering, design (UI and architecture), development, documentation and deployment of a sales commission application for Corr Wireless Communications to support the payment of sales commissions and the decision support analysis function of corporate management and sales staff. Improved the accuracy of sales commission handed to Corr wireless’ store employees by 25%.
• Responsible for the overall application design and development of a Version Control System for NCP’s workflow application to enable re-printing jobs with the accurate version of print resources. Improved the efficiency of NCP solution’s re-print process and reduced printing errors by 20%.

Jan 2004 – Mar 2006 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Montgomery, Alabama Area

• Led a team to develop a System Maintenance dashboard to monitor, configure, troubleshoot and report on electronic toll collection systems.
• Maintained project schedule using MS Project, tracked key milestones and reported project status to management.
• Analyzed system specifications, translated them to a well documented design and designated tasks to team members.
• Developed coding standards and conducted code reviews to verify code compliance and functionalities.
• Designed and developed an embedded application to facilitate electronic toll collection in unmanned high-speed lanes using RFID technology. Improved vehicle identification and classification efficiencies to 95%. Minimized read/write errors to toll tags by 40%.

May 2003 – Dec 2003 · 7 mos

• Developed a VC++ windows application to facilitate electronic toll collection in unmanned high speed lanes using RFID technology

Aug 2000 – Apr 2003 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Clemson, South Carolina