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title: "Nivedita Dogra - Product Owner in India | Tal"
description: "Meet Nivedita Dogra, Squadron Leader (Retd.) | Aeronautical Engineer @ Collins Aerospace | Airworthiness, Avionics, Fleet Sustainment & MRO | Building safer, smarter aviation products based in India. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and openai."
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# Nivedita Dogra on Tal

## Headline

Squadron Leader \(Retd\.\) \| Aeronautical Engineer @ Collins Aerospace \| Airworthiness, Avionics, Fleet Sustainment & MRO \| Building safer, smarter aviation products

## About

I aim to help aerospace teams build products that actually work in the cockpit or support the work happening in one — because I've maintained, tested and certified them at 15,000 feet\. I am a Product Owner at Collins Aerospace\. I am a Squadron Leader\(Retd\.\) from the Indian Air Force, where I spent a decade as an Aeronautical Engineer on rotary and fixed\-wing platforms \(Mi\-17 V5, ALH Dhruv, Chetak/Cheetah\)\. I've led cross\-functional engineering teams of 100\+, managed multi\-crore maintenance budgets, conducted root cause analysis programmes with flight testing for unserviceable aircrafts and investigated aircraft accidents — work where the margin for error is zero\. After completing Business Management Programme at IIM Ahmedabad, I transitioned to civilian aerospace product management\. I now bring three things to the table that are rare in combination: • Deep aviation domain expertise — aircraft systems, avionics, weapons, MRO, flight test, airworthiness • Product & agile fluency — SAFe® POPM, CSPO, business analysis, data visualization \(Power BI, Tableau\) • Operational leadership under pressure — strategic planning, risk management, crisis response, stakeholder alignment across military, OEM and regulatory bodies What I'm exploring next: Senior Product Manager, Technical Program Manager or Aerospace Engineering leadership roles with aviation OEMs, MRO operators, eVTOL/UAM innovators or defence primes in India, UK, EU or US\. Open to relocation\.

## Location

India

## AI stack

claude code

claude

openai

## Work experience

Product Owner at Collins Aerospace, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 y 4 mo, Bengaluru, • Own end\-to\-end delivery of a management analytics platform for Collins Aerospace manufacturing site\. • Translate manufacturing and supply chain needs into prioritized listings for scrum teams on a SAFe PI cadence\.

Student at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Feb 2024 \- Aug 2024 · 7 mos, Ahmedabad, Business Management Programme

Volunteer at Robin Hood Army, Oct 2023 \- Feb 2024 · 5 mos, Shimla

Senior Technical Programme Manager at Indian Air Force, Apr 2023 \- Sep 2023 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, • Managed technical programmes and competitive bids across engineering, operations and commercial stakeholders — secured contract awards and on\-time delivery\. • Drove root\-cause analysis on accident investigations, translating findings into fleet\-wide corrective actions\.

Flight Test Engineer Trainee at Indian Air Force, Jun 2022 \- Mar 2023 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, • Selected for ASTE's elite Flight Test Engineer programme — India's apex aircraft and systems certification establishment\. • Planned and executed test sorties on modified aircraft, evaluating performance and stability across the operating envelope\. • Analysed flight data using MATLAB and Python, generating insights that drove system refinements\. • Presented findings to engineering teams and senior leadership\.

Senior Engineering Officer at Indian Air Force, Sep 2018 \- May 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Assam, India, • Digitized maintenance planning and migrated legacy processes to ERP, cutting manual workload by 80%\. • Led maintenance, QA and safety for a ₹800\+ crore \(\~$95M\) rotary\-wing fleet across 15\+ sites — • Led cross\-functional teams during operational exercises — 100% aircraft availability under tight timelines\. 20,000\+ flying hours in total\. • Conducted 100\+ audits and accident investigations; corrective actions cut fleet downtime by 20%\. • Negotiated with domestic and global OEMs on indigenization programs, reducing foreign supplier dependency by 30%\. • Introduced RFID tracking and ERP workflows, improving maintenance efficiency by 40%\.

Engineering Manager at Indian Air Force \(IAF\), May 2013 \- Aug 2018 · 5 y 3 mo, Mumbai

Intern at Escorts Limited\-Construction Equipment, May 2012 \- Jul 2012 · 3 mos, Delhi, India

## Education

Business Management Programme, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Hamirpur

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