Oct 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

• Articulated multiple different strategies for the start-up around deeper penetration in the market through newer segments, newer approaches like partnerships, tapping remote and contract talent. Provided inputs into Product roadmap, Brand story, website content and pitch deck.

Feb 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · On-site

• Drove higher standards of data integrity, quality and governance in the Enterprise data lake

Jun 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · On-site

• Headed the Data engineering team that was responsible for bringing in all of Lowes data into the data lake and data provision for data science and Analytics

Dec 2014 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Headed the development effort for the Big Data and data services platforms for the Health Suite Digital Platform within Philips Health Care. HealthSuite (a startup within Philips) is an open, cloud-based platform which collects, compiles and analyzes clinical and other data from multiple devices and sources, including unstructured data, connecting across the entire health continuum. Drove the transformation and culture to move to Scaled Agile
• Highlights:
•  Defining the roadmap of the platforms as part of the product team and influencing business groups to move on the cloud based Big data platform
•  Led the team through the platform re-architecture phase
•  Ramped up the team in strength and technical competency to completely own the development of the cloud (AWS) based HealthSuite Big data platform (Spark streaming/Kafka, HDFS/S3/Hbase/MongoDB, Hive/Vertica/SparkSQL/Parquet, Analytics engine, dashboards/visualisation tools)
•  Enabled two internal Philips Healthcare business units to go to market faster on Healthcare Analytics by delivering the minimum viable platform
•  Leadership on the numerous technical and non-technical challenges
•  Drove the transformation to the Scaled agile framework

Jun 2012 – Nov 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Global development/ delivery head for the Global Business Analytics team which provides Business Intelligence solutions to the Sales and Marketing group of Intel corporation.
•  Drove the transformational journey from Business Intelligence to Analytics through strong influencing, stakeholder management, competency management
• o Up levelled team competency on newer technologies and domains including predictive analytics, self-service reporting, big data, etc.
• o Customer Insights prototype involving multiple data sources and Big data
• o SMART- Sales & Marketing Advanced Analytics Recommendation Tool for identifying resellers with high propensity to buy Branded Systems
• o Prediction of fraudulent claims in the Intel Inside Program
•  Drove and hosted pan industry events/workshops on analytics
•  Velocity increase of 30% through Agile transformation
•  $$ savings though the BI Tools simplification program for sales and marketing group of Intel.
•  Drove the roadmap of the products and solutions as part of the product team
•  Responsible for development and maintenance of solutions in the BI/Big data domain using technologies of MSTR, MSBI, SAP BI, AI, Teradata, SQL server, Hadoop, Netezza etc.

Sep 2008 – May 2012 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

•  Spearheaded the delivery of BI products/solutions to the Partner Marketing Group of Intel.
•  Rearchitecture of all reporting applications resulting in reduced time to development and a far more robust landscape
•  Accountable for BI solutions and programs, enhancements and maintenance of the solutions, engagement management, competency development and people management
•  Dashboards and KPIs for External customers/OEMs/ODMs
•  Usage of BI platform for a Forecasting Solution and saving of dollars for the Partner Marketing group

Apr 2006 – Aug 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

•  Ensured delivery management of BI solutions to the Supply Chain Planning Group of Intel
•  Delivered ETL component on multiple SAP re-platform projects in Procurement & Delivery.
•  Rendered high business value to customers including Global Procurement analytics (solution for 100% Spends visibility & analytics), Data visibility program for Inventory at Intel and Demand Forecasting solution
•  Increased efficiency through Quality metrics for ETL.

Mar 2004 – Mar 2006 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

•  Drove the transformation and movement of data from disparate data sources to the enterprise data warehouse.
•  Supported the movement of various stand-alone reporting/data warehousing applications to move to the Enterprise Data warehouse of Intel Corporation.
•  Acted as Program Manager for Hub ‘n’ Spoke Initiative which helped in identifying and setting up centers of domain excellence in India.
•  Successfully managed transition of BI projects/programs and migrated them to India from US.
•  Accountable for yearly planning and creating roadmap of Business Intelligence Solutions for the supply chain planning group of Intel

May 2002 – Mar 2003 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

•  Set up and grew the offshore development centre from 20 to 110 staff in a span of 7 months.
•  Managed the entire breadth of activites and ensured deliveries to customers out of the offshore development center in Bangalore.
•  Handled selection, people development, training, mentoring, resource management, allocation, resource optimization. Set up project delivery frameworks and processes
•  Program Manager for delivering multiple projects involving demand channel management solutions to Ingersoll Rand International, Ireland. The web based (J2EE) suite of solutions included sales order management, product configuration, delivery reports, warranties management with seamless integration to Oracle Applications.

Jan 2001 – Feb 2002 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

•  Presales on multiple engagements including custom-built ERP for an electrical wholesale distributor, custom-built ERP for Hathway Cables.
•  Product plus Program Manager and managed a gamut of activities like product strategy, inception, customer workshops, features definition, design, development, testing, rollout, support/maintenance, projects management, and account management for a web-based ERP for SME trading companies.
•  Set up a process framework and procedure for development and delivery.
•  Built and headed a team of 20 members including 4 team managers.

Oct 1997 – Nov 2000 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

•  Project Manager and Lead Functional Consultant for the development and testing of integrations between BaaN ERP and BaaN Front Office Solutions (CRM) at the BaaN HQ (Netherlands).
•  Handled distributed development teams in the Netherlands and India.
•  Project Manager for several enhancements in the Baan IVc distribution package.
•  Functional Lead and Project Manager for development of the BaaNIVc based 'Sales Assistant ' - an Enterprise Information Portal for the Sales Force using SAP Portals
•  Consultant to several implementations of BaanERP in Europe and Asia pacific including Komatsu, Japan; Hitachi, Singapore; LG, Korea; AAG, Australia, Molkveld, Netherlands.
•  Involved in pre-sales of various engagements and in the full life cycle implementation of BaaNERP Distribution and Enterprise planning in AAG, a large IT Hardware trading firm in Australia.
•  Conducted knowledge transfer workshops in India, Asia-Pacific and Europe on Distribution (procurement, replenishment, warehousing, DRP, EDI, sales, distribution), Manufacturing and Enterprise Planning Packages of both BaaNIVc and BaaNERP.

Jun 1995 – Sep 1997 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

•  Responsible for pre-sales, requirements analysis, business process analysis, functional scoping and design, and development and implementation of custom built software applications for multiple clients.
•  Managed client account, project and supported the client during implementation.
•  ERP audit at Hindustan Lever Ltd.
•  Pre-sales and business development and delivery in new office in Southern India for various system study and software development projects involving distribution, marketing, strategy, etc.

Jun 1993 – Jun 1995 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Area, India