Mar 2023 – May 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Led TA for engineering (India) and GTM roles across APAC.
• Standardized recruiting tools and operational frameworks with automation and AI sourcing platforms.
• Implemented global campus hiring framework.

Apr 2018 – Mar 2023 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Scaled Engineering team from 30 to 600+ across India.
• Led GTM and country manager hiring in APJ.
• Established Pune delivery center and campus hiring across India.

Apr 2011 – Apr 2018 · 7 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• I led Talent Acquisition for all Center of Excellence’s for EMC ( India, China, Russia, Egypt, Israel, Ireland and Utah US)with the additional responsibilities of Campus Hiring, HR Operations and Global Mobility
• Key responsibilities include establishing and rolling out the recruiting strategy across multiple Business Units, employment branding, executive search, vendor management, recruiting operations, Implement Diversity, Branding, Automation and technology solutions, improving the recruiting, screening, interview, and selection processes. Innovate, disrupt and create new ways to reach the best global technical and business talent to support our company's growth and innovation for our customers. Hire and develop the best TA talent.
• My achievements in EMC are.
• Significantly contributed to 30% year on year growth of India COE, doubled the COE headcount from 3000 to 7000 in last 7 years.
• Key contributor in showcasing our ability to attract key technical talent to bring Product ownership to India
• Only one attrite in the FTE team for last three years
• Increased recruiter output by 30% with a reduced headcount of 20%.
• Achieved best in class recruitment metrics
•  93 %: Joining ratio through effective candidate engagement
•  37 %: Employee referrals through Amigo Employee referral project
•  Diversity hiring: focused campaign and hiring manager training resulted in increasing the gender diversity hiring from 24% to 30%
•  Doubled the number of employees with physical challenges year on year for last three years
•  Managed HR Operations without any major observations from Audit compliance checks
•  Streamlined Global Mobility process to ensure smooth movement of Indian talent across the globe. Processed nearly 500 Work and Business Visa in 2015
• Initiated a unique innovation, the development of Amigo, worlds first enterprise smart mobile app tied to social media that allows EMC employees to connect their employee referrals

Jul 2005 – Apr 2011 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• I was responsible for Talent Acquisition for Symphony Services recruitment operations across India, handling a team of 22 team members in two locations (Bangalore and Pune).
• My achievements in Symphony Services were
• Defined and documented the recruitment process with checks and balances
• Recruited candidates for PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT requirements in Telecom / Storage / Financial / Systems / CRM / BI / Embedded domains
• Reduced the fulfillment time by 30%
• Reduced the hiring cost by 25%
• Generated revenue gain of nearly 3 million dollars due to early fulfillment of requirements against SLA
• Instrumental in key sales wins by highlighting our Talent Acquisition capabilities.
• Automated recruitment process through a workflow based web tool.
• Instrumental in setting up China development center, by recruiting 30 candidates in a span of two months.
• Received the Chairman’s award within six months of joining the company.
• I had taken the additional responsibility of managing the unbilled resources in the company Achievements :
• Reduced the unbilled employees from 13% to 6%
• Re skilled and made nearly 400 unbilled employees billable
• Replaced 13 senior practice line heads for resource management with the existing talent acquisition team

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• I was responsible for recruitment operations across India, handling a team of around 80 recruiters in four locations (Bangalore, Pune, Gurgaon and Kolkatta). I am also responsible for WorkForce Management (WFM) process definition, roll out and adherence. I represent WFM in process audits and Business Controls meetings.
• My achievements in IBM were
• First WFM team member in IBM India to be a Certified Manager – Basic Blue Certified
• Redesigned and streamlined WFM processes to achieve volume recruitments. These to be replicated in other countries like China.
• Introduced Business Control points in processes to reduce risks (Reference Checks and mandatory documents)
• Turned around “Unsatisfactory” process to a “Satisfactory” process with six months.
• Operationally handling the recruitment engine to process at least 6000 interviews a month and make more than 1000 offer a month.
• Streamlined the recruitment automation process.
• Successfully transitioned all WFM processes to BTO – HR and defined SLAs which are tracked and reviewed monthly

