Leading the Product Organization at Bright Machines

• Head of Product for the company, representing product management for all cross functional teams• Leading a team of rockstar Product Managers and UX designers• Conceptualized, wrote and communicated product strategy and long-term vision to C-suite executives• Envisioned, owned, developed and communicated short, medium and long term strategic product roadmap to the entire company• Championed the importance of a product driven approach to the company with sales, supply chain, operations, engineering and leadership• Built a team of 5 product managers and UX designers in under 6 months of joining the company• Portfolio of products managed include computer vision enabled robotics services, manufacturing line management services, cloud services to manage data generated from IoT enabled devices on the shopfloor.

• Launched a private cloud service for an industry leading manufacturing customer that helps them on their digital transformation journey towards Industry 4.0 by contextualizing factory floor data thereby increasing ability to get insights by 50%• Worked with customers, system integrators and vendors to understand customer networking obstacles in factories around multiple network designs in the L0-L5 space - plant networks, process networks, firewalls to get factory floor data to the AWS cloud. • Worked with customers to define factor floor data connectivity strategies - understood their ISA-95 architecture and standard topologies to connect to OT/IT systems like data historians (OSI PI and others), MES systems (IBM Maximo, Inductive Automation’s Ignition, etc.,).• Proposed a radical new product around a manufacturing customer’s data strategy, got leadership buy-in and directed development a new product that simplified OT/IT data search & retrieve for non-developers.• With the new contextualized data strategy - envisioned a root cause analysis use case for which the data from MES, ERP, Factory floor telemetry and other data systems would be unified for floor operators to query in a visual manner to extract data insights 75% faster (in a matter of minutes as opposed to weeks)• Conducted and influenced several C-suite workshops with customer executives to work backwards, goal set and define metrics for an industry level co-development venture in the energy industry.• Defined AWS’s Manufacturing cloud services product strategy & 5 yr roadmap, convinced stakeholders and got executive leadership buy-in for the product vision.• Managed EC2 capacity products for Capacity Supportability and Demand Shaping for our enterprise customers• Mentored several PMs AWS around job clarity, career planning, doc writing, stakeholder management, strategic decision making and other critical feedback. • Interviewed over 50 candidates for AWS recruiting.

• Launched a private fulfillment service for AWS data center supply chain that brings the best of automation to AWS scale.• Proposed and got executive buyin for 3-year organization strategy for a new IoT systems & solutions organization that delved deep into product areas that had gaps in the AWS IoT portfolio specifically for Industrial IoT.• Proposed a new service that would let factory floor customers in a manufacturing facility define and manage both OT/IT and Edge gateways together in a secure manner with the help of the AWS cloud both within their L3 and lower network as well as L3.5+ on the ISA-95 system.• Launched a smart refrigerator inventory mgmt. application in AWS’ Executive Briefing Centers that helps demonstrate Industrial IoT sensors & services to customers – launched in 17 conference rooms and got uptake from the Seattle Kraken arena and other local food establishments as customers.

* Manage End-to-End Supply Chain Operations and Planning for Data Center Capacity.* Collaborate with Data Center Capacity Planning, Data Center Operations, Demand Planning, EC2 Capacity Planning, EBS Demand Planning, Hardware engineering, Original Device Manufacturing vendors and others to land capacity in the right position at the right time with the right configuration worldwide* Drive innovative new processes for logistics management for Data Center capacity around the world* Manage & execute capacity redirects, post PO order management and on the ground asset management in order to execute against capacity constraints - constraint management

• Managed 7 marine electronics NPI programs with a combined value of $50M NPV and 150% IRR• Implemented a cost reduction strategy in the order of $75k a year for a 5 year NPI program• Directed work for global team of 6 team members on a day to day basis with daily standup meetings both for resources in the US and in India thereby increasing productivity and avoiding communication delays• Collaborated with parts suppliers, internal and external purchasing contacts thereby identifying low cost suppliers and driving increased focus on company spend• Saved $40K in warranty by solving electronics integration issues on multiple boats under intense customer scrutiny that led to a positive testimonial by customers for keeping up the Caterpillar brand promise• Certified as a Targeted Selection Interviewer and participated in the hiring process for the team acting as an expert interviewer. Made hiring decisions for local team in Griffin, GA with full autonomy• Go-to person for engine electronics for the marine engine product group, serving as a consultant on all electronics related products and ideas for marine product development• Spearheaded the division to introduce marine engine telematics with predictive analytics to the Caterpillar product• Cross functional collaborator with parts suppliers, internal and external procurement contacts and direct relationship with marketing, operations and engineering teams• Highly engaged and productive partner working with Product Definition and Market Development Consultants to capture Voice of Customer, Voice of Business and Voice of Dealer in delivering electronics solutions.

• Led a globally diverse team of 15 software developers and architects using Agile software development principles• Played the role of scrum master for the team with 2 week sprints with multiple product line releases in parallel• Recognized a critical team need for optimization and reorganized the team to increase productivity by 20%• Pioneered team’s transition from hand code to model based software delivering quality improvements of 30%• Spearheaded the team to investigate adopting AUTOSAR methodologies for future software development thereby increasing software codebase portability and standardization comparable to the rest of the industry • Certified Agile Professional -- trained and then helped developed the Agile mindset in the team• Mentored younger software engineers in all parts of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) with both Waterfall and Agile methods of software development. • Excelled at managing program budgets, workload planning, project management, resource management, planning and allocation, managing slack, etc.,

• Led a team of 3 engineers as Engine Software application lead engineer for Quarry and Construction trucks (QCT) machine engine software• Managed various New Product Introduction (NPI) projects for Quarry & Construction trucks as well as Continuous Product Improvement (CPI) projects• Certified as DMAIC and DMEDI 6 sigma engineering Blackbelt during this time• Primary job responsibility to design, develop manage and deliver engine software flashfiles to internal and external customers primarily for Caterpillar F and G series QCT programs.• Excelled in translating system requirements to software requirements from machine product group and engine plants.• First point of contact for engine electronics related issues on the QCT program• Other responsibilities included program budgeting, requirements definition and management, mentoring and field issue resolution.• During this time, also excelled in embedded software development and software integration for Quarry / Construction trucks.

• Senior Software Integration engineer for Off Highway Truck engine software• Led the team in software integration• Primary source of contact for software library teams to discover bugs in software and recommend fixes• During this time, developed multiple engine control software features in ANSI C.• Developed multiple research/prototype style features that were then ported into the mainstream library• Used Motorola PowerPC based processor architecture for writing engine embedded software