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Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Paravox Automotive is the Indian subsidiary of Paragon GmbH & Co. KGaA, Germany.* Planned and executed an India entry strategy for Paragon* Successfully setup all operational teams in India from scratch - Software Development, Mechanical Design & German Technical Customer Support* Established a positive and open culture in the company enabling employees to perform at their best, with attrition well below industry standards* Responsible for all company regulatory compliance matters, financial management, audits, etc.

Cochin Area, India

As a financial consulting Firm, Finlead specialises in M&A and Transaction Advisory, Startup Advisory, Business Modelling, Financial Modelling, Due Diligence, Capital Structuring and International business advisory (Exchange Control & International Tax). FinLead has advised numerous companies to raise capital and has also advised a number of cross-border M&As. FinLead Logiticks (www.logiticks.com) was the technology subsidiary, providing solutions for a variety of industry ranging from Automotive, IoT, Energy to Healthcare.

Cochin Area, India

Logiticks is an IT services company building custom software applications for businesses globally. Technologies like Blockchain/Distributed Ledger, IoT, AI and RPA (Robotic Process Automation) were used to provide solutions for a broad range of domains such as Automotive, Healthcare, Education, Oil & Gas and Manufacturing. Logiticks was among the first ten companies in India to offer services for Blockchain Development. FinLead Logiticks is the technology focused subsidiary of the parent company FinLead Innovation.

Bengaluru Area, India

Simplio is a technology company aimed at leveraging intelligence for the travel space. Algorithms developed proved to be successful in the world’s most competitive travel markets. The company was based in Atlanta, Georgia. Simplio was operational in US, China, India and Europe.

Bangalore

* Services company focused on travel technology, big data and financial services.* Offices setup in Bangalore and KochiSkyRocket was acquired by Simplio International.

Bangalore

This was a startup in the education sector. The product was target at the parent-teacher-student collaboration space. The long term goal was to use Analytics to identify an individual’s inherent talent, and match it to a career that requires that talent. * Identified investors and had discussions for funding post bootstrapping phase* Maintained momentum and focus in the company for identifying the problem to be solved, target segment and course of action* Conducted customer and user interviews across segments in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities. Analysed the data, and reconstructed process flows and identified customer pain points* Worked with School Management (Director board and Principals), teachers, parents and students, and compiled a product backlog of potential features

Embassy Golf Links, Domblur, Bangalore

Headed Tier 1 programs for McAfee's Research division streamlining projects and operations across multiple sites including UK, USA, Singapore, Ireland and India. Some of the programs are listed below:* Active Malware Program: A McAfee Labs program aimed at improving McAfee Protection Effectives in the active malware space, to levels above and beyond key competitors. - Developed the next generation of McAfee’s Stinger tool - Revamped critical detection effectiveness systems, which resulted in throughput increase of 5x - Upgraded systems and processes in the daily malware signature release process* VB100 Certification Program: Lead a global team of 50, spanning Research, Development, QA, Release operations and Product teams. - This 2 year program resulted in consistent success, with certification was attempted 5 times since 2011,with a success rate of 100%. - http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/vendor?id=2)* Whitelisting Initiative: Program managed the effort of setting up a dedicated team and infrastructure, for creating and maintaining McAfee’s whitelist databaseOther Initiatives: - Facebook Ops: PgM for signature release of Facebook’s malware tool - FP Task Force: Managed the False Prevention (FP) Task Force, for controlling FP’s in business critical areas - Vendor Management: Direct interaction with vendor CEO's and legal departments for price negotiations, renewals and delivery - GetClean: A program for McAfee’s enterprise customers that guarantees zero False Positives - AM Operations: Tracked and reviewed weekly performance scorecard for Anti-Malware OperationsNominee for McAfee Operational Excellence Award 2012, and part of the team that won McAfee Team Of The Year Award 2011

Bangalore Area, India

DCM Suite Customization: This was aimed at implementation and customization of the DCM suite, for 3 key customers (MetLife, PacLife and United Health Care).* Maintained revenue forecasts and financial plans. Responsible for budgeting and client invoicing. * Performed margin analysis and invoice reconciliation. Ensured that monthly and quarterly targets are met. * Interfaced with client management to provide project status, and to address concerns and issues.* Managed resources, including staffing plans, statement of work and resource forecasting.Other Responsibilities:* Managed gTeam, a global pool of 50 resources, used by multiple accounts. Responsible for resource balancing, and ensuring team productivity targets are met.* Managed RFP submissions and expenses at the BU level, and ensured that this was on target and within budget.

Bangaon Area, India

Migrations and eCare Projects: A process improvement initiative for setting up necessary infrastructure, and processes for addressing Production issues. Also, managed the program once operational* Monitored and tracked Production issues, and acted on them in a timely manner to get a resolution* Created and executed the project plan, defined scope, tracked progress and reported to stakeholders* Interfaced with the Product Management team to resolve requirement issuesRelease Management: Management support for releasing consistently on a fortnightly basis.* Created Deployment plan with inputs from PM’s, Dev, QA, DBA’s and IT personnel. Successfully deployed 10+ releases to Production over a 9 month period* Initiated, tracked, executed and created all supporting activities and documentation such as Release Council requests, code reviews, release notes, etc.* Ensured that the multiple projects in a release are all aligned to meet milestone dates, and on course for the scheduled release dates* Identified risk to the release, and worked with teams to come up with mitigation strategies

Beaverton, Oregon

* Worked with Nike third party service providers, like TradeCard and HSBC, for developing functional specifications that detailed impacts and changes necessary in the external systems* Worked with Process Improvement team to establish the standard for documenting Report specifications.* Lead the team that was pilot for the implementation of TestDirector as the central repository for storing test cases and issues.* Created process flow diagrams and did process improvement for streamlining and optimizing data flow.* Created functional specifications for various reports such as the Bill Detail Report, ASN (Advanced Shipping Notice) Discrepancy Report. Additionally, created the reports layouts and UI’s using Visio* As Deployment Lead, created the Deployment Plan, executed the plan, and coordinated the successful release of the project into Production.* Worked with vendor Vastera, and executed baseline testing for the latest TradeSphere release.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

* Mentored new team members to bring them upto speed with the application, and different tools* Reconciled extracts for the Common Financial Tables, analyzed the variances and created reports to be distributed to senior management and other stakeholders * Created an application in Microsoft Excel that automatically verifies that data from different Ledger units, foots and balances * Created Microsoft Access application for consolidating transaction level data from Source GLs into Assets, Liability, Income, Capital and Expense accounts, at the Ledger Unit Level* Organized and conducted training classes for business users, business analysis and QA teams* Acted as single point of contact between Business and Technical teams to solve issues during UAT

Accelerated Development Program, Strategy, Marketing And Finance

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Master Of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science, Electronics And Communication

Accelerated Development Program

The program was on marketting, finance and strategy

Education record