Aparna Rao R Email & Phone Number

Croydon Hills, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Planet innovation is a medical, Bioprocessing consultancy business utilizing cutting edge technologies and strategic innovation.At PI, I wear two hats of playing Software Team Manager and Project manager. As a Software Team Manager, I lead 12-14 members focusing on their growth and development whilst ensuring their engagement, commitment and adherence to business goals, policies and values. With my prior experience in recruitment and keeping my strength of empathetic, flexible and inclusive leadership abilities in mind, I have grown to focus on helping people understand business goals and supported management with delivering their values.With my software development experience, I have worked on managing sporadic resourcing demands and helped place the people with right skills to match project needs. I learnt how different Software embedded technologies apply to different devices. As a Project manager and Software team lead for a Bioprocessing product, I have grown, developed and maintained good client relationship and also brought in many business development opportunities to PI. The team primary works on Python, GoLang on Linux imx6 and imx8 hardware.I have learnt Time and Material budgeting, furthered client stakeholder management, Steering committee strategies. I have also embraced expansion of client base to cover electronics, digital scope beyond software which has provided a landscape of opportunities to manage different engineering teams and their way of working. Having worked on Agile practices myself, I have brought in improvements in software scrum team's performance which has strengthened client relationship further.With my experience in compliance and auditing, I have worked on discovering what is best suitable for the client and proposed the best strategy stay ahead of competitors. Some recent learnings I have enjoyed are Proposals, Research and development in fast paced environment, pitching and securing new line of work items.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Leica Biosystems is a cancer diagnostics company and a global leader in workflow solutions. Leica Biosystems offers the most comprehensive portfolio that spans the entire workflow from biopsy to diagnosis. It is one of the Danaher Life Sciences Op-Co.Software Development Manager, R&DIn my most recent remit as Software Development Manager, my focus was to lead a team of 5-10 Software/System developers in the Advanced Cancer Diagnostics domain to deliver and execute on key projects and ensure a continuous focus on quality, regulatory requirements and best practice methodology. Responsibilities:Function head responsible for delivery of Software adhering to quality and regulatory compliance and documentationPeople Management - Mentor, coach and manage the team of developers to keep them engaged and help them grow in their career while aligning to business needs.Stakeholder Management - Work closely with Firmware, verification, project, and product management to ensure that the projects are delivered on time.Continuous Improvement – Work closely with Process Improvement Engineer in identifying key areas of improvement in Design, Quality and Build processes and implement the change. Training – Train the team members on continuous improvement processes and collate feedback for further innovation opportunities.Risk Mitigation – Work closely with HR, Directors, PMO to constantly unblock resource related issues and provide holistic software solution/strategy when required.Recruitment – Hiring Manager for key software developer roles to attract the best talent from the market matching the job description required while working closely with HR.DBS Principle – Lead by example as per Danaher Business System principles and utilize the tools extensively to improve process and deliver results

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

60 Margaret Street, Sydney

Bachelor Of Engineering, Computer Science-2009

Higher Secondary