Prerana Pal-Karmokar

Technical commitments and Development Plan

• Product Head for API products for DHL Express
• Working with cross functional team across geographies to bring customer voices and incorporate same into product development.
• Leading cloud migration and transition for legacy products from on premise to AWS and Azure.
• Part of core team strategizing cloud transformation journey for all DHL express products.
• Coordinate and collaborate with Data Insights and analytics team to improve product performance.
• Instrumental in assessing the fit of complex solutions and identifying gaps for subsequent evaluation in pursuit/solution development process.
• Coordinating productive business relationships with all levels of customer, business partners, and vendor management
• Accountable for annual budgets with controls to prevent overages of Value 10M+.

People Management and Thought leadership

• Leading department of 80 plus Full Time and Contractual employees
• Experienced and effectively to recognizing and managing resource diversity, performance and or personality conflicts
• Coaching team in completion of assignments through knowledge sharing
• Experienced and effectively delivering high quality performance reviews of team members
• Experienced and effective ability to recruit, develop, coach and counsel subordinates
• Continual coaching to Junior product leads and senior resources of operational team in development, rollout and management of new product lines.
• Established Agile ways of working by close mentorship to team, sharing skills and expertise and encouraged each member to bring forward ideas and suggestions for improvement.

Value Addition and Extra Mile

• Key strategist for Freshers onboarding program conducted in year 2022.
• Lead coach for Internal courses on cloud transformation for product managers.
• Part of branding focus group to enhance companies brand value in local market

Technical Commitment & Development Plan

• Globally managed 3 award winning products in supply chain domain,among them Atsource being most comprehensive, customer focused,sustainability platform in the world.
• Established and administered programs summing up to annual budget of $25M with effective controls to prevent overages, minimize burn rate and support sustainability objectives.
• Applied excellent problem-solving, process development and strategic implementation skills to build solutions in Next-gen cutting edge technology like AR, VR, AI/ML, AEM, and data sciences
• Spearheaded agile transformation of digital team working along with Agile coach and consultant.

People Management and Team Leadership

• Built a team of engineers and tester from ground up, and over the years expanded from 3 members to 42 members team ensuring diversity and inclusion.
• Coached and guided 2 junior program manager as part of raising leaders program and actively led it.
• Collaborated with multiple cross-functional to drive team engagement and keep members on course to achieve demanding portfolio targets by implementing Agile ways of working.

Value addition and Extra Mile

• Initiate Lean-In focus group for women employees in for Olam's chennai chapter
• Lead focus group to enhance digital team's brand value and collaborated with top tier Marketing and brand team
• Engaged with customers, partners and constituent groups to create positive, trusting and professional relationships

• Handled day-to-day running of product engineering
  for 2 leading products , ensuring high levels of
  productivity and progression.
• Served as strategic partner to account managers,delivery leadership and business delivery team to
  help identify opportunity areas and provide
  technology solutions.
• Worked closely with administration, functional
  managers and Subject Matter Experts, as needed.
• Guided and coached Scrum team and organized
  Agile and Scrum practices and values while also
  meeting delivery commitment.

• Adhered to industry practices, company standards and safety protocols in work.
• Coordinated daily activity and flow of projects through multiple departments to verify on-time product delivery.
• Improved 6 metric as key member of large-scale project team tasked with revamping overall operations.
• Developed project timelines for product lines from kickoff through production and online content development based on marketplace requirements.
• Completed assignments ahead of deadline.