Apr 2024 – Sep 2024 · 5 mos

• Strategic Partnership & Business Development of Life sciences, Healthcare, Cosmetics, Nutraceuticals,...

Jul 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Data Analytics platform for Pharmaceuticals, Life sciences and Cosmetics

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India · Hybrid

• To drive the DeepTech Foundation’s mission of fostering innovation and technological growth.
• Vision is to empower India's youth with cutting-edge skills and knowledge, bridging the gap between academia and industry, and fostering a nation of skilled professionals poised to lead in the global economy
• Mission of the foundation:
•  To serve as a catalyst for change by identifying and addressing skill gaps in emerging technologies.
•  Naipunya will advocate for policy initiatives and undertake strategic actions to enhance the availability of skilled talent in India.
•  To nurture partnerships between educational institutions and the corporate sector, fostering innovation, and empowering the youth to excel in a rapidly evolving world.

Jul 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · India · Hybrid

• Predictive data Analytics for Industry 4.0 and Defence. This company is the Engineering arm of the parent company. As Datafoundry focusses on Healthcare- MedTech, Pharma & Lifesciences, JAITRA focusses on Defence (Navy, Airforce, Army) and Industry 4.0

Nov 2020 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

• Provide visionary leadership for start-ups in Medtech / BioTech sectors for product realisation to a larger market to meet strategic business goals together
• Working with key stakeholders to identify markets, private equity partners, develop strategic products for high volume OEM sales and cash flows.
• Execute high impact commercial initiatives by setting up strategic med-tech infrastructure for pre-market approvals.
• Passionately communicate to the board of directors, the strategic deliberations on market trends, customer needs and make requests to deploy the appropriate resources to maximise commercial success
• Key achievements
• On boarded and nurtured 40+ start-ups by developing strong relationships with governments, healthcare policy makers and national healthcare strategist
• Promoted over 12 start-up products to full scale manufacturing providing market access and venture capital or equity support through financial institutions
• Restructured the organisation and increased the productivity by 81%. Grew staff strength by 200% and Increased company revenue by 250% within 20 months period.
• Secured large volume orders for the onboarded start-ups by providing market access and increased their market share and profitability.

Sep 2020 – Nov 2020 · 2 mos · Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India · On-site

Feb 2017 – Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Execution of smaller and larger technical demanding OEM laser projects.
• Handle longer relationships with the OEM customer
• Ensuring top-motivated and performing project teams
• Responsible for obtaining the optimal system design concept.
• Contributing to the bid process including preparation of proposals, estimation of resources, budget and project schedule.
• PRINCE2® Practitioner in Project Management

Mar 2016 – Feb 2017 · 11 mos

• Fianium is now acquired by NKT
• To assist, to improve the reliability of laser systems through all product line. Key internal contact for fault assessment and diagnosis.

Jan 2014 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Southampton, United Kingdom

• To improve the reliability of laser systems through all product line. Key internal contact for fault
• assessment and diagnosis.
• Assist the remote support sessions led by the support team
• Collect and review the non-conformance database within the production line, R&D and
• procurement team
• Formulate inspection checklist that confirms high quality standards
• Present the key issues and corrective actions to the top management every week
• Assist R &D by Conducting life / Environmental tests and establish the operational range of the systems.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · Southampton, United Kingdom

• Optical Laser Engineer interfacing the development and Engineering team facilitating the transfer to production.
• Conducted reliability experiments before implementing any production variations made by
• optical or mechanical design team.
• Responsible for the production hand-over of R&D success products.
• Fully trained for the prototype build / characterization of High energy femto sec Laser systems.
• Wrote build procedures and imparted training for the production technicians for new products
• and products that involve design variations.
• Liaise with different teams and make presentation before formalizing production variations.
• Created optical jigs and fixtures that ensures work piece interchange-ability
• Assist production managers with clean and up-to-date bill of materials (BOMs)

Jan 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos · Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Optical assembly and test of pico-second lasers based on Fibre platform including optic/laser alignment, fault diagnosis; result monitoring and analysis.
• Fully trained for cleanroom build of Class IV lasers which enables a new range of high precision applications such as silicon machining, wafer dicing, solar cell manufacturing and glass scribing.
• Expertised in characterizing the beam power and beam mode to enable minimized heat affected zone for high precision micromachining.
• Fluency in optical design software 'Python' for lens selection and beam collimation.
• Laser calibration using sophisticated optical techniques and electronic control.
• Authorised to carry out repair assessments and trouble shoot on field return systems.
• Approved Quality control Engineer for class IV builds.
• Fluency in defect reports and Agile database systems
• Improved laser build documentation and fault tree diagnostic procedure.

Mar 2007 – Nov 2007 · 8 mos · Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Skilfully utilized Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) microscopy study for analysing the constituents of incomplete combustion.
• Developing image processing algorithms for comparing the combustion efficiency of the carbon fuel
• Sampling the experiment chamber for performing chemical analysis of the products of combustion
• Offered day to day support to the engineering team, coordinating design and experiments

Mar 2006 – Dec 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Operating advanced lasers such as CW solid state lasers, light sources and other optics devices (monochromator, gratings, optical microscopes)
• Offered training in Laser operations, devices handling, software programming and basic laboratory practices.
• Analysis and interpretation of the results before and after plasma, Co2 and N2 laser treatments to estimate the % Bacterial killing (D values)
• Establishing clean room protocols for performing experiments in a safe environment
• Designing control and time course experiments for the air purification treatments
• Co-ordination of the release of technical documentation to and from the project team

Oct 2003 – Dec 2008 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Wrote signal processing algorithm to extract meaningful information from a single TV line of laser speckle
• Programmed with image processing tools, MATLAB and AstroART for the protozoan detection and decontamination treatments.
• Designed and programmed digital filters for extracting critical information from the images of microorganism under different microscopy systems
• Implemented a customized laser dark field microscopy system for the study of Euglena gracilis culture.
• Wrote comprehensive reports for professional journal and conference publications.
• Presented papers at departmental colloquiums.

Jul 2002 – Sep 2003 · 1 yr 2 mos · Coimbatore Area, India

• Accelerated the financial turnover by 9% by implementing a new die system that embosses customer logo in the product.
• Co-ordinated improvements in the product shelf life, dehydration capacity thereby achieving improvements in the overall product quality.
• Majored in product promotion and exhibited at major trade shows.
• Establish clear communication lines within the line workers to ensure that they are fully informed of the client specifications.
• Responsibility for management of subcontractors

May 2002 – Jun 2002 · 1 mo

Mar 2001 – Jun 2001 · 3 mos

May 2000 – May 2000 · 0 mo

Apr 2000 – Apr 2000 · 0 mo

Jun 1999 – Feb 2001 · 1 yr 8 mos