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Bengaluru Area, India

• Responsible for Leading team of 30 Project managers to actively manage End-to-End Project activities and accountable for 100% success. • Responsible for teams skill development aligning to company's strategy for supporting the latest needs of market trend.• Responsible for teams motivation and engagement.• Responsible for an array of activities which include Initializing and planning projects, participating in project cost structure, tracking & reporting project deliverables, managing risk, applying project management processes and tools and ensuring projects are completed on time, within Project Costing budgets.• Organize, initiate, plan, track and manage projects. Recognize and analyse problems, risks and issues. • Apply change management techniques. Understand dependencies. Identify, assess, evaluate and document risk factors and changes. • Ensure projects are completed within schedule and cost objectives.• Participate in Triage meeting for upcoming Refresh project updates.• Coordinate and follow-up with stakeholders for smooth flow of project from Triage review to Release.• Responsible to weekly Monitoring, tracking the status of Build record and reporting to Program manager/Solid line manager.• Responsible for releasing the servers to Customer and close the project in Pgmp tool.• Capture and Archive the lesson learnt records of the projects for future reference.Achievements : • Successfully completed 152 projects(Small / Medium / Large ) in a span of 24months.• Received appreciation certification from client for the valuable support to the account.- Received Bravo certificate for consistent performance focusing towards customer satisfaction and timely delivery of projects.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Project Manager - IT Infrastructure at IBM India Private LimitedResponsible for Leading End-to-End Project activities and accountable for 100% success.• Responsible for an array of activities which include Initializing and planning projects, participating inproject cost structure, tracking & reporting project deliverables, managing risk, applying project managementprocesses and tools and ensuring projects are completed on time, within Project Costing budgets.• Development of Customer specific and Client Centric approach on all Solutions with bearing the interest ofIBM.Organize, initiate, plan, track and manage projects. Recognize and analyze problems, risks and issues.• Apply change management techniques. Understand dependencies. Identify, assess, evaluate and documentrisk factors and changes.• Ensure projects are completed within schedule and cost objectives.• Participate in Triage meeting for upcoming Refresh project updates.• Coordinate and follow-up with stakeholders for smooth flow of project from Triage review to Release.• Responsible to weekly Monitoring, tracking the status of Build record and reporting to Program manager/Solid line manager.• Responsible for releasing the servers to Customer and close the project in Pgmp tool.• Capture and Archive the lesson learnt records of the projects for future reference.Achievements :• Successfully completed 130+ projects(Small / Medium / Large ) in a span of 18months.• Received appreciation certification from client for the valuable support to the account.

Bengaluru Area, India

 Requirement analysing, planning, budgeting for the project.  Identifying vendors, negotiating and preparing for agreement. Material planning, scheduling the activities and tracking till completion. Follow-up and coordinating with sub contractors. Identifying improvement needs and executing improvement projects (Cost/Quality & Time to market).

Chennai

Product/Program Management Collaborate with customers (R&D & Product Marketing) teams on milestone for product deployment.  Readiness preparation with respect to resource planning within budgeted target. Formulate and execute Risk mitigation / Contingency Plans to meet time and budget over-runs Schedule & Conduct regular Project meeting to review progress on Product development Align customer demand with factory volumes for smooth flow of supply chain. Set target and optimal amount of challenges for the team members(8-Indirects) on Product Configuration Management by ensuring high quality and efficiency aligning to company strategy: BOM open and sustenance throughout its life cycle. Releasing product documentation in accordance with customer and internal requirements.  Variants testing (NPI validation) & release to production. Manage all product sample developments / test reports and releases. Execute the pilot build and make necessary changes if any. Provide green signal for mass production after customer approval. Develop team members for multi skills. Coaching and motivating the team to meet strategic objectives. Trust building and engaging for long tenure with organization. Deliver agreed solutions/proposes alternatives based on customer needs. Keep promises & sets high standards for levels of service. Identify improvement needs and creates process improvements together with internal functions from capacity, quality and efficiency point of view during product Lifecycle. Create and maintain good relationships with internal and external stakeholders to meet project deliverables. Timely Execution of Engineering Changes with low impact on scrap cost to factory. Develop project status documentation and present to top management on periodic basis. Regularly monitor & review the project progress inline to Project Scope.  Prepare, monitor and control project time plan at all levels of milestones.

