Business Transformation Leader
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A result-oriented Strategic Planning and Operations specialist with global experience and an established track-record of delivering stress-free outcomes in a technology-intense, high-risk environment. Experience of Product and Program management in high-technology domains.
Mentored and led professional teams, budding entrepreneurs, leaders and graduate students for innovation and entrepreneurship to create value and make an impact.
Strategized the growth and enhanced the performance by implementation of Continuous Improvement and best practices of project management, lean, six sigma and agile methodologies with a focus on sustained culture of team empowerment.
Experience of being in demanding operations portfolios for most of the career, including many years of international experience of training, mentoring and leading diverse, multi-cultural professional teams in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Led cross-functional teams ranging from 50 to 650 professionals and handled assets and annual budgets upwards of US$ 50 Million.
My ability to break the complex issues into smaller and simpler steps and take my teams together to achieve timely and effective solutions, has made me eager to venture for bigger challenges in order to lead motivated, empowered teams to attain the goals which influence and impact lives towards making this world a better place!
● Product Management (Experienced) Team Building & Leadership, Design thinking, Customer Discovery, Mood Maps, Marketing Analytics & Experimentation, Pricing, Planning, Competitive Analysis, FMEA, Poke Yoke (16 years)
● Strategy & PMO (Experienced) MS Project &Teams, Agile|Scrum|Trello |ClickUp Jira, Confluence, SWOT analysis, ROI forecasting, RACI Matrix, PMI-PMP, Lean Six Sigma Black & Green Belt, PMI-Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (16 years)
● Innovation (Experienced) Design Thinking, Design Sprint, Jobs-to-be-done, System Thinking, TRIZ, Disciplined Entrepreneurship (MIT framework), NSS (Nailing, Scaling and Sailing) (MIT framework) (16 years)
● Prototyping and Designing (Experienced) MS Visio, MS Office, Preto-typing, Mood Map, UX Design (10 years)
● BA/ Data Analytics R, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, MS Excel, Predictive, Descriptive and Prescriptive Analysis (16 years)
● Consulting Strategic and Management Consultant to senior leadership in aerospace, defence, and tech industry
● Operations Responsible for seamless operations and logistics of fleet of 30 ships and more than 15000 professionals
● Leadership Military & Business leadership experience. Led upto 850 cross-functional professionals & budget of $ 150 M
● Mentorship Trained mentor for start-ups and entrepreneurs at MIT’s Entrepreneur Forum, Martin Trust Center of MIT Entrepreneurship. Appointed as Professor of Practice for Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship at Woxsen University
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2021 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management Cambridge MA USA
Program in General Management; Concentrations in Strategy, Innovation, Design Thinking, Technology and Analytics.
Course Project Development of an EdTech venture, Virtual Reality based Learning Tool for school students (K 10) in CA
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Innovation Mentor at the Entrepreneur Forum, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, Cambridge MA
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15 201 6 Defense Services Staff College Wellington, India
Master of Science Concentrations in Strategy, Operations, and International Relations
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Awarded m edal by President of India for exceptional leadership among 550 officers from 20 nations.
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07 20 08 Cochin University of Science and Technology Cochin, India
Master of Science Concentrations in Technology, Analytics, Operational Research, Strategy and Operations
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Awarded ‘Best All rounder Officer’ trophy for professional excellence among 120 officers.
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02, 20 05 French Naval School of Application and Specialization Toulon and Brest, France
Specialization Courses Advanced ( and Basic (2002 in Communication Technology and Data Analytics
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Stood 1 st amongst 45 non NATO participants (course delivered in French language)
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2000 Naval Academy, Goa University Goa India
Bachelor of Science; Concentrations in Strategy, Operations, Analytics, and Nautical Science
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Ranked in top of 200,000+ candidates in All India Entrance Examination. Awarded ‘Most Promising
Officer’ trophy for professional and academic achievements at graduation
