Shraddha Ukalkar
CIO at Mercedes Benz India Pvt. Ltd.
Mercedes-Benz AG•Pune, Maharashtra, India
View LinkedIn ProfileExecutive 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
- Mercedes-Benz AGCurrentDec 2023–Present· 2 yrs 9 mos
- Chief Information OfficerCurrentDec 2023–Present
- May 2021–Jun 2023· 2 yrs 1 mo
- Manager, Engineering, Program ManagementMay 2021–Jun 2023
- Sep 2015–Sep 2020· 5 yrs
- Director of Global Engineering Operations & Company Software SolutionsSep 2015–Sep 2020
- May 2014–May 2015· 1 yr
- Graduate Research and Teaching AssistantMay 2014–May 2015
- Aug 2008–Dec 2008· 4 mos
- Quality Assurance SpecialistAug 2008–Dec 2008
- 2008–2012· 4 yrs
- Product Management/Lead/Senior Software Test Engineer2008–2012
- Jun 2007–Jun 2008· 1 yr
- Intern, Software EngineerJun 2007–Jun 2008
Education
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Executive
University of UtahMaster's Degree
Computer Science
Central Connecticut State UniversityBachelor's degree
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Nagpur UniversityDiploma in Engineering
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Maharashtra State Board Of Technical Education, India