Jul 2021 – Nov 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• As a leader at SAP Ariba, I lead entire Product Engineering at scale, managing highly skilled product engineering leaders and their teams responsible for the comprehensive suite of SAP Ariba Procurement Applications and Platform Engineering. SAP Ariba is the premier cloud solution for end-to-end source-to-pay processes, encompassing strategic sourcing, supplier management, core procurement, working capital optimization, invoice management, and spend analytics.
• In my role, I oversee all aspects of product engineering from inception to adoption of our products, fostering the growth and advancement of engineering leaders and their teams while driving change and transformation.
• Our teams are dispersed across six countries and four continents, underscoring our global reach and collaborative spirit. My unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional results drives our continuous improvement and innovation.
• Additionally, my responsibilities also extend to cross-functional collaboration with Product Success & Support, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success, as well as ensuring successful partnerships with Google on engineering initiatives. I am also leading expanding SAP's presence within the Silicon Valley start-up ecosystem.
• I leverage my core values of extreme ownership, passion and perseverance, integrity, and positive thinking to cultivate our talented and diverse workforce. As a hands-on engineering leader, I focus on the details and prioritize both product and customer success, ensuring we consistently meet and exceed the high standards expected of our products.

Apr 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Reported to the CEO of GEP, I led development of the entire cloud native GEP NEXXE platform for supply chain and procurement, all core business applications, Low code platform, data platform, analytics and reporting platform, master data management services, cloud integration platform, spend management platform & spend analytics, data sciences and artificial intelligence along with product architecture and dev-ops.
• GEP NEXXE™ is an end-to-end supply chain management platform built for today’s rapidly evolving businesses and increasingly unwieldy data-centric environments. Designed for maximum visibility and incremental adoption, GEP NEXXE’s supply chain management tools provide real-time connectivity with your entire supply chain.
• https://www.gep.com/software/gep-nexxe

Sep 2019 – Apr 2020 · 7 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Leveraging the power of AI/ML, I led building of the entire GEP NEXXE supply-chain platform and business applications for our end users.

Jun 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Responsible for leading teams of engineers for Dynamics supply chain products (Product 360, Enterprise asset management, driving customer health thru supportability improvements, telemetry and monitoring)
• Responsible for leading "One Version" efforts for all of Dynamics Finance and Operations Products.
• Responsible for driving customer success for various customers along with reference management purely based on Insights thru Telemetry and Monitoring.

Aug 2014 – May 2018 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Led global Dynamics 365 multi-disciplinary in market engineering team and in-market product management team (financials, supply chain, retail, service Industries business applications portfolio), based in United States, Denmark, China and India. Owned and managed annual outsourcing budget of ~6M.
• Owned in market product roadmap, vision and strategy, support lifecycle, servicing infrastructure and tooling, design, development for delivery of in market updates & features, user experiences and support experiences. Strong collaborator with stakeholders from product marketing, content publishing, user experience, localizations, solution architecture, technical support, compliance & legal teams to produce fantastic business value for customers.
• Drove organizational change towards Devops model and also towards building a data driven and customer obsessed work culture for delivering services, features and updates. Spearheaded several engineering efficient technical solutions resulted in faster delivery and higher quality of deliverables for customers.
• Led deeper customer engagements for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Products and priortized business opportunities both at strategic and tactical levels.
• Strong people leader responsible for recruiting & managing high performing engineers and product managers in the team. Workgroup health Index & morale of the team always exceeded expectations with very low attrition rate of high performing individuals on the team despite of constant demanding workloads involving tight time sensitivity.
• Managed annual outsourcing budget of ~6M and owned outsourcing strategy and management.
• Actively involved in college campus recruiting efforts and international recruiting efforts for full time employees, career coaching & career planning of team.
• A regular presenter at Microsoft customer, partner, ISV and technical conferences. Presenter rating received by attendees was consistently exceptional.

Aug 2011 – Aug 2014 · 3 yrs

• Engineering Leader for Dynamics 365 In Market Products (Financials, Supply Chain, Retail, Application platform) product & services portfolio.
• Key responsibilities included leading the global engineering teams responsible for delivering customer reported issues, deployments and servicing, feature requests, regulatory updates and cumulative updates. Led Engineering design and development for cloud update experience, cloud powered support experience on lifecycle services on Azure. Championed engineering efficient solutions resulted in faster delivery and higher quality of deliverables for customers.

Aug 2007 – Aug 2011 · 4 yrs

• Led globally distributed team owning design, architecture, development and validation of key application feature areas related to North American regulatory features, worldwide tax & currencies, and treasury management services. Developed targeted business scenarios to improve product quality .

May 2005 – Aug 2007 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Led Engineering for Dynamics AX Project accounting, CRM and Expense Management Solutions, managing a globally distributed team, with sole ownership. Successfully delivered AX 4.0, AX 4.01, AX2009 releases.

Dec 2000 – May 2005 · 4 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Championed understanding of complex Oracle 11i supply chain business applications in no time. Owned and delivered several successful Oracle enterprise application releases for Order Management, Shipping and Transportation, Inventory &Warehouse Management applications to customers. Recognized for high performance and high quality of work delivered.

Sep 1999 – Dec 2000 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Outstanding delivery of results from my internship led quick growth into engineering ownership on an EPM module (Enterprise Performance Management business application) at PeopleSoft.

Jun 1999 – Sep 1999 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I was recruited straight from college by PeopleSoft as Summer Intern to do engineering work on PeopleTools (PeopleSoft development platform).