• Spearheaded software development teams through multiple product/platform releases, right from conceptualization to design and architecture and execution up-till maintenance phase.• Have extensively worked in distributed architecture across platforms.• Expertise in defining processes and integrating IT driven automation process around the process using a robust and scalable solution architecture which including migrating to the cloud architecture• Led and managed Product development of In-Reg®, a cheminformatics solution, for over 8 years - from conceptualization, requirement specifications, development and delivery using agile development techniques such as Scrum. Focus has been on product life cycle management and evaluating a full stack development model for future iterations.• Coding experience on Java, C++ and Shell programming• Guided and regularized SOP’s and guidelines covering internal and collaborative projects under the project management department functioning at the corporate level.• Shepherded data storage and data mining activities.• Managed the global supply chain and logistics associated with the business.• Mentored colleagues and teams, influencing organizational culture across departments and functions.• Spearheaded the automation and digitization of scientific processes and systems using agile techniques resulting reduction in operational costs by 30% without compromising on productivity and quality. Efforts led to an environment friendlier organization and reduced carbon footprint. • Institutionalized a Project Management team at the global level for both Internal and collaborative projects taken up under Sphaera ’s ecosystem.

Project Management:• Inventory Management at the organizational level for fine chemicals, reagents, synthesized molecules, etc. comprising of over 6000 compounds. Developed an application to manage is that included chemical structure based searching.• Managing the GMP manufacturing for Phase I clinical trials going in US for multiple projects.• Information and Data management for scientific and non-scientific data generated by various collaborators/stakeholders for all the projects.• Management of IP portfolio of Sphaera Pharma and Cardero Therapeutics, along with couple more entities (subsidiaries and collaborative partners of Sphaera Pharma). • Working with Patent Attorneys on keeping track of due dates and responses across multiple jurisdictions and application states.• Coordination with the relevant stake holders and related documentation for patent management, including patent assignments collaborative agreements strung around patents.• Patent costs and budgeting.• Departmental budgets for departments falling under my scope.Operations and Logistics:• Employee Performance Review and Appraisals• Employee Hiring• MIS Reports• Managing the operations of the organization along with other KOL’s at both, strategic and on-going basis.• In-charge of all scientific instruments such as HPLC, LCMS, etc.• Facility ManagementInformation Technology:• Lead and managed product development and product life cycle management of In-Reg®, a cheminformatics solution, for over 6 years - from conceptualization, requirement specifications, development and delivery using agile product development methodology. • Lead and managed another 3 projects that were into the development pipeline for various departments, including scientific and administrative departments.• Led and managed team of 12 developers, & IT specialists.• Management of day to day functions of the IT department and IT Infrastructure, helpdesk, etc.

• Designed and built the entire IT Infrastructure from scratch.• Generated and implemented SOP’s, Policies and Procedures for the IT department.• Initiated development and delivery of multiple SW products.• Led and, managed a team of 9 IT professionals (3 internal and 6 outsourced).• Migrated all of IT backbone services and related technical services to the cloud from 2014 onwards.

• QA Lead and Shell Script Developer• Demonstrated experience in managing cluster of LINUX SUSE Servers; including appliance level and data level backups, redundancy and business continuity..• Part of the 3 member team assigned the responsibility of setting up structure and protocols for a corporate level centralized QA department• Provided technical assistance to the BD team to facilitate technical RFP’s and RFQ’s.• Internal ISO compliance auditor.

• Formulation of test cases, test planning, manual automated testing using Astra Quick Test from Mercury.

• Writing test cases, performing manual testing.• Release management for the development builds.