May 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · Remote

• Lead a portfolio of 20+ high-impact programs, delivering 90%+ on-time completion rates.
• Manage, mentor, and build a team of program managers, including those at principal level seniority.
• Foster collaboration across global engineering, product, and business teams by building strong stakeholder relationships.
• Partner with senior leadership and stakeholders to align program outcomes with corporate strategy, driving year-over-year revenue growth.
• Manage cross-functional teams to deliver critical product launches that require complex cross-organization dependency management and product strategy alignments and risk mitigation strategies.
• Implement program delivery excellence standards that scale throughout the organization and significantly improve delivery cycle times.

May 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr · Bangalore

• Accountable for the end-to-end planning and implementation of complex projects. Lead and negotiate, scope, schedule, budget, risks, deployments and communications for projects and initiatives.
• Lead and mentor team to manage and drive projects more effectively
• As a change agent, discover opportunities for process improvements, pilot and then drive on a larger scale.
• Lead project level retrospectives, post-mortems, and RCAs (Root Cause Analysis) with clear next steps, action items, and follow-up.
• Champion the adoption of key engineering practices like Code Review, Test Framework set up and Continuous Integration.
• Drive long term improvement projects to reduce redundancy and increase efficiency and quality.
• Drive communication plans across all projects with all required stakeholders.
• Stakeholder management effectively by establishing processes to ensure frequent interactions and communications.
• Introduce new tools and techniques to improve project management efficiency and drive their adoption.

Jul 2009 – Apr 2019 · 9 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Demonstrated expertise in delivering multi-million dollar client engagements on digital transformations, streamlining project operations, and building robust stakeholder relationships for Fortune 500 clients like Southwest Airlines
• Delivered numerous large scale projects /programs with multimillion dollars budget for top-tier clients, consistently achieving on-time and within-budget outcomes
• Managed end-to-end project lifecycles including scope, planning, and execution resulting in more than 90% on-time delivery attainment
• Built and led a team of 10 consultants, fostered a culture of collaboration and high performance
• Developed and strengthened client partnerships, yielding increase in contract renewals, expansion and reducing churn
• Standardized program management processes, enhancing project transparency and reducing delivery risks

Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Job Responsibilities :
• Requirements and design reviews
• Test case design
• Test data definition and creation
• Test execution
• Traceability analysis
• Defect management
• Progress Tracking calls
• Functional tests, Regression tests, smoke tests, Integration tests , End to End Tests

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr · Pune Area, India

• Job Responsibilities :
• Requirements and design reviews
• Test case design
• Test data definition and creation
• Test execution
• Traceability analysis
• Defect management
• Progress Tracking calls

Jan 2001 – Jan 2005 · 4 yrs · Aurangabad Area, India

• Job Responsibilities :
• Lead and manage a 4 member team to deliver highest possible hardware uptime for each machine
• Automate and optimize the process of Optical fiber drawing by introducing programs in PLC5, SLC 500 PLCs resulting in cost savings to the company.
• Eliminating manual dependencies, manual errors, making robust systems for the Induction Furnaces by programming the Omron PLCs controlling them.
• Ensuring online process data availability in Oracle Database, online reading of data required by the process from Oracle, reading data from other PLCs etc. by programming Wonderware HMI enabling Process optimization using the data thus collected.
• Process Engineer (Draw Tower) As a process engineer, my basic job responsibilities were: -
• Monitoring and controlling the different process parameters in co-ordination with the production and maintenance teams.
• Introducing Continuous improvements in the process so as to improve productivity and efficiency of the system.
• Improve Process control by implementing new processes or modifying current process as a result of analysis done by implementing various Statistical Problem Solving techniques.
• Shift Engineer: Quality Control & Proof testing Department
• Lead the quality team and deliver the right results by doing extensive planning