Headline

LIFE SCIENCES || ENTERPRISE DATA || SaaS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT || CLIENT ACQUISITIONS || SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS || BIOINFORMATICS

About

I am an accomplished Product Management leader with over 20 years of diverse experience in the field of Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. I am instrumental in establishing the scientific strategy and executing client requirements for all-encompassing solutions. I carry hands-on experience in overseeing client acquisition, product management, project delivery, collaborating on scientific strategy and executing client requirements for comprehensive solutions through cross-functional teamwork. I have exhibited noteworthy contribution in establishing a strong partnership with product development to convert client solutions into e[data scientist] and e[pipeline] components. Over my career expanse, I have established a proven track record of fostering collaboration with external vendors and third-party solution providers for rapid prototype development. I have achieved outstanding success in leading cross-functional teams, driving Scientific Analysis, Product Development, Client Acquisitions and implementing strategic initiatives.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

gemini

github copilot

grok

meta

Microsoft Copilot

Work experience

Associate Director - Data and Product Capability , Global Drug Development at Novartis, May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Associate Director Product Architecture at Eagle Genomics, Jan 2024 - Apr 2024 · 4 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Associate Director , Services at Eagle Genomics, Jun 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, Hybrid, • Responsible for overseeing client acquisition, client management, and the delivery process in collaboration with a cross-functional team consisting of business development, product development, and services professionals • Collaborating closely on the scientific strategy and executing client requirements to create a unified and all-encompassing solution • Establishing a close partnership with the product development team to transform client solutions and convert them into specific components of e[data scientist] and e[pipeline] solutions • Engaging with external vendors and third-party solution providers to facilitate additional prototype development for idea generation and rapid consumer solution development

Director of Product Management at iNDX.Ai, Jan 2022 - May 2022 · 5 mos, India

Product Manager at iNDX.Ai, Dec 2017 - Dec 2021 · 4 yrs 1 mo, Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Senior Bioinformatics Analyst at iNDX.Ai, Mar 2017 - Dec 2017 · 10 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area

Senior Bioinformatics Analyst at Ocimum Biosolutions, Aug 2011 - Mar 2015 · 3 yrs 8 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, • Primarily was responsible for establishing the ChIPSeq workflow from tools chosen out of extensive research for a major pharma client and analyzing large cohort of data. I have also developed an end-to-end research pipeline using the GALAXY framework for the same, which automates the entire process from QC, analysis to visualization and reporting. • Responsible for working on MethylSeq workflow for another big hospital and research unit. • Developed the underlying tools and scripts for extraction, automated updating, curation and visualization of an in-house database from different cancer consortiums (CCLE and COSMIC) for client specific research. • Improvised and maintained the ExomeSeq Workflow for sample analysis • Worked in tandem with marketing and sales team to produce material for client presentations • Setting up of Amazon Workspace for a big client

Bioinformatics Analyst at University of Michigan, May 2011 - Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos, University of Michigan, • Responsible for denovo assembly and analysis of sequencing data for mining out gene clusters that produce potentially therapeutic compounds. I have worked on both fungal species (Aspergillus, Paraherquamide and Malbrancheamide) and bacterial species (Stereptomyces) for mining pathways which produce compounds of interest (NRPS, oxachaelin and lobophorin) • Performed comparative genomics between a high producing and normal strain of Streptomyces to extract information of the genes which are responsible for increasing the compound production • Performed diversity analysis on Neotropical beetle genome sample including phylogenetic classification, clustering and rarefaction for comparing species richness.

Graduate Student Research Assistant at University of Michigan, Aug 2009 - Jun 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos, • Responsible for denovo assembly and analysis of sequencing data for mining out gene clusters that produce potentially therapeutic compounds. I have worked on both fungal species (Aspergillus, Paraherquamide and Malbrancheamide) and bacterial species (Stereptomyces) for mining pathways which produce compounds of interest (NRPS, oxachaelin and lobophorin) • Performed comparative genomics between a high producing and normal strain of Streptomyces to extract information of the genes which are responsible for increasing the compound production • Performed diversity analysis on Neotropical beetle genome sample including phylogenetic classification, clustering and rarefaction for comparing species richness.

Education

MS, Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School

BE, Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University