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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• HR Recruit: Spearheaded internship program by analyzing the current landscape and gaps in the program, identified tools to optimize hiring by collaborating with multiple stakeholders and devised strategies in implementation and roll out.1. Client: E-commerce, Bangalorea. Accelerated decision making of key amazon sellers by building insightful dashboards and aided vendor analysis by managing multiple projects under 4 verticals P2P, FP&A, R2R and O2C, by scoping requirements and tool solutioning.b. Organized governance meetings with C-suite to discuss the project updates, priorities, and strategies on execution.2. Client: Singapore based University.a. Reduced the timeline by 25% and delivered agent management portal with different customizations, process workflows by managing requirement gathering, UAT training and testing, collaborating with multiple vendors, development teams.b. Improved efficiency by digitalizing contract management process using adobe e-sign, increased accuracy in bookkeeping, enabled single sign on, data driven insights across organization by successful migration of structured data.3. Client: Investment Management -Automation of financial process, Abu Dhabia. Successfully automated Treasury and Broker reconciliation projects, by working on requirement gathering, gap and feasibility analysis, drafted proposals, SOWs, BRDs, vendor negotiations and selection of solution design based on strategic goal.b. Led and effectively managed a team of 11 by providing mentorship, guidance, and support to achieve project milestones.c. Oversaw budgeting, resource allocation, risk management, incident management, change requests and project controls.

Rockville, Maryland, United States

• Liaison: Collaborated with clients (Apple, VMware) and with internal development teams to implement a smooth process for common criteria (CC ISO 15408) projects and ensure compliance and governance with cyber security standards set by NIAP• Collaborator: Interacted with sales and executive teams to remediate any issues or concerns faced by the clients• Project Manager: Successfully drove 24 Common criteria projects simultaneously and performed gap analysis, internal and external kick offs, project planning, resource planning, project scheduling and submitted the project reports to management • Mentor: Created training material for new hires and conducted sessions for project managers/technical leads on best common criteria practices to improve the overall progression of the organization

Wilmington, Delaware

• Successfully led QC Mega model project by collaborating with global teams and conducting scrum ceremonies to enhance user experience of application by working on JIRA and sprint dashboard• Reduced research time for the team by leading continuous process improvement project using logic-based decision tree and analyzing high-frequency and high-volume QCs for quicker resolution• Ensured feature and functionality enhancement of APM Black by testing different case scenarios and providing feedback during release cycles by collaborating with product management group • Initiated book value reconciliation process by creating tracker, performing bulk review, sending statistics to top management and troubleshooted issues faced by the team• Created and consolidated Daily NAV statistics to top management using accurate KRIs and graphs

Greater Chicago Area

• Facilitated Sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations by maintaining focus on product backlog and timeline• Managed multiple scrum teams, and spear-headed 7 infrastructure and application migration projects using agile methodologies driving Aon- Alite divestiture • Conducted meetings with internal and external stakeholders, documented processes to facilitate management decisions for successful data center migration of Rack space (cloud-based database)• Used agile methodologies such as implementation of burn down metrics, velocity, and task breakdown charts to coach teams, driving timely deliverables. educate the team • Led projects on a single- sign-on application and CAMP - a user provisioning software by working on key milestones, timing, budget and providing status to top management• Collaborated with global team, by interfacing with multiple developers, quality assurance and quality engineering to automate applications using Autosys and MuleSoft

• Led five-person team to provide recommendation for optimizing Dell’s supply chain network through Geo planning and stocking policies for the Display and Peripheral team• Reduced proposed safety stock by 22% by analyzing the demand and forecast data for past five years• Proposed proprietary software tool implementation for network optimization that could reduce planning analysis time from 10 hours to 10 minutes

Newyork

ABM – Fortune 500 Facility Management Company New YorkMBA Associate, Indirect Procurement Project One: Contract Management and Vendor Evaluation• Reduced inactive supplier base by 30% and discovered profitable suppliers by initiating supplier rationalization post $1B acquisition involving identification, evaluation and re-negotiating contracts• Reduced project cost by 7% by creating RFP blueprint and taking part in supplier proposal, evaluation and selection for Oracle’s Human Capital Management software implementation. • Mitigated risk and improved business cycle by enabling automation of contract management after reviewing and analyzing 2000+ software license agreements and supplier contracts. Project Two: Integration, Spend Analysis and Bench marking Post M&A• Lowered category costs by 13% by devising sourcing strategies and performing supply chain analytics using smart tool to help build category visibility, category plan by collaborating with top management• Reduced proposed spend y 18% by comparing price proposals of car rentals and analyzing “maverick spend” in Travel and Expense categories through data mining• Tracked key functional metrics and other KPIs to reduce expense and improve efficiency

Bengaluru Area, India

• Led 20-member team across six locations in USA, UK and India to manage client’s E-commerce projects in purchase, logistics and customer relationships worth $2MM.• Delivered projects on time, on budget and defect free by collaborating with cross-functional teams to evaluate project scope, plan, schedule and resources as part of software project management• Increased revenue productivity by 25% through budget and resource allocation for project deliverables • Organized Sprint and Scrum calls with key stakeholders to align project goals and deliverables• Spearheaded projects and identified 300+ valid defects accomplishing defect free application assuring 100% compliance with company’s quality assurance standard saving $30K • Automated scripts using Selenium (tool), which increased productivity by 25%• Performed risk analysis using risk profiler on different parameters and devised a contingency plan

Bengaluru Area, India

• Reduced project cost by 40% by managing RFPs, purchase orders, strategic sourcing, inventory management and negotiating vendor proposals to promote software application.• Delivered defect free product by performing functional testing on the application with 250 components and 50 data visualization algorithms and managed product for quality assurance• Initiated partnerships with 8 different clients and obtained successful buy ins through negotiations and trade shows.• Organized five information sessions with Subject-Matter Experts (SMEs) and mentored 120-member team on big-data concepts, enabling efficient technology implementation.• Managed all logistical operations and streamlined information across the project using ERP • Built business dashboard as part of business process improvement process to conduct analysis on operational metrics relating to revenue, productivity, customer retention, SRM and CRM

Bengaluru Area, India

• Reduced supplier spends by $70K by recommending new components and in-house production and conducted stress analysis on aircraft structures for projects worth $10MM • Skillfully designed 6 data analysis reports on manufacturing methods of 30 components in 3 months using data visualization and quantitative tools.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Mechanical Engineering