Experience

GrowME

• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder at GrowMe.ai

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  GrowMe.ai offers “College readiness” as a service. Digital platform for students to play, evolve and achieve college targets. Affordable services too all high school students. Single click accesses to counseling services. Track and analyze your progress. Collaborate with fellow high school students. Embedded Social and Emotional Learning. Save time and money. GrowMe.ai offers “College readiness” as a service. Digital platform for students to play, evolve and achieve college targets. Affordable services too all high school students. Single click accesses to counseling services. Track and analyze your progress. Collaborate with fellow high school students. Embedded Social and Emotional Learning. Save time and money.



VMware

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior IT Delivery Manager - Business-IT Engagement

  • Jul 2012 - Jun 2019

  Delivered multiple projects for R&D, Web marketing and Digital supply chain groups. Delivered multimillion dollar projects for the IT Organization. Managed cross functional teams (70+) across geographies to accomplish high quality results in business engagement. Championed the Agile practice in the enterprise wide PMO. Led change management and Disaster Recovery changes at the enterprise level. Worked with IT, BTA, Finance, CSS, Product development and product marketing teams for designing and executing solutions, processes for VMware. Managed stakeholders across the organization. Led high profile projects for SDP (Saas), CSP, vCAN, Airwatch, NSX/NPI, vSAN, DCPN product lines Show less



Apple

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr Technical Program Manager - WW Business Process ReEngineering - Apple

  • Dec 2010 - Jun 2012

  As a part of Apple’s WW business re engineering group, designed strategic solutions for Apple’s WW Channel sales and business operations. Increased automation and ROI by consolidating WW business processes. Reduced manual processes in various aspects of Apple’s channel sales processes. Managed implementation of business projects for Apple customers worldwide. Responsible for budget estimates, scheduling, scope management, resource management and partner engagement. Managed cross functional team with business analysts, Sales Ops, Marketing and IS&T to deliver the solutions. Worked with international partners in USA, APAC, EMEIA, Japan and South America. Provided periodical updates to the Business steering committee. Provided solutions to long time pending issues. Successfully built and rolled out world wide B2B road map and strategies Show less



Cisco

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Lead - Business Solutions Program

  • Dec 2008 - Dec 2010

  Leading ECommerce Track Project in Business operations solutions group in Cisco. Cisco is undertaking huge ECommerce initiative as part of its Global Ecommerce platform Cisco Commerce Workshop (CCW). Led the project throughout the Business requirements, Functional specs, development and testing phases. Successfully delivered the project by managing scope, schedule and resources. Implemented the Catalog project in Agile methodology. Performed daily stand ups, iteration plans and delivered the project successfully. Led the projects through SDLC under both Waterfall an Agile methodologies. Worked with diversified teams comprising of Sales, Operations, technical and business analysts. Constantly reviewed the project status with internal stakeholders and external partners. Lead a team of 10 analysts and developers in off shore location. Show less



Altera

• United States
• Semiconductors
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr Project Manager – Ecommerce Integration

  • Mar 2003 - Dec 2008

  Being part of PMO - Led B2B integration with EDI and TIBCO with SAP, ensuring implementation of trading partners onto systems within budget and strict timelines. Represented the Ecommerce solutions group in the PMO. Worked with technical architects and basis administrators to design the framework for Ecommerce. Work with external partners and internal users to ensure timely progress and compliance with SOX regulations. Key contributor to QA, change control, and disaster recovery procedures. Managed team of 16 during the SAP implementation project. Followed waterfall SDLC methodologies including scope, risk management. Thorough knowledge of supply chain process of order management, shipments, invoicing, inventory management and point of sale. Developed production monitoring methodology for EDI and TIBCO. Orchestrated the workflow and process monitoring in SAP. Designed and implemented the enterprise wide scheduler (Cronacle). Worked with onsite and offshore teams during the project phase. Designed many automation and efficient solutions for supply chain process. Nominated for CIO award. Show less



Targus

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Ecommerce Team Manager

  • Mar 2001 - Mar 2003

  As the liaison between Targus partners and EDI outsourcer, managed EDI development projects to ensure completion according to contracted deadlines. Monitored daily production issues.  Developed in-house EDI team; created process flow and SOPs. Instrumental in building infrastructure.  Headed EDI portion of merger of Roundhouse by Targus.  Designed EDI set up for data center move. Led installation of TLE on the new box.  VAN CONSOLIDATION: Consolidated EDI traffic from three VANs (GEIS, Sterling Commerce, IBM Advantis) to GEIS, achieving a $50K annual cost savings.  TLE UPGRADE: Upgraded from Harbinger (now Inovis) TLE 4.2 to version 5.2, as the earlier version was no longer supported.  BAAN V (ERP) UPGRADE: Led EDI portion of upgrade from Baan IV. Identified customizations, created new conversion setups and new EDI maps. Reduced conversion set ups from 28 to 3. Implemented Open World technology and created JAVA sessions.  WAL-MART EDIINT: To meet Wal-Mart requirements, replaced VANs with EDI over the Internet. Implemented AS2 for Wal-Mart Canada and US using Isoft software. Show less



Redknife

• EDI/XML Analyst

  • Jan 2000 - Mar 2001



Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company)

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• EDI System Development & Maintenance Engineer,

  • Jun 1996 - Jan 2000

  Held full accountability for development, online maintenance and troubleshooting of the entire EDI translation and communication system. Worked with trading partners to obtain specifications, VAN details and document formats. Mapped inbound EDI documents and outbound application files. Adhered strictly to CTIA standards. Participated in Perwill to Harbinger conversion process; involved in developing gap analysis report Held full accountability for development, online maintenance and troubleshooting of the entire EDI translation and communication system. Worked with trading partners to obtain specifications, VAN details and document formats. Mapped inbound EDI documents and outbound application files. Adhered strictly to CTIA standards. Participated in Perwill to Harbinger conversion process; involved in developing gap analysis report