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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Program Management - Trading : Forex, Commodities, Crypto Currencies, Indices, CFDs, ETFs

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Part of the Tech SSC India Leadership council to contribute on topics related to people performance, hiring, communication and strategic direction

Bangalore

Responsible for defining the Technology Strategy and future Business Application Roadmap. Responsible for IT Portfolio Optimization and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) reduction for Vistra's CIO Application Estate.Lead ‘Program Mercury’ at Vistra to Simplify, consolidate, rationalize and stabilize the global IT Estate for Vistra leading to $4.4 Mn of saving.

Bengaluru Area, India

As an Senior Manager at PwC, my role entails driving Business Strategy programs across India and the middle-east region. I am also responsible for marketing initiatives (communications, events, market trends) and driving revenue growth through new sales in the region. Some of the initiatives I have handled are the following : • Comprehensive Product Benchmarking for Global Product Company (leaders of mobility solutions)o Analyzed the different product offerings (in a phased manner) from a technical (use case functionality) and business (the upcoming market trends in the respective domains) and similar leading software products available in the marketo Performed a comprehensive outside-in analysis of the market and develop a capability and revenue growth roadmap for client productso Realized increased sales of $1.5 Mn by implementing product capability and revenue growth recommendations.• India IT Market Assessment and Market Expansion for Global player in IT / ER&D space o Analyzed the 3 different revenue streams : mode 1 (IT outsourcing), mode 2 (AI, cyber security, cloud and digital services) and mode 3 (Products and Platforms)o Conducted primary and secondary research to build industry characteristics and competitive landscape. Identified market trends, growth drivers and starting point through “fitness for growth” assessment frameworko Mapped initiatives and developed realization plan, Assist and support client to translate identified opportunitieso Generated future services revenue growth potential of $53Mn

Bangalore

I was responsible for driving Strategic Initiatives and driving Revenue Growth in the region. My role entails the following:• Program Management: Overseeing the delivery of the respective IT / Telecom programs in APAC Geo – This includes tracking execution of programs and managing the individual account delivery managers, managing escalations and managing senior client stakeholders. Some of the programs I have managed are as follows :o Digital Transformation Program at Hutch Hong Kong and Hutch Indonesia o Vodafone Australia Service Level Management o Optus Australia Robotic Process Automation o Rakuten Japan Asset Lifecycle Management

Bangalore, London

As an Client Partner I have been leading individual client accounts to deliver value for some of TechMahindra’s key client engagements and also involved in new digital offerings development:• Hutchison Three UK Lead - for Digital Strategy Consulting (Project Rebus – The Three UK Omni-Channel Digital Transformation Program)• Broadnet Lead – for BSS / OSS Transformation using Business Process Frameworks eTOM/ITIL for Broadnet (Norway))• Vodafone UK Lead - Defining Customer Migrations for Vodafone UK• Digital Product Development - The Digital Maturity Assessment Toolkit -- "DIGIMAT"

Mumbai Area, India

As a Manager, Consulting I was responsible for leading a team of high performance consultants in advising organizations on how best to use Information Technology (IT) and Operations Effectiveness in achieving their business objectives. Some of the projects that I executed for global clients are as follows:o Operational Efficiency and Six Sigma• Operations Transformation using six sigma for AT&T Corporation• Customer Churn Reduction for Charter Communicationso Business Cost Transformation and Financial Regulation• Financial compliance (with respect to US state mandate) and cost reconciliation for AT&T Corporation• Access Charge Negotiations support for AT&T Corporation• Bidding Cost Transformation for Centurylink

Bangalore, London, Swansea

Manager, Offshore Delivery Center – As a Manager for British Telecom’s ODC in Bangalore, I was responsible for managing a large scale organization of IT vendor staff, spread across 3 different IT services firms. Some of my key responsibilities and task accomplishments in this role are as follows: o Responsible for managing large scale outsourcing assignments with Infosys, TechMahindra and Virtusa for BT’s key service assurance IT systems – COP and CAMMS. o Responsible for resource planning, systems implementation, financials & operations and Vendor Performanceo Responsible for QoQ reduction in vendor costs via innovations in delivery & design and quote negotiations. o New Vendor onboarding : Involved with new vendor (Virtusa Corporation) onboarding, vendor team selection / set-up, overseeing handover of operations from Infosys to Virtusa

Pgdbm, Finance

Activities and Societies: Recipient of ISB Merit Scholarship.ISB - Hyderabad; ranked 12th best B-School in the world by FT - 2009

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, A

Activities and Societies: Recipient of Lakshmi Devi Merit ScholarshipABC