Data-driven Technical Pre-Sales Engineer with knowledge and business acumen to close deals using creative and collaborative selling techniques. Also experienced in leading cross-functional teams through all stages of software development lifecycle to deliver innovative integrations within allocated time and budget. Passionate about collaborating with business and customers to solve major pain points around sustainability using tech and research.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Solution Engineer
MuleSoft/Salesforce
Remote, NC
12.2021 - Current
AOV/ACV Focused:
Supported Opps worth $3.1M ACV with 70% Close Rate and 5 New Logo adds in 15 months
Supported RFPs and RFIs with 80% Win Rate
Delivered multiple external events resulting in over $0.80M Stage 2 generated pipe
Spent 30+ hrs with ADs assisting in discovery Calls and POVs to successfully convert SALs worth $715K
Designed and led execution of new Trade Promotion Management Integration Workshop ($0.01M Stage 2 generated pipe)
Innovation:
Won 1st prize of $7500 at Salesforce Labs Net Zero Contest with innovative solution to collect and manage business travel carbon emission data
Built reusable Prospect POV template for BDRs and AEs
Created 11 reusable POVs, demos and assets with 250+ downloads in 6 months
Identified gap and led design and creation of RCG Portal - one-stop-shop for all industry resources and onboarding for new Solution Engineers
Stakeholder Management:
Partner with Product and Industry solutions team to influence product roadmap with important use cases and speaking engagements e.g Salesforce Global Retail Community Call
Partner with Product Marketing to deliver lunch and learns and webinars to drive pipegen activities
Director of PR and Comms : Women in Solution Engineering Event Committee
Founder & Lead : External Coffee Chat with MuleSoft Solution Engineering for URGs
Delivered 15+ integrations to automate financial approvals and order workflows between 6 applications for new ERP implementation in China and North America
Reduced new hire onboarding time from 2 weeks to 3 days through a novel excel based integrated checklist
Actively involved in hiring for Senior Engineer positions resulting in 2 referral conversions to full time in 2 months, helping the new platform team quickly ramp-up
Mentored 2020 graduate intern for 7 months under Leadership Development Program to train them in enterprise business concepts and technical leadership while preparing them to be ideal prospect employees.
Created architectural roadmap for decommissioning 11 legacy applications for finance, customer and product data harmonization across 3 geographies, resulting in savings of over $1.5 million.
Created architecture roadmap for new vendor-payment management software to save $300K annually.
Created architecture roadmap in 3 weeks for new AI/ML-based integrated business planning tool to optimize global supply chain and inventory and supported implementation across the enterprise.
Integration Lead (Global Integrations & Data Mgmt)
Pearson Global
Raleigh, NC
08.2016 - 01.2018
Led integration architecture for CRM consolidation projects across 5 geographies as Salesforce integration SME and delivered over 100 integrations across 6 releases, interfacing over 20 applications with less than 10% code defects.
Managed team of ~20 vendor consultants across 3 time zones (EST, GMT, IST).
Integration Lead
Cognizant Technologies
New York, London, Bangalore
12.2013 - 07.2016
Led integration solution design for a client’s global digital transformation project and headed a team of 20 offshore developers to deliver over 150 integrations with less than 10% code defects.
Created technology training material and facilitated on-boarding of new hires.
Led integration solution design for client’s digital transformation project to simplify Finance, Supply Chain and HR systems and delivered over 100 integrations with less than 10% code defects.
Led the design of highly reusable integration framework for a client which helped save $550K in data integrations over 12 months.
Managed a team of ~15 offshore developers to drive on-time project delivery and report risks to management in timely manner.
Was lead integration developer for a UK-based publishing client’s project to streamline Talent and Performance Mgmt. through new HR platform implementation in China and successfully delivered 6 integrations, interfacing 4 enterprise applications.
Was lead integration developer for a CRM consolidation project to merge 3 working CRM systems and streamline sales of over 20 products and services and successfully delivered over 12 integrations in 5 months.
Software Engineer
Accenture Solutions Private
Bangalore
08.2009 - 11.2013
Created technical designs and collaborated with project leads to successfully achieve zero-defect delivery in over 50 application integrations for a telecom client in France, a retail client in the UK and a pharmacy client in North America
Mentored 2 new joiners and trained them to build technical skills
Automated phone billing process for a telecom client through web service integration
Became SME for an in-house documentation and tracking tool through self-learning and trained a team of 8 support resources
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Public Policy for Young Leaders – Certificate course
The Open Group Certified: TOGAF9 Certified 2017
IBM Certified Application Developer Certificate – Cloud Platform v1
IBM Websphere Solution Developer Certificate – Message Broker v7
Sun Certified Java Application Developer Certificate
Additional Information
Honors & awards ,
Won Q2 MVP 2022 for going above and beyond to help generate business, technical assets, enablement, and thought leadership
Won Q2 SE-Specialist Impact Award for contributions to DataGraph product strategy and release enablement
Won Q1 RCG X-factor award for driving technical webinars, demos and leading diversity initiatives like SE-Woman forum and Reverse mentoring
Won Best Newcomer Award at Cognizant, UK for quickly acclimatizing as the first onsite resource and helping leadership to streamline delivery processes
Won Top Innovator Award at Cognizant for delivering a solution which helped client save $550K in day-to-day data integrations
Won Knowledge Asset Star at Cognizant for sharing knowledge across the org through internal white papers and proof of concepts
Won multiple Rising Star and Monthly Star awards at Accenture for quick learning ability, technical and analytical skills Won Monthly Star Award at Accenture for demonstrating outstanding promise in technology certifications
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