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Pune, Maharashtra, India

Dasera (now acquired by Netskope ) was a Series A startup in DSPM (Data Security Posture Management) space offering a data security platform (B2B SaaS) that automates cloud and on-prem data security and compliance with governance controls, providing real time insights with data discovery, classification and sensitivity analysis and associated usage and access risks identification and remediation.• Bootstrapped the Dasera India operations with company incorporation, legal and business entity setup, onboard and operationalize the Engineering and Product teams within 3 months and scaling to a peak size of 15 FTE and contractors. Managing the P&L and company regulatory and compliance activities.• As technical product manager owned the feature specifications, developed PRDs and collaborated with Customer success, Engineering and Design teams for Data classification and Cloud platform (AWS, GCP and Azure) onboarding features using IaaS template driven automation thus scaling the data discovery process and reducing onboarding friction. Collaborated for the design and development of the Dasera Classification and Onboarding Open APIs and its integration with the platform RBAC model using Zero Trust Architecture design principles.• Competitive market research for DSPM & regulatory and compliance reporting requirements (GDPR, NIST, CIS)

Pune Area, India

Managing service delivery programs for OSS/BSS full stack digital transformation programs for European Telcos.• Developed the AIaaS (AI as Service) portfolio & GTM strategy for global presales based on EricssonOperations Engine toolset with predictive machine learning models for Service Desk & Fulfillment process.• Lead the systems integration and offshore delivery of a 2+ year BSS/OSS transformation program (120 Mn GBP) in a highly securitized setup for UK Home Office with complete delivery ownership of project financials, technical impact assessments, risk mitigation (VAPT) & security audits for the program.• Delivered multiple implementations and multi country rollouts of Ericsson Telco CRM (Microsoft Dynamics) integrated with OSS/BSS stack for the European customers.• Implemented the SAFe2 driven delivery transformation and DevOps tool automation & recognized with Global Agile Champion award from the Service Delivery unit.

Pune Area, India

Implementing the Identity and Access Management (IBM - ISIM) platform across a portfolio of 25 enterprise business applications ( HRMS, AD/Exchange, CRM, Oracle Financials, Dealer Management ,etc) with the objective to build a single digital identity for all application user accounts. A digital transformation program to build a centralised repository to manage on boarding /off boarding process and roles and access management for a diverse landscape and user base.

Mumbai Area, India

Lead and manage project delivery and pan India managed services operations for Wireless broadband business that includes developing the Go-To market IT strategy, Solutioning and Operationalisation of a full fledged Telecom BSS stack i.e. CRM, Billing, Activation, Order Management, SelfCare, Provisioning, Revenue Assurance , Partner Management and MIS. Core responsibilities : Budgeting , Planning and Forecasting, Requirements management, Solution Design & Development, Service Delivery, Business process optimization,Team Building and Leadership, Managed ServicesIdea Wifi Broadband service is currently offered in 5 cities - Pune, Hyderabad, Vizag ,Cochin and Ahmedabad.

Zürich ,Switzerland | Atlanta, Usa | Pune, India

* Worked as an IT leader for Novelis Inc's (an USD 10.6 Bn world leader manufacturer of rolled Aluminum ) Global Delivery and Strategy team for the 10x10 transition program. Lead, plan and manage the transition project portfolio and monitor and report the progress of the initiatives to the Novelis Executive Management (CxO).* Developed offshoring business cases and sourcing strategy for the identified transition and transformation initiatives. Build service catalogs, pricing and support model (SLA based) in partnership with vendors teams from Fujitsu, IBM, Microland and Wipro.* Setup & operationalise the Novelis captive offshore data centre at Pune to provide shared services support for European geographies (Switzerland, France, Germany ,UK and Italy) in AMS and Infrastructure Hosting verticals.* Transitioned strategic projects (SAP BI Support, Quintiq Production Planning, Active Directory, Messaging and collaboration re-platform) to the Pune offshore captive datacenter with an estimated annual cost savings of USD 450K. Developed the transition plan for a USD 2mn business proposal for the migration of the Novelis Europe SAP Datacenter and support services (Infrastructure Hosting and Basis support).* Developed a vendor evaluation tool for comparative analysis of messaging platforms (Lotus Notes, BPOS & Google Apps), managed vendor responses on the RFP and executed three phases of POC project with Google & Microsoft and TCS.

Johanessburg, South Africa | Pune, India

Projects• Symantec Corporation - PMO Consultant, Mergers & Acquisition ProgramDefine and develop a project delivery framework for managing the transitioning (decommissioning & integration) of the IT assets during the Post Day-1 phase of M&A projects.• Zensar Technologies - Pre-Sales, ConsultingDeveloped service capability, marketing collaterals and competitive analysis of a new service offering in SOA governance. • Standard Bank, South Africa, ITIL Process ConsultantDesigned & implemented a release scorecard and dashboard & developed a project document repository to track release and project governance. Performed fit GAP analysis with the existing processes w.r.t ITIL best practise and and developed an operational tool to integrate & align development processes with the release management lifecycle.

Minneapolis, Usa | Pune, India

* Lead the R&D Operations to complete Release Engineering processes (change management, build, installation, deployment, packaging, maintenance, localization, documentation etc.) for on-time delivery of the different TeamCenter product and patch releases.* Manage a team of configuration and release engineers providing development support, source configuration, build and deployment of the Team Center Enterprise and TeamCenter Engineering products for the distributed development teams spread across 4 sites; 3 in US and one in Pune, India. * Providing direction to the development project and technical leads on the configuration, release, build and platform porting strategies for the Teamcenter product suites.* Perform end-game release activities for product releases (Core and Asynchronous) in co-ordination with Teamcenter program and product management office. Co-ordinate project reviews and quality audits with the SEPG group to ensure process compliance.

Sydney, Australia | Pune, India

* Redesigned and migrated the complete code build, release and deployment process of Gennetic@ (General and Life Insurance) product suite.* Managed delivery of two major Gennetic@ General and one Gennetica@ Life Release packages to Tech support, Australia.* Integrated the deployment process across multiple System testing environments and ensured smooth product and database upgrades and Actuate Reports deployments

Sophia Antipolis, France | Dreieich, Germany | Kolkata, India

* Worked as a Unix/C/C++ developer in BSCS(v6 and V7) – Business Support and Control Systems , Customer care and billing system of LHS in , Dreieich, Germany. Responsible for providing third level release support and provide fixes for critical production defects on all the supported releases of BSCS for its European customers like Turkcell, Eplus, Mobicom etc.* Lead the setup of the BSCS Release Support Center at Kolkata and transition of the product baseline from Kualalampur to Kolkata to support Indian Telcos viz. Birla AT&T, Hutch-Max,etc*Lead transitioning of the development, testing and release processes of the SemaVision CCBS product of Sema Group Telecoms (SGT) from Sophiantipolis, France to Kolkata office* Worked as the system test lead in the SemaVision IVV team in Sophiantipolis, France and was responsible for system integration testing, integration builds and product release and packaging.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

A web development company of B M Birla group, Adrem Intergraphics was involved in portal development for Car insurance companies.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

System design and development of Inventory Control and management system for Berger Paints

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Executive Mba, General Management

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