Sucheta Dhere

Ex-AVP-Vodafone India, Ex-Group Engineering Manager - Samsung, Ex-Sr. Consultant, PMO - Microsoft, Ex- Engineering Staff Manager- Qualcomm, Ex-Founding Member - Vanu Naas, Ex-Founder - WiDS Pune, Ex-Board of Directors, PMI Hyderabad

Globetrotter, Changemaker @ change.org now nguvu collective

Social Entrepreneur, Founder of WiMLDS Pune - Community Learning Initiative

Electronics, Telecom, Systems, Software & Embedded Engineer 

Digital Transformation - AI -ML- DS, IOT, Smart Cities, Automation 

52nd in S.S.C Merit List - 1990 - National Merit Scholarship holder 1990 to 1995


I'm very technology savvy & passionate professional with 27+ years of global experience working with Tier1 MNCs on cutting edge technology in Mobility, Connectivity, Backhaul, Embedded, Systems, IT, IOT, Telecom wireless ecosystem (chip-set, mobile OEMs, n/w and infra vendors, Emulators, Simulators, operators, VAS at n/w as well as mobile side), & Cloud. I have E2E experience in requirements, design, coding, deployment, automation, requirements , Delivery, Consulting, Management, Strategy, Product & Solution design, CX & UX ,PMO office Management.

Different Hats I Wear

My Skills

Tools & Technologies

Fellowships

Micro Fellowship from Stanford ICME - WiDS Program in 2019

Fellowship from change.org in 2017

Testimonials

"Sucheta was both unafraid to explore novel ideas and was persistent in seeking answers. There were not any loose ends in our work with her. " 


Andrew Beard

CEO at Vanu Inc.

Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States

Highlights

11 February - International Day of Women and Girls in Science

It is observed on 11 February to recognize the role of women and girls in science, not only as beneficiaries but also as agents of change. Therefore, the day focuses on achieving full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls. Also, to achieve gender equality and empowerment of women and girls

Ms. Sucheta Dhere was felicitated by Governor of Maharashtra - Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Uday Samant Minister of Higher & Technical Education, Government of Maharashtra, Mantralaya, Nitin Karmalkar Vice-Chancellor of the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Rahul Kirloskar Chairman at Kirloskar Pneumatic Company Limited for work done in Analytics and IoT & supporting women in technology on the occasion of world science day. (Watch here)

Speaker at Pune's MIT School of Telecom Management - June 2018

Panel Discussion on "Let's Discuss Innovation" at Startup Conclave 2.0 organized by Entrepreneurship Development Cell, BVUCOEP - October 2018

Speaker at Dattansh SCIT(Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology ) Pune - January 2019

MMCOE(Marathwada Mitra Mandal's College of Engineering)  - Data Engineering & Pre Processing, 13th and 14th February 2019

Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics - 10th April 2019

Sucheta Dhere conducted structured mentoring for WiMLDS Pune community & Hackathon parcipants at Thoughtworks Pune. 12 teams from WiMLDS Pune participated in Hackathon and 4 were in the finalist and the final winners were WiMLDS Pune community members mentored by Sucheta Dhere. WiMLDS Pune was a community partner along with Thoughtworks, Facebook. - June 2019

Sucheta Dhere @ WiDS Stanford - August 2019

Marketing Meet of MIT College of Management, MIT ADT University, Loni Kalbhor, Pune on 9th September 2019 

Adhunik Savitri Award Ceremony - 3rd January 2021 - Savitri Bai Phule Jayanti

"प्रवास आत्मनिर्भरतेचा- आधुनिक सावित्रींच्या प्रेरणेचा" दि. ३ जानेवारी, २०२१ रोजी 1KWE द्वारे आयोजित “आधुनिक सावित्री पुरस्कार सोहळा” मध्ये समाजबदलाच्या संकल्पनेला नाविन्यतेची जोड देऊन क्रांतीज्योती सावित्रीबाई फुले यांचा वसा आणि वारसा चालवणाऱ्या महिलांना आधुनिक सावित्री पुरस्कार देऊन गौरविण्यात आले. समाजाच्या सर्वांगीण विकासात महत्त्वाची भूमिका असणाऱ्या शिक्षण, आरोग्य, उद्योजकता आणि कौशल्य विकास याविषयी जागरुकता निर्माण करण्यासाठी या सत्रांचे आयोजन करण्यात आले आहे. 

