Advise start-ups in Agile product and organization strategy; Cross-functional Agile delivery and management team development; Operational management, R&D, publishing and Intellectual Property assets strategy. Business areas include: Biotechnology, Laboratory systems, Image processing, AI/ Machine Learning. Next-Gen dietetics for acute and chronic conditions. Mobile applications. Ethereum Blockchain DAPP development. Crypto currencies/ Digital currencies, ICO, Cloud Computing/ Amazon Web Services (AWS). Best practices: Scrum, Lean, Kanban, XP, DevOps/ DevSecOps, SAFe, Site Reliability Engineering. TVE: ~$100+ million. Formulated strategy, legal, financial structure. Parties include: KN&A and aristocracies.

CONNECT is the premier supply chain, management & technology conference and start-up pitch platform, in the heart of the Northwest tech hub.It is currently supported by 12 organizations, partners, and sponsors.CONNECT 2019 conference, is May 17, 2019, and hosted by University of Washington, Bothell.www.PPMCONNECT.orgwww.SUPPLYCHAINCONNECT.org

Advise the Dental Services Organization (DSO) and boutique practices in lean-agile best practices for clinical practice performance, flow optimization, systems, evaluation, proposal development, contracts, pricing strategy, and other business/ technology areas.Recent impacts: Revenue and Net Income: 150%+ increase (RR: $3MM+); Customer satisfaction and Employee engagement: 200%+ increase. Turned loss-makers into profit centers with NOI: 23%+.

Technology Consulting (TC). Performance Improvement (PI). Digital, Data, and Analytics (DDnA). Digital and Emerging Technologies (DET). Microsoft Technologies. Microsoft Alliance. Microsoft Advanced Partner Specializations. Engineering Management. Engagement Management. Client Partnership. DevOps/ DevSecOps/ SRE / Automation/ Engineering. Quality and Test. Cyber Security, Vulnerability Management, and Remediation. Cloud Native Applications Development. Modernization and Migration. Solution Architecture. Agile and Digital Transformation. Enterprise Technical Delivery Excellence. Microsoft Azure. Google GCP. Amazon AWS. Dynamics 365. Power Platform. Technology Media and Telecom. Healthcare. Retail. Financial Services. Government and Public Services. Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures (M&A&D). Sell-to/ Sell-with/ Go to market strategies. Service Offerings. Pursuits and Business Development. Client Engagement Management. Technology Audits. Assessments. Advisory. Leadership.

Building, coaching and maturing an agile and high performing Portfolio of teams. Lean Portfolio, Program, Project and Team management drawing on principles from Agile frameworks and techniques such as Scrum, KanBan, SAFe, APM, etc. The portfolio includes legacy, strategic and innovative initiatives. Pushing the limits of Servant Leadership, while getting things done.Lead by service and example, collaborate with and coach 3-4 Directors, 8-12 LPMs, vendors, PMI employees, and volunteers. For inter-portfolio and inter-program alignment, lead and collaborate using Big-room and Release-train planning, Integrated Business Planning and Inter-Portfolio walls. Responsible for ROI/ Value decisions, Budget, contracts, and process development, and management with total Profit and Loss responsibility to the Board.Data collection, data cleansing, data analysis and modeling, visualization. Frequently present, share and coach at regional, national and international conferences and events. Past Co-chair of Marketing. Elected to the role by over 2500 PPM practitioners in Greater Seattle. Tools: Zoho CRM, Smartsheets, Office 365, SharePoint, Teams, Project, Power BI, Web Content Management (CMS), Digital Marketing, Event Management and Audio Video systems.

Providing strategic and thought leadership to develop a unique Lean-Agile, and PPM practice with a strong focus on Lean Enterprise, scaling best practices, and change management. Developing and coaching internal expertise. Supporting clients and partners.Client Engagement: THE BOEING CO and POINT B CONSULTING SR CONSULTANT – TECHNICAL AGILE/ SCRUM LEADER - SAFe TRANSFORMATION. 2CHR PAYROLL. MIGRATION PEOPLESOFT to WORKDAY HCM.

Senior Management Consultant – Technical Agile / Scrum Leader, SAFe Transformation Coach for Workday migrations (via PointB and P2 partnership)

WEX Inc. provides payment processing, information management, and market place services to commercial and government organizations globally. Solutions segments: Fleet, Travel, Corporate, Health, Employee Benefits, and bank. Network processes over $60 Billion annually.Tech: PeopleSoft, Siebel CRM, Cobol Mainframe, AWS, Aha, Jira, Tableau

Teach and mentor for the School of Management. Specifically, MBA program, Technology Management and Project Management.

Technical Management Consultant - Agile SME/ Coach, Lead Technical Program Delivery Manager. PMO

Consulted in a high-visibility Enterprise Organizational Research and Delivery role spanning Agile Development and IT-PMO. Performed end-to-end Agile organization, program and team level research to determine best practices for the Agile transformation of collocated and multi-shore distributed cross-functional teams with varying skill levels.As executive leadership partner, developed inter-program relationships and served as a liaison to AT&T Agile CoE, B2C (Consumer/ myATT) and Accenture Agile SMEs. Continually fine-tuned hypothesis per continuous feedback and results. The practices agreed to be adding value were coached/ trained to for a phased program transition from a Waterfall (ITUP) to a Scaled distributed Enterprise Agile state (Blended and Agile ITUP). Integrated DevOps and XP best practices.Trained across methodologies and worked closely with Program PMO and Agile COEs.Led multiple concurrent traditional, blended (ITUP/ TechDev-UP) and Agile projects across all phases and Program gates, as a Delivery Manager/ Lead Project Manager and Application/ Premier IT Project Manager, actively participated in Program IT front-door/ intake and Program PMO, and Product Roadmap development.Reduced business needs to solution deployment time by 600% (from 6mo to 1mo) to launch a new Sales Intake Channel for UBERIncreased teams SDPI performance by 5X in 6 months surpassing AT&T average by ~200%.Partnered with Accenture’s Account and Agile Practice leadership to develop and present RFP responses and budget estimates. The proposed framework aligned with AT&Ts frameworks, Agile CoE, AT&T Consumer Agile Coaches and had leadership support across AT&T business, IT and Accenture's Delivery team. Implementation of Continuous Integration (CI) with Maven was approved. Frameworks referenced: SAFe, XP, DAD, Kanban, DevOps, etcOracle ATG Commerce, Dynamo, e-commerce, Java/ JEE/ JSP, Rally Dev, IBM Jazz, JIRA, Bamboo, Big Data/ Hadoop, IoT, Akamai CDN, VM Ware cloud

Strategic direction and operational leadership establishing and growing the Agile Delivery Engagement from launch to achieve ~10X revenue growth in 3 years (~$2M - ~$20+Million). Expanded from one to over fifteen applications and functional groups.Scrum of Scrums Master for multiple initiatives. Established lean multi-shore, distributed Scrum and Scrumban Project-Program Management processes, coaching team members and clients on agile software development tools & techniques.Founded, structured and staffed the Distributed Agile Architecture group for TMO B2B, and a follow-the-sun 24/7 Tier-3 Development support program for TMOs largest EIT initiative.Competed and collaborated with established vendors, for large initiatives leading to multi-million-dollar savings for the client and recognition to ProKarma as a true technology partner.Directed all aspects of the engagement including: set-up of off/nearshore locations, recruitment, technical delivery (analysis, architecture, estimation, planning, development, test and deployment), account management & strategy, proposals, responses to RFPs, customer service, pre-sales and business development & support, processes development/implementation, training, financial, payroll, immigration, contracts and change management/support.125+ direct reports to include Managers, Scrum Masters, Team Lead, Liaisons, Architects, Analysts, Developers, Testers, and Administrators.Received accolades from TMO executives “ProKarma is the holy grail of distributed agile delivery.” TMO became ProKarmas’ largest account.Gaurav was awarded for Excellence in Customer DeliveryDrove the formation of a national account team structure with C & V level, improving customer experience, growth, and in-house efficienciesJava/ JEE, Adobe LCES/DS, Flex, CQ5, JQuery, Groovy/Grails; IBM WebSphere Commerce, IBM Sterling; .Net, C#, WCF, Android, iOS; SQL Server, Oracle; TIBCO, Amdocs EPC; Ensemble billing, Contracts, CRM, POS, Catalog, e-commerce

