Dr. Mrs. Pooja Sardeshmukh

Pooja is core management personnel of Darshanam with proven business skills and achievements;

She has Electronic Science Ph.D. with total 23 years of experience comprising of 8 years of Research and Development. She also has experience of over 15 years in international software engineering industry focused for Japanese projects in roles spanning f rom software project management, marketing, international business development , offshore project management, technical consulting and systems analysis.

She has a Ph. D. from University of Pune and she did her post doctorate research in Nagoya University . She has been working as IT consultant in Japan for over 15 years.

She demonstrated entrepreneurial leadership since the beginning of her career in IT (software development) industry

In details, she has Knowledge of/ experience in -

• Business applications in Japanese markets for industries like Banking, and Insurance, Automotive etc.
  • Technology Infrastructure for banking sector (Citigroup)
  • Experience with major Japanese clients in all software sectors like Automotive (Nissan, General Motors), Financial Services (Sumitomo Trust Bank, UBC, Skandia , Hartford Life) Service (Duskin Rental System, JAL, Fujitsu) Software application development and Internationalization (Fujitsu, Central Computer Systems )
  • International Busi ness development: Japan (Client) & India (Developer: onsite & offshore)
  • Interact with customer to get/understand system requirements
  • Explain the system requirements and design with Offshore personal
  • Preparation, review other project documents like T est cases, LLD etc
  • Project status reporting and conducting regular meetings with Client and Offshore
  • Complete SDLC monitoring from initiation to delivery & acceptance
• Project Execution Business models
  • Onsite- Offshore Models
    • Worked for the first India-Japan joint venture , Fujitsu-ICIM during 94-96.
    • Contributed to several joint ventures between India and Japan e.g.
      • Human Base Japan ( Osaka ) with Human Base India (Bangalore),
      • UBC (Tokyo) with JIN (Bangalore),
      • UBC (Tok yo) with JETRA  (Pune)
      • NIIT (Tokyo & Delhi) with CAC Corporation (Tokyo),
      • Geometric Software (Tokyo & Pune) with UGS (Tokyo)
• Global project models for multinationals
• General Motors : Asia Pacific, Australia and United States
• Hartford life: Asia Pacific and United States
• Citigroup: Asia Pacific, Europe and United States

· Experience in executing projects with Web technology and Client Server architecture
· Language skill in Japanese and English (speaking, reading, writing) with translation and interpretation a t business/domain level

· Proven efficiency and adaptability to multi-cultural multi-lingual global business environment.
· Excellent leadership and communication skills