- 15+ years of Product Development and IT Services experience in the IT industry across Telecom, Semi-conductor and Healthcare industries. Over 8 years of experience in various onshore-offshore models of product development. Adept at managing large offshore teams, reducing costs, & improving quality and productivity. Excellent problem solving and negotiation skills. Strong believer in metrics & procedures for repeatability of quality objectives
- Successfully managed several large enterprise product releases that met stringent CCHIT and MU Stage 1 certification guidelines
- Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) Management, Product Management & Support
- Program Management, Process Development & Improvement
- Strategic Planning
- Quality Control & Assurance
- Talent Development & Retention
- Demonstrated ability in setting up new teams, talent management, supporting organization change management through Merger & Acquisitions. Proven ability to lead, innovate products & process that help outperform competition, win markets, and drive revenue
- Expertise in transforming programs from Waterfall to Agile with the focus to build & deliver high quality working software combined with Expertise in pre-Sales support,
- Business Development, Customer Relationship
- Specialize in creating & leading cross-functional, cross-organizational teams to achieve business objectives. Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization
- Ability to create and nurture performing relationships within and outside the organization. Working with support departments to develop and execute innovative corporate policies & procedures
Specialties
- Healthcare IT
- Product Development Lifecycle
- Program Management
- Thought Leadership
- Agile Coaching and transforming teams to deliver high quality working software
- Building Global Teams for sustainable Delivery Model leading to gain a Cost & Competitive Advantage
- Stakeholder & Vendor/Partner Management
- Market Research, Marketing Strategy
Professional Highlights
- Enabled a Mid-Size IT services organization to define their Mission & Vision, Strategy Planning & Goal Setting
- Healthcare IT services Advisor for a USD 1Bn group, which includes Capability & Solution Gap Assessment, Creation of new service lines, Value Proposition for key global long term partnerships
- Turned around an enterprise product release (12 month delay) using SCRUM in 6 months
- Cost reduction & shorter time to market through process reengineering and automation by 300%
- Created and established a Global Governance model for Product development across India & US
- Created & Deployed Global Program Planning framework for Large Enterprise Maintenance programs
- Streamlined product maintenance teams enabling support of over 4 versions as part of Strategic Development initiatives enabling cost savings up to $1mn
- Led cross-organization teams in defining training plan for 600 engineers
- Established and rolled out unified dashboard for Metrics Reporting
- Instrumental in conceptualization and implementation of Project Leader training program