As the Product Manager for AI Builder in the Power Platform, my passion lies in crafting simple, intuitive user experiences for the low-code AI platform. My primary objective is to democratize AI, making it easily accessible to citizen developers from diverse technical backgrounds. With extensive experience in product management, I specialize in developing user-friendly, easy-to-use products that cater to the evolving needs of users. My in-depth understanding of the AI landscape and the challenges associated with AI-driven product development enables me to create innovative solutions that bridge the gap between advanced technology and user accessibility. My ultimate goal is to design a platform that not only simplifies the process of creating AI-driven applications but also empowers users to harness the full potential of AI technology effortlessly. This project is a testament to my commitment to breaking down barriers and making AI accessible for all.

Lead program manager for Energy AI capabilities. We are building innovation for customers and partners in the space of energy, sustainability, power & utilities, and renewables. Our goal is to help customers with their energy transition journey by enabling them with platform capabilities. We are enabling customers and partners build their innovative solutions faster, better, and cheaper.

Lead program manager working on AI based product capabilities for the Energy Industry. My goal is to bring state-of-the-art AI and Cloud technologies to solve hard industry problems by building robust product capabilities.Impact: Incubated to new product capabilities, filed three patents, won 3 MS hackathon challenges.

I drove collaboration with several large customers from Manufacturing, Retail, and Energy domains,to solve their business problems leveraging AI & ML based solutions. I also incubated and executedour AI lab program with several large customers. This created a new engagement pattern, which wasthen leveraged by other teams in the group. My high-level goal was to create a joint working spaceand environment between Microsoft and customers' engineering teams to deliver business goals in anaccelerated fashion. Integral part of creating the strategic partnership program with biggest customers.Drove the ideation, planning and execution of one such strategic partnership.Impact: Created a new engagement model with customers called AI Labs. Part of creating the strategicpartnership program.

Program manager for a highly skilled team of expert data scientists, delivering business transformationsolutions to our customers. My goal is to make AI real for the customers, transforming ideas intooperational solutions. I drove the creation of a successful customer engagement program for our datascience function, by building a robust triage mechanism and a metrics driven culture.I pioneered and drove the outreach program for the AI platform team for 2 years via external webinars.Created a system and audience base, so that we connect and share new product capabilities forexternal outreach purposes.I also lead the product feedback program across different teams, such that we can create internalvisibility & feedback loop for the product pain-points as seen through customer lens.Impact: Created the customer engagement program, customer outreach program through webinars &social media, as well as the customer feedback program.

Worked as a Product Manager responsible for delivering analytics solutions for the company. Our vision was to provide meaningful insights to inspire every decision at Microsoft. Our goal is to empower Microsoft businesses with data driven insights to build products and services that our customers will love. We leverage heterogeneous big data and analytics services to discover and deliver detailed insights to our businesses.

Global Product Manager with HERE, for Identity and Data Ingestion. Responsible for two uniquely different products but yet connect with common goal of helping the Nokia & HERE services, identify and personalize the service experience for customer. Identity Management is all about knowing you and what's important for you. As PM for the Identity business, my goal was to increase the uptake of Nokia Identity. We achieved this by simplifying user experience on the device touch points. One of our challenges was to deliver consistent authentication experience to end-users across multiple platforms, to build the element of trust. I lead the new UX strategy within to the group, to deliver consistent, familiar & fresh-looking experience across the board. Also instrumental in defining the vision of a neutral Identity for the HERE, to help the company build cloud centric services connected with a common identity element.As PM of the Data business, my goal was to make the data platform avail on all touch points so that we can build richer and connected datasets to derive meaningful insights for the business. To achieve this, we focused on ensuring that ingested analytics data is coherent, so that we spend less time cleansing the data and extract more value in shorter cycles. One of the foremost objectives was to help the company to understand penetration of existing & new products and customer pain points so that we can build compelling and engaging products and services of tomorrow.

As Product Manager, I was responsible for delivery of Identity Solution to all Nokia device platforms.Consumer Identity is the pivot on which cloud services are built, and experiences are deliveredirrespective of the touch points of engagement. Nokia Identity powers millions of devices and facilitatesuser transition to a newer device without the loss of important data.My two foremost goals were to make sure the service is available on all device platforms and deliverconsistent user experience across, in a secured manner. My key achievement was to simplify the onboarding experience for the user, so that they can start using the relevant Nokia Services with thesmallest hindrance.Also, as part of the role, I spent a good amount of time working with Microsoft to deliver the bestexperience for Nokia account on Windows Phone platform.Impact: Drove the integration of Nokia identity service on mobile devices with all the Nokia services,during its prime the service touched 300+ million users.

I worked as Project Manager for some key device enablers in the Nokia Services Domain. My job involved lots of discussions with Customers & Stakeholders. Quality & Schedule were my primary responsibilities. I also played dual role of a Product Owner for around 2 years, and my responsibilities included understanding of the new requirements and adding more details & clarity to them before handing them over to the R&D team for implementation.Areas of responsibilities included:• Time delivery of the SW• Quality assurance• Dependency Management• Stakeholder communication• Liaison between engineering and offshore Product Team• Agile ambassador

I worked as a technical lead for creation of a UI library for the Nokia Multimedia Smartphones. Objective was to give Nokia a competitive edge in terms of coming up with a fresh and differentiating UI. The UI library was used by a number of applications teams. My responsibilities included, studying new requirements from technical perspective, design, implement, unit test & review the implementation.

I worked as a developer in the Gallery team for the Nokia N Series devices. Our goal was to build new age Photo gallery for the user, which helps them automatically organize photos as albums. My responsibilities included design, implementation & unit testing. User experience was a major player in this project, and a lot of emphasis was given to ease user's interaction with the content generated by the user using the multimedia device.

Project lead for a drive time optimized CarMode UI application. The goal of the application was to present the most commonly used functions of navigation/telephony/music in a drive-time optimized UI. I played several roles in the project from individual contributor to a module lead and later worked as a Project lead. The solution finally went for sale along with the Nokia Car Kit.Areas of responsibilities included:• Architecture & design for the engine that handled the telephony and the music modules.• Code review of the SW components• Timeline delivery of the Project.• Quality of the deliverables.• Communication with on-site coordinator and clients.

Symbian expert in the Nokia ODC at Wipro. I was part of a few interesting projects, automated messaging application, FEP based text entry assistant to name a few. While working with Wipro, Also worked at Nokia Tampere (Finland) as a subcontractor for the Product Program Division for 2 years. My contribution was primarily around product testing of some of the most successful Nokia Handsets.

My first job was as a Project Associate with the emerging technologies division of Cressanda. The very first project was on Symbian/S60 for CarPhoneWarehouse, I was responsible for implementing a PIM sync solution for Nokia Smartphones. My tasks were primarily implementation and unit testing. Also worked on VoIP based calling solution to offer cheaper long distance calling options to customers. Another project that I worked on briefly was about On-board Car Computer; I was involved in the prototyping phase of this project.