Now Concentrix Catalyst (https://catalyst.concentrix.com/)Reported up to and worked Directly with CXO leadership, and V level to develop global/ multi-shore practices, offering, capabilities, accounts, and drive innovation, investments and growth.

Divestiture of assets of Merck Research Laboratories (MRL) - Rosetta Inpharmatics, the worlds largest high-throughput Gene expression array lab - as part of M&A of Merck & Co and Schering-Plough, turning a cost center in to a profit center for the acquiring organization.Lead and managed a portfolio of biotechnology informatics applications / capabilities migration, modification and new development projects as part of Merck's multi-million dollar enterprise wide BRGOS (Business Reorganization and Global Operating Strategy) initiative.Primary business units externalized as part of separation and transition (M&A&D) of Rosetta Inpharmatics, LLC site of Merc & Co included Gene Expression Laboratory (Merck GEL, the world's largest high quality Gene Expression Lab- now, COVANCE Genomic Laboratories - CGL); Rosetta Biosoftware (now part of Microsoft's Healthcare / Amalga - HealthVault team); The Sage Bionetworks a not-for-profit medical research organization with the vision to provide open access to vast highly consistent disease biology data.Used SCRUM, XP, Lean and Continuous Improvement principles and best practices for Solutions and Business Processes development/ re-engineering.Various groups of Merck-MPRI were relocated to Boston, MA; Rahway, NJ; and North Wales, PA, etc.

Performed as a Technical Agile IT/Telecom Project Manager / Scrum Master / Scrum & XP Coach and Data Architect (ETL) implementing, upgrading and providing professional services for DW/BI based web based Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP), Self-Care and Analytics systems across North America and around the world for Tier-1, 2 & 3 Telecoms to include: T-Mobile, Qwest, Level3, Dobson (Cellular-One - now AT&T), SunCom (now T-Mobile), GCI (Largest telecom of Alaska), nTelos, WCI, Bell Canada, Aliant (Canada), SaskTel (Canada), Telecom New Zealand, TelstraClear (New Zealand), AAPT (Australia), du (Dubai, UAE).Multiple Agile projects (Project TVE: $10M+ per annum); Organization Agile transformation co-leader. XP and Scrum adopter.Acted as Scrum Master and Coached the teams mentoring them on principles and best practices through the transformation from a Modified-Waterfall development and implementation model; Developed and implemented a standardized, Lean-Agile Project Management methodology, to include PMBOK compliant project plans, SCRUM based Product & Sprint backlogs, professional services contracts and best practices. Mentored Data Architects.Enabled an Agile/ Scrum and Test-Driven Development (TDD) friendly culture. Ensured alignment with other groups, PMO.Served as Data Architect (Solution design and coding) to include for major projects for Level3 and GCI, Alaska.Mentored Data Architects. Contributed to rewrite of an ETL layer template and library increasing performance by 1300%. (C#.Net)

