Seeking Non-OEM exposure, joined ALSTOM (announced to be acquired by GE) as Group Head of Design Team of 8 (european structure)..within a year responsible for mechanical engineering team of 21 including service engineering teams.
Teams used CATIA for CAD, ABAQUS for FEA & RPDM a Proprietory tool for PDM/PLM/BOM & Approvals.
High pressure, Intense and minimal room for error type of exhilirating work with direct customer facing role!
Lead/Mentor team (size upto 21)
Set Priority, Goals, Evaluate Performance, Hike & Promotions
Plan Salary, Resources, Hiring, Training & Travels
Project Execution on time, cost, Quality.
Project Reviews & Toll Gates
Customer Service Engg. requests
Enable project/ Operations Budget, RFQs, Tenders
Undertake Technical & Execution Decisions
Customer/Contract/Budget Negotiations
BOD Level Customer Engagements
Enable Customer Vision/ Digital Road Map
Conceptualize Digital Solutions across Org
Develop Strategic Technology offerings, RFQs, Tenders, QR
Feedback/Thread to C-Suite Leadership
Marketing/White Paper Support/ Pipeline
As Group Head/ Customer Projects Engg. Manager:
1.Team Development: Groomed a team of project engineering managers, enhancing exposure to multiple projects & lead over 8+ global turnkey projects & over 15+ planned/Unplanned outages/issue resolutions.
2.Customer Engagement: Responsible for key flagship Indian retrofit projects of Renusagar, NTPC Ramagundam & GSCEL Ukai-Wanakbori increasing plant efficiency, power production and operational flexibility. Handled high stake negotiations, arbitrations, pre sales shaping of project each worth $30Mn with customers and executing with rock solid operations despite localization challenges to maintain profitable margin with a win-win for the customers.
3.White Paper: Contributions to white paper in plant flexibility solutions for fossil machines facing the high renewable influx into grid won Central Electricity Authority (India) appreciation! This became content of GE SOA customer enagegment events in Delhi, Mumbai & Kolkata.
As GE Digital Account:
4.Data Products: Nurtured $25 Mn+ Pipeline across 3 major offerings on Data Analytics Products in the area of solar energy generation forecasting to enhance revenues by spot bidding, Analytics in Asset Performance Management to enhance availability & reliability resulting in reduction of bottom line spending by 15% for customers and & Operational Insights (Flex-Suite) to run and operate the plant more efficiently by mix of physics and data on Azure Based Platform.
1.Project Management Professional, SABCON, Bangalore, 2018
2.Product Management, GE, Bangalore, 2016
1.RISE: Leading the Leaders, GE, Delhi & Bangalore, 2016-2017
2.Developing Leader in You, ALSTOM (GE), Noida, 2015