Sep 2022 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Apr 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

Jul 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

Sep 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Apr 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

• I have taken up the additional responsibility to support APAC Services business along with Microsoft Research & Services Global Delivery in India.
• Establish HR engagement model with APAC Services team with major presence in Singapore, Australia & New Zealand, China, Japan & Korea
• Focus on coaching diverse set of leaders across various cultures / countries.
• Engage with leaders to drive overall effectiveness of the team
• Help leaders land an effective people plan for the organization
• Support change management practices / programs
• Ensure right culture through diversity & Inclusion and Performance management

Apr 2016 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr

• I have taken additional responsibility of supporting Research India Lab along with Services Global Delivery during this period
• Microsoft Research Lab in India is one of the few research labs that Microsoft has across US, UK, Chine & India. Aim is to build a strong research community focusing on cutting edge/ path breaking technology for Microsoft
• Strengthening the current fellow research programs to infuse more research talent into the organization (Research fellow & PostDoc programs)
• Be creative in building D&I pipe to increase overall women representation in research organization
• Drive creative / innovative programs to build inclusive organization (theatre based programs)
• Creating a performance differentiation culture through our performance development framework

Jun 2012 – Apr 2016 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Responsible for driving people agenda for Infrastructure Practice for Service Global Delivery business across multiple regions - India, Middle East, South Africa and Eastern Europe. Responsible for designing and executing talent strategy for the organization.
• Played a key role in establishing Consulting business ( GD ) in South Africa and Middle east. Helped the organization to manage change through effective change management strategies and practices.
• Rolled out new performance and management model at Microsoft with no rating and performance curve. Implemented this revolutionary model across India and EMEA businesses.
• Instrumental in building management capability across business teams both by participating in talent acquisition and development.
• Rolled out talent development programs - "Building Future Leaders" and "Technical Leadership and Development Program" - to build business and technical leadership capabilities across services businesses. Ran this program for 2 consecutive years that yielded into strong talent pipe for leadership roles.
• Focused on strengthening culture in the organization through various org diagnostic approach and tools like MBTI / Johari Window etc.
• Coached leaders to drive the overall effectiveness through HR consulting and application of tools like Hogan Leadership tool and intervention.
• Effectively rolled out an onboarding program - streamlining process / automation - to increase new joiners success in the organization.
• Built an effective "Diversity and Inclusion" charter for the organization through effective design and implementation of various D&I initiatives.
• Worked on employee engagement and retention initiatives across the practices that yielded into higher retention and engagement.

Nov 2005 – Jun 2012 · 6 yrs 7 mos

• Responsible for talent acquisition of industry hires for Global Technical Support (GTSC)business in Bangalore, India. Managed planning and execution of staffing strategy for different technology clusters within IGTSC.
• Contributed to a successful hiring of ~400 professionals in GTSC
• Institutionalized staffing process and KPI driven focus across Time to Hire, Cost Per Hire, Employee and manager satisfaction, Sourcing Mix, Market intelligence etc
• Built assessment capability across hiring managers by introducing "Behavioral Assessment methodology" through STAR ( Situation, Task, Action and Results ) framework.
• Supported business in technical assessment framework to drive consistency in assessing top talent.
• Rolled out an automated Employee Referral program that streamlined processes and enable better employee and candidate experience.
• Built market intelligence for key skills for support business.
• Responsible for program managing MS engagement and hiring from top technical campuses for our Engineering, IT, Sales, Marketing and Services businesses in India.
• Accountable for execution of hiring through strong internal processes
• Responsible off-campus hiring
• Responsible for driving relationship with premier campuses across Microsoft India (IITs, NIT, etc)

Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 · 3 yrs · Bagnalore

• Performed variety of complex, responsible and confidential HR & duties requiring thorough knowledge of organizational procedures. Worked independently, exercising judgment and initiative.
• Joining formalities & Induction of New Hires
• Managing Payroll
• Updating the Human Resource Information System (HRIS)
• Managing employee moral events
• Maintaining leave & attendance
• All HR related confidential documentation
• Training needs & identification, skills updating, schedule training