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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Everett, Washington, Us

Instilling a product-led innovation mindset and elevating product management talent to deliver viable customer outcomes at Intelex, a Fortive operating Company. www.intelex.com -Support the growth and development of new ideas and businesses.- Foster a culture of innovation by facilitating creative processes, encouraging experimentation, cultivating catalysts, and guiding teams through continuous improvement processes through PDLC to attain business and financial goals.- Leading creation of standard work and ongoing roll-out of a Lean Product Management Toolkit, to elevate skills for product managers in market analysis, customer research, problems worth solving, needs-based segmentation, solution ideation, success measurement, business modeling and product road mapping.- Provide mentorship, expertise to help innovation teams grow and succeed.- Serve as a consultant, offering expertise on implementing innovative technologies and practices across organization.

San Francisco, California, Us

BMM BConnect Seattle Chapter is among the first professional networking chapters among, but not limited to, Marathi community (Marathi speaking part of Indian community) professionals providing opportunities to locally network, promote business and lend a helping hand for those who are considering starting any business.The BConnect Seattle Chapter, non-profit org, is an extension of the bigger BConnect segment of Bruhan Maharashtra Mandal (BMM) convention dedicated to providing a platform to foster entrepreneurs and foster employment growth and opportunities. BConnect is more than just a platform —it’s a movement. It’s a journey of inspiration, entrepreneurship, and community strength.*Entrepreneurship: Celebrating the spirit of innovation and self-reliance, nurturing an environment where ideas flourish into ventures that shape a successful future.*Mentorship: Belief in the transformative impact of mentorship where seasoned professionals guide the next generation, passing down invaluable experience and knowledge.*Community Strength: Commitment to fostering a robust network where professionals unite, collectively celebrate successes, and support one another’s journeys.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Product Management, Single-threaded leader for Amazon Prime Offers responsible for managing product team and driving the vision, strategy, roadmap and execution of Prime Offers from inception to retirement, for acquiring and retaining 100s of millions of users and partners. My team innovates on behalf of the customer by designing Offers that allow non-Prime members across 26+ countries to engage with the conveniences of Prime, driving customer acquisition and retention.- Developed business cases for multimillion dollar investments, aligned with organizational goals, fostering cross-functional and cross-org collaboration to standardize ROI evaluation, experimentation and analytics.-Design initiatives for capturing the underserved customer segments identified through the data and A/B experimentation development and analysis resulting in awareness of several untapped potential areas.-Led teams to build and execute innovative strategies that directly connect key initiatives to measurable outcomes.-Established and managed team of senior product managers, including their talent development and performance management.-Drove efforts across the country marketing, finance, product, engineering, data science and ML teams, to identify areas for improvement and prioritize initiatives for 3YP to drive user growth.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Simplifying employee and HR digital experiences across 50+ services, for more than 2M Amazonian. -Founded the unified employee and HR experience platform disrupting HR space with new vision and strategy that influences the HR and employee experience workflows, on desktop and mobile, across 50+ HR products; adopted by more than ~2M employees.- Created product playbook to establish simplified and iterative framework, prioritization, tents and standard operating procedures for efficient product execution at scale.- Single threaded leader for bringing strategic direction in building product and tech team for Work Authorization and Digital Identity service solution that impact over 2M employees. Drove average of $XB in annual savings.-Established product team and developed of 9+ individuals through coaching, feedback, development goals, promotion and performance management.-Liaison between UX, technical Product and quality teams to lead teams through end-to end product experience releases.-Created business usecases and led PMs to convert them into ML solutions requirements with the AI team to incorporate intelligence in the digital experiences to scale. This paved way to broader scope for the AI team.-Led stakeholders to engage in customer research, user experience, CRM and data-driven prioritization to derive product market-fit.-Established and led the core team in designing and driving the change management process for onboarding business, technical and customer support teams on to the new unified HR platform.-Supervised program managers to drive the framework with partner teams for deprecation of ticketing system impacting ~55 sub services.

Chicago, Us

Driving the vision, strategy, design and execution of a cloud-based developer platform product ; a new business model that enables small and large organizations to bring their health-tech innovations faster to market. Some of my responsibilities are as follows:- Cross-functional Leadership: Led product team of 21 to create developer platform ecosystem, enabling growth for $1.2B digital profile. Mentored Product managers through user stories and roadmap.- Product Lifecycle (0 to 1): Orchestrated product planning, strategy, roadmap, product development & GTM- Defining the product vision: Identify customer segments, scenarios, positioning, value prop, business model, user experiences, objectives and key results for measuring success/failure of the product- Owning product planning, roadmap & Strategy: Define scalable 5 year strategic roadmap and hyper-prioritize features based on market needs, customer and partner feedback as well as business objectives to influence $10M+ recurring revenue growth.- Competitive analysis: Use market research & first-hand customer knowledge to strategize use case. - Drive coherence: Interacting with executive leadership, multiple product teams, customers and Edison ecosystem initiatives to align on business goals and to drive a Minimum-Viable-Product to market. Onboarded 600+ users and 100+ quality APIs across GE Healthcare Received Corporate Award for my upfront collaboration with the first Edison X initiative. http://startups.gehc.co/- Driving lean product development approach and establishing product quality governance - Finance: Tracking product spent and model revenue projection with initial hypothesis- Driving API framework: Influenced authoring high quality APIs and drove Apigee adoption that allow APIs be metered & tracked.- Developed product analytics powered by science and AI capabilities - Presented the new product at medical conference that lead to generation of 55+ potential partner interest.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

