Okta

Leading Strategic Procurement team for Data Center,  SAAS+ IAAS , Telephony, IT infrastructure Product Company, End to End Contract management

Strategic Sourcing Manager

BrowserStack

Leading Strategic Procurement team for SAAS+ IAAS Product Company,
Global Procurement, IT & Non-IT Categories, IT Hardware, Software Licensing , Software Asset manager

Category Lead

Qualys

Category Management:  Software, SAS Application, Outsourcing Services &  IT Hardware 
Responsible for End to End  Process of Procurement

1. Sourcing : Vendor Identification
2. Vendor Onboarding
3. SOW finalization 
4. MSA and DPA Negotiation
5. Cost Negotiation, TCO  Calculation
6. Contracting 
7. Contract Performance tracking
8. Service Delivery 
9. Payment to Vendor

Senior Procurement Specialist

Global Procurement Management
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Stakeholder Management - Cross Function

1. Driving the requirements - Techno Commercial
2. Sharing Market Insights
3. Sharing Alerts and Announcements
4. Assist Stakeholders in decision making
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Contract Management :

1. Contract tracking.
2. Analyzing the risk and commercials in collaboration with the Legal team.
3. Contract Execution.
4. Procurement Cycle Followup.
5. Renewal of Contracts before it gets expired.
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Complete P2P Cycle for IT Request.
1. Research & Analysis of Requirement
2. Floating the Request for Quotation
3. Negotiation
4. Purchase order preparation
5. Delivery followups 
6. Invoice Submission
7. Payment Release

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Workflow Management for P2P Cycle.

1. Drive the Help Desk team
2. Root Cause Analysis, and solving the issue.
3. based on solution,  Creation of Workflow in Fresh Service 
4. Creation of Reports and MIS for Stake Holders and  Management.
5. Metering of Procurement activities 
6. Continuous Process Improvement in P2P operation
7. Data cleaning and refining reports for Finance and Auditors
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IT asset management & Procurement

1. Periodic Asset Scans using Qualys Asset Manager
2. Hardware Warranty Management- EOL products are recycled
3. Real-Time Inventory Alerts 
4. Software License Management/ renewals
5. Security Certificate Management
8. Prohibit Software and Block Executables
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Tools used: 
Operation Platform: Freshservice, JIRA, 
ERP: NetSuite, SAP, Coupa
Analysis tool:  Microsoft Excel, 
Communication and File Sharing tool : Microsoft Teams,
IT Asset Management : KACE, Qualys GI,

Procurement Specialist

Sophos

Procurement Specialist 3

Responsible for 
1.Timely deliveries, 
2. Cost saving
3. New vendor development
4. Managing IT Agreements

Procurement of 
1. Information Technology infrastructure hardware, servers, switches, hard drives, peripherals, cable
2. Softwares: IDE, Licenses,Desktop Applications,Server Applications

Sr. Executive, Procurement

Jekson Vision Pvt. Ltd.

Procurement:  COMPLETE P2P CYCLE PROCESSING.

Understanding and dealing with a new technical requirement from the user.
Searching relevant options in terms 
1. Products 
2. Vendors for quality sourcing
3. Cost-Benefit Analysis
4. International Vendor,
5. Import formalities

Phase 1: data building, data Monitoring and checkpoints to avoid mistakes
I quantified my work into separate deptt.
I studied and found out what are the data essential and prepared formats for collecting data.

I was responsible for 1. Purchase, 2. Store, 3. Quality Check

While working on this project: the data was prepared,
it took almost 18 months to bring data to work upon.
while all the above process, lots to education, training  was conducted by me to make sure Stakeholders feel comfortable with these reporting formats
The humungous task of identifying the Parts and creating its part codes with the best-suited logic was done.

later all these part codes and categorization was done in ERP.
This helped in preparing automatic reports for each category section.
This was started in Month of May'12 and got over in April'13

A)Number of PO prepared were in FY-11-12- 319 
    Number of PO prepared were in FY-12-13- 619

B)Number of indents attended were in FY-11-12- No measurement
   Number of indents attended were in FY-12-13- 1550 -first time measured

C)Number Parts Identified were in FY-11-12- No measurement
   Number Parts Identified were in FY-12-13- 1549 parts identified with clarity.

