• Senior member of the team to build, deploy and scale product globally with customer focus • Agile activist who has led Agile transformation initiatives, implementing Scrum and Kanban methodologies to enhance team productivity and project delivery.Product Management & Launch Experience• Product Lead to build and launch cloud agnostic AI as Services (AIaS) solution for exploring, training, deploying, and managing AI products, execute in batch and/or real-time on cloud to address the increasing internal and external demand from business to accelerate growth in the regions, flexibility in Value added service offering and meet country specific data localization requirements.• Strategized and executed the plan for the India Data Localization program, establishing in-country data centers and migration of 50+ applications in compliance with national mandates.• Ideation lead to ideate on the buy now, pay later solution by working with the regions and early adopter partners to evaluate the solutionsProduct Strategy• Developed strategic roadmaps working with regions to deliver industry-leading innovative solutions, including AI/ML platforms, digital wallets, and credit products.• Created a multi-year strategy to scale the Connected Commerce program, driving growth through the enablement of new and innovative acceptance devices.• Rolled out global strategy for the Tap to Phone, Kernel on Cloud and Kernal on device solutions so as to scale for fit to market, fit to purpose.Product Delivery• Developed a global Go-To-Market plans, including benchmarking tools, document repositories, and templates to facilitate consistent execution worldwide. Collaborated with internal and external C-suite stakeholders to ensure uniform messaging.• Executed on Go To market plans for innovative solutions like Connected Cars, Smart devices and showcase the products at high impact events like Olympics 2016, FIFA world cup 2018.

- Work remotely as a business consultant with Seed Transformation Network companies to develop customized and creative business solutions.- Partner with entrepreneurs from the Stanford Seed programs to help them scale and grow their business and address specific business challenges

Drive a team of global leaders based in the US, Europe, South America, Singapore, Russia and India to support the portfolio of several large cross-functional and global initiatives in the compliance and strategic partnerships domains. Managing portfolio consisting of innovative solutions related to leading industry business partners. Deliver routine unified message to executive staff and external business partners highlighting the key successes, issues, risks and mitigation plan.▪ Responsible for end-to-end program management across 4 scrum teams, 3 solution teams and several cross functional teams to create innovative products and solutions driving overall customer experience.▪ Own the implementation of portfolio roadmaps across multiple areas, providing 6 to 24 months of visibility to strategic and tactical programs for prioritization and schedule dependencies.▪ Chosen as Agile champion to restructure the organization into agile environment globally by nurturing partnership with various functions and business lines; execution capability of team subsequently improved by 40% within 1 year.▪ Partner with the marketing team to carry out the Go-To-Market effort and supporting the product through the launch.▪ Tracking the KPIs after launch and make strategic decision based on the performance of the launched products.▪ Effectively managed stakeholders by closing communicating with all teams including Localization, Data Analytics, IT ops, Data Management, IT infrastructure, Release Management and keeping the cap ex, op ex and the program budget within control.▪ Received Spot Awards over the tenure. - Awards given to recognize employees for excellent performance, stakeholder appreciations and bring process excellence into the team.

▪Facilitate and Develop operating rhythms for the PMO for various processes to enable smooth functioning of the business. ▪Develop key messages for executive escalation. ▪Assist in driving key Program Management Office initiatives and deliverables to support PMO Planning and Operations. ▪Work with the cross functional team to facilitate the tracking and resolution of resource requirements, program activities, and commitments as well as work with all levels of management within the organization. ▪Work to improve the Program Management team through process definition and implementation as well as agreed program templates.

▪Managing a team of 20 both onsite and offshore as part of the application services contract @ Amgen Inc.▪ Undertaking development and enhancement projects of various sizes for the Business intelligence (BI) department.▪Handling 5-6 simultaneous projects in order to meet weekly, monthly or quarterly client deliverables.▪Working in Waterfall & Agile model to deliver the client requirements with quality and on time.▪ Developing forecasting strategies with business so as to manage the team and deliverable schedule.▪Coordinate with recruiters both internal and external to get the right candidate to fit the position▪Mentor the team in all phases of the project and also address their issues and concerns▪ Making sure the processes and standards are maintained throughout the project management life cycle.▪ Generating weekly/monthly reports to analyze the performance of 11 Center of Excellence (COE) across various parameters such as resource utilization, application availability, work projections, utilization. Ensuring the program is in compliance with contractual (monthly/quarterly/annual) Service Level Agreements (SLA)▪ Analyzing the trends and performing analysis to improve the gaps in the current program performance.▪Understand and gather project requirements, create Statement of Work (SOW) and maintain the Purchase Orders (PO) for the projects. Accountable for reconciliation of Purchase Orders for monthly billing of worth more than $300,000.▪Manage project administration including project revenue forecasting & tracking, project financials analysis, time and expense reconciliation, and invoicing preparation/reconciliation. Making sure the invoicing and billing is SOX compliant.▪Contributed in proposal development activities including Request for Proposals (RFP) analysis. Analyzing, coordinating the technical team to get the effort estimation and then pricing the change requests for existing or new applications.

▪ Developed a plan and implemented the roll out of the new generation of IT Project Management methodology. The new methodology will help to improve the quality and efficiency.▪Implemented a skills management system within IT to record existing skills and identifying training and development opportunities. Coordinated with 6 Business Units for implementation▪ Involved in tuning the Oracle BI tool for implementing it within the organization.

▪ Key resource for the designing and later developing the new School of Management website at University of Texas at Dallas. ▪ Analyzing the business need of the projects ▪ Maintained and supported the School of Management website.

▪ Analyzed project requirements and integrated new ideas by delegating efficiently as well as working collaboratively to maintain costs and to expedite delivery resulting in high customer satisfaction.▪ Communicated effectively project implementation progress and occasional impediments to customer to keep customer participation high resulting in quicker and cheaper project monitoring and increase in customer satisfaction.▪ Forecasted product design flaws by critical thinking and attention to detail to reduce time between detection and resolution of defects resulting in high coordination between onsite and offshore and timely deliveries of project.▪ Mentored new recruits by organizing technical as well as business learning sessions to achieve technical and domain expertise.▪ Organized and promoted team building and creativity development events to encourage group work, foster employee interaction and cultural sensitivity within company.