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“Ford Motor Co. (120+ years) US based global automotive company which designs, manufactures, markets and services a full line of cars, trucks, SUVs, EVs; and provides vehicle-related financing & leasing services.”• Led the implementation, support, management, and governance of enterprise-wide services and SaaS products, including eSignature (DocuSign), RPA/DPA (Pega/Microsoft Power Platform), and Process Mining (Celonis). • Led multiple technology/product services teams: eSignature (DocuSign), RPA/DPA Citizen Development (Pega/Microsoft Power Platform/other), Process Mining (Celonis/Other) • Owned and executed quarterly roadmaps, aligning priorities with leadership and ensuring on-time delivery of services. • Enhanced customer experience by streamlining processes, reducing operational waste, and developing key performance indicators (KPIs) to track performance. • Prepared business cases for product enhancements, led presentations and demos for new features, and managed vendor teams for support, enhancement requests, and new feature enablement. • Spearheaded strategic initiatives to increase adoption and enable new features, collaborating with vendor and internal integration teams. • Conducted market tests and alternate tool assessments before ELA renewals, evaluating technology fitment, compliance, cost, and strategic alignment. • Built governance processes for effective management of usage tracking and system integration requirements. • Implemented data connections between Ford internal systems (GCP, SAP Ariba) and vendor SaaS cloud through On-Prem extractor/agent. • Spearheaded annual Governance-Risk-Compliance (GRC) reviews, Disaster Recovery tests, Threat Modeling, Dynamic Application Security Testing, Product Architecture Reviews, and platform technology refreshes. • Led process improvement projects optimized customer team business processes through continuous reviews, data analysis, customized metrics, awareness content, and best practices

“Autodesk is SaaS product market leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment. I work with the global Business & Process Excellence team.” • Led complex enterprise-level process improvement initiatives, driving efficiency, and enhancing employee and customer experience through business process analysis, design, continuous improvement, governance, and change management. • Managed the execution of process excellence projects (DMAIC), ensuring clear visibility for leadership, stakeholders, customers, and partner teams regarding key milestones, progress, and risks. • Facilitated discovery workshops to identify process gaps, root causes, and business impact, presenting compelling business cases with recommendations, scope, priorities, dependencies, owners, risks, and mitigations. • Prepared AS-IS/TO-BE process maps (BPMN 2.0), conducted gap analysis, and defined business requirements with stakeholders for proposed TO-BE processes. • Developed and tracked process-specific project and governance metrics, calculated baselines, estimated target values, and sized problems to inform decision-making. • Recommended process excellence strategies, including standardization, streamlining, optimization, and automation, and designed new processes to drive operational efficiency. • Developed proof-of-concept (POC) prototypes in UiPath RPA tool for sponsorship demos, showcasing the potential for automation and process optimization.

“Atkins – member of SNC Lavalin group, is one of the world's most respected design, engineering, & project management consultancies. I was part of the Automation & Innovation Digital Transformation team one of the pioneering initiatives in the AEC industry then”▪ Conducted automation workshops and presented standard use cases with live automation bot demos for internal digital transformation promotion/pitching events▪ Analyzed processes identifying automation feasibilities, with SMEs, sponsors & other stakeholders▪ Recommended proposals with process standardization/ process re-engineering with automation▪ Automated unconventional Engineering processes at Global Delivery Center based in Bengaluru, and scaled it to EMEA and AMER regions▪ Developed POCs & prototypes, end to end solutions in enterprise RPA tool UiPath, integrated VBA & Python scripts▪ Liaised with the external vendor and internal IT team for the migration of production BOTs to the cloud environment

Wabtec is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services• Analyzed the causes for mass rejection of train door units using FMECA• Proposed methods for scratch removal on door units which can reduce door units’ rejection by at least 30%• Conducted time and motion study of door unit assembly and proposed strategies to reduce assembly time by at least 20%• Reduced tender cost preparation time by ~25% by automating calculations for the Bidding team

BITS Pilani is one of the top 7 engineering institutes in India. • CSIR JRF qualified research assistant at BITS Pilani• Designed Supplier Selection model- Designed and proposed industry-specific supplier selection models using loss functions- Multi-Criteria Sensitivity Analysis on attributes and single Weighted Loss Score combining all effects, for final ranking of suppliers• New Product Development: Smart Bin with Automatic Waste Segregation - Customer Experience design and product development following Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) and QFD principles- Procured components, manufactured concept design, and installed in our college campus within stipulated deadlines• Analyzed Wind Turbine Power Generator System failures using Failure Analysis (FMECA) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) • Analyzed system reliability for complex machine tools and derived model for predicting Remaining Useful Life (RUL)