My expertise is in AI, e-commerce, digital transformation, & strategic consulting. Over the last 15+ years, I have successfully driven multiple multi-million-dollar initiatives. I specialize in enterprise architecture, strategic initiatives, and product sales for AI SaaS platforms. I am on a mission to reach out to at least 1 billion to live life stress-free.
What I offer
Business Coaching
Work with Founders/Business Owners to
develop a deep vision for their business,
improve productivity by identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the business and working on them, increase profits, improve performance, provide accountability, share fresh perspectives on how to grow the business.
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Leadership Coaching
Enabling your senior leadership team and you find your authentic leadership style, drive, path, and destination. I work with leaders all through these stages, implicitly coaching them to clearly communicate their vision to their team through verbal and non-verbal cues.
Mindset Coaching
Helping a coachee ethically move on from sticky situation in professional or personal life by enabling a mindset shift within their psyche. I use NLP, meditation, and the art of rewriting one's story to clear deep traumas that keep us stuck in toxic and limiting situations in life.
Strategic Business Consulting
Identifying and unlocking latent growth opportunities within organizations. Developing contextual high-value business cases and securing (customer) leadership buy-in for strategic initiatives
Business Model Analysis
Conduct Market Research. Understand the nuances of each of the markets and the impact of geo-political forces. Provide comprehensive, contextual consulting on best-fitted business strategy, pricing, market development, resource management, and change management that enables positive revenue growth.
Digital Operations & Transformation
Implementing end-to-end digital change management strategies.
Optimizing digital operations to enhance efficiency and performance and reduce costs.
Tech Product Management
Leading product development initiatives, especially in e-commerce and fintech.
Managing technical teams and ensuring successful product launches.
Expertise in payment infrastructure including encryption, decryption, hashing, and masking of key data.
Enterprise Software Architecture
Developing and implementing digital solutions across complex systems.
Architecting solutions that integrate seamlessly with core critical systems, such as banking systems, and payment gateways.
Architecture of AI-enabled ecosystems and best practices to ensure PII data is secure.
Business Training
Training and inducting new joiners into the team and enabling them to adopt the org's approach of doing things.
Providing training in process-oriented software development as per industry best practices.
Training sales teams on Go-To-Market Strategy and consistent communication and funnel building.
Business Mentorship
Guide and enable someone with similar career interests as mine to emulate the right things that I did on my career path and also learn from my mistakes to avoid making the same ones. Thus, as a mentor, I would wish to be a catalyst to bring clarity and accelerate my mentee's journey.
Experiences
Strategic Business Consultant
Helping organisations identify and unlock latent opportunities that have potential to offer high growth. Developing contextual high-value business cases and working with leadership to model the people and processes around it to support it.
Leadership Coach
Enabling senior leadership teams to find their authentic leadership style, drive, path, and destination. One key aspect of coaching is clarity of vision and the other is clear, simple communication of their goals and vision with authenticity.
Mentor for startups
I bring in my business expertise and firsthand knowledge of market to work with start up founders to hone their idea and enable them to nurture their vision of the future!
Head of International Expansion
Worked with a seed stage no-code startup for enabling its sales function and strategy initiatives for international expansion.
Sales Director - UK, IRELAND & APAC
Drove greenfield market development across APAC, UK, Ireland for an AI venture
- built sales strategy for SaaS AI products
- drove the sales cycle end-to-end
- represented the organisation at AI forums
- handled techno-functional-commercial deal discussions
- ensured successful deal closures
Strategic Business Manager & Business Development Manager
Handled CXO meetings for deal closures. Contributed to product deal wins with TCV of 10 Mn+ USD & customers reaped Y-o-Y ROI of 100%-800%
Worked with company's CEO & VPs on 3 key strategic growth initiatives on
- url-based sales collateral
- online marketplace
- inhouse Contract Management System
Enterprise Architect & Digital Mentor
- enabled end-to-end payment solutions for enterprise-wide RFPs with TCV $10 Mn - $40 Mn
- implemented regulatory compliant payment systems
- built a video streaming app using JFrame
- built an AI-enabled document reader (Tesseract OCR)
- mentored the Digital Interns joining the company
Product Manager & Product Architect
- My team of 7 delivered release features in just 4-6 weeks against the standard of 3-4 months
-Projects delivered:
- Unified Payment Interface (UPI) - Last Mile
- wallet & sub-wallet system
- cloud-based invisible payment system for transportation
- end-to-end codebase merging
Technical Lead - App Security Team & PERL Instructor
- single-handedly migrated 2.7 million user credentials with zero trouble reports
- designed, developed, deployed app security features in line with OWASP guidelines, AES encryption, TCP/IP based communication with HSM
- Sought after Unix/PERL trainer in TCS - Won Best Faculty award 9 times
Automation Engineer & Analyst Programmer
- appreciated by customer for my work on core banking and treasury services, credit card embossing unit
- designed & automated accuracy checks
- function tested payment processing across 1k+ unique workflows
- production go-live had no production issues both - functionally and technically.
Volunteer Lead at Education Initiatives at Tata Group
- led a team of ~45+ volunteers for 5 years
- conducted weekly (Saturday) Conversational English and Applied Maths classes for the students from lesser privileged background
- won best volunteer award multiple times
Agriprenuership Platform - CSR Initiative of Tata Group
- Presented the IT Strategy to the CIO of Tata Chemicals Ltd and it was vetted for implementation on ground.
- 50000+ female farmers across India have benefited from it
Information System for Khamir Crafts Society
- IT-led change management strategy implementation across Tally ERP systems.
- Executed a 4-week pilot successfully to showcase value to the stakeholders in an end-to-end MIS implementation and get their buy-in on the IT Strategy.
Abhyudaya - a flagship biz conclave event at ISB
- led the sponsorship team, raised event sponsorship of INR 1500000 cash in record time of 25 days.
- one of key highlight was the sponsorship deal with BMW India and free test drive for 2 days on beautiful ISB campus.
- Was awarded ISB Brand Ambassador for my contribution to the student community
Brand Building Campaign | Conceptualizer & Campaign Owner
- 22 interesting proLogs published as a part of the campaign about the talented folks studying at ISB. The posts had an average of 1000+ social media views and average of 80+ reactions per post.
- This contributed to increase in followers on ISB PGPpro page from 3K to 9.5K.
Co-lead, ISB Business Technology SIG
- conducted weekly SIG meetups and brainstorming sessions
- organised 60+ members of the SIG into study groups for preparation for AWS / GCP certifications
- reached out to, co-ordinated with industry speakers and organised industry speaker sessions on technology at ISB
Chief Event Co-ordinator, National Oratory Event
Successfully organised a full-day national oratory event Pratijja that saw participation from various parts of India.
Chief co-ordinator, Literary Club
- Led Kronicle, the Literary Club of my undergrad university for 4 years as the co-ordinator.
- Conceptualised and organised multiple weekly, monthly and quarterly events as a part of the club.
- Led a team of 120+ active club members.
TV Anchor
Anchor on Television for a dance series on ETV Odia. (Regional Channel Telecasted Globally)
Emcee at International Conferences
Hosted full-day international ATD conferences in 2017 & 2018 in Mumbai
Short Film Producer
- produced short films for Child Nutrition App, Shishuposhan App
- produced short promo films for nascent startups such as DJ's fairy garden
- also run a YouTube channel and host podcasts merely out of interest.
