Program Manager Senior Technical

Tapan Kulkarni

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PROFILE Experienced Professional with 20 years of Program, Risk and Product Life-Cycle Management expertise. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

May 2024 — Present NASA Deputy Program Manager, METECS Houston

• Managed 22 contracts for NASA's Engineering Robotics, Engineering Avionics & Engineering Graphics divisions with scope of work over $100M

• Developed & deployed Earned Value Management metholodgy to identify and mitigate cost and schedule overruns and maintained profitabilty

Apr 2023 — May 2024 Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon Project Kuiper Redmond, WA

• Pioneered a mechanism to collect, triage, evaluate and prioritize requirements from 14 customer teams. Deployed dashboard to provide status of requirements to customers, leadership & internal teams and accelerated the decision-making process from 4 weeks to 1 week.

• Created Product road-map prioritization and release cadence for three (3) Satellite Embedded Software teams.

• Deployed the Flight Control Software (FCS) on the first production batch of 27 satellites and provided technical support to first two (2) prototype satellites.

• Led Program execution, facilitated technical trade-offs, resolved blocking issues, provided change management and mitigated technical and schedule risks.

• Created user on-boarding, communication & training plans. Oct 2021 — Mar 2023 Senior Product Launch Manager, Amazon Robotics Houston, TX

• Launched new-generation robotic solutions in two (2) Fulfillment Centers in less than one (1) calendar year.

• Performed Verification & Validation on 100+ use cases and ensured that software met the design specifications and user's needs.

• Increased user adoption from 5 to 55 associates by collecting the Voice of the Customer and implemented changes in the hardware & software.

• Developed and executed Alpha & Beta Launch plans, mitigated risks and reduced the critical path duration for launch by 20%.

• Scaled solution from 9000 storage pods to 500,000, from 200 robots to 1300+ robots,and the floor size from 40K Sq ft to 360K Sq ft.

• Defined key product/human performance metrics and reduced the processing time (per item) from 22 seconds to 10 seconds.

Oct 2017 — Oct 2021 Product Manager, Cameron, a Schlumberger Company Houston, TX

• Managed Offshore production, Onshore production & Transmission and Storage market sized at $2.2B for Valves & Measurement division.

• Executed all product management responsibilities for globally recognized brands of ball, check valves, fluid powered actuators, mechanical gearbox operators with average margin of 30% for all brands.

• Represented the company in 15 international conferences, conducted customer presentations and gathered customer feedback and insights for product improvements. Mar 2015 — Oct 2017 Project Risk Manager, Cameron, a Schlumberger Company Houston, TX

• Developed & deployed Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Software in 7 locations (3 in USA, 3 in Italy

& 1 in Malaysia) over 2 years. Managed three (3) releases of the ERM SW.

• Drove user adoption from 10 to 120 daily active users in Program Management teams.

• Initiated and led the global risk management team to do qualitative and quantitative risk analysis & risk mitigation for a portfolio of $400+ million project and increased the profitability by 12%.

• Developed & deployed PMO Software and standardized program management across 7 locations. Engaged with Sales to promote PMO SW as product differentiator with key accounts and increased the top line by average 10% YoY for 2 years.

Apr 2011 — Mar 2015 Project Manager, Cameron, a Schlumberger Company Houston, TX

• Managed the global project team to deliver the valves for Topsides & Subsea installations in Gulf of Mexico, Angola, Papa New Guinea, etc., with scope of supply $100+ million, involving 8000+ valves, goods being manufactured by 10+ suppliers located in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Netherlands & China. Reduced cost exposure by 20% and inventory by 13%.

• Ensured customer satisfaction by executing a detailed business plan, maintaining on-time delivery (~90%), coordinating logistics, maintaining the cash flow & increasing the profitability by 8%. Jun 2009 — Dec 2010 PRO BONO Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer, Earthrise Space Inc. Orlando, FL

• Designed, developed and optimized the lunar landing trajectory for Earthrise Space Inc's lunar rover, Sagan, near the Apollo 12 landing site. Earthrise competed in the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) with 20+ teams to win $30M prize purse.

• Presented the paper "Guidance Navigation & Control Challenges for Team Omega Envoy's GLXP Mission Design" at AAS GNC Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado, February 2010.

• Pro-bono position

Apr 2008 — Apr 2011 Product Design Engineer III, Cameron, a Schlumberger Company

• Identified growth opportunities & successfully executed strong value proposition for surface safety actuators (hydraulic & pneumatic) for customers such as BP, Chevron, etc. increasing the business revenue by 40%.

Nov 2006 — Aug 2008 Project Engineer, NOV Grant Prideco Houston, TX

• Automated the machining of test coupons and prototypes by integrating modules and sub-routines in Microsoft Excel, SolidWorks & Access thereby cutting the cycle time by over 25% and torque carrying capacity by 15%.

Oct 2005 — Nov 2006 Mechanical Design & Development Engineer, Sigma Genosys The Woodlands, TX

• Strategized and implemented Project life cycle management process.

• Implemented a new design of Lyophilizer equipment that reduced the cycle time from 18 hours to 1-1/2hours.

EDUCATION

Sep 2001 — Aug 2005 Master of Science (Aerospace Engineering), Texas A&M University College Station, TX Jan 2004 — Aug 2005 Certificate in Business, Texas A&M Mays Business School College Station, TX Dec 2017 — Dec 2017 Executive Certificate in Risk Management, Harvard Business School Boston, MA

Jun 1996 — Jun 2000 Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering), University of Pune Pune, India

SKILLS Product Life-Cycle Management

Program Management

Risk Management

Leadership

CERTIFICATIONS

Jun 2013 — Present Project Management Professional (PMP) Jun 2020 — Present Artificial Intelligence Foundation Certificate (IBM) May 2020 — Present Artificial Intelligence Introduction (Udemy) PUBLICATIONS 11 International Conference Publications (AIAA & AAS) + 2 Journal Manuscripts on Interplanetary trajectory design & optimization

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