As a leader in Cognizant’s IT "AI Center of Excellence", I head a dynamic team of over 15 ML engineersand data scientists, architecting and managing a diverse portfolio of more than 10+ applications. Myprimary responsibility is to drive the productionization of AI and ML solutions across various corporateand business functions.Key Responsibilities:• Aligning ML algorithms with business objectives, developing solutions, and assessing their potentialsuccess.• Responsible for designing and implementing scalable, secure, and robust data science solutions usingMicrosoft Azure's cloud services.• Overseeing resources, including hardware, data, and team members, to ensure project timelines aremet.• Analyzing and visualizing data to understand its characteristics and identifying any distributiondiscrepancies that might impact model performance.• Ensuring data quality through rigorous cleaning and validation processes.• Training and fine-tuning models, including hyperparameter optimization.• Diagnosing model errors and devising strategies to address and mitigate them.• Managing the end-to-end deployment of models into production environments, CI/CD pipelines etc..

Responsible for end-to-end management and delivery of 40+ business intelligence/analytics projects for the different business and functional units across the company.• Engage with senior leaders, business analysts, functional IT teams across the organization to implement impactful data-driven decisions and cutting-edge solutions.• Lead analytics teams with their technical analysis and development of solutions in support of the digital data and analytics processes.• Work with the cloud data ingestion team, enterprise architects, data provisioning team (data warehouse), BI developers (PowerBI, Qlik), and develop dashboards in-line with reporting strategy and architecture.• Lead the team in implementing the data and analytics awareness through internal marketing and improved BI (Business Intelligence) adoption.• Awarded "IT's Most Digital Player" in the "CIO 2019 annual awards" for implementing key digital transformation projects.

Built the entire operations and sales of the company – with focus on business development. business strategies,marketing plans, processes and systems.• Managed sales/marketing initiatives that elevated company’s profile in the retail and agro industry.• Created and executed branding for the company and oversaw the implementation.• Developed and controlled the Inventory management, sales execution, and logistic service offerings.• Improved bottom-line financial performance through vendor management and price optimization strategies and effective logistic measures.• Implementing cost-effective operational plans while maintaining established quality standards.• Built relationships with customers to communicate issues and improvement suggestions.

Led a team of data & project analysts and interfaced with various functions within the business to ensure project success.• Overall responsibility for the successful execution of projects for 20 enterprise clients.• Managed several large accounts and resolved escalated client issues and new revenue generating initiatives.• Effectively managed project milestones, metrics, and profitability of the publishing team.

Established and led the newly formed BPI team in Canada and developed new consultants by training them on 6-Sigma & lean methodologies, facilitation, project management.• Completed projects which increased customer satisfaction from 63% to 74% and produced $1M annual cost savings by focusing on data driven root cause analysis.• Built BPI awareness and project pipeline by fostering strong relationships with management and frontline associates and trained 70% of support and leadership team.• Developed and implemented a six-month associate development program to train and developdepartmental supervisors and seniors on BPI methodologies and skills.• Responsible for identifying and executing multiple BPI projects in client relation, operations and support teams in achieving their yearly business improvement targets.

Built automated reports that supported Canadian and US business leaders by aligning strategic goals, management decisions and individual performance through linkage metrics and cascading reports.• Revamped and managed critical quarterly/annual reports used by the COO for the Canadian fund for analyzing business performance by creating a better presentation layer.• Produced value-added analysis on the metrics to answer various business trends and commentary on market, internal operations and financials for better decision-making.• Developed and maintained the North American Retail, Powershares and Business Operating Model (BOM) scorecard for the leadership team and managing director.• Improved the quality of reports and metric development, consolidating several reports and adapting metrics based on feedback from business units and senior management during bi- annual review meetings.• Established internal process for improving data quality, integrity, and accuracy of the metrics published.

Developed performance metrics such as property utilization, maintenance cost, productivity and service levels necessary to efficiently track and manage city property.• Created multi-source reports and provided consolidated reports to the director of Facilities and Real Estate division for yearly planning.• Improved business process flows in various business units such as maintenance, operations and document management by analyzing and conducting business process workshops with clients and internal managers to standardize the processes across different teams.

• Provided a comprehensive inventory root cause analysis on the International Material division’s complex supply chain and built recommendations for future process improvement. • Mapped, reviewed and analyzed the current state of the inventory tracking process across the supply chain with respect to user requirements and industry standards. • Defined the future state and identified inventory management strategies

Developed and maintained key performance indicators (KPI) and balanced scorecard for all the business units and provided monthly/quarterly reports to the CFO and CEO.• Managed and facilitated the yearly business planning and forecasting for various business groups across three geographic locations (Asia, North America and Europe) and four business functions (Design, Manufacturing, Embedded technologies and Services), tracked and reported the success rate to the chairman and top management.• Executed the implementation of the business turnaround plan with the CFO, which reduced expenses by 10% per annum ($.5 million) by closely monitoring costs and providing cost-benefit analysis for resource optimization.

Built a team of 20 members, created training materials based on the European Union RoHS and IMDS standards, coached new members on standard operating procedure, requirement elicitation and solution assessment methods.• Increased the project revenue from $.1 million to $.4 million in one year by expanding to various divisions of the client's business.• Increased the efficiency of data sheet screening process by working with the IT department and developed a customized MS Access database and Excel macro which optimized the back-end work by 20%, equating to a savings of approximately US$100,000.• Won the Best Project award for customer satisfaction.• Presented a white paper regarding the IMDS scenario within the Indian automobile market.