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Chief Executive Officer at IGS | Managed Practice Leader with SIs and GCCs

About

My passion and strength over the past two decades in Quality Engineering space has been my ever-seeking attitude and my all-time mindset to bring automation into every activity involved in IT product development lifecycle has resulted in many of my fulfilling delivery towards Large-scale Enterprise Account and Operations Management towards driving account growth and value for customers. Currently, I am the Director and CEO of IGS India, responsible for my company's focus on Next Gen technologies, solutions and Services. I work on creating value at my workplace and eventually attaching it to our brand, products and services for our customers. I am attacking targets by using advanced analytics, creating and maintaining consumption-driven and outcome-driven models, and onboarding compelling new solutions for automating back-office automation, all aimed ultimately towards better positioning of our solution with our customers, as much as the profitability for my organization. Previously, I managed Account delivery and incubation services for one of the larger accounts with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, as its Senior Delivery Manager/Account Manager. Very passionate about out-of-box concepts in Quality Engineering, disruptive technologies and Immersive Technology solutions, lifecycle automation, Big-Data analysis, Data Visualization and Internet of Everything space. OTT, Deep Tech, RPA, Self-Heal Automation Frameworks, Low-Code No-Code approaches, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, blockchain management and Business Architecture Services concepts have held my attention. Those of you thinking like-wise, feel free to connect with me.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Chief Executive Officer at IGS, Dec 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 10 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Working with a Team of Brilliant Career Quality professionals who has passion to constantly push the envelope both internally and with customers in order to achieve greater ROI by running Preventive strategies for Quality strategies for our customers who are aiming to optimise their Cost of Quality and achieving faster TATs on releases.

Chief Technology Officer at IGS, Mar 2018 - Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 10 mos, Bangalore, IGS (India) has classified three distinct Technology Verticals with which it offers Next Technology, Solutions and products to global customers. ImmerseApps: ImmerseApps focuses intently at developing intuitive and innovative immersive solutions for hardcore Engineering, Manufacturing and Mass Passenger Transport industries. IGS already has several Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality prototypes that have drawn global customer attention. View few of our project works @ http://www.igs-india.net/ QAGraphy: A technically equipped QA vertical created to score Quality Engineering over Quality Assurance. Three Key factors that define our QA Strategy: SMART Requirements, Accelerated Automation, Output driven Managed Services model. QAGraphy's TaaS brings people, process and tools together as a single unit to customers to plan and consume. IGS India has constantly focused on evaluating open-source based automation frameworks and invests in drawing well defined open-source tooling based strategies and solution for its clients to benefit their overall operational strategies. Datagamy: IGS (India) will be very soon launching a portal of a kind where the clients and end users will have the power to visualize data to gain multiple insights on a single dataset. IGS India would bring these Data Visualization on-demand services in a uniquely positioned commercial model that is disruptive in today's market place.

Chief Operating Officer at iFocus Systec (India) Private Limited, Jun 2016 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bangalore, Responsible for my company's profitability and Revenue growth towards stretch targets. I work on creating value at my workplace and eventually attaching it to our brand, products and services for our customers. Attack targets by using advanced analytics, creating and maintaining consumption-driven and outcome-driven models, and onboarding compelling new solutions for automating back-office automation, all aimed ultimately towards better positioning of our solution with our customers, as much as the profitability for my organization.

Delivery Manager - Testing Services at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Apr 2011 - Jun 2016 · 5 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Leading Testing Delivery for a Major Airline Customer Account at HPE. Few of "many" enjoyable moments that gave me immense sense of satisfaction and fulfilment: - Growing a large American Airline customer account for HPE to Large-Scale operations in the QA Space - Trial, Pilot and Implement one of HPE's most successful Service offering in Quality Assurance Sector "Testing-As-A-Service (TaaS)". Brought in Predictability of Testing budgets within product development lifecycle for enterprise customers - Onsite Stints at Client facilities focused on building rapport and trust and eventually setting up expanded onshore-offshore teams for seamless operations for my client - Co-Authored and implemented the Test strategy, as a lead, for one of the most complex and large-scale systems in Airlines business – Flights operations System (FOS) as a part of integration between two large airlines in the US. - Led Requirements re-engineering and migration to Business Process Modeling from traditional Use Case documentation for one of the largest Airlines Customer. - Led the incubation team in Quality Engineering space for a large account - Test and Quality Maturity Assessment (TQA) assignments delivering successful Short Terms and Long-term strategies - White Paper on Centralized Test Data Management, Solution and its benefit in an Enterprise Architecture. - Developed Effort Estimation Model and tool for “Games and Multimedia”. - Presentation of our Niche capabilities of Games Testing, representing my organization at NASSCOM’s All IT Event in 2007-2008 - Co-Participating in Global Step-in conference in 2010-2011 – Test Automation for Open-Source seekers

Testing Project Manager at HP - Best Shore Apps - Games Testing, Mar 2008 - Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Managing Multiple Projects from a Client/Clients. Responsible to assure the quality of deliverables and tracking budget versus timelines on projects handled. Value Add analysis for each project based on the hidden wants of the client.

Group Lead at EDS, an HP Company, Jul 2005 - Jul 2008 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Education

BE, Telecommunication Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University

BE, Telecommunication Engineering, Pesit