- Enable Cisco’s new contingent workforce transformation strategy, operating model and policy through the technology capability as the backbone.- Lead product identification, selection, scoping and implementation for all workforce product areas including Cisco’s vendor management systems and direct sourcing platforms. - Align business requirements to selected product capability and influence product roadmaps to address Cisco's future needs.- Design and deliver Cisco’s contingent workforce technical product roadmap. - Owner of end to end process architecture definition, documentation and features- Owner of requirement gathering, documentation and management- Owner of contingent workforce/ VMS relationship-communication of requirements, understanding & influencing the product roadmap- Face of product architecture and roadmap to GPS and Cisco for contract discussions and negotiations

- Currently leading several transformation initiatives across the procurement organization. - Led the conceptualization, vision and strategy for the overall analytics at GPS. Highlighted the criticality of consolidating data architecture and utilizing a robust governance framework to enable federated analytics.- Designed and developed a consistent delivery model for Contract Negotiators (CN) to effectively manage their workload and service the Category and Supplier Management (CSM) organization, in a standardized way. - From conceptual design to successful implementation of Contracts Digitization across global contract portfolio at Cisco. Leveraged AI/ ML and NLP to harness critical information from contract documents to drive insights.- Designed and developed a scalable solution to effectively manage compliance around gift policy leveraging the AI/ ML (NLP) algorithms. Conducted a benchmarking study across peers (Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle) to both understand how they are handling this challenge and shared our creative solution.- Designed and developed the unified engagement model to streamline and automate the CSM engagement process.- Designed and developed a layered governance framework to effectively manage Seal platform. - Mentored team members on driving governance, data management and business architecture.- Mentored several teams through Agile transformation by providing training and coaching across various initiatives.- Responsible for leading the long-term vision for the Procurement organization including formulating Center of Excellence and researching Megatrends (AI, Blockchain) and their application within our Procurement context. - Conceptualized and led organization structure design using centralized service to drive efficiencies across the teams.- Designed Contracts Analytics to drive policy consistency and variance across contract clause language.- Led the team (including Directors, VP) through Data Science for Leaders training.

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Established and managed global software development operations, methodologies and processes focused on improving the productivity and quality of distributed teams. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Agile Coach with experience in leading and training several project teams. Successfully developed strategy for driving the adoption of Agile methods within large organizations. Collaborative style of engagement, fostering relationships across various disciplines, levels of management, and organizations. Excellent communicator with proven skills in resolving escalated conflicts overcoming objections and promoting positive company image in critical situations. Acknowledged as a strong leader and mentor able to motivate and influence team members to be highly productive and efficient.

Main responsibilities included planning, scheduling, prioritizing and managing various Heartbeats (mobile platform application deliveries). In that, we leveraged critical chain to schedule and manage project deliveries. Also involved in the requirements management and planning phase of various HBs. Led process improvements by following the six-sigma approach specific to the software maintenance process. Responsibilities also included collaborating and, fostering relationships across various function groups, levels of management, and mentoring team leads.

Worked on 2 full-time consulting engagements with Cisco Systems within this period. Key aspect of these engagements was to develop a global software development methodology (based on Agile principles) for Cisco IT and demonstrate improvements in the productivity of teams and quality of their deliverables. These methodologies are part of their standard software development lifecycle now. When not working with clients, as a Manager of software devleopment operations at APN, my main responsibilities were as follows:1) Provide thought leadership in the area of using collaboration to mitigate issues in global/distributed software development. 2) Engage in pre-sales opportunities and requirements engineering with key accounts – Cisco Systems, Inc. 3) Introduce Agile methodologies to clients to optimize their application delivery. As a certified ScrumMaster, provide training to internal resources and clients on agile methodologies.

Responsible for understanding and specifying process flows, use cases, user stories, etc. to effectively manage the customer requirements for LabView project. Introduced prototyping, iterative methodologies to the teamProvided technical leadership to the project team by introducing new technologies (JSPs, MVC design pattern, etc.). Performed the architecture, design, build and implementation of the scheduling and lab maintenance module using Java based technologies. Coordinated cross-functional analysis uniting business and IT project team members.

Conceptualized the architecture for the entire Order Exchange application. Finalized the Order data exchange format between Cam and its partners. Prepared business and technical requirements, detailed analysis document by interviewing key stakeholders including the company partners. Designed and developed C++, XML application using MFC and other internally developed libraries for handling the import and export of order documents.