Headline

Group Manager (Associate Director)

About

Led high impact software app development programs by defining the scenarios, recruiting and motivating the team, and delivering customer value across domains – Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI), Application Lifecycle Management, Analytics and Databases.

Location

Hyderabad

Work experience

Group Manager (Associate Director) at Concentrix, Aug 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Vice President at ValidateMe, Oct 2019 - Oct 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo, Uttar Pradesh, India, • Setting the product direction and defining the product strategy to ensure that ValidateMe becomes the platform of choice for background verifications.

Consulting Director (Entrepreneurship) at Bazaar Analysis Pvt. Ltd, Feb 2017 - Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, • Led the implementation of the Odoo ERP at Muratec Murata and built a forecasting model to accurately predict the future requirements for the textile machinery spare parts thereby reducing the inventory by 20%. • Built the whole practice management software on Microsoft Azure for FinAdvantage Consulting, an accounting and advisory services provider, including, work allocation, time & task tracking, compliance and document management, discounts and commissions calculation, reconciliations etc. • Developed the website and the mobile site for displaying the status of the state-wide weather sensors for Andhra Pradesh State Development Planning Society and for suggesting remedial measures in the app. • Identified the need for a website to help the prospective visitors to know more about the Shri Jasnath Asan, a yoga retreat and wellness non-profit organization and built the website from ground-up. Integrate the website with www.booking.com for helping visitors to book rooms in the retreat.

Senior Technical Program Manager at Amazon, Nov 2016 - Feb 2017 · 4 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, • Led the development of the next version of the Customer Services Central portal based on micro-services architecture and Open Source Software that will scale to 150K users with minimum latency. • Planned the Customer Services Central portal release right from the resourcing requirements around the year, the high-level scenarios & user stories, functional specifications.

Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, Jul 2005 - Nov 2016 · 11 yrs 5 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, • Developed the scenarios and use cases for the IIS Web App Deployment extension, and after its release in May 2016, it is the most rapidly adopted extension in the Visual Studio Team Services marketplace. • Increasing Azure attach, by enabling one-click app deployment from VS Team Services to Azure. • With ease understood complicated scenarios and product requirements and released a major differentiator for the VS Team Services – VMware Resource Deployment. • Enhancing services by tracking KPIs, and by running ad-hoc queries against the telemetry data wiz. deployments, task usage, errors & exceptions, funnel drop-offs, trial v/s occasional v/s heavy users. • Analyzed the Analytics market, and the competitors, and identified Server SDK as a unique Application Insights offering. Proposed the compelling vision and built the World’s first server telemetry SDK. • Built the strategy and the product plan for SQL Server Compact that spanned multiple releases and directed the product development through multiple releases to fulfill the plan wiz. 3.0, 3.1, 3.5 and 4.0. • Designed multiple features of the product, including, syncing of data with SQL Server, integration with ADO.NET Entity Framework and WebMatrix, and provisioning of designers in Visual Studio. • Continuously engaged with the development community and the customers to showcase product features, and to drive adoption, and to assess the usage of SQL Server Compact in the main scenarios.

Education

MBA, Finance & Systems, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Engineer’s Degree, Electronics Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology