Coach with a tendency to sit in the locker room with the team and participate in technology, product and solution creation with a passion to deliver at the highest quality and provide customer delight. Worked in the capacity of senior leadership positions like COO/CTO, Vice President of Engineering and Operations, etc. primarily in the financial technologies and telecom domain. Privilege of working with a rich plethora of leading Fortune 500 organizations like Fiserv, Avaya, HSBC, Ericsson, Alcatel and AT&T including multiple overseas engagements in different geographies like Australia, US, UK and Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, etc.) Experience of building products from pre-Concept right through Concept-To-Market, General Availability and Professional Services; with proven record of building and leading highly productive and competitive global engineering teams, across multiple geographies like US, Australia and India with varied skill and experience engineers and managers as well as vendor associates across US, Europe and APAC. Strong experience in working closely with sales, pre-sales and customer engineer groups to create win-win for resolving core problem statements and customization requests for customers. Experience of building GCCs from scratch in India; started IAS India Pvt Ltd. and scaled to 150+ associates in 1.5 years, during tough times of the COVID pandemic. Adept at culture blending, handling big teams, cross-location employee, and vendor management. Led simultaneous mission-critical programs with flexibility to adapt to cycles of changing business priorities. Strategic Engagement with customers and CxOs to create operational and portfolio roadmap, identify revenue opportunities, avenues for innovation as well as programs for Employee Engagement, Career progression, etc. CORE COMPETENCIES Product and Program Delivery Management  Agile-based software development and testing (Scrum, Kanban model, TDD, BDD)  PMP (PMBOK) - waterfall based project management  Enterprise Software Development, Systems Engineering, DevOps, QA and Support  Technical leadership, Strategy and Execution  Large scale Multi-site deployment, Hosted + Cloud-based Enterprise Solutions Operations Management  Heading global HR, Admin, Finance functions across geographies  Hiring top industry talent; university outreach, attract senior leaders via referrals, etc.  Budget management (CAPEX, OPEX), Compliance with local laws, corporate audits, etc.  Vendor management across Asia, US, Europe