Senior IT Delivery Leader → Applied AI Practitioner & Trainer
20+ years inside IT delivery at Infosys, Wipro, IBM, and HCL. Now combining enterprise delivery experience with applied AI skills to help Indian IT professionals grow faster, get shortlisted, and future-proof their careers.
Every year, thousands of talented IT professionals in India get screened out before a human ever reads their resume. Not because they lack skills. Because their resume was written for a human — not for the ATS system that filters 90% of applications before any recruiter sees them.
I spent 20+ years on the other side of this equation. As a Service Delivery Manager and Program Manager at Infosys, Mphasis, Tech Mahindra, Wipro, and IBM — leading teams of up to 55 people, managing programmes worth $10M+, working across India, UK, Germany, and Malaysia — I've been in the room where hiring and advancement decisions get made.
In 2024, I made a deliberate shift — completing AI programmes at GrowthSchool-Outskill and earning PMI's AI certifications — not just to learn AI, but to understand how working IT professionals can apply it meaningfully in real work. That combination of enterprise delivery depth and applied AI thinking is what I bring to every session.
If you're an IT professional in India wondering why you're not getting shortlisted — the answer is almost always in how your experience is presented, not in the experience itself. That's the gap I work on.
I help professionals understand not just what AI is — but how to apply it meaningfully in real work. Let's make your experience visible.
GrowthSchool — Outskill
AI Generalist Accelerator
Prompt engineering, agentic workflows, practical AI applications, and business use-case thinking. Completed as part of the learner-to-mentor pathway.
GrowthSchool — Outskill
LinkedIn Mastery
Personal branding, professional positioning, and communicating career outcomes with clarity and confidence — the same skills taught in the AICB cohort.
Project Management Institute (PMI)
AI in Agile Delivery
How AI tools integrate with Agile and Scrum delivery frameworks — applying AI to sprint planning, retrospectives, and delivery governance.
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Generative AI Overview for Project Managers
GenAI fundamentals for programme and project leaders — risk, governance, use cases in delivery, and how to position AI within IT services contexts.
"I help professionals understand not just what AI is — but how to apply it meaningfully in real work."
Mentoring style: grounded, patient, and application-focused. Best suited to working professionals who want AI explained in practical business language — not theory.
Agentic Workflow Design
Built conceptual agentic workflows for vendor query handling, reconciliation support, and delivery-risk visibility — translating AI theory into practical operations tools.
Microsoft Copilot & GenAI
Explored how Copilot and GenAI can support work breakdown creation, status reporting, knowledge retrieval, and governance workflows in enterprise delivery environments.
AI Career Repositioning
Used AI tools to rebuild personal positioning, ATS-optimised resume structures, and LinkedIn profiles — then built AICB to teach the same process to IT professionals at scale.
Experience
20+
Years in IT delivery leadership across programme management and service delivery at Tier 1 firms
Portfolio scale
$10M+
Programme portfolios managed across multi-geography engagements in UK, Germany, Malaysia, India
Team leadership
55
Peak team size led across onsite-offshore delivery in UK, Germany, Malaysia, and India
AI certifications
4+
AI Generalist Accelerator, LinkedIn Mastery, AI in Agile Delivery (PMI), GenAI for PMs (PMI) — plus Catalyst Programme ongoing
Delivery certifications
5
PMP, CSM, SAFe Agilist, ITIL v3, Certified DevOps Project Manager
Companies
6+
Infosys, Mphasis, Tech Mahindra, Wipro, IBM, HCL — Tier 1 IT services firms across 25+ years
AI Career Bridge India
Founder & Lead Trainer
Founded AICB to bridge the gap between IT delivery experience and how it is presented. AI-powered resume services (S1/S2 LIVE), live webinar programme, and 5-Day AI Cohort for Indian IT professionals.
Infosys Technologies
Program Manager / Service Delivery Manager / Senior Project Manager
$10M+ portfolio. Teams up to 55 people. MS Dynamics 365 CRM for CIMB Malaysia, MS CRM for RWest UK and Brent Council London, MUREX/SUMMIT trading support for Commerzbank Frankfurt, SAP Hybris e-commerce for Maxis Malaysia.
Mphasis (HP Company)
Delivery Project Manager
Managed 10+ Telstra Mobile Billing development projects. 40-member team. 24x7 managed services. Appreciation Award from TPC and Mphasis Award for delivery excellence.
Tech Mahindra
Project Manager
CCB-Usage Billing for AT&T (AMDOCS). 25-member team, 16 months. Telecom domain across three releases using Agile Scrum and Waterfall.
Wipro Technologies
Project Manager
Simplify Creditor MI-Fin for AVIVA-NUI UK. 30-member team, 12 months. Delivered within effort, schedule, and cost variance norms.
IBM India
Project Manager
Medicare Enterprise Data Store (MEDS) for Caremark Inc. USA. 22-member team. BFSI domain delivery on COBOL/DB2/JCL.
HCL, IBM, Cognizant & Others
Team Lead → Project Lead → Tech Lead
Foundation roles across Deutsche Bank Germany, Student Loan Corporation USA, P&W Canada, and AM Bank Malaysia. Mainframe, BFSI, and financial services delivery.
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