May 2018 – Apr 2019 · 11 mos · Bangalore

• I have recently joined BITSAA as a Volunteer as a part of their Operations Team.

Apr 2016 – May 2016 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Induction in Leh Ladakh
• Trekked for 6 days & interacted with different stakeholders to study the potential of Adventure Tourism as a business for Mahindra Group
• Attempted the highest trekkable peak in India – Stok Kangri @ 21000ft & crossed the base camp successfully @ 18700ft above sea level

Sep 2015 – Oct 2015 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• Project Scope: Analysis of online SCV aggregators in India and benchmarking with Smart Shift-startup by Mahindra
• Conducted an extensive primary research surveying 35 load takers(drivers) and 50 load givers(merchants) across Mumbai
• Analyzed the CVP of various competitors, studied gaps and identified the best practices used across the SCV aggregator industry
• Performed SWOT Analysis of SS business model & made strategic recommendations with respect to operations, IT and revenue model

Apr 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Core member of the leadership team that laid the foundation of the startup funded by Mahindra Group.
• Built b2c product line from ground up, from laying down the product strategy, to delivering 6 products end to end from concept to impact
• Modelled the database & enabled seamless migration of data warehouse from Google DS to Big Query for Analytics & geospatial visualization
• Re-designed & made bidding options transparent which led to a spike in the acceptance rate (40% to 70%) & ARPU by 75% in 2 months
• Identified, ideated and implemented a new business model of hourly rental bookings leading to a 5% spike in bookings within a month
• Redesigned the flow & UX of customer app: drove 30% App bookings to 85%; 15K downloads to 50K, 3.3 to 4 rating on PS in 5 months
• Unified different personas on Transporter app, defined use cases & designed wireframes for onboarding, payment ledger & CRM program
• Defined business flow, wireframes & use cases to enable PayTM wallet integration on customer app.
• Designed Cockpit view using Google Firebase for the operations team to view demand(jobs) & supply(vehicles) in real-time dashboard
• Designed the Call Centre & dispatch team dashboards for manual assignment of jobs to drivers thereby increasing their efficiency by 66%
• Implemented critical algorithms for pulsing & assignment, pricing, coupon mgmt and end-to-end logic for payment integration with SAP
• Integrated PayTM wallet on the customer app for digital payments: defined business flow & use cases for seamless user experience
• Unified different personas on Transporter app, defined use cases & designed wireframes for onboarding, payment ledger & CRM program
• Validated and implemented a unique concept of IVR to enable and automate drivers using feature phones, scaling the supply by 300%
• Product Owner of the Agile Scrum Team
• o Build, maintain & prioritize product backlog to maximize value of what’s delivered & align it with overall product vision & road map

Feb 2015 – Mar 2015 · 1 mo · APF in MoU with CSR,Bhilai Steel Plant,Bhilai

• Project Scope: Study of mid-day meal scheme under CSR of BSP with Akshaya Patra Foundation and suggest measures for improvement
• Conducted an extensive primary research involving students & teachers of 30+ govt. schools in villages & towns of Durg & Raipur
• Suggested & executed sustainable plans to bring a change in attitude of students to fulfill the objectives of govt.’s Mid-day meal Scheme

Jul 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

• Work related to design and verification on FPGAs.
• Conceptualized and designed a simulator chip worth $500 for testing to replace $20000 optical sensors reducing the cost by 40 times
• o Spearheaded a 3 member team in working for a successful verification of the design
• Designed a Security feature for network system which entered top 150 products by Federal Bookings and deployed by U.S Defence
• o Guided the Consultants from vendors in integrating the Secured Card into the System and enabled them in software coding.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams in Italy & USA and liaised with the Software Teams for debugging & hardware integration.
• Ideated a process training tutorial to eliminate dependency of Consultants on HW Eng. reducing the rampup time by 20%.
• Promoted within 20 months well ahead of division norm of 3 years for showing flexibility in taking up multiple job roles

Jul 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

• Core Member of Early Career Networks, an Employee Resource Org to connect and guide 1000+ millennial and New Hires at Cisco
• o Assisted HR in Talent Management and Mentoring initiatives & organized events like Buddy programme for 200+ employees.
• o Led the ECN Team in collaboration with HR in organizing Career Coaching and Speed Mentoring sessions on Cisco Career Day,2013.
• o Planned and successfully executed the Group Role Play event, as part of Hobnob, a graduation event for ~400+ New College Hires, bringing together Cisco leaders and NCHs into a breakout session ; Widely appreciated by the Senior Leaders & Managers
• o Member of Video Making Team in collaboration with HR to promote Cisco as a brand amongst the universities and promoting their amazing work culture.

May 2012 – Jun 2012 · 1 mo · Noida Area, India

• Analyzed and solved Cadence Change Requests (customer queries) related to Clock Gating on RC Tool(issues in the Tool) used for Design Synthesis by VLSI companies like TI, Intel, etc.
• Interacted with clients like Texas Instruments, Broadcom to debug internal errors and enhance the quality of RC Tool.

Jan 2012 – May 2012 · 4 mos · Pilani

• Volunteered for Placement Division, BITS-Pilani.
• Activities include consolidating relationship with the companies visiting the campus year after year and cracking new accounts, pitching for new companies.

Jul 2011 – Dec 2011 · 5 mos · Bangalore

• Porting of Linux and Android on TI platform OMAP3-OMAP4 to play Adobe Flash and Multimedia content on these platforms and compare the performance in terms of fps for internal evaluation as well as to demo the Flash/Multimedia playback capability to the customers for India DLP Education Projector.
• Facilitated the Sales & Marketing Team in USA in stressful times in the absence of my Team Mentor, leading to a successful presentation of the product abroad. Received a letter of appreciation from Director, DLP and Senior Program Manager.

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Bhilai Area, India

• Project Title: "Upgradation of Server Infrastrucure and the role of Cisco NAC Appliance"
• Conceptualized & prepared an introductory guide for the INCOS department to be used as a future Reference Manual.
• Received a Letter of Appreciation from the AGM, INCOS for the invaluable contribution made for the department.

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Goa

• Designed “Leave Management Work Flow Application” to reduce dependency on approvals at numerous stages.
• Drafted the basic outline to be implemented online and worked on SQL and HTML to create the Leave application
• Guided the webmaster at every stage to implement the project successfully and received a Letter of appreciation from the HOD