Shraddha Ukalkar

Shraddha Ukalkar

CIO at Mercedes Benz India Pvt. Ltd.

Mercedes-Benz AGPune, Maharashtra, India

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Experience19+ Years
LevelCXO

Executive Overview

• Direct & manage large technical programs & operation teams that includes multiple international and local teams. • Manage and analyze $15 MM R&D engineering operations’ budget. Heads $4MM development budget from different departments including engineering, sales, IT, & marketing. • Liaison between parent company, employed company, and vendor companies. • Involvement in planning, developing, implementing new product functions and performances. • Strong experience in hiring, motivating, and developing teams. • Experience in developing technical requirement documentations, contracts, SOWs, RFEs, etc. • Experience in establish strategies ensuring a stable, secure and cost effective infrastructure in alignment with and in support of the overall IT and corporate strategies. • Experience in initiating & managing vendor relationships. • Experience in presenting reports to C-level executives. • Experience in product management and software development. • Strong experience of product/software development life cycles—Waterfall & Agile. • Expert in Agile methodologies, SCRUM and Kanban specialist. Certified Scrum Master. • Experience in Cloud technologies & detailed understanding of product architecture including APIs, database, networking and mobile apps. Managed Cloud based software Restful API services hosted on Azure and AWS.

Career Timeline

Professional employment history
  • Dec 2023–Present· 2 yrs 9 mos
    • Chief Information OfficerCurrent
      Dec 2023–Present
  • May 2021–Jun 2023· 2 yrs 1 mo
    • Manager, Engineering, Program Management
      May 2021–Jun 2023
  • Sep 2015–Sep 2020· 5 yrs
    • Director of Global Engineering Operations & Company Software Solutions
      Sep 2015–Sep 2020
  • May 2014–May 2015· 1 yr
    • Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant
      May 2014–May 2015
  • Aug 2008–Dec 2008· 4 mos
    • Quality Assurance Specialist
      Aug 2008–Dec 2008
  • 2008–2012· 4 yrs
    • Product Management/Lead/Senior Software Test Engineer
      2008–2012
  • Jun 2007–Jun 2008· 1 yr
    • Intern, Software Engineer
      Jun 2007–Jun 2008

Education

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Executive

University of Utah

Master's Degree

Computer Science

Central Connecticut State University

Bachelor's degree

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Nagpur University

Diploma in Engineering

Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Maharashtra State Board Of Technical Education, India

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Skills & Expertise

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Project ManagementBudgetAgile MethodologiesScrumEngineering Program ManagementInformation TechnologyProduct MarketingBusiness Process ImprovementProduct Lifecycle ManagementTechnical Product ManagementAgile Project ManagementProgram ManagementSolution ArchitectureRegression TestingStrategic PlanningBusiness StrategyProject DeliveryEngineering OperationsArchitectural DesignBudget Management