Python, Tableau, Github Copilot, net, Databricks, AWS, Azure & DevOps
Prameela Prakash
Bengaluru
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven Strategic Business Leader with over 23 years of experience in transforming operations across the US healthcare (Medicaid), banking, and biotech sectors. Expertise in architecting enterprise-wide operational excellence by converting data into actionable strategies, aligning service delivery with long-term vision, and consistently exceeding performance targets. Proven track record of building and leading large, high-performing offshore teams of over 70 members while optimizing P&L and delivering sustainable margin improvements. Recognized for fostering a culture of innovation, operational agility, and continuous improvement that drives organizational success and enhances team collaboration through effective problem-solving.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
2
2
Certificates
Work History
Associate Director & Capability Leader
Gainwell Technologies LLC
05.2016 - Current
- Operational Oversight: Directed end-to-end delivery for Data & Analytics portfolios, leading a 70+ member team to consistently achieve and surpass organizational goals.
- Service Delivery: Oversaw solutions architecture and project delivery, ensuring exceptional quality, client retention, and on-time execution.
- Financial Management: Managed multi-million-dollar budgets, cost estimations, and resource utilization, optimizing billability and bench management.
- Process Innovation: Pioneered Design Thinking initiatives, accelerating speed-to-market and reducing operational costs.
- Strategic Reporting: Developed executive-level presentations for resource projections, billing, and budget variance analysis.
- Team Leadership: Led a team of 70+ people across engineering implementation and program delivery.
- Strategic Roadmap: Owned product vision and strategic roadmaps, leveraging customer journey mapping for business prioritization.
- Medicaid Portfolio Oversight: Led Medicaid Data & Analytics portfolios, including the Unified Agile Application Architecture (UA3) project.
- Quality & Performance Metrics: Delivered HEDIS Quality Measures and Pay-for-Performance reporting, enhancing paediatric, behavioural, and adult health outcomes.
- Innovation & Delivery: Spearheaded the Gainwell Intelligent Analytics (GIA) platform a centralized, cloud-based MDM and predictive modeling solution.
Project Coordinator
Monsanto Holdings (Bayer)
06.2011 - 10.2015
- Organizational Transformation: Orchestrated Agile transformation across R&D IT, embedding Lean principles to elevate organizational performance.
- Innovation Culture: Fostered a culture of innovation by organizing hackathons and driving employee engagement.
- Strategy Execution: Developed long-range technology pipeline strategies and established process standards for business units.
- Talent Management: Led talent management initiatives, focusing on hiring, retention, and nurturing innovation.
Education
Executive General Management - IT
IIM Bangalore
PG Program - Business Analytics & Intelligence
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Masters - Computer Applications
IGNOU
Skills
Experience with MITA and HL7 FHIR
Data analysis with Tableau and Databricks
Strategic leadership
Decision-making
Organizational development
Operations management
Performance evaluations
Team collaboration and leadership
Agile Delivery & SAFe
Innovation & Continous Improvement
Business Intelligent & Analytics
Generative AI
Accomplishments
- People Leadership: Managed and developed high-performing teams of 250+ engineers in Bengaluru and Chennai, fostering a culture of ownership and commitment to team goals.
- Innovation: Evangelized and successfully integrating two new capabilities into existing platforms, enhancing competitiveness in the industry
- Product Ownership: Ensured accountability for product delivery and maintenance, achieving near-zero downtime and best performance for critical components.
- Thought Leadership: Explored innovative technology solutions that improved product features by 40%, promoting continuous improvement initiatives within the organization.
- Change Management: Promoted new perspectives on product development processes, leading to a 35% increase in operational efficiency through effective change management practices.
- Talent Development: Found skill gaps and implemented mentorship programs, enhancing team capabilities, and achieving a 90% internal promotion rate for leadership roles.
Certification
Digital Transformation for Leaders, Design Thinking, Generative AI Fundamentals.
Software
Timeline
Associate Director & Capability Leader
Gainwell Technologies LLC
05.2016 - Current
Project Coordinator
Monsanto Holdings (Bayer)
06.2011 - 10.2015
PG Program - Business Analytics & Intelligence
Great Lakes Institute of Management
Masters - Computer Applications
IGNOU
Executive General Management - IT
IIM Bangalore
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Operational Leadership: End-to-end P&L ownership, budget management, resource forecasting, and margin optimization.
- Strategic Execution: IT strategy deployment, product lifecycle management, and stakeholder engagement across multi-regional portfolios.
- Process Excellence: Champion of Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile methodologies to drive process innovation and operational efficiency.
- Talent Development: Proven track record in building, mentoring, and scaling high-performance engineering teams.
- Medicaid & Healthcare IT: Deep expertise in HEDIS Quality Measures, CMS-regulated Patient Access Interoperability (PAI), and MITA frameworks.
- People Leadership: Managed and developed high-performing teams of 250+ engineers in Bengaluru and Chennai, fostering a culture of ownership and commitment to team goals.