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R&D leader, Experienced in Driving Product Innovation, Agile Transformation & Market-Ready Product Delivery in Healthcare sector. Leading Development, PMO, Verification, Clinical Validation, Publication teams

About

Seasoned R&D leader with 28+ years of global experience delivering high-impact innovation projects across Telecom, Retail, and Healthcare sectors. Have specialized in leading end-to-end product lifecycles—from concept to New Product Development (NPD) and Sustenance—ensuring compliance, quality, and market-readiness in highly regulated industries. Have successfully built and scaled cross-functional teams spanning Development, Verification, PMO, Clinical Validation, and Technical Publications, across world-class organizations including Motorola, Sasken, GE, Target, Philips, and Baxter. My expertise lies in driving portfolio strategy, organizational transformation, and execution excellence. Have led global Agile (SAFe) transformations, multi-site program delivery, and enterprise-wide initiatives that improve efficiency, foster innovation, and create measurable business impact. Passionate about leveraging technology and process innovation to accelerate growth, Thrive on enabling teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions that positively impact thousands of customers worldwide. Built and scaled an 80+ cross-functional R&D team , delivering AI & Cloud-based medical device solutions for 10,000+ customers. Defined digital product portfolio strategy for ICU renal products (USD 5B business) and secured global program execution across India, USA, and Italy. Led global Agile (SAFe) transformation across 150+colleagues, improving delivery predictability and organizational efficiency. Directed multiyear platform strategy for Philips CT scanners, improving field reliability and uptime using AWS-based predictive analytics. Spearheaded end-to-end development of Target.com e-commerce portal, successfully launched within 3 years. Executed enterprise-wide initiatives promoting innovation, operational excellence, and culture change across multiple geographies. Key Skills R&D Leadership | Product Lifecycle Management | Portfolio & Program Strategy | Agile (SAFe) Transformation | AI & Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS) | Medical Devices & Healthcare IT | Cross-Functional Team Leadership | Organizational Transformation | Innovation & Execution Excellence | Global Stakeholder Management | Compliance & Regulatory Expertise

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

R&D Engineering Leader at Baxter International Inc., Nov 2020 - Aug 2026 · 5 yrs 10 mos, Building and Scaling teams at Baxter for 1.2B$ Front line Care business. (Grounds up to Maturity) My leadership is to drive end-to-end (Concept to Execution) for complex, safety-critical SW systems across diverse portfolios like Respiratory, Patient Monitoring & Diagnostic Cardiology suite of products. Covering technologies involving AI, Azure Cloud and State of art Embedded systems. Driving organisational initivates such as SAFe transformation across Bangalore, Italy, USA covering multiple product lines and across 500+ resources. This enabled delivery excellence and meeting priority stategy goals while driving the right culture Have Lead digital healthcare innovation which includes building digital Portfolio and multi year and multigenerational roadmaps for "TrueVue" Cloud platform (Acute CRRT), using AI/Big Data for improved clinical outcomes which enabled significant market expansion, and shaping Baxter’s Enterprise Healthcare Platform Strategy. Stretch: Drove strategic transformation initiatives around adoption of AI in business (Concept to release) in functions across 600 personnel Driving engineering execution excellence and best practice adoption across Bangalore site enabling faster time to market of products across 5B$ portfolio Coached team in driving innovative idea of developing solution around predictive analytics of Vitals , warning scores which eventually became part of Product roadmap. This innovation is under filing of patent application

Engineering Leader (Leading program delivery cross site , SAFeAgile Teams) at Philips, Jan 2012 - Nov 2020 · 8 yrs 11 mos, Bangalore, Senior Engineering Manager/Leader, leading Bangalore site team comprising of Managers, Architects, Execution leaders ,Engineers involved in development of CT Console for 5B$ business Led software platform engineering teams for medical imaging subsystems — including Print, Report & Viewer modules — deployed across 4 customer-facing business segments, reducing time-to-market by 20% Owned multi-year platform strategy and portfolio roadmap across premium, performance & value segments, aligning investment priorities with market and clinical needs Strengthened strategic vendor partnerships and defined outsourcing frameworks, improving delivery capacity and optimising R&D cost structure Establish strong collaboration of the business unit with the market leaders across the world. Work with the stake holders to understand competitive landscape, specific customer needs. Along with the stake holders, develop key initiatives, Go-To-Market strategy, which are the key enablers. Led global cross-functional teams across China, Europe, Israel & India to deliver advanced radiology workflow solutions — streamlining clinical workflows and reducing diagnostic errors and processing time by 30–50% Driving ML based Predictive analytics in Scanners improving MTBF, MEBF & Service metrics KPI's ( by 20-30%) Developed in-house IoT based solution to solve MR Quench issue resulting in huge cost savings to the business Driving Engineering excellence activities to improve efficiency,quality. Ex: NLP based test efficiency improvement, This yielded in 30% reduction in execution effort, While maintaining 100% coverage to requirements

Sr Delivery Manager at Target Corporation, Jul 2008 - Jan 2012 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore, As a Sr delivery manager was involved in the development and deployment of Ecommerce platform from scratch to launch in 3.5 years. Lead a team of 50 covering Dev,Test.

Manager at WYSE Technologies, Apr 2008 - Jul 2008 · 4 mos, Heading the SQA organisation for WYSE globally. The role involved working closely with test partners in ensuring that the stated goals are met as per stated SOW's.

Engineering Services Manager at GE Healthcare Technologies Ltd., Oct 2003 - Apr 2008 · 4 yrs 7 mos, Led APAC install-base release programs and US market New Product Introduction (NPI) initiatives for Centricity Enterprise — GE's flagship clinical information system — ensuring regional compliance, on-time delivery and customer readiness. Managed cross-functional software engineering teams across five clinical domains — Pharmacy, OR, Emergency Care, Perinatal & Laboratory — delivering concurrent product releases across a highly regulated, multi-speciality portfolio.

Education

Master of Science (MS), Software Design & Engineering, Manipal institute of technology

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