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Preceding Roles : Head of Connected Cockpit & Program Leader - EE & SW. 1. Built a Connected Cockpit Centre of Excellence from the ground up, scaled the team from zero, leading teams with engineers and testers across Germany, Italy, Korea, and Croatia, reporting directly to the CTO. 2. Led the full product lifecycle of the Pininfarina Battista, from cockpit concept to vehicle launch, covering IVI, HMI, connectivity, ADAS, electronics architecture, functional safety, and cybersecurity. 3. Owned the int

Preceding Roles : Product Architect → Product Manager 1. Led end-to-end development of the infotainment system and connected car features for the Pininfarina Battista, Pura Vision, and B95 covering concept development, embedded software, application layers, and customer-facing portals. 2. Managed embedded software teams across BSP, middleware, and application layers for IVI and cockpit ECUs, ensuring clean integration across the full software stack on Automotive OS-based platforms. 3. Owned HMI strateg

Responsible for Digital at BAJA SAEINDIA, additionally served as the Joint Convener I Co Convener I Lead - Marketing at Mahindra BAJA SAEINDIA Leveraged the brand to raise $1million towards sponsorship from 45 automotive companies in India. 1. Started the first electric vehicle student design series in India - eBAJA powered by Mahinda Electric - Initiated world's first electric BAJA series to support government's national electric mobility mission plan 2020. The event first took place in 2015 with 8 team

Responsible for Project Management of Vehicle Development Projects with a budget size of around $50 Million. My responsibilities included: 1. Planning & Schedule Management 2. Risk Analysis & Project Bottleneck Assessment 3. Stakeholder Management - Product Planning, Operations 4. Finance being the major stakeholders Additionally, I supported the senior Vice President - Component development and materials management(CDMM) in project management and departmental activities. Organized review meetings

At Mahindra, I had the sub ownership of manual transmission NGT 520, a new generation gearbox used in sub-premium SUVs- Mahindra Scorpio, Thar & Pickup. NGT 520 transmission was produced over thousand in numbers daily at Mahindra’s Kandivali facility in Mumbai. Used data intelligence to analyze product field failures and resolved critical warranty concerns. 1. Analyzed 8,000+ component failure data in a spreadsheet, successfully drawing conclusions about failure modes and critical warranty concerns. 2. C

MBA Internships 6 months + working student 4 months at BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany. Worked with the Global Strategy & Projects (Digital Strategy @ Intermediates 4.0) team. Developed a 4.0 strategy for BASF's Intermediates (CI) business division on group and SBU levels. Led a digital pricing projec