Jul 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

• + End to End Digital & offline Marketing operations for brands Forge, ProtoSem, and Vedanta Spark
• + Design & Execution of Vedanta's Corporate Accelerator program (Vedanta Spark) from Challenge Curation at client's end to screening, evaluating, and matchmaking of industrial technology solutions for the identified problems (www.vedantaspark.com)

Jun 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr

• Involved majorly in the Forge iDEX Accelerator program - ‘FORGE4Fauj’ to promote and enable Defense Open Innovation, performing
• + Project Management for 11 SPARK Grant recipient startups (INR 1.5Cr each) for Defense India Startup Challenges 1 & 2, Ministry of Defense, Govt. of India (idex.gov.in) to deliver Defense-grade prototypes for the military
• + Creating first-of-a kind Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the appraisal & assessment of Defense & Aerospace startups for Grant management - in line to be implemented for the 150 Cr Defence Innovation Fund of the country
• + Timelines & Milestones Management for Product development, testing, delivery and Integration
• + Budgets, Work breakdown, Cost revisions etc for both Software and Hardware products
• + Startup coordination & extensive Stakeholder Management
• + Database, Ecosystem building & Promotion
• + Marketing & Events
• Designed, ideated and developed 'Innovation Exchange and Solutions Registry', a digital platform promoting Open Innovation between startups and 100 Smart City CEOs for Smart Cities Mission, Govt. of India
• Mentoring for Early-stage innovators in Lean and Agile Innovation methods to deliver MUPs (Minimum Usable Prototypes)
• Implementation of the strategic tools & techniques to test & validate prototypes/business viability of startups staging for Pilots and investments
• Program Management for Corporate Open Innovation initiatives like Hackware (Schneider Electric, India) and HackArena (AstraZeneca, UK)

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos

• Learnt, Practised and Mastered the various Strategic Tools and Techniques involved in Managing the Process of Accelerating Innovative (tech-enabled) Ideas into Commercially Viable Products and Investment-ready startups, through hands-on implementation in 15 such Product Innovations spanning across several technologies including IoT, AI/ML, Big data analytics & Robotics housed within Forge.

Jul 2018 – Dec 2018 · 5 mos

• ProtoSem, a full semester first-of-its-kind program offered as a comprehensive skills and competency development program that embeds 'an innovation centered approach' to design, develop, and test solutions to solve real-world problems by expert training & mentoring on creative technologies.
• + Worked on an Intelligent Swarm Drone system equipped with the ability to transfer accurate data about the affected region to the ground station thereby catering to Disaster Management and Immediate Response operations to aid in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) missions
• + Played an instrumental role in the construction of a Semi-automated, retrofittable Mat cutting & Trimming system to reduce the dependency on manual-labor from 4 to 1 and to increase the productivity by at least 50%

May 2016 – Sep 2016 · 4 mos · Bangalore, India

• Worked on Solar cell efficiency enhancement and energy storage for a period of four months at the Instrumentation and Applied Physics Department under Dr. T.K.Mondal (Principal Research Scientist) in IISc.