प्रवास आत्मनिर्भरतेचा- आधुनिक सावित्रींच्या प्रेरणेचा या सत्रातील पाचव्या आधुनिक सावित्री - मा. सुचेता ढेरे या "Women In Data Science (WiDS)" या company च्या संस्थापिका आहेत. 

त्या इंजिनिअर असून त्यांचा मुख्य उद्देश gender equality आणि empowerment यावर काम करणे हा आहे. WiDS च्या माध्यमातून त्या latest technology like Data Science, machine learning, artificial intelligence यामध्ये महिलांच्या कौशल्य वृध्दी साठी कार्यरत आहेत. 

सुचेता ढेरे यांना Standford University कडून सन २०२० मध्ये micro fellowship देखील मिळाली होती.WiDS Pune ला Standford University कडून जगातील largest initiatives मधील एक top ranker असे apppreiciation आणि aknowledgement मिळाले आहे.

Symbiosis Skills University, Kiwale - Career Guidance Workshop to Bachelors in Data Science, Masters in Data Science and Bachelors in Cyber Security students.

GDG WTM( Google Developers Group - Women Tech Makers) Pune - International Women's Day celebrations at Bajaj Finserv Health Limited, Pune - 23rd April 2022

MIT ADT 4th National Conference on Innovative Global Trends in Technology, Architecture, Management & Education - 27th April 2022

Acted as Advisory to many IT companies in Hyderabad like IBM, Value Labs, Birlasoft, NSN, Ness Technology, Electronic Arts, TCS, CA, CSC, ADP, Virtusa, Verizon, Nokia, Dr. Reddy's through PMI PCC Clusters - Board of Directors to help build Project Management Community & to Develop, Grow & Excel in their career by facilitating PMI Inter and Intra company Clusters for practical issues in project management.

Clusters in Ness Technologies

Clusters in IBM

Clusters in Value Labs

Clusters in Birla Soft

Conducted Train the Trainer Program for 35+ PMIPCC faculties

Guest Speaker at JNTU - Academy for project management

Interview with Edward J Hoffman, Director, Project & Program Management, NASA

CII Bangalore – Panelist

CII Vizag Workshop on Project Management

PMBOK Release - 1st version of the PMBOK Hindi by PMI India

(From left to right) Mr. Craig Killough, Vice President, Organisation markets for PMI; Mr. Ajay Sawhney, President and CEO of National e-Governance Division, Department of IT, Government of India; Mr. Raj Kalady, Managing Director, PMI India; Ms. Sucheta Govind Dhere, Project Chief for PMBOK Hindi and Ms. Leena Samant, Manager PMI India. 

Training session on Business Case and Business Value Proposition at the University of Hyderabad - March 2012

Pune District Investment Summit

Thursday, 7th March 2024

Panel Discussion on Opportunites in IT/ITeS, Data Science, AI, Cyber Security and Electronics

Moderated Panel Discussion on "Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs in Technology" at Women Entrepreneurship Program by iotiot - 7th Sept 2022 @ COEP's Bhau Institute

Panel Discussion on “Fostering Workplaces that Enable Everyone” at Bajaj Auto India - 7th March 2023

Visit to my Alma mater - Fergusson College Stats Dept. - 13 March 2023

Sucheta mam moderating the Panel Discussion on  "Celebrating Women Entrepreneurs, Innovators and Leaders" at ASM presents SMX Women Entrepreneurship, Innovation Conclave & Awards 2023 held on 14 March 2023

