Jul 2021 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Jul 2020 – Jun 2021 · 11 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

• Led product management and analytics for Amazon.com’s demand forecasting group, which predicts demand for every product sold on Amazon worldwide.
• Owned the delivery of forecasts (macro, micro, short and long-horizon), business insights, recommendations that are central to the strategic and operational decisions for Amazon’s consumer business.

Jul 2015 – May 2020 · 4 yrs 10 mos · San Ramon, CA

• Global responsibility for digital product portfolio consisting of enterprise-class, AI centric, Industrial IoT SaaS applications, with an Oil & Gas focus.
• Developed BHGE’s first-ever digital product strategy. Worked closely with C-Level executives to define an outcome based digital strategy to drive company-wide digital transformation. Developed an organization & execution plan, drove organizational transformation & change management to materialize strategy.
• Played a pivotal role in securing funding, establishing & scaling a 350-person digital products organization from the ground-up over a span 1.5 years. Recruited key talent across five focus geographies to establish three development centers.
• Drove portfolio management & investment prioritization across an annual spend of over $60MM. Developed new business models by intersecting customer needs & market trends with strengths in the installed base, industrial domain expertise, software expertise & customer networks.
• Pursued a strong differentiation strategy from the get-go by leveraging technology accelerators. Doubled investment on pivotal technologies such as AI / Machine Learning / Deep Learning to drive adoption in industry relevant use-cases.
• Led a global team of product management leadership, product managers, SMEs to drive product definition, roadmaps and business cases.
• Launched three new products, an AI based analytics platform & a library of reusable micro-services for the industrial domain in a span of 2 years.
• Engaged extensively with senior leadership at customers for product positioning & opportunity identification. Played a leadership role across 9 customer engagements resulting in signed contracts for new products.
• Pivoted the organization from legacy work-flow type apps to AI centric, fit for purpose SaaS through customer validated learning.
• Expanded IaaS, PaaS & ecosystem capability through strategic partnerships with GE Digital, Nvidia, Google, Yokogawa-KBC.

Jan 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Worked directly with the SVP and CTO of GE, CTOs of GE Businesses to solve some of the toughest technology strategy challenges faced by GE businesses. One of 20 candidates selected globally for an accelerated leadership development track.
• Honed ability to rapidly understand a new business and deliver strategic actions within a span of 6 to 8 months.
• Addressed a $2B+ revenue and margin erosion threat on aircraft engine serviceable parts by developing and deploying a data-centric differentiation strategy that leveraged advanced imaging, big data analytics, digital twins, physics and probabilistic models.
• Defined go-to-market approach and quantified business risk associated with strategic actions.
• Identified four “must-bet” opportunities critical to GE’s “Technology 2025” strategy by assessing impact of exponential technologies in the context of the company’s broader strategy, conducted benchmarking studies and scenario planning.
• Presented “Technology 2025” strategy to GE CEO.
• Studied the DNA of 31 external to GE entities, including Fortune 500 companies, startups, think tanks, universities & government organizations. Conducted benchmarking and scenario analysis.
• Implemented a Growth Board & Venture Capital type funding model across GE Oil & Gas to improve capital allocation efficiency. Increased seed-stage bets by 70% over a spend of $77MM. Improved risk profile through market-validated learning.
• Developed investment hypotheses and portfolio allocation for managing New Product Introduction (NPI) funding through seed, launch and growth phases. Introduced “Lean Startup” principles to drive rapid decision making and market validated learning.

Jul 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Led GE Appliances’ technology operations in India.
• Sharpened focus and executed turn-around for India operations through process innovation & computational sciences.
• Achieved a 12x increase in market validated learning & investment de-risking through prototyping & computational sciences.
• Established GE’s first additive manufacturing center in India.
• Identified and resourced three strategic big bets accretive to growth and margin: Machine intelligence and learning algorithms, advanced coatings and shape memory alloys.
• Strengthened organizational capability in topology optimization, multi-body dynamics and simulation technologies.

Sep 2009 – Jan 2014 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Led global product development strategy for a $230MM segment of GE’s washing machine platform.
• Led technology & manufacturing planning, product development and launch efforts for five generations of products.
• Responsible for product development operations of a joint venture in China and two alliances in South Korea through strategic deployment of 14 product development leaders.
• Led a highly focused team of seven to achieve a 34% improvement in customer satisfaction score for the platform through rigorous focus on product quality, usability, defects, failure modes and customer feedback.
• Executed a challenging world-wide product recall within 17 days of issue identification and reinforced team’s commitment to consumer safety and the brand.

Sep 2006 – Aug 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Managed a global cross-functional team of 15 in USA, China, India and Germany to successfully launch GE’s first steam washing machine, resulting in incremental annual revenues of $33MM.
• Conceived and tested innovative ideas in product development and decision making while leading one of four company-wide ‘fast track’ initiatives aimed at streamlining GE’s product development cycle.
• Successfully addressed a competitive threat through novel product design, resulting in a 30% reduction in time to market and a 13% cost advantage without compromising product reliability.
• Leveraged the strength of a cross-disciplinary team of four members to lead development of three new washing machine models in a record time of six months.
• Undertook a challenging initiative to fully offset unit cost increase in a 7% commodity inflation environment.

Jan 2005 – Sep 2006 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Owned technical qualification of seven sourced air conditioning products from a new Chinese supplier, resulting in benefits of $3.3MM and a fleet of products with the highest reliability in the product line.
• Developed product specification, product testing and evaluation plan for a family of air-conditioning products by standardizing design platforms.
• Conducted technical audits and qualification of OEMs, sub-tier suppliers, supply chain and logistics systems in Asia (China, South Korea).

Jan 2003 – Dec 2004 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Successfully completed GE’s technical leadership development program with focus on innovation & cost productivity.
• Designed and patented GE’s first, and industry’s most efficient ultra-violet light based air purifier.