Responsible for day to day operations including General Administration, Technology, Promotions, Program Coordination.

Career Highlights: SmartPlay• Responsible for building out the HR function in supporting the company's fast paced growth objectives - with detailed policies, processes, databases, and reporting systems impacting employee lifecycle.• Lead the efforts towards achieving a place in the Top 50 ‘Great Places to Work’ 2015 IT-BT Segment• Reengineered the entire Performance Management process that enhanced the effectiveness, trust and timely completion of the process• Strategically lead many efforts towards Employee Experience and Satisfaction• Spearheaded business-critical retention programs that helped achieving better than industry average headcount growth.• Helped implementing industry best practices in compensation administration that resulted in retaining critical talent segments. • Built significant trust with employees across levels by providing genuine attention and support. • Mentored engineering leadership team that enhanced positive day-to-day employee experiences.• Acted as the custodian of HR data for the entire organization.• Program managed implementation of HR information system (HRMantra) for SmartPlay. Stages include writing requirements, design, implementation, test, training and final roll out. Career Highlights: Aricent• Represented SmartPlay as a HR lead integrator - involved in analyzing, planning and program managing cultural transition between the SmartPlay and Aricent teams.• Was able to effectively coach and mentor as my investment in building a trust based relationship with the engineering managers and team leaders which paid off well. • Was solely responsible for Staff data transfer from SmartPlay’s data repositories to Aricent’s SAP system. • Played the role of HR Business Partner for Semiconductor & Embedded Systems business unit (2000 engineers).

Established talent acquisition strategy to suit the BU; Revamped the induction program; Introduced Friday fun activities to improve team interaction; Helped in smooth transitioning through the 2008 industry crash that prompted activities like, downsizing across the organization and restructuring of salary components, resulting in pay reductions and deferred bonus. Shouldered additional responsibilities of HR Operations Manager – helped turnaround the Insurance enrollment and administration process; leave and attendance tracking process that helped reducing misuse in leave accruals; Revamped the entire exit processes that resulted in reduction of the post exit process cycle from 60+ days to under 15 days by fixing accountabilities on various teams involved.

Was responsible for revamping the HR function by designing and implementing new policies and processes in areas like recruitment, on boarding, separation, benefits; developing a HRIS tool to suit the company's limited but unique data; introducing technology based performance and potential analysis as part of the company’s performance management program. Handled full cycle recruitment for the company most of which were engineering hiring.

Helped setting up the HR department. Responsibilities include handling full cycle Recruitments, on boarding, performance management, leave administration, employee files & data management.

Managed and mentored a team of five recruiters; Lead business development and client servicing; Supported Managing director with daily operational functions. Was directly handling senior management hiring.

Was in-charge of the Talent Management in addition to being responsible to review and rewrite the existing people policies and processes. Was instrumental in setting up first ever performance review process for the company.

Was responsible for implementing HR activities for the Madurai Center. Helped the Centre Manager in planning and execution of general administration activities.