Grew from a Sr. Software Design Engineer into a strategic and operational leadership role reporting to the CEO & CTO. Responsible for Project, Program, Product, Development Management, Account Management, Architecture and Business/Systems Analysis. Lead internal/external projects in ASP, ISV & outsourcing models from Request for Proposal (RFP), negotiations, analysis, architecture, design & development to closure & support.Worked closely with C level and investors to restructure and optimize software engineering from recruitment to delivery for internal/ external projects and productizations increasing customer confidence with on-shore/off-shore technical team mix and securing numerous contracts. Instrumental in growth of the company from 9 to 80+ resources. Trained and mentored 10+ direct reports and off-shore teams to include IT-Development, Quality Assurance & Operations in India.Domains include Healthcare (Dentistry, Pharmacy systems), logistics, e-commerce web applications, enterprise wide systems in delivery models to include ASP & ISV, and training.Clients engaged with include: Intel Press, Sharp Microelectronics, Advisicon, Affymetrix, goodhomecookbook.com, Daverci Solutions, Jaccard, The Fruit Company, Collectors Press, Yarn Country, Hydro Farm, hotnames.com, America Web Works (end client: Herbalife), Concierge Extraordinaire, GearBeat.com, VCoins.com, VHobbie.com, Authorize.netProducts include: Aivea eShip - Shipping Logistics, Aivea eShop - Industry first SOA, SaaS, e-commerce COTS platform for SMBs on Microsoft .NetLed multiple successful turnkey B2B, B2C and B2E e-commerce portal implementations. Salesforce CRM and SAP integrations for incentives, commissions, compensation, inventory tracking, and fulfillment. Led development of a Multiple Listing Service (MLS), complex online-ad delivery and Digital Marketing system and Multi Level Marketing (MLM) module. Productized the platform. Implementations for Resorts, golf and supplements verticals.

Successfully collaborated with technology and business stakeholders. Major IT systems impacted include: Web marketing, CRM, Content Management, Customer Care, Retail, Point of Sale (POS), National Retailers, Kiosks, Operations Support & Billing Systems, BI. Solution included an enterprise business rules & offerings configuration engine for Sales & Marketing enabling business to offer and manage any length plans, terms, handsets and specials across all channels. Worked with Data Warehousing/BI analysts & architects to identify & define data sources, cleansing and reporting requirements. Investigated and saw through UAT. As Data Analyst, performed data mapping for the new and modified data sources, investigated data life cycle for quality, developed scenarios to test validity and developed data cleansing rules and transforms. Lead analysis of projects for T-Mobile operated retail stores & channels, national retailers, other retailers, online sales (e-commerce portals), etc. and integration of T-Mobiles’ e-commerce systems with those of major retail partners such as Wal-Mart for in-store and online offerings. Proactively identified gaps in existing work plans. Collaborated with various parties to resolve issues by correcting requirements, analyzing and planning system, data conversion and migration needs, creating new efficient solutions and work plans resulting in an additional project phase lead by me to closure, implementing solution for various National Retailers.Collaborated across technical and business groups including: Enterprise Microsoft Applications Development, Middleware, AMDOCS Billing Systems, ERP (SAP), CRM, Data Warehousing (Teradata, BO, ETL tools), Java development, Corporate Marketing & Sales, Procurement, Handset Program, E-Commerce (T-Mobile.com and My.T-mobile.com), CARE, Information Security, Enterprise Operations, Release Management, etc.

Held various Technology, Management, Business, Accounting, Finance, Insurance, and Business Development positions with multiple organizations at New Delhi, India.+ Insurance Business Agent & IT Projects Liaison/ Product Manager, Financial Products, Life Insurance Corporation of India Ltd.+ Management Trainee, International Finance/ Foreign Exchange (Forex) Hedging; Steel Authority of India, Ltd., Delhi, India.+ Financial, Audits & Systems Assistant, and Accounting Systems Development Manager, M/S S.C. Verma & Co+ Networking and Software Systems Engineer, Saitech Systems Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, India+ Systems Trainee, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Mobile Development, Hindustan Soft Education Ltd., Delhi, India+ Founding Team Member, Client Account Manager/Director and Product Manager, Software Development, Webconnet.com