Aug 2019 – Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• I lead technology strategy and business operations charter of continuously driving organizational effectiveness. Specifically, it includes key strategic programs: Overall Long-term IDC Strategy, Business Operations; Enterprise Agile Transformation; Horizontal Technical Initiatives such as Patent Program, Leverage and Tech Excellence; Technical Learning and Enablement, Internal Innovation Program and Startup Ecosystem Engagement; Technical Program Management; and Associate Engagement Events.
• In addition, I am also Chief of Staff to India leadership team.

Dec 2018 – Jul 2019 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• NerdWallet, Inc. builds online tools that provide information, insights, and consumer-driven advices about personal finance to consumers and help consumers to navigate and get clarity about their personal finance decisions in the areas of credit card, banking, mortgage, insurance, loan, investing, small business, healthcare, education, and shopping aspects. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.
• I joined to setup India operations from scratch, but had a short stint as NerdWallet decided to shut down Indian operations by July, 2019 due to other business priorities.

Jul 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Chinasoft is the largest and the leading Chinese IT/ITES provider employing over 60,000+ employees and clocking over US$ 1.7 Billion (2019) in annual revenues.
• I established ChinaSoft India from scratch as its first employee and country leader, and built a 250+ strong world-class team in telecom domain to develop a global delivery and innovation-led practice, and a healthy, profitable (P/L) and sustainable organization. My key role was to establish Indian company group-up and establish organisational, technical, and delivery processes and setup teams for smooth governance and operations. In addition, I was also involved in business development in Indian and MENA markets.
• Chinasoft is the largest IT services company based out of China, and was founded in 2000, and is listed at the Hong Kong stock exchange. It offers technical and professional services (including strategic consulting, software platform, data analysis, product engineering and application development and management) and solutions (including telecom, finance, internet and hi-tech, and public utilities and other industries).

Oct 2014 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Thought Leadership is a premier knowledge and learning based consulting, and offers bespoke coaching and interdisciplinary consulting in strategy, agility, innovation and leadership.
• Since starting up in Oct 2014, we have been engaged in several challenging and interesting assignments, some of them being:
• Leading enterprise-wide agile transformation,
• Trained over 5000+ professionals on agile, scrum, lean, kanban, human-centered design, innovation, design thinking, creativity, leadership, etc.
• Trained over 500+ managers and leaders on agile mindset.
• Coached 150+ senior leaders on agile culture and leadership
• Mentored over 100+ startups and entrepreneurs across the globe
• Coached 40+ product owners
• Coached leadership team on mentoring startups
• Consulted on designing agile appraisal systems
• We have delivered our work at leading companies including [24]7 Innovation Labs, ADP, Avaya, BNY Mellon / iNautix, Citrix, Fidelity, Flipkart, Honeywell, Huawei, Intel, McKinsey, Oracle, Samsung, Schneider, SkyHigh, Societe Generale, Synerzip, Tata Communications, TCS, Walmart, WinShuttle, and Yahoo!, among others.
• Accelerators (Google Launchpad, NUMA, SAP Startup Studio, Tata Communications, Societe Generale, IIT Kharagpur, IIM Udaipur, Deshpande Foundation, HULT Prize India, etc.),
• Corporates (Philips, GE, HP, McKinsey, Cisco, KPMG, Logica, Intuit, Stryker, Infosys, Cerner, KLA-Tencor, Amdocs, Veritas, etc.)
• Industry forums (NASSCOM Product Conclave, CII, Zinnov, Product Tank, etc.),
• Conferences (Agile India, Global Scrum Gathering, PMI, PDMA, etc.)
• Academic institutions (UCLA PGPX, Institute of Product Leadership, UpGrad, SIBM, St. Joseph's College of Business Administration).
• The complete list is available at http://managewell.net/?page_id=2.
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May 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• At [24]7, I was responsible for designing and deploying organization-wide end-to-end execution framework to deliver highest value to our customers. I led the global agile transformation strategy across the organization, and I coached leaders and trained teams into adopting effective agile practices.
• Between Oct '13 and Jun '14, I was additionally responsible for HR functions for Innovation Labs as the VP of HR for Innovation Labs.

Nov 2009 – May 2013 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I managed Strategic Programs and Strategic Change Initiatives, Outsourced Product Development (OPD) and Business Operations at Yahoo! India R&D which includes center-wide strategic programs, horizontal change initiatives, Enterprise-wise Agile Transformation Program, Business Excellence, Corporate PMO, Tech PMO, IP Program and the G&A groups.
• As head of OPD, I was responsible to define strategic vision of Yahoo!'s OPD, identify vendors who can execute to that vision, and manage those engagements for long-term.