MKSSS Cummins College of Engineering ENTC Dept. - Session in Web Data Mining - 16 March 2023

Digital Transformation Workshop for Women Entrepreneurs from Swayam Siddha, Pune - 18th and 19th May 2023

Faculty Development Program on AI ML and DS facilitated for MCCIA  Pune - 18th to 22nd Dec 2023

Speaker at Developers Meetup - echai Pune - 20th May 2023

Ranade Institute Pune - 9th March 2022 addressing Journalism students on Women in Tech issues

MCCIA Pune - Women's Entrepreneur - 8th March 2017 - Women's Day Celebration

Awards From Across The World

Have been nominated in the Influencer category – for women who build award


Achievers Awards - Golden Pinnacle Awards


"We are proud and pleased to inform you that "Ms. Sucheta G Dhere "  is shortlisted for Top 50  Women Icon 2023. These awards intend to inspire others towards bigger and better achievements. Our team of experts includes Experts, Panel members, Jury Members, Market research specialist, analyst, moderators, consumer research specialist and business strategist. Top 50  Women Icon 2023  celebrates and honors the accomplishments and contributions of women in world-wide community development."

"It is to empower young women, so they too can reach their goals. It brings together women from across the globe and recognizes their accomplishments. Top 50  Women Icon 2023, is a flagship initiative of the Global Triumph Foundation & Image Planet  that envisions to bring together women leaders from various sector heads cohesively driving a singular agenda for Scripting Economic & Social  Change, by connecting the building blocks of Economics for India and the Globe. It will be held  in Aloft By Marriott , Bangalore on. 8th April 2023"


 4. Womennovator in July 2022 – 1000 Women of Asia Award


 5. Nominated for Wmart - Power women in 2023


 6. https://www.corporatevision-news.com/issues/education-and-training-awards-2022/

https://www.corporatevision-news.com/winners/wimlds-pune/

Most Empowering Tech Influencer for Women 2022 – India


Globetrotter - Places I have Visited !

     My Vision      

Taking Everyone Along

Training people on Life Skills at Early Age 

Breaking Gender Stereotypes


 Transformation in Education 

Ease & Improve Standard of Living 

Problem Solving for Social Good 

Rural India

Women

  Children

Sr. Citizen

Physically Challenged

Under Privileged

Orphans

LGBTQ

My Ambition

To create soft impact on people’s life by building their confidence, self-esteem, self-worth and Identity!

Creating an Equity World to enable people to live a dignified and graceful life.


To create products and solutions which will have a great positive impact on people’s life, society and country. 


Go Green and Paperless solutions - 3 R's - Reduce Recycle Reuse 


My Passion    

My Hobbies

Memories @ Work

Datang Mobilecom 3G Team -Sasken,  Xian China - May 2003

Sasken Consultants, Deputed to Datang Mobilecom, Xian, China - May 2003

DatangMobilecom Team, Xian, China - May 2003

With our Chinese Interpreter and Translator,  Xian China - May 2003

Datang Mobilecom staff who took care of our stay in China, Xian - May 2003

Parting Gifts from Chinese Engineers, Datang Mobilecom, Xian, China - May 2003

Datang Mobilecom Engineer, Xian China - May 2003

With Yang Ce, Datang Mobilecom Engineer, Xian,  China - May 2003

With Datang Mobilecom Engineer with Smocks, Xian, China - May 2003

Huawei - NMS Team - Shenzhen China - Nov 2001

Huawei NMS Team, Shenzhen, China - Nov 2001

Sasken - 3rd floor terrace and bonding with colleagues

Sasken Team, Huawei, Head quarters, Boardroom Shenzhen, China, Oct 2000

Sasken Team, Deputed to Shenzhen, Outside Huawei HQ China - 2000

Burning Midnight oil with our QA Dongje, Huawei Shenzhen , CDMA 2000 BSC - March 2001

Influencers

History & Leaders

School Teachers

Social Influencers

Languages Known