Responsibilities:  Provide the total compliance program across Personal Communication Sector (PCS), focusing on the world wide supply chain group (WWSCG) operation teams. Interact and communicate with other Compliance Officers in global PCS facilities to assist the WWSCG in coordination of fresh and on-going product compliance. Interact with all partners central to the local facility to manage product launch and/or changes in a pre-emptive manner, focusing only on the compliance aspects, resulting in cycle time reduction. Provide approval for the Sales Models verifying the Hardware, Software, Accessories approval (for country region) / RoHS compliance of the product and Production BOM changes. Ship Authorization: Provide clearance & communicate to the global team on the capability for manufacturing products at India. Responsible for getting approval on product site to site transfer by meeting the PS&C requirements. Represent PS&C in critical component/assembly reviews and interfaces with regional engineering team as needed. Maintain traceability of all products approvals and/or changes (sales models/transceivers) within the facility. Routine reports of activities/approvals and issues. Train and educate key staff on critical compliance programs impacting product regulatory performances.Projects:Engineering Inventory Control: Approve raw material request for NPI/Process/Test team.  Action on Ageing (<30 days) materials and close for effective inventory management. Approve the scrap ticket for engineering department. Quarterly Physical inventory adjustment. Result: Successful in reducing the Inventory Variance from USD 2500 to USD 50 in 2 Quarters.

Responsibilities:• Lead role as a Component Engineer in component data management within the plant level and APAC geographical region.• Creation of item Master to the BOM/Non BOM items through ERP (eMatrix).• Responsible for Engineering Change management of components.• Responsible for Alternate supply and their qualification.• Responsible for Price Administration for Purchased items.Additional Responsibilities:• Order fulfillment Processes coordination at plant level in line with global process.• Lead role as EHS coordinator for Supply Chain Management to get ISO 14001, OSHAS18001 & SA8000 certification and managing activities like Chemical Management, Waste Management & Disposal of wastes.• Lead role as 5s leader for SCM/Office area• Signing the contracts between geographical region legal counsel & local vendors.

Responsibilities:• Lead role as a Component Engineer in component data management within the plant level and APAC geographical region. • Creation of item Master to the BOM/Non BOM items through ERP (eMatrix).• Responsible for Engineering Change management of components.• Responsible for Alternate supply and their qualification.• Responsible for Price Administration for Purchased items.Additional Responsibilities:• Order fulfillment Processes coordination at plant level in line with global process.• Lead role as EHS coordinator for Supply Chain Management to get ISO 14001, OSHAS18001 & SA8000 certification and managing activities like Chemical Management, Waste Management & Disposal of wastes.• Lead role as 5s leader for SCM/Office area• Signing the contracts between geographical region legal counsel & local vendors.Experience Gained:• Component data management within plant level and coordinate with other plants to maintain the same in geographical regions.• Monitoring and Reporting to remove the inactive/unused item codes and maintaining the database clean for efficient working.• Generating reports through Crystal /ematrix.• Experience in reporting the Key Performance Indicator for Component Engineer.a. Component Data Accuracy.b. Cycle time of Component BOM Creation.Highlights:• Awarded for the CIP on CONSUMABLE COST REDUCTION up to $0.5K.• Received appreciation from Functional Manager for meeting & exceeding the target fixed in Key Performance Indicator.

Responsibilities:• Raw material planning for sample development.• Preparation of Bill of Materials.• Preparation of Product files according to QS9000 and APQP.• Technology transfer before pre-launch and production.• Monitoring Pre-launch production and control.• Driving APQP team & documents for every product handled.• Production shift supervising.

Trained in:• Testing and trouble shooting of GFC/SFA cards, Microprocessor based telecom cards using PC through test software.• Familiarity of handling different types of testing instruments like CRO, DMM, Functional generators, Counter, Programmable power supplies etc.• Familiarity of handling ESD devices like RAM, EPROM etc

Completed, Electronics And Telecommunication Engineering, First Class

Diploma in Electronics and Telecommunication

Secondary School Leaving Certificate