Harkawar Bawa

CEO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India24 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

Proven track record in multi-vendor program delivery.
Expertise in business growth and strategy.
Leadership in complex telecom and automotive projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in telecommunications and smart city solutions with extensive program management experience.

Contact

vinniebawa@yahoo.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

Business StrategyBusiness DevelopmentTelecommunicationsProgram ManagementService DeliveryVendor ManagementRequirements AnalysisManagementPeople ManagementSolution ArchitectureTeam ManagementProfessional MentoringIntegrationLeadership

About

Experience Summary - Program Director, Gaia Smart Cities Solutions Pvt. LTD. - Head VSAT operations, Accenture solutions Pvt. LTD. -Delivery Program Executive-Global Business Services, IBM India Pvt. LTD, India (Thru out award owner for all the complex multi vendor deliveries in India. Specially around Telecom, Automotive and FSS Sector) -City of London Technologies. India/UK (IT head- Pan Europe billing implementation (comverse1), Vendor Management and stake holder management) -AT&T, USA -Business Software Inc (US based company, onsite/offshore projects delivery across industry) -Gedore Tools (I) LTD-German Company and World's Largest Manufacturers of automotive tools. Specialties: Business Development thru Delivery Excellence in Multi Vendor Organizations in USD 40-500 million relations.

Experience

24 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Gaia smart cities solutions private limited

Vice President- Business Strategy and Growth

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Hybrid

I thank Ms. Amrita Chowdhury who confided in me and gave me the responsibility to join her team.
My focus is to lead the organization's ventures in both, central and state government and also enterprise segment. Looking forward for a success ahead.

Leaders speak - not associated with any other organization.

Co-founder and C.E.O.

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · India · On-site

We are an independent group of professionals from IITs and PhD from Ivy League with over 25 plus years of Industry leadership experience.

Leaders speak - keynote speakers/inspirational leaders and corporate trainers.

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · India · Hybrid

Keynote Speakers, Inspirational Leaders and Corporate Trainers.

Wadhwani foundation

Director Customer Engagement

Oct 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Delhi, India

The journey with Gaia was short however sweet. Learnt a lot around the latest in technology and tried to contribute what I could from my end.

Gaia smart cities solutions private limited

Director E2E Program Management

Jul 2022 – Oct 2022 · 3 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Accenture

Sr. General Manager

Aug 2018 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

IT Operations

Global business services, ibm india pvt. ltd.

Delivery Program Executive (Telecom, Automative and FSS)

Mar 2011 – Oct 2016 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Gurgaon

Senior Delivery Program Executive- Responsible for complete delivery across applications leading to Business Growth thru Delivery Excellence.
Work Profile includes on time delivery thru Team Management in multi vendor programs and Executive Stakeholder Management. Responsible for P&L of the accounts (medium USD 10M to USD 25M)
Delivery Program Executive- India's largest thru medium Telecom,Implementations OSS/BSS and E2E Program Management. Also worked in FSS sector for implementation of SAP.

Colt technology services

2 roles

Head Technical Delivery

Promoted

Jan 2009 – Mar 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Head of Global Delivery Center for Billing (Onsite/offsite model) at COLT India and UK.
Successfully headed and executed greenfield Billing and BI projects at COLT. Responsible for development and delivery of project from India for COLT's 13 European Countries.
Apart from above, Part of Vendor Selection Team.

Sr. Mgr Delivery

Jan 2006 – Jan 2009 · 3 yrs

SI Partner Selection for Comverse BSS implementation in UK.
Building right team for implementation from India.
Handover to Business post stability inline with business processes.
Headed other Agile programs.

At&t usa

Project lead (Award winner from EVP Business)

Mar 1999 – Jun 2005 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Middletown, (New Jersey, USA)

Telecom Billing and Provisioning Operations Manager/Consultant.
Project Manager/Sr. Consultant application development, testing and implementation of OSS/BSS.
Team member for designing Bundling Ordering System and interfaces to billing and provisioning.