Senior Engineering Manager - Mobility Voice AI - Indian Languages Program at Cerence
20 Years of Experience
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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As a Senior Manager at the Speech Input Research & Development, I am involved in rolling out Indian Languages for Cerence AI Voice Assistant Solutions. Areas of responsibility include Acoustic and Language Modeling, Linguist data processing, Natural Language Understanding, Data Engineering & Build tools and Embedded platform. I collaborate closely with teams like Speech Output & Natural Language Generation, Cloud Platform and Application for supporting Product Management, Sales Engineering and Professional Services teams for Indian Languages deliveries. I have 19+ years IT experience including 3 years of customer facing roles across the globe (Switzerland, Australia, Denmark) Prior to my current role at Cerence, I have played variety of IT roles at LTI-Mindtree (11y) & Infosys (6y): o On-site customer stakeholder management for engagement of 100+ o Pre-sales initiatives – helping customers achieve data maturity and AI adoption o Project management in a flagship development engagement with 50+ people o Solution architecture for legacy print migration engagement achieving 30% automation saving o Data science: Hands-on experience in Machine Learning projects - involving Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Recommendation Systems and cloud platforms like AWS & GCP Personal traits: o Positive, principled & committed, with tendency to learn & think deeper o Focused leadership – ability to minimize friction & empathize with people, strengthen and build teams towards larger sustainable purpose o Inclination for building relationships on trust, credibility and mutual respect o Long term orientation and decisions driven by comprehensive system-thinking approach o Believe in striving for win-win outcomes taking everyone along I have passion and hands-on experience in developing AI/ML solutions in Computer Vision, NLP, recommendation systems over multiple cloud platforms. Have developed custom models as well as utilized AI capabilities of Google Cloud like AutoML, BigQueryML etc. Implemented some unique, original AI/ML projects and shared my research findings on Medium, Analytics Vidhya as well as contributed datasets on Kaggle.
Cerence Inc., SaaS/Cloud Product, Information Technology & Services
LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
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Job Title : Senior Engineering Manager - Speech Input R&D - Indian Languages Program
Company name : Cerence Inc.
Period : November 2021 - Present
Summary : I am involved in rolling out Indian Languages for Cerence AI Voice Assistant Solutions.
Areas of responsibility include Acoustic and Language Modeling, Linguist data processing, Natural Language Understanding, Data Engineering & Build tools and Embedded platform.
I collaborate closely with teams like Speech Output & Natural Language Generation, Cloud Platform and Application for supporting Product Management, Sales Engineering and Professional Services teams for Indian Languages deliveries.
Location : Pune, Maharashtra, India
Job Title : IT Portfolio Manager Associate Director, AI Solutioning
Company name : LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Period : June 2019 - November 2021
Summary : IT Portfolio Manager, Associate Director for broad tech landscape with multi-cloud transitions
Interaction with relevant customer stakeholders to understand pain points and bring about required improvements
Support team in improving collaboration & alignment with business, proactive contribution towards strengthening Agile way
Risk identification, sharing and support in course-correction
Helping to align the team composition with customer's strategic direction
Long term capacity and transition planning
Help team develop relevant solutions for current pain areas, aligned to customer's long term plans
Facilitate ideas for productivity improvement in day to day work - technical / process / people / tools
Location : Pune, Maharashtra, India
Job Title : Project Manager for Insurance Product Modernization
Company name : LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Period : November 2016 - May 2019
Summary : Project Manager -
Risk identification and mitigation
Project tracking and People issue resolution.
Driving Ideas & Innovations.
Training and competency development.
Resource planning and financial management.
Reporting and quality management activities.
Account level –
Led quality quantification & improvement initiative across Velliv.
Contributed to Target Ownership Model proposition to Nordea.
Contributions to various reports, CoA etc.
Location : Pune, Maharashtra, India
Job Title : Technical Architect & Automation Lead for CCM Migration
Company name : LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Period : March 2016 - October 2016
Summary : Technical Architect & Automation Lead -
Drive system analysis, architecture and design.
Guided the migration automation tool
Involved in project initialization, quality goals and process set-up.
Initiated and encouraged multiple automation opportunities
Guided technical ramp-up of the ISIS-Papyrus team.
Account Level -
Helped in Extreme Automation – taking initiatives and tracking.
Tracking of Ideas & Innovations for multiple projects in Nordea Life and Pensions.
Contributions to various reports, CoA etc.
Location : Pune, Maharashtra, India
Job Title : Natural Adabas Technical Lead
Company name : Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Period : May 2010 - February 2016
Summary : Project Lead -
Involved in requirement specification, design and reviews
Look after work allocation, onsite-offshore coordination, performance appraisals of team members, process and quality adherence etc.
Helped in maintaining stability and performance during team changes
Led team to successfully deliver several critical assignments like Nyt TAE
Implemented simple, cost effective solutions to complex problems in Agent commission systems.
Account Level –
Tracking of KPIs, Ideas & Innovations in multiple projects in Nordea Life and Pensions.
Contributions to RFPs
Location : Pune, Maharashtra, India
Job Title : Test Analyst for Financial Planning Tool Nordea, Pune
Company name : Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Period : May 2010 - June 2010
Summary : A project to develop a Financial Planning Tool for an Insurance and Pensions company. Included analysis of business and test scenarios, execution of functional and random destructive testing, proactively providing business suggestions.
Job Title : Technology Lead for Telstra Fulfillment, Pune
Company name : Infosys
Period : April 2008 - September 2009
Summary : Module Lead/ Project Lead in a project for application enhancement and maintenance of a business-critical PSTN activation system.
1. Manage daily support operations. Proactively resolve potential issues
2. Predict business and test scenarios
3. Facilitate discovery of design alternatives and effective solutions
4. Implement proof of concept projects
5. Review solution design, detailed design and test strategy documents for multiple enhancements
6. Project quality management tasks
9. Drive knowledge management and sharing in the team
7. Prepare ROM estimation for new business initiatives
8. Assist in resource management tasks
9. Implemented various activities for productivity improvement and reducing COQ.
10. Prepared tools and re-usable artifacts for activities like test data set-up and review, test execution, test results verification, release management etc
Job Title : Natural Adabas - Technical Analyst for Alinta, Melbourne
Company name : Infosys
Period : May 2007 - February 2008
Summary : A project to manage the disengagement of two parties from a shared system. Worked as Technical Analyst in Estimation / Review / Testing
1. Assist in the solution design – from process orchestration to solution architecture to technical implementation
2. Review solution and detail design documents and raise potential issues
3. Estimate FTE impact and validate estimates by the existing vendors
4. Provide valuable inputs for test strategy and planning
5. Prepare tools for test data set-up, testing and validation
Job Title : Natural Adabas - Module Lead for B-Source, Bangalore
Company name : Infosys
Period : October 2006 - April 2007
Summary : Maintenance project for a Swiss Private Banking service prov
Title : Cybersecurity at Work (2020)
Period : September 2023 - Present
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Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Foundations of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Period : September 2023 - Present
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Title : Preventing Harassment in the Workplace
Period : September 2023 - Present
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Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Advanced AI: Transformers for Computer Vision
Period : July 2023 - Present
Summary : linkedin.com, https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/cee537ed770029cb5028aaa5b81facd64be967dc7ea5eb35af7da65400eb78fa?trk=flagship-lil_details_certification
Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Applied AI: Getting Started with Hugging Face Transformers
Period : July 2023 - Present
Summary : linkedin.com, https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/2a60ba0a6940dd6f555971745270e828ac748a75005acf46b48186f9c805c7ca?trk=flagship-lil_details_certification
Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Communicating with Emotional Intelligence
Period : June 2023 - Present
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Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Introduction to Conversational AI
Period : June 2023 - Present
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Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : Introduction to Prompt Engineering for Generative AI
Period : June 2023 - Present
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Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : IoT Foundations: Fundamentals
Period : June 2023 - Present
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Issuing Authority : LinkedIn
Title : TOGAF® Certification Program
Period : April 2015 - Present
Issuing Authority : The Open Group
Title : PSM
Issuing Authority : Scrum.org
Title : Comparing Custom Model Development With GCP BQML and AutoML Tables
Publisher : Medium
Publication time : 2021
Summary : I always had a curiosity about the Automatic Machine Learning on cloud platforms -
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