Provide supervisory control and monitoring solutions for energy and Oil&Gas industries.In GE (previously part of ALSTOM GRID)I worked on newly acquired product for a new vertical and since have lead multi-million dollar milestone projects. Successfully lead end-to-end customized product delivery, empathized with customer behaviors, customer personas, jobs to be done and executed on ideas and initiatives that increase project efficiency. The delivery of product solutions that our team built, helps our customers provide gas and electricity to millions of people. I took initiatives to increase project productivity and enhance customer experiences that was well appreciated. I am fortunate to have worked in one of the leading brands in the energy industry.Few highlights:- Cross-functional Leadership: Overall responsible for end-to-end project delivery, according to the business requirements, within budget with great customer satisfaction.- Received Impact award for saving $1M in Q4 of 2017 that contributed towards growth in profit.- Customer VOC and Product Design: Empathize with customer and communicated the insights to the product team to drive design improvements to the product being serviced.- Project lifecycle: Successfully implemented the various project phases, including planning, system integration, product testing, and system roll-out.-Product mentoring: Provided training to customer and onboarded new PMs to products being built for customers.- Process Improvement: Committed to process improvements that bring efficiency in project execution.- Project strategy and roadmap: Design strategy and roadmap to implement automation of products delivery on projects.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

• Cross-functional leadership and execution:Led the technical deployment of GE’s first product-based solution for oil and gas projects; achieved 10% positive gain margin and completed 2 weeks ahead of the project schedule. Received corporate awards for successful and efficient project delivery.• Project delivery: Successfully delivered software solutions that improves power management during peak workloads and avoids unexpected power outages affecting millions of people.• Product Life cycle: Followed Agile methodology for product enhancements to ensure rapid iterative releases which gained client’s trust.• Documentation: Documented use cases and test cases to validate that delivered functionality meets business expectations.• Customer Support: Provided one-on-one support to onboard customers on the projects I delivered. • Coaching /Training: Created and delivered customer training across 5 different customer functional groups that simplified learning experience to increase retention and success rates.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

• Project Management: Created and maintained the project task tracking list, delegated tasks from this checklist according to the schedule to ensure project completes within the demanding deadline• Product development: Created a new product offering by customizing the base product to meet the needs of a new industry vertical; successfully completed the integration, testing and implementation of the new product.• Product Enhancement: Proposed and implemented enhancements to standardize user experience to make the product suite more user friendly and comply with the best practices in the industry.• Project Documentation: Contributed to the project plan for delivery by creating checklists for required user manuals, test cases, training and server connectivity documents.• Reporting: Ensured the project met the client’s business requirements by regularly demonstrating project progress and communicating their feedback to rest of the team.• Marketing: Supported the product marketing group by building prototype for the purpose of giving demonstrations to potential customers.• Process Improvement: Standardized system build and propagation by building script templates that were used by Oil and Gas projects within ALSTOM.• Process Improvement: Increased operational productivity by initiating and creating lean and efficient tools to automate process of system integration, build and propagation.• Training: Created and delivered customer training methodology and curriculum across 5 different customer functional groups that simplified learning experience to increase retention and success rates.Onboarded customer service teams on the new/delivered products to ensure post handover success for customers.• Product Demonstration: Demonstrated unique features of the product that solved the client’s challenging business requirements and increased their confidence in the progress of the project.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Project engineer at ALSTOM Grid on contract to hire basis.

Redmond, Wa, Us

Responsible for designing, building and testing hardware prototype used to demonstrate the software product to the clients.

Charlottesville, Va, Us

• Conducted thesis research on parameter projection on adaptive linear, nonlinear and Linear Quadratic systems and verified the research by simulating the process on NASA’s Generic Transport Model in MATLAB.

Charlottesville, Va, Us

• Conducted office hours to help students with their course work and graded the assignments, quizzes and exam.• Subjects: Linear Automatic Control Systems (for graduates and PhD’s) and Probability and Random Process (for undergraduates).

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

This is where I got deep hands on experience in system hardware and software logic design, implementation and on-site project delivery in record time (very fun!). I learnt about organizational hierarchy, business processes and different product groups for different services. I got to experience firsthand at customer perspective in every stage of the project. The keys skills that I learnt during this time are customer empathy, planning, operationalizing, cross-functional collaboration, process control, logic design thinking and quality control.Specific highlights:Instrument system design and implementation• Managed a project through the design, build and verification stages, to build a Fail Safe Controller used in a fertilizer plant, and handed the system over to the delivery team in 85% of the estimated time.• Designed the Fail Safe Controller and independently built and loaded its logic to interface with the Distributed Control System, for an Iron and Steel plant located in Malaysia, which resulted in winning three additional projects for Honeywell.• Analyzed the process diagram of a boiler system and prepared the instrument list, the Marshalling and System Cabinets, the panel, loop, wiring and interconnection diagrams, the junction box schedule and the cable tray layout.• Programmed the logic that controlled the Operation & Functionality of Large Scale Power Plants & Oil Refineries.Project delivery• Interacted with client regularly to comprehend the requirements at all stages of the project (development, testing and commissioning).• Performed Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) on the systems consisting of FSC and DCS.• Performed Site Acceptance Test (SAT) on the system consisting of the Safety Manager.• Implemented Honeywell Operating System methodologies (Kaizen and 5S) while on project. Achievements• Successfully completed the assigned projects and received a bronze award for efficiency and accuracy of project delivery.

Led team of four to simulate heat exchanger by building a control process in Visual Basic 6.0 and demonstrated results using hardware interface.

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Identified and analyzed instrumentation components in De-Nitration plant which resulted in acquiring an opportunity of project intern in the same department.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Executive M.B.A

Education record

Global Network Week For Advanced Management, Corporate Sustainability

M.S, Electrical Engineering

Be, Instrumentation Engineering