Director of Project Management

PARI ROBOTICS, INC. (Rochester Hills, MI) - Director of Project Management (2017-2019)

Managed a portfolio of industrial automation projects in automotive powertrain and vehicle electrification for the North American market for major OEMs (Ford, FCA, GM) and Tier 1.
Successfully led the team to adopt corporate processes, procedures and strategies from headquarter in Pune, India.
Improved quality of interactions between Indian headquarter and North American branch office.
Managed all operational personnel for the North American branch (project managers, project engineers, software engineers, service technicians, interns).
Effectively developed resources through internship programs (three project engineering interns hired in PARI, Four more found other opportunities right at the end of their internship program).

Driven closure of pre-existing red-flagged projects, minimizing the budget overrun.
Increased overall portfolio performance.
Succeeded in guiding the team to align local procedures with corporate guidelines from the headquarter in Canada.
Developed and deployed custom planning tools, interacting with local ERP system, for project planning and resource workload analysis and reporting, resulting in improved resource allocation and cost effectiveness.

Launched the Adaptive Solution business unit as part of the founding leadership team. The BU was created to target non-automotive industrial automation markets (commercial vehicles, heavy industry, renewable energy, and later aerospace).
Created and developed the global team of approx. 30 project managers, site managers, and planners, over four regions (NA, LATAM, EMEA and APAC).
Effectively completed the dissemination of shared procedures and best practices across the regional teams.
Managed the merger of Aerospace and Adaptive Solutions project execution portfolios.
Managed the closure of complex, troubled projects and recovered execution portfolio profitability.

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