Oct 2004 – Oct 2009 · 5 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Responsible for managing NetScout's Bangalore engineering team from Nov 2007. This team was earlier part of Network Associates (until Sep 2004) and then Network General (from Oct 2004 until Oct 2007). I have been with this team since Oct 2003, and have played various roles in engineering and General Management through divestiture from the erstwhile Network Associates (now McAfee) in 2004 and then acquisiton by NetScout in 2007.
• Managed the Bangalore Engineering Centre and was responsible for product engineering (New Product Development, Sustenance, Product Testing, product innovation, process improvement) activities and product roadmapping for Sniffer® products owned at Bangalore, engineering process and productivity improvements, recruitment strategy, people management, performance management, peer relations with other R&D centers, customer interaction with Indian customers / pre-sales, etc. In addition, as part of the Global Engineering Leadership Team, I reported to SVP of Engineering (located Westford, MA).
• Market Analysis and Business Development for APAC / ME / India markets.
• As GM of India operations, additionally responsible for center budgeting, day to day operations management, overseeing of Admin, Facilities, Finance, Legal, IT and HR operations through respective function managers / executives.

Oct 2004 – Oct 2007 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Started the India operations / Bangalore engineering centre from scratch in Oct 2004. I worked with investors (Texas Pacific Group and Silver Lake Partners), Executive Management team of Network General and a team of experts from finance, legal, facilities, etc. to setup Indian operations. Network General got acquired by NetScout in Nov 2007. In this role, I was responsible for determining and executing on strategy for Bangalore engineering centre, high-end talent acquisition and retention, compensation and benefits, and handling all local G&A functions. I was also part of the Global Engineering Leadership team.

Oct 2003 – Oct 2004 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• I built the team from 30 to over 75 people in Development and QA. In Apr 2004, our business was acquired by TPG and Silver Lake Partners and I was chartered to lead India operations. As part of that role, I worked with investors and execs to setup India operations from scratch. Also, setup the processes to transfer products to Bangalore team and took-over sustaining products for the entire company. Sniffer business was spun-off as Network General in Oct 2004

Oct 2000 – Sep 2003 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As founding Engineering Manager and Head of Datacom Group, I built core datacom teams from scratch and developed large datacom products: Huawei’s Gigabit Switch Router NE-80 and Versatile Routing Platform (VRP). Each of these was large team effort (peak team of 120+ engineers). I also managed outsourced development with Infosys (BGP, OSPF protocols), Mphasis (Network Management modules) and Satyam (Routing Management modules).
• During the year 2002, I worked in China and led a 190+ strong team that created SoftX3000, an integrated Softswitch for 3G wireless and wireline solution.
• Made three successful deliveries of very large products in cutting-edge technologies of Core Routing, Next Generation Networks and Routing Platform of R&D Budget of US $10 million each, and product revenues in excess of $100 million each (except Routing Platform)
• As part of the start-up team and as a Senior Management Team member, I was heavily involved in and responsible for development of organizational processes for performance management, program management, CMM level 5 (part of Level 4 Assessment Team), compensation revision and promotion committee, etc.
• I was responsible to create "Program Management Process" for the company's standard software processes.

Dec 1996 – Oct 2000 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• At Philips, I played three key roles:
• 1. As Software Architect in Philips Medical Systems, I was responsible for technology transfer of RIS (Radiology Information System) from our Sweden group to Bangalore. I was involved in working with team at Sweden for architecture definition, hiring the ramping up the Bangalore team, and eventually as the Project Manager for the team. I was also the first project manager at Medical Systems.
• 2. As Quality Manager for two product devision, Business Electronics and Medical systems, I was responsible for software process improvement, definition, deployment, audits in projects, as well as involved in organizational initiatives such as CMM Level 4/5 and other TQM measures such as ISO9000 and PDA90.
• 3. As Project Manager for Digital Networks, I was responsible to build competency in Bangalore in DVB (digital Video Broadcast) domain and embedded software development, and setup entire development and test infrastructure in our Bangalore office.

Sep 1995 – Nov 1996 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I was part of the team that initially worked on CNM Gateway (Customer Network Management) for Siemens ATM switch, EWSX. We initiated a pilot project/concept-proving that was useful in validating several of the key decision decisions. My second project was desiging a highly dynamic configuration management system for Siemens' digital switch, EWSD's messages that are stored in CHILL (CCITT High Level Language) to support multi-variant, mylti-customer production releases.

Apr 1991 – Aug 1995 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Pune Area, India

• As a Computer Scientist, I was involved in software development for various Defense projects.
• During this time, I had the privilege to represent the nation at the 13th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica, where I worked and stayed at the permanent Indian scientific station, Maitri, for 16 months during Nov 1993 - Mar 1995. My work involved Data Communication over HF Radio and also develop software for monitoring of gensets. The eventual aim was to link Maitri network with our intranet in Pune.