DEEPTI PURANDARE
Pune, India
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With Result Oriented Approach and Passion for Excellence, I strive to bring in success for the Organisation I
work for by taking the team along. I believe in maximising human potential. My strengths are creative
thinking and strong execution capability.
Program / Transition / Delivery Specialist in Products and Services
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
20+ years of experience in IT industry, in AD&M space both in products and services based organisations
using Agile and Waterfall models
Proven Leadership in setting up ODC (Offshore Delivery Center) for IT Product Development successfully
building the Culture of Excellence
Vast experience in Senior Management roles - Leading large teams of 200+ software professionals with P&L
ownership in both Captive and Customer facing set-ups
In-depth People Leadership experience with an ability to motivate teams
Extensive Program Management experience in managing globally distributed teams in Java/J2EE and .NET
AWS Certified Solutions Architect; Experience in moving data centres to Cloud in the current organisation.
Experience in Lean Consulting and Implementation in large projects for Operational Excellence resulting in
Productivity and Quality Improvement
Highlights of key responsibilities include Account Mining, Project Planning, Tracking, Risk Management,
Quality Management, Client Relationship, Executive Reporting, Resourcing and Team Development
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WORK HISTORY
Duration
Organization
Designation / Role
March 2018 – Till Date
CrossOver Markets (ESW Capital)
Consultant
April 2014 – February 2018
Capita India
Senior Program Manager / Operations Head
March 2012 – November 2013
Geometric Limited
Delivery Head
August 2007 – March 2012
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Senior Project Manager / Lean Coach
May 2005 – August 2007
HSBC Global Technology
Project Manager / Program Manager
December 1998 - April 2005
Mahindra British Telecom
Project Manager
July 1995 - November 1998
Tata Infotech Ltd.
Software Design Engineer
ACADEMICS AND CERTIFICATIONS
Masters in Computer Science, Mumbai University, India, 1995 (Ranked 4th in the University)
Bachelor of Science, Statistics, Mumbai University, India, 1993 (Ranked 13th in the University)
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification – March 2005
Cloud Computing Foundation Certification – February 2017
AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification – October 2018
CAPITA - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
ODC Set-up
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Set-up ODC from scratch – Infrastructure, Recruitment, Agile Development and Operations Processes,
Capacity Planning, Training, Competency Development, Employee Engagement, Compensation etc.
Budgeting and Cost Management
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Annual Budgeting and meticulous cost management
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Allocation of budget as per the long term and tactical priorities
Program Management Office
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Develop and implement best Agile and Architectural practices
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Explore and recommend the best set of Tools and Techniques for Project Management and .NET and
Javascript technologies
o
Measure productivity and quality through appropriate metrics and publish dashboards for the Top
Mgmt consumption
Strategy, Planning and Onboarding of new business
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Identify potential offshoring opportunities and present business cases to make the current
development centre a hub of all product development across the 5000 people-strong division
o
Replicate the past successes through efficient onboarding of new teams
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Strategy around building of various CoEs – Architecture, Quality Assurance and Usability Engineering
Geometric - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
P&L Ownership
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Prepare Annual / Quarterly Budgets and set Annual / Quarterly Revenue and Contribution Margin
targets along with Sales through Two-in-box model
Product Development and Delivery
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Assist Product Owner in developing Product Roadmap
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Establish strong engineering practices
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Explore latest technologies and tools in all the streams of product development – Business Analysis,
Architecture, Automation and Continuous Delivery and drive technical discussions with a team of
architects and developers
People Management
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Managed a team of 130+ with around 8 to 10 direct reports
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Responsible for their career development, appraisals and compensation
IBM - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Build Culture, Competency and Leadership
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Build the culture of excellence, innovation and continuous improvement
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Create competency framework for all roles and enable competency improvement through various
short term and long term action plans
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Identify leadership talent and provide the necessary mentoring and coaching
Continuous Improvement through Lean
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Implementation of Lean and Kaizen in spirit as well as letter (Was awarded Silver Certificate in IBM
for this)
People Management
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Managed team of 50+ localization experts in the capacity of the Center Head
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Responsible for their career development, appraisals and compensation
HSBC GLT - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Transition Management and Services Delivery
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Prepare detailed transition plan
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Identify Dependencies, Risks and prepare Mitigation Plan
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Track project expenditure and optimize costs wherever possible; Track Resource Utilization
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Forecast project performance with respect to Schedule, Quality and Financials at each milestone and
take corrective actions, if necessary
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Ensure process compliance with respect to the organization standards
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Conduct project management reviews across other accounts
Communication Framework
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Establish governance structure, operational cadence and escalation mechanism (internal and
external)
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Prepare and send performance dashboards to all stakeholders as a part of MIS reporting
Mahindra British Telecom, TCS and Tata Infotech - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Hands-on on HTML, Livewire, Oracle, PL/SQL, C, Pro*C, Perl and Unix
Domains – Telecom (British Telecom), E-commerce (General Electric (GE))
End-to-end product development for internal applications – Requirements, Design, Development (Front-end
and Back-end), Testing and Deployment
Pre-sales support
People Management of teams up to 30 people
Extensive client interaction for understanding requirements, project planning and delivery updates
