Oct 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 7 mos · Aundh, Pune · Remote

• We help our customers in planning for financial goals and investing in appropriate instruments in order to meet them. Our philosophy is that long-term wealth creation is possible for everyone - all you need is intention and patience.

Aug 2018 – Feb 2019 · 6 mos · Pune Area, India

• Consulting startups:
• Business Consultant: GT Productions, Pune
• Business Consultant: Optimus Logic, Bangalore
• IoT Project Consulting: Funday Recreation LLP, Pune
• Business & Technology Consultant: Namrata's Canvas, The Metamorphist, Namah
• Image Remodelling Consulting: The Alchemy Studio, Pune

Sep 2017 – May 2018 · 8 mos · Pune Area, India

• Leading end to end Software Engineering as a program manager for an IoT-based digital infotainment platform, that provides free entertainment on-the-go over Wi-fi directly on the consumers’ smartphone, with a one-of-a-kind offline Ad server. Our unique product & service is already serving millions of consumers across 2 states and has won awards for innovation.

Jun 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune Area, India

• Product incubation - Leading the AGILE software engineering program for an innovative, offline-infotainment product that targets entertainment for rural India in line with ‘Digital India’ and ‘Make in India initiatives. Program Manager and Scrum Master handling planning, development, delivery for software components of an Infotainment product that encompasses hardware, software and service modules. Setup tailored processes across end to end cycle as a hybrid model for agile deliveries.

Nov 2015 – Jun 2016 · 7 mos · Pune Area, India

• Project Manager and functional expert for design and development of a unified methodology ‘COMPASS’, for delivery excellence across all KPIT service offerings. Conceptualized the overall methodology to cover project, program, portfolio, change management and training across all service offerings. Designed the framework and UI and lead the technical delivery in SharePoint 365. Developed standardized, SBU and product agnostic tools and templates.

Jan 2011 – Nov 2015 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Pune Area, India

• A Multi-faceted role.
• Domain SME:
• Part of core consulting team for manufacturing and supply chain domain, playing lead role in major customer engagements conducting workshops, requirement gathering and gap analysis, statistical data analysis and creating business cases
• Design, development and deployment of the Inventory entitlement & projection model for Cummins Generator Technologies (CGT) in multiple geographies
• Project Manager, helping Lafarge, a leading global cement manufacturer, to improve effectiveness of the eProcurement solution, SynerTrade, being implemented globally
• Strategic consulting, process gap identification & business case creation for VPS (UK), a security solutions provider, in the area of inventory and warehouse management
• Functional design and gap analysis for a large Apriso MES implementation at Ball Packaging Europe
• Practice Management:
• Designed and created service offerings and sales collaterals for Enterprise Solutions practice
• Conceptualized, designed and developed a new Finished Goods Inventory Management Solution - FINMAN. It has in-built forecasting capabilities and helps visualization of impact on inventory
• Program management for productized solutions to be developed as part of building IP such as MES Lite, Visual Status Dashboard (VSD), Shop floor Maintenance Management etc
• Created eProcurement CoE using products from partners such as SynerTrade and Zycus
• Represented the practice on the Executive Council for education & competency development leading the functional consulting track. Designed the growth hierarchy, tracks, courses, course content and assessment strategy
• Presales Consultant
• Assisting presales activities for large deals
• Designed and developed presales solutions for customers like CIL, PACCAR, ETA ASCON, Lafarge, Cummins, Bharat Forge, Weatherford, BE Aerospace, Vallourec, Praxair, Yusen
• Vendor-Partner for Zycus and SynerTrade working on joint opportunities

Nov 2007 – Feb 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Erie, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site

• Manage ~1100 active parts, across 145 global vendors for multiple commodities to support production floor, Power Electricals commodity being 65% of the buy. Total buy approx $70 Million per annum.
• Important metrics:
• Increased number of parts and vendors on PULL to support a LEAN environment: 85% parts switched to PULL (up 30%)
• Improved On time delivery to 91% (up 8%) to support LEAN initiatives
• Inventory Management and Reduction: down from 4.97 days to 2.97 days forward (improved inventory turns from 73.44 to 122.9)
• Resolved Quality Discrepant Material issues within 2 weeks down from 3 months thus reducing cost tied in on-hand unusable material
• Implemented processes for proactive communication with internal engineering and scheduling teams and vendors to completely avoid premium transportation costs
• Reduced Material Liability cost incurred due to design and schedule changes by -$1.2MM (64% reduction) through contracts
• Reduced global services past due orders from average 21 to 0 thus improving customer service
• Leaned the process from PO creation to delivery resulting in improved on-time delivery, less AP issues, increased vendor accountability
• Worked hands-on for multiple LEAN Six-Sigma (Kaizen and Shingi) events to create lean processes on shop floor and transactional lean
• Line of Balance (LOB) - created a standard process for expediting, conducted daily meetings with materials team and shop floor managers. Created a new online documentation process with potential to save 8:20 man hrs/week
• Training at GE:
• Six Sigma Certification -Green Belt (2008), Influencing Skills at GE (2008), Project Management at GE (2008), Lean 101/ 201, Transactional Lean (2008), Lean Kaizen Event Control COE (2008)

Sep 2006 – Jul 2007 · 10 mos · Erie, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site

• Responsible for production of shafts used for OHV and locomotives
• Lead 16 hourly employees over 3 shifts in a union environment.
• Exceeded entry level expectations:
• Safety – zero recordable, PPE audits, creating a safe environment
• Quality – working towards zero defects to customers, reduction in DMR’s
• Delivery – created labor plan per week to meet /exceed demand, ending the year 2006 with zero due/overdue to customer and within 1% of MRP
• Cost – overtime management and reduction, SPV management and reduction of setups
• Created tools to enhance productivity using Microsoft Excel and Access (floor check, dispatch list etc), , modified existing capacity plan tool to apply to shaft line

Jan 2005 – Aug 2005 · 7 mos

• Product installation, Testing (FVT, SVT, Migration, Regression), Designing test scenarios, Researching application of Industrial Engineering techniques for software test project planning, Collection and filtering of data for analysis and modeling

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs

• Work in the field of Digital Signal Processing:
• Audio Filters and Effects, MPEG layer 1 and 2 audio decoder, G.729 speech codec: design and implementation
• MP3 audio decoder: studied and designed the decoder for maximum parallelization
• MPEG 4 audio decoder: studied and analyzed for possible implementation
• Work in the field of Networking and Communications:
• DNS server for Secure Router: designed and implemented a split domain name server which can run as a thread under eCos
• DHCP server and client for Secure Router: designed and implemented