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Director - Product Management and Solutions

Associate Director

Netlink Software Group America Inc

Basically it is a start-up set-up where my responsibility is to work on anything or everything based on the priority,  the main areas of focus are:   
o	Managing the RFPs through the complete Bid cycle for BI and Analytics and Back OfficeOperations
o	Creating presentations and business case for prospective customers and  investors
o	Developing SoWs for the won opportunities and renewal work orders
o	Developing marketing collaterals such as case studies and whitepapers, conducting productdemos
o	Technical/ Market research and analysis for the product development  
o	Managing customer visits

Senior Manager

HCL Technologies

o Played active role in  creating  cloud assessment framework for the practice 
o To perform POC’s, Pre-Sales activities & negotiations with the stakeholders 
o Perform Cloud  assessment on the application landscape for the consulting engagement 
o  Recommend appropriate Service Model , Deployment Model and Migration Strategy to the Customer 
o  Recommend  type of remediation required for the application for cloud migration 
o  Define "As-IS" to " To-Be" landscape based on the agreed recommendations

Manager,  IT Strategy - Cloud Transformation

o Project Management for the consulting assignments 
o To perform  IT Portfolio Optimization assessment, Analyzing Client’s Business and Technology landscape and making recommendations on IT Strategy and Portfolio Optimization & Modernization
o To prepare Business Case scenarios and utilize the data to calculate the health of the portfolio, do the analysis of pain points and come up with feasible solutions
o To create a technology roadmap based on the pain points and opportunities for client to modernize the portfolio from "As-Is" to "To-Be" state and align with changing business needs
o Defining Application  Consolidation Footprint

Manager,IT Strategy -Application  Portfolio Optimization

Bid Management Roles and Responsibilities: 
o Responsible for managing the RFPs through the complete Bid cycle (Proposal Response-Bid defence - Due Diligence- Client visits)  
oHandled large bids across IT portfolio – Infrastructure , Applications & COTS Maintenance   
oPreparing Business case for Senior Management as part of the Bid Qualification Process
oInvolve in Win Themes and Sales Strategy planning with Leadership Team 
oEnd to End Cycle & Deliverables ownership (Solution Proposal & Differentiators, Transition/ KT, Steady-State planning, Resourcing Estimates, Financial Model & Profitability Review, Governance, Transformations, Alternate Solutions and References etc., Bid Defence & Due Diligence Planning ) 
oCommercial/Contractual analysis to ensure  that all the cost items are included in the P&L such that there are no discrepancies with respect to the technical solution and contractual commitments  
oBusiness analysis and solutioning: Analysis of technical data to prepare optimal solutioning/sizing for managed services proposals 
oExtensive experience in creating Proposal and Exec Presentations 
Business Analyst Roles and Responsibilities: Worked on a development of an enterprise wide content management tool for building proposals and sales presentations “ Proposal Factory”  
o Detailed documentation of business and system requirements , process flows
o Strategic analysis undertaken and delivered to inform, manage and drive stakeholder expectations.
o Prepared User and System Test Plans
o Prepared end user manual and conducted end user trainings

Manager , Corporate Strategic Sourcing Sales

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd

Project Management function:  
o Responsible for estimating the project, preparing delivery schedule (design, coding and testing) and resource planning 
o Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance. 
Software Development & Maintenance: 
o Responsible for providing technical solutions for client issues within SLA’s 
Consulting:
o Helped client in doing root cause analysis to design and implement permanent solutions to critical production issues. This led to cost reduction for the client and generated added revenues for Accenture
o Conducted Internal Quality Audit function for my project ensuring higher service delivery with minimal defects

Senior Software Engineer

Client Interaction:
o Led a team of 10 members; coordinated and worked closely with IBM Singapore leadership team and Client (Development Bank of Singapore) team for development of banking applications
Project Management function:
o Responsible for estimating the project, preparing delivery schedule (design, coding and testing) and resource planning
o Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance. 
Software Development:
o Proactively suggested and implemented design changes which reduced the navigation time through the application and made it more user friendly
o Worked closely with the client teams to gather, understand & mapping their requirements creating structured requirements summary in the form of requirements matrix and user stories
o Responsible for making BRD’s, Test Plans, Use cases

System Analyst

Mahindra Satyam

Project Management function:
o Responsible for estimating the projects and resource planning, also launched tracking system for utilization and cross utilization of resources among different teams to achieve maximum output.
o Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance. 
Software Development:
o Responsible for application development and maintenance of a marketing application used by the agents of State Farm Insurance for the auto quoting and application processes. 
o Responsible for performing impact analysis for new change requests.
o Responsible for analysing business rules and accordingly prepare and execute test cases during unit, system and integration testing, adhoc testing, user acceptance testing .   
o Actively involved in conducting different testing phases unit testing, SIT, UAT. 
Assertive Team Player and Business contributor:
o Was responsible for spearheading the pilot project on agile methodology, success of which resulted in securing 4500 hours of billing (Increase in revenues by 100,000 USD).

Software Engineer

At present, I am leading a team of young, dynamic, and innovative product managers. As a product leader, my vision is to empower my customers to create data-centric future and my mission is to create products that empower customers to transform their data into compelling and impactful stories. I am an "Artificial Intelligence"  enthusiast and I firmly believe that it can transform the way the data analytics is done therefore i am focused on creating products with "Artificial Intelligence" at their core.

With over 15+ years of experience in the dynamic realm of Information Technology, my journey has spanned across three key domains: Software Development, IT Strategy Consulting, and Presales and now  Product Management.

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