Experience

Baywatch Lab Ventures

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Consultant

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  Mentoring startups (offering Automotive Engineering Services, Mobile solutions, Medico Legal solutions) on operational strategies, strengthening their delivery operations, defining/refining the processes, organization development, team development, performance management etc. Also engaged in conducting motivational workshops and training in Project management. Mentoring startups (offering Automotive Engineering Services, Mobile solutions, Medico Legal solutions) on operational strategies, strengthening their delivery operations, defining/refining the processes, organization development, team development, performance management etc. Also engaged in conducting motivational workshops and training in Project management.



iMEDGlobal Corporation

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor-Operational Excellence

  • Mar 2017 - Aug 2017

  Responsibilities:- Oversee and refine operational excellence for all service contracts at iMED- Mentor and guide the PMO team in implementing/maintaining common delivery and reporting framework- Ensure timely reporting of metrics for all service contracts o Performance against SLAs o Resource loading and billing o Gross Margin details, Revenue projection, Revenue Loss etc.

• Senior Director-Safety and Clinical Operations

  • Dec 2014 - Feb 2017

  Responsibilities in Safety and Clinical Operations:- Manage teams across the globe - Oversee delivery execution and business operations- Maintain client Relationships- Continuously enhance skills and knowledge- Develop and provide high end solutions for Life Sciences clients Joined when iMED was at a nascent and evolving phase. Took responsibility to define and streamline business metrics and dashboards, which will serve as a backbone for continuous performance measurements and improvements. Show less



Uberics Consulting

• India
• Software Development

• Head of Delivery

  • Aug 2013 - Dec 2014

  My responsibility is to bring solidity & a process-driven culture to Uberics’ product engineering & professional services using my ~30 years of IT experience in engineering delivery, services delivery, support management, product management & quality systems across multiple domains. My responsibility is to bring solidity & a process-driven culture to Uberics’ product engineering & professional services using my ~30 years of IT experience in engineering delivery, services delivery, support management, product management & quality systems across multiple domains.



ArisGlobal

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head - Engineering Reviews and Audits (ERA)

  • Jul 2012 - Jul 2013

  Define and maintain Engineering Audits framework. Conduct Engineering Reviews and carry out periodic Audits and bring out Product Quality ScorecardLead SEPG initiatives and enforce updates to SDLC processesStructured the Usability and UI team operations to be more productive and quality focused.Transformed the Infrastructure Support Team to be service focused, improved the SLAs, optimized the software licensing and brought in large savings by virtualization and old hardware replacement. Show less

• Head - Product Management

  • Aug 2008 - Aug 2012

  Was solely responsible to setup Product Management function in India. Defined the Product Management process and built a team of 15 product managers to support all the product lines. (Since December 2010, more focused on Product Management of Total Safety (7) products) Additionally been responsible for Product Qualification function. Additionally managed Global Customer Support function for over a year.Taken the responsibility for Technical Writing function (June-2009) and brought in improvements in quality of deliverables and productivity.Setup the Regulatory Intelligence team to research (June-2011) and provide regular updates to different teams on the changes in Laws, Regulations, Guidelines, and Trends in Drug Development domain. Show less

• Director Engineering and Services

  • 2000 - Jul 2008

  Part of the management team responsible for Indian operations.The projects handled were of various sizes, complexities, developed on different platform (J2EE, C++) and at any point of time 30-40 projects ongoing.Team size initially was 70+ and grown to 250+ before shifting to new role.Other responsibilities were:• Introduce best practices in the areas of project management, quality systems, and resources development • Establish and measure the metrics for project performance, periodically set improvement targets• Recruitment, training, retention and performance management • Steering the process and quality improvements and initiatives Show less