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. At present she is working for Shinsei Bank , Tokyo .

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