D)Number of GRN prepared were in FY-11-12- No measurement
   Number GRN prepared were in FY-12-13- 630 
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Phase 2: April-13 to April 14 - 
Re-filtration of Part identified and add new parts

A)Number of PO prepared were in FY-13-14- 1142+ 
B)Number of indents attended were in FY-13-14- 1950+
C)Number Parts Identified were in FY-13-14- 2250+
D)Number of GRN prepared were in FY-13-14- 946+

Asst. Manager, Procurement

Electrotherm (India) Limited

Procurement of electrical and electronics parts, general and tools for an electronic production plant.
in Electric Vehicle division

Raw material procurement for Electrical and electronics parts.
Wiring harness, Fuse, Switches, Head lights, bulbs, LED, Sensors, Seals, Rubber bush
Batteries, ODO meter, Electronics Throttle, Semiconductor, MOSFETS, PCBs

Also given tasks as CAPITAL buying, Maintenance material and restructuring of Purchase dept.
 
In the Month of April' 11, The company started a new project of in house charger manufacturing.

First Phase: Started Prepared all the BOM in excel and started structuring of DATA of all the Chargers,
Closely worked with R&D and identified all the parts to be procured,
 in house manufactured, 
Level-1 raw material
Level-2 Semi finished
Level-3 Finished parts

Second Phase: June '11, Identified a location dedicated as a manufacturing plant, and start developing vendor who provides us facility.
1. PCB Manufacturing
2. PCB Assembling
3. PCB testing
4. Packing and dispatch

In the above 3 function, I actively searched vendor and negotiated and get the material delivered
In less than 8 weeks the plant was ready to produce. with all facilities.

Third Phase: Searched vendor for raw material and consumable types .
Used BOM to Plann and qty, target was 3000 chargers per months.
Raised inquiry to all vendors in INDIA and abroad for semiconductors.
Parrellel to it , searched vendor for import clearance, and freight forwarder to get material in 6 weeks
Nego.ed and got material delivered in 6 weeks time.

Four Phase: In Month of December,  re launched the plant on SAP platform.
Did all the documentation again and prepared log for it.

January onwards plant ran , smoothly and 
The  work was appreciated by management

Senior Engineer , Purchase

Indian Oil Corp Limited

(Team size:4)

Software Platforms, IMC Systems and FAMOS-Analytical tool		

Brief Synopsis; 
The purpose of this project is to develop a new Software System according to requirement of client’s Project  Delhi Driving Cycle

The project was mainly done with suggestions  Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi , Institute of Technology -Kharagpur   and Phd of IOCL , R&D , Faridabad                                                                                           		

Responsibilities:
1. Vehicle Dynamics Basics, 
2. Instrumentation in Automobiles and Automobile Basics
3. Indian Drive Cycle- idea and importance
4. Study of last IDC made for INDIA in 1984
5. Study of research papers
6. Statistical Model for Calculating, with parameter identification
7. Preparation of Function Library  in Famos
8. GUI preparation
9. Resulting data in Excel format with Graph and charts

Project Engineer-Third party

Automotive test Systems

Worked on Position of Application developer.
Software Platforms	.NET, C# as progarmming language
                                XML ,as database building and saving 
                                ADOBE CS2 as Designing UI images, Icons and Forms
                                IMC Systems as COM library to design new desktop application
                                FAMOS as Script writer for programming the hardware

Engineer

As an ASD
Full Development of GUI screens. 
Developing custom component which interacted with COM (drivers) of the hardware. 
Data Manipulation using XML format
Development of Icons and other graphical component using Adobe Photoshop CS2. 
Development Documentation 
Implementation of Code with Efficiency and timely manner
Development of Customer Usage Documents
Support of the Application at Client site and rapid troubleshooting.
Documentation and Report for technical details.


As an Associate Application Engineer:
Understanding of Vehicle Dynamics Concept.
Handling Data Acquisition Systems and data acquired.
Scripting different type of sequences for analysis of data acquired.
Assisting in creation of the test reports.; Stream	Application Development,
Microsoft Technology(.NET- C#),
XML, Adobe CS2, Wise Installer.

Vehicle Dynamics Basics, 
Instrumentation in Automobiles 
Automobile Basics

Associate Software Developer-Trainee

Strategic Sourcing Manager @ Okta | Executive Program, Procurement

I am a seasoned procurement and sourcing professional with over 15 years of experience in the technology sector. I have successfully built and led procurement teams for five startups, managing end-to-end processes and vendor relationships across IT and non-IT categories. I hold an executive program degree in general management from IIM Ahmedabad, one of the top business schools in India, and a PGEMOM degree in operations management from IMT Ghaziabad.

Currently, I am the Strategic Sourcing Manager at Okta, a leading identity and access management company. I lead the procurement team for data center, SAAS, IAAS, telephony, and IT infrastructure products, ensuring quality, efficiency, and compliance. I leverage my skills in Coupa, business analysis, scenario simulation, and contract negotiation to optimize the total cost of ownership and achieve savings. I am passionate about digital transformation, project management, and continuous improvement, and I enjoy learning new technologies and best practices. I aspire to create value and innovation for Okta and its customers through strategic and effective procurement.

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