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Unlocking the power of intelligent navigation for GPS denied environments.

Building the next generation Art Marketplace using NFTs.

Developing Industry 4.0 vision for Armstrong and developing next generation product strategy.

Helping Fidel Technologies develop new service offerings, metrics driven delivery operations, strategic marketing and grow business in new geographies.Lost zero revenue due to COVID lockdown. Migrated team seamlessly to remote working mode.

Responsible for Jade Global business strategy. Creating a cohesive Jade business strategy, LOB services and business plans with the executive team and LOB leaders. Direct responsibility for establishing new TES LOB and growth to second largest LOB with highest profitability in 2 years. Responsible for growth and expansion of India Operations in a COO role. 2x India headcount growth and office capacity expansion in NCR and Pune offices in 2 years.Direct executive responsibility for business growth in Indian market.

Responsible for establishing & operationalizing the global IT Strategy and a 3 yr business transformation roadmap for Zensar. Lead a IT, HR, Finance Shared Services roadmap for RPG group to achieve growth strategy. Part of Zensar top management council.• Creating the IT vision & IT strategy- a IT transformation roadmap for Zensar to achieve the business goals. Operationalizing the plan with Oracle R12 ERP re-implementation, bespoke development projects, process excellence and infrastructure upgrade projects. • IT roadmap presentation to Zensar board of directors and auditors.• Driving operational efficiencies through IT capex, opex and people cost reduction by 20% plus.• Creating the ZenCloud offering – Zensar’s private cloud services with financial model for computing virtual servers rental for internal and external customers. • Driving the knowledge management program for Zensar and creating the Zensar KM Methodology which is being used for driving customer engagements in KM consulting.• Led 3 months Shared Services roadmap initiative for RPG group Chairman’s office which established clear cost benefits and roadmap for group shared services implementation. • Driving ISO 20000 implementation for Information Services function- a IT services transformation initiative. ISO27001 and Malcom Baldridge Organisational Excellence program participation.• Creating an Information Services internal marketing program with industry benchmarks - to communicate business value of IT across the enterprise. • Envisioning multiple innovation projects like Sapience automated timesheet system, Google apps collaboration cloud pilot, mobile enterprise directory etc.

Responsible for establishing and executing the IT Strategy for D-link India to enable business growth to 1000 cr annual revenue. End to end visibility and improved controls for manufacturing and trading operations through Oracle EBiz implementation. P&L responsibility for Technical Support (DTAC) Services. Achieved DTAC business turnaround in 9 months. Part of Smartlink Network Systems Limited after D-Link India demerger.• Driving DTAC turnaround taking profitability from less than 15% to 40%. Successfully migrating DTAC operations from Mumbai to Goa while maintaining CSAT at desired levels and improving process SLA. • Establishing new customers in USA, Canada. 300% growth in DTAC in 1 year with 75 strong team and growing.• Establishing Service Management Framework, Business continuity, Service Transition, Talent Management and Quality Framework for DTAC.• Envisioning Remote Monitoring Service for SMB as a new business area for Smartlink India and developing product, creating the business plan, with detailed implementation planning.

Successfully enabled exponential growth in Indian operation as part of the senior management team despite major challenges. Recognized as one of the top performing managers worldwide. Developed the IT and Integration (R&D) teams (100+) including software development teams from ground up as teams of excellence and turned around previously unsuccessful projects.• Designing, planning, and commissioning the complete technology infrastructure for 6 facilities including state of the art datacenters with overall DR strategy.• Capital budgeting and procurement with annual budget of approx. $5m executed with at least 10% savings consistently. • Architecting and leading development of J2EE applicaitons like global asset management system (AMS) and multiple R&D tools for effective global software development processes.• Managing desktop technology life cycle and planning replacements for optimum developer productivity and long term capital planning of about 2000+ developer workstations.• Designing and maintaining highly reliable technology infrastructure with datacenter availability exceeding 99.999%.• Reducing support cost by successfully outsourcing helpdesk operations to Hewlett Packard facilities management. • Managing large-scale organizational change as the India IT organization moved from being a traditional IT support organization to operating as a center of excellence delivering best-in-class services. • Conducting gap analysis and implementing ITIL framework in India especially in the areas of Service Desk, Incident Management, Problem management, CMDB implementation, Service Level Management, Availability Management and Capacity Management. Driving systems development for supporting ITIL based processes worldwide.• Building the virtualization strategy for worldwide R&D. • Convergence technology assessment & working out phased implementation plan and ROI for the project.

IT Manager for Computervsion operations in India.

(Bajaj Auto Ltd. Akurdi, Pune)

(Sakal Papers Ltd., Pune)