Embedded Software Leader in leading Program and Portfolios in Avionics, Embedded Airborne Software for Boeing Commercial Aeroplanes, Ground support and Airborne Space Systems. Business Strategy, People Management and Subject Matter Expertise on Safety Critical Systems.

• Executed end to end Avionics & EW projects costing 10+ billion USD for Defense in Agile work environment with multiple competing priorities and communicating results to senior leadership. • Performed risk and issue management by collaborating with stakeholders, and developing mitigation and resolution plans that are prioritized based on impact thereby resulting in a nearly 25% improvement in key performance indicators

• Proven ability to lead and influence team in adopting the Agile principles in managing a cross functional team of 7000 technicians, 80 Engineers, and 25 Logistics personnel leading to increased asset availability. • Supported 240+ monthly flight hours and sustained 20+ assets with 1000+ components in each. Managed logistics and supply chain for on-site and short-notice flying operations with up to 10% cost reduction.• Impacted organisational-wide productivity by leveraging ERP data to drive strategic and operational decisions. Supported Civil Flight Operations for Air India, Star Airlines, and Alliance Air from the airbase.

• Convinced Top leadership for strategic Digital Transformation roadmap generating value for the organization. • Led matrix teams in digitizing a 75-year paper-based workflow for Aircraft and System Asset Maintenance onto an IBM Maximo-based ERP solution reducing man hours by 30% and cost progressively by 5% per year.• Reduced India's dependency on foreign ERP systems for new aircraft, resulting in savings of ~16 billion Euros.• Leveraged electronic Maintenance Management Systems e-MMS for IAF operations, and logistics, overseeing 2 Lakh subscribers, 10,000+ daily work orders, and 10,000+ sorties per day. Paving the way to adopt Big Data, AI & ML tech.

• Resolved top leadership problems in reviving a red project alongside Indian and Foreign OEMS by mentoring and coaching an agile team to develop display software for Jaguar aircraft Smart Head Down display.• Functioned as Senior Scrum Master for multiple teams to Reverse Engineer, and re-design in End-to-End development of a Hawk Avionics Part Task Simulator from concept to completion using Flight Gear, C#.NET & VAPS-XT at a cost of just 1 Crore against OEM British Aerospace BAe, UK which cost 12 Crores.• Integrated Boeing-make weapon systems onto Jaguar Aircraft’s Mission Computer using Assembly Language and 1553 Mil standard bus protocol. Established an Agile ecosystem that optimized resources, and expertise, and led to short-duration releases, resulting in reduced budget, person-hours, and 20% cost savings for IAF.Skills: SCADE-Embedded C-C#.NET-1553 MIL STD- Agile -Waterfall models- SDLC-IV&V –CMMI Level 3 Process

World Class and international standard Leadership Training Program with the participation of 100 plus international participants. Training included visits to varied industrial set up, corporate level and national level strategic policy making. 100 plus interactions with nations and world best leadership personlaities including the President of India and Ambassadors around the world.

• Software Development along with specialized Israeli team in M/s ELTA for a $500M AWACS project, aligning with global specs. Govt to Govt Contract, Innovated 40+ C#.NET GUIs used in IAF's AWACS.• Effectively adopted to Multi-cultural Multi-vendor Cross Functional Teams ensuring all projects of AWACS program are implemented, accepted, & accomplished within a set deadline preventing cost escalation. • I was an effective Tech interface & contributed to the entire software development life cycle from the initial business requirement phase to deployment and production support for both Govt of Israel and Govt of India.Skills : Program / Project Management - C#.NET-IV&V-Version and Configuration Control-SDLC

• Steered global projects of Indo-France Jaguar avionics systems upgrade at a €100 billion project cost.• Acted as a bridge between Senior leadership at Air HQ and Foreign stakeholders to monitor project progress, made necessary adjustments, and ensured project deliverables are completed on time within budget. • Resulting in the Timely conclusion of upgrades for 125 aircraft with the support of global experts and MNCsSkills : Project Mgt-Avionics Systems Evaluation-PDIs-User Acceptance Test- Avionics and Software Integration

- Exhibited skills on maintenance activities for ensuring asset availability of 20 aircraft and associated ground systems ensuring 95% on-time completion of scheduled and unscheduled servicing activities. - Led troubleshooting efforts for complex avionics systems, achieving an average 30% reduction in system downtime through efficient diagnosis and swift corrective actions leading to increased asset availability