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr · Greater Chennai Area

• I was responsible for fulfillment of all resource requirements across business units in India. I was part of Corporate HR coordinating and guiding the Unit HR teams to attract quality talent.
• My achievements in Polaris are:
• Reduced the cost of hire by 50%
• Reduced the dependency on Staffing Partners
• Reduced the fulfillment time of resources
• Created a new recruitment process
• Promoted collaboration between recruitment teams across region and business units.
• Conducted the first ever recruitment workshop at Polaris
• Was instrumental in fulfilling rare skill recruitment
• Head hunted senior talent from Premier companies
• Introduced online tests for entry level programmers
• Implemented PeopleSoft HR for recruitment processes
• Introduced a redeployment policy for resource management

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs · Hyderabad, Chennai, India

• I was responsible for planning, directing and coordinating operational aspects of the Indian operations. This includes the development of long and short-range plans, programs, policies, operating procedures, budgets and objectives relating to production and human resources. I directly reported to the CEO in US. I took care of the day-to-day activities of Swift Response (P) Ltd, Chennai and Hyderabad branches.
• Responsibilities include monitoring & managing bottom-line profitability; developing & directing operational & system plans based on company needs; & interfacing with sales/project team to assist in procuring new business & renewing existing client relationships
• Achievements:
• Starting at 20-seat eCRM call center grew the company in India to 150+-seat center with a branch in Chennai and Hyderabad.
• Was solely responsible of setting up the voice based call center branch in Cyber Towers, HiTec City, Hyderabad in a short duration of two months.
• Was responsible for interacting, dealing and getting necessary clearances with all government agencies like Ministry of Telecommunication, Software Technology Parks of India and Customs
• Was a single point of contact for US office for the fulfillment offshore projects both in Chennai and Hyderabad.
• Involved in acquiring new clients and interacting on a regular basis with existing client for
• Fulfillment of projects
• Part of the sales team for new projects, has traveled to US to do Sales presentation as well as entertained clients in Hyderabad and Chennai highlighting our core competencies.
• Recruited all resources required for setting up the office in Hyderabad without any help from external agencies.
• Maintained a very low attrition rate of less than 5% in the company when the industry average was 30%.
• Structured and formulated all employee policies and processes.
• Initiated ISO processes

Jan 1997 – Jan 2001 · 4 yrs · Hyderabad, Chennai India

• Designation: Director – Operations
• Was responsible for resource fulfillment and resource management. Was the single point of contact for all global resource requirements.
• Was responsible for Indian resource allocations to different projects globally and meeting these requirements in time, by not only recruiting the best of the talents available in the market but also making sure they are available at the required destination in time.
• Was responsible for recruitment and operations/logistics for all three centers Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai
• Was responsible for starting and staffing all the requirements from Delivery Heads to programmers in all the three centers.
• Was responsible to retrain the bench employees for future requirements.
• Single point of contact for all Indian resource requirements for our offices in Australia, New Zealand, UK and US
• Was responsible for Recuitment of ERP professionals in SAP, Baan, PeopleSoft, Oracle Apps and Internet Technologies.
• Was responsible for Operational activities like resource allocations to different project and countries.
• Single point of contact for all Indian resource requirements for our offices in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, UK and US
• Headed the offshore practice of PeopleSoft with 30 consultants
• Achievements:
• Was responsible to grow the company from 15 resources to 650 resources in one and half years and set up two branches in Chennai and Bangalore.
• Was involved in the branding of Seranova as a company.
• Was part of senior management in devising all processes and policies of the company after it was demerged from Intelligroup.
• Was responsible for Resource management and had achieved a very low attrition rate of less than 10%.
• Met the entire resource requirement in a very competitive Internet resource market.

Jan 1991 – Jan 1997 · 6 yrs · Muscat, Dubai

• I worked as Contracts Engineer with duties ranging from pricing of Tenders, floating sub contract enquiries, preparing sub contract documents, preparation of monthly progress bills, and cost justification of additional works. The above period of employment included a 19- month deputation to company’s associate firm M/s Indeset Trading and Decoration Services LLC, Dubai. At Dubai in addition to the duties performed as Contracts engineer, I was the Project Coordinator for two prestigious projects – Interior decorations of Dubai City Hall and Interior decoration of Chicago Beach Hotel.
• Some of the projects I handled are:
• Dubai City Hall, Dubai: Interior decoration of the City Hall Project Value: USD 0.5 million
• Royal Guest Villa, Salalah, Oman: Interior decoration of Royal Guest Villas Project Value: USD 5 million
• Diwan Offices, Muscat, Oman: Interior decoration of Government offices Project Value: USD 0.5 million