Profile
I am an accomplished product management professional with an MBA and a certified risk analyst with proven success in defining and directing initiatives and implementing complex projects to support business strategies. An outstanding communicator, I am skilled in employing clarity and innovation to achieve consensus, engage cross functional teams and build working relationships with key stakeholders. My core skills and interests include:
• Strategic Planning and Tactical Execution
• Product roadmap development
• Quality Control and Process Improvement
• Agile methodologies and Software Engineering
• Risk Management and Business Process Modelling
• Big data analytics and Process Transformation
Career Summary
CONSULTANT, TRUMPF GmbH, GERMANY
(May 2014 – Oct 2014)
• Responsible for examining and reviewing the current business processes to isolate gaps and organizational needs and provide strategies to address them;
• Formulated a holistic evaluation framework to test and prioritize compelling business ideas based on a highly analytical approach. The framework triggered a dramatic shift in the screening of business and evaluation of business models eventually curtailing decision making time;
• Gained management buy-in and engaged in ongoing dialog and consensus building with a matrix of key stakeholders (primarily senior management) for accelerated adoption and usage of the new framework.
SPECIALIST (PROJECT MANAGEMENT), HEWLETT PACKARD, SAN DIEGO/ SINGAPORE
(July 2010 – July 2013)
• Formulated high-performing and scalable Information Technology solutions to strengthen agile product development while allocating resources with cost justification. Built a rigorous, competent and disciplined software QA process;
• Exceeded customer expectations of quality and functional performance of software components with an overall reduction of defect rates by 15%.
PRODUCT CONSULTANT, INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA INSTITUTE, SINGAPORE
(Dec 2008 – July 2010)
• Orchestrated an agile product development process and managed cross-functional teams of engineers and scientists to deliver an interactive software teaching aid to the Ministry of Education in Singapore and the US Air Force;
• Developed promotion strategy and led negotiations with sponsors and stakeholders and successfully acquired funding of USD 1.2 million for further product enhancement.
PROJECT LEADER, SIEMENS VDO AUTOMOTIVE PTE LTD, GERMANY/SINGAPORE
(Jun 2005 – Dec 2008)
• Directed a team of 12 software engineers and consistently delivered high quality embedded software solutions to Volkswagen and Suzuki with 100% performance conformance;
• Identified and tracked high risk areas and implemented strategic contingency plans that resulted in a 20% decrease in development effort and 30% reduction in testing activities.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER, TOSHIBA EMBEDDED SOFTWARE PVT LTD
(Jun 2002 – Jun 2004)
Professional Certifications
• Certificate in Strategic Decisions and Risk Management (SDRM, STANFORD UNIVERSITY)
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Qualifications
Master of Business Administration (Strategy and Finance), HEC Paris (2013 – 2014)
• Awarded excellence scholarship
Master of Financial Engineering, National University of Singapore (2012 – 2014)
Master of Technological Design, TU/e, Netherlands and NUS (2004 – 2005)
• Awarded full scholarship and research stipend
Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Madras University (1998 – 2002)/
• Awarded First Class Degree with Distinction
IT Skills
Drupal, MSVC, (.Net), Python, SQL, C++, Java, embedded C, Microsoft Excel, VBA, Powerpoint
