Javed Inamdar

• Building and scaling the PRAVI platform by bringing in right talent in platform development, content development, sales, marketing and finance.
• Defining and executing strategy to meet short term and long term goals.
• Meeting colleges/students and educating them about skills needed by industry and helping them build those skills through Pravi
• Connecting corporates with right talent to reduce their fresher hiring and grooming efforts by as much as 50%
• Raising funds for the initiative

• Doing everything : From sales, marketing, preparing proposals, delivery/project management, solution design, coding, hiring and grooming new talent to handling finances.
• As part of sales activity, reaching out to various SMBs, startups in India and Europe for possible collaboration.
• Currently leading multiple teams working on projects as varied as IoT analytics, demand forecasting etc.
• Designed and lead development of generic IoT web platform 'IoTSys' aimed at monitoring machine performance for Corrugated Box Manufacturing industry.
• Conceptualized and developed resourcing platform 'Real-Interview' to address skilled resource shortage and reduce hiring time.
• Developed demand forecasting solution for Spanish company.
• Engaged in multiple projects under "operational excellence" initiative for agri-tech startup in Sweden.
• Trained more than 400 senior/junior engineers at 2 biggest auto majors in India on ADAS (Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems) with focus on AI systems (Image recognition, Speech recognition).

• Responsible for quality of following products delivered to SAS customers: SAS Forecast Server, SAS Time Series Studio, SAS Forecasting Web Client, SAS Forecasting for Desktop, SAS PROC PSCORE.

• Communication Management

- Manage communication to and from the team with project

stakeholders.

- Send regular status reports (daily/weekly as necessary).

- Daily/Weekly meetings with developers in Pune and Cary.

- Preparing documentations for Release Management Process

meetings.

• Risk Management

- Raising risks in timely fashion.

- Getting risks resolved by following up with relevant stakeholders.

• People Management

- Conducting regular 1:1 meetings with team members to understand

and resolve their issues.

- Coaching team members to enhance their professional/personal

skills, setting up small goals for every quarter.

- Hiring and grooming new talent.

• Conducting training for internal SAS employees.

- Conceptualized and executed 5 seasons of Analytics Mentorship Program (6 months duration) to train SAS employees on analytics

- Conducted induction training for new SAS employees for 13 years

- Training focus areas : Analytics, SAS programming, SAS solutions installation

• Conflict Management
• Driving innovation initiatives
• Demo product at various international analytics conferences in USA, Europe and India.

• Working with key stakeholders to define scope for product release.
• Think through all possible data scenarios, analytics algorithm/product is supposed to handle and create relevant data for verification.
• Create parallel logic to verify predictions/forecasts produced by algorithms are accurate.
• Demo product at various international analytics conferences in USA, Europe and India.
• Test planning, writing test cases, raising defects in timely fashion.
• Sending status reports, highlighting risks and risk mitigation strategies.
• Support tech support resolve client issues.
• Verify product help is accurate and complete.
• Hiring and grooming new talent.
• Conducting training for internal SAS employees.

• Worked as test lead, leading team of 4.
• Analysis of functional specifications and business requirement documents.
• Creation of test plan, test coverage metrics, test case design.
• Allocation of tasks to junior team members.
• Participated in functional testing, regression testing.
• Defect Analysis / Metrics management for project.
• Preparing and sending daily and weekly status reports to project stakeholders.
• Conducting meetings with developers in US as well as India to resolve issues.

• Worked as software test engineer at Vision Informatics, verifying various products like Task Manager and Office Management System.