Professional experience:

Centauri-Research ( Canada) Aug 2022 ??? Present

Founder & Principal Consultant

Centauri-Research is a boutique consulting firm specialized in Technology, Digital transformation and feasibility studies.

Roles : Product Management & Operations

Partnered with a Fintech to lead their operations in North America and providing inputs for product development.
Advised organizations on digital transformation to modernize operations and integrate marketing, sales, purchase and operations through digital tools and technologies. Created dynamic dashboards for management to monitor the stock, progress of projects and track operations using BI tools
Mentored founders of Food tech, Fintech and Non-profit organizations. Supported them in developing the product, strategy and implement third party tools to enhance customer experience

Supplierscave ( UAE, Canada) June 2016 ??? Sep 2023

Founder - Director, Product Development & Technology

Supplierscave is an online platform to liquidate surplus material of Contractors, Stockists of Construction industry

Roles : Product Management & Operations

Ideated, Designed and developed the web application for a marketplace for industrial products. Created designs, mockups, process flow charts, and feature maps. Developed the Minimum Viable Product and the subsequent versions of the web application by leading a team of full stack developers
Planned and executed the project using tools like jira, airtables to assign tasks to developers, manage backlogs using agile and waterfall methodologies. Maintained the repositories with Git version control on bitbucket. Managed quality through manual and automated testing before moving from staging to the production site
Well versed with databases such as SQL and AWS architecture and micro services. Frequently used services like ECS, ELB, RDS, S3, Route53, IAM, Cloudfront, VPC, AWS backup and Elastic Disaster Recovery
Finalized Algolia as a SaaS tool for enabling search on the platform after evaluating options such as Amazon Elastic search
Implemented and used services like Google analytics, Hot jar, Mix panel to analyze customer behavior, Hubspot, Sendgrid for inbound and outbound marketing, Sentry, bugsnag for automated testing.
Developed analytical tools for analyzing product cost to enable contractors estimate and benchmark product pricing using parametric data.
Demonstrated leadership by team building, providing strategic direction to the company and team members, developing business relationships with Clients and Vendors, generating sales and spearheading operations.

Larsen & Toubro (India, UAE) July 2004 ??? May 2016

Project Manager / Supply Chain Manager

Larsen & Toubro is an Indian multinational with a market cap of USD 60 billion US dollars, catering to Technology, Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing industries with presence in India, Asia, Middle East & North America.

Roles : Project Manager / Supply Chain Manager

Successfully completed multiple projects, handled roles in Planning, Project Management and Supply Chain Management. Worked in matrix organisation, Practiced RACI frameworks to facilitate inter department coordination to review and approve documents, and ensure adherence to quality and safety standards
Managed and executed multiple complex contracts valued between 10~100 Mn, involving multiple stakeholders, service agreements, license sharing agreements. Managed change orders, vendor performance
Developed planning schedules, executed and delivered orders within budget and time. Led Kickoff meetings with Suppliers, Customers and other stakeholders, liaised with internal and external teams for smooth execution of projects, participated in production walkthroughs to monitor progress and address bottlenecks, ensured compliance to client requirements, managed variations and post supply contract claims.
Provided bidding & estimation support for energy and infrastructure projects valued between 200Mn~3Bn USD.
Participated in Strategic initiatives,Process improvement projects with consultants such as BCG, Accenture
Developed vendor database, implemented processes for category Management, frameworks for Vendor performance evaluation. Led strategic and tactical procurement initiatives, low cost sourcing strategies
Developed Standard Operating Procedures for Projects, Procurement and logistics.
Executed internal SAP upgradation projects. Proficient in SAP, SAP Ariba, CRM and ERP tools.
Led Risk management task force to develop frameworks for Risk management, to monitor and mitigate procurement and project risks.