Experienced consulting professional in Life Sciences Solutions and Consulting, Six Sigma Certified, accomplished IT Professional with 20+ years of experience including 10+ years of International exposure. Has led multi-million dollar programs in consulting, systems' implementations, IT Service Operations Management and Transformation for large global pharma-biotech clients and large global Life Sciences (pharma and medical devices), chemical manufacturing and FMCG clients. Has provided business process and IT consulting to MNC clients in process industry for implementation and support of IT systems supporting sourcing (direct and indirect) processes, commercial finance processes, order-ship-billing processes and plant and equipment capital asset management processes. Has provided Quality Systems Consulting to pharma-biotech clients and has worked through the entire life-cycle of Quality System implementation including Business Requirements Analysis and Process Design, Product Selection, System Blueprint and System Implementation and Validation. Has also been instrumental in business development by driving down-stream revenue through strategic consulting engagements, thereby establishing the foundation for long-term client relationships. Has led Pharmacovigilance Centre of Excellence at Cognizant, and has had responsibility for delivery, solutions and pre-sales and have led multi-million dollar proposals end-to-end (Solutions and proposal development, strategizing win-themes, authoring of bid defense decks and leading the bid defense meetings with customers). In the most recent role, has managed service operations management and delivery for global pharmaceutical client for applications spanning the R&D portfolio. In addition, has championed service improvement and transformation initiatives for multiple clients in the life sciences industry.