Pragna Patel is a professional in their field. Colleagues describe them as "Driven, insightful, kind, strong, and brilliant are the ways I describe Pragna. She takes the time to learn the subject matter of whatever she’s working on, truly detailed understanding. She knows how to drive everyone in her orbit to also come to a common cause. She is in no uncertain terms a JEM of a person, engineer, and manager." and "Pragna and I have worked together for many years both at Motorola and Nokia. She has had many leadership roles throughout her career including R&D line management, program and project management, change and transition leadership, process improvement and quality assurance, and 3PV product management. In all of these roles she has consistently demonstrated excellent and impactful results and is globally recognized as an effective, influential and experienced leader. Motorola and Nokia are global companies which require the skills and ability to manage through very diverse cultures, languages, and time zones. One of Pragna’s key strengths is the ability to work through these people and logistical obstacles effectively and efficiently while achieving timely and impactful results. Throughout her career, her initiative, strong collaboration and communication skills, technical “know how”, and influence management have provided the framework to help mentor, guide, lead, and manage engineering functions including those located in less mature locations; thus ensuring that the overall organization and programs are successful. She excels at both product R&D and organizational development roles whether it’s through off-shore technology and site transition topics or project, program, and organizational development activities. Her most recent experience with Nokia has been as an organizational change leader, process and quality champion, feature manager, and operations specialist. These roles have required Pragna to work directly with 5 countries and 7 sites daily while interfacing with several additional countries and Nokia locations on a frequent basis. The global organizational and program challenges include leading and directing global R&D feature teams that employ Agile Large Scale SCRUM in a 24x7 Continuous Integration life cycle model. Pragna has had a major influence within this product development paradigm by leading a Continuous Integration and delivery team, performing as organizational R&D Quality Assurance manager, managing multiple features across several LTE eNB releases as a feature team manager, and driving several LTE eNB O&M product improvement initiatives. All of these responsibilities require tight coordination, communication and collaboration with global peer organizations throughout Nokia. Pragna has a deep passion for her work and for the people she works with that translates to successful projects and the creation high performance teams and organizations. She has earned the admiration and respect of her colleagues around the globe. She is a role model for behavioral and leadership skills and it has been a pleasure to have worked with her for these many years. "