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Aditya is strongest in product discovery, enterprise portfolio strategy, digital transformation, business\-process design, agile delivery, data\-driven decision\-making, and translating customer and operational needs into scalable technology products\. His work spans industrial AI, predictive monitoring, procurement and supplier\-quality platforms, e\-commerce, Salesforce, cloud services, enterprise architecture, and requirements management\. He has led enterprise products across manufacturing and managed teams spanning engineering, data science, reporting, and contractor delivery\. His concrete results include 95% milestone adherence and 40% platform adoption at Rockwell Automation more than $1 million in annual productivity savings at The Timken Company a Salesforce rollout to approximately 2,500 users at Sherwin\-Williams that contributed to 20% channel and divisional revenue growth and a 45% OEE improvement for initial customers using an AI\-powered condition\-monitoring product\. Aditya holds an MBA in Project Management and an MS in Computer Science\. ## Services - UiPath - Robotic Process Automation \(RPA\) - SAP Quality Mangement - Automation Anywhere - SAP Ariba - Avolution Abacus - SAP Signavio - Blue Prism - Scaled Agile Framework - Jira Align - Jira - Requirements Analysis - Business Analysis - Integration - Process Improvement - Business Process Improvement - Agile Methodologies - Software Development - Software Project Management - SDLC - Requirements Management - Enterprise Architecture - Analysis - Software Engineering - Business Process Design - E\-commerce - Scrum - Business Process - IT Strategy - Business Intelligence ## Highlights - Led product strategy and multi\-year roadmaps for industrial automation software and controller\-integrated IDE solutions at Rockwell Automation\. - Achieved 95% milestone adherence, eliminated 30% of engineering workflow inefficiencies, and drove 40% user adoption through IDE platform implementation and adoption\. - Shortened approval cycles by 40% and increased ROI realization by 20% through business cases, investment strategies, budgeting, estimation, and financial analysis\. - Improved release predictability by 35%, eliminated 25% of dependency\-related delays, and increased team velocity by 30% through SAFe transformation and coaching of three cross\-functional teams\. - Owned enterprise product roadmaps, portfolio planning, a $10 million budget, CapEx and OpEx management, vendor governance, and strategic investment decisions at The Timken Company\. - Reduced supplier onboarding time by 60%, improved supplier collaboration by 40%, and achieved 98% supplier\-data accuracy through SAP Ariba and SAP Quality Management deployments\. - Reduced manual effort by 50%, shortened process execution time by 45%, and generated more than $1 million in annual productivity savings through AI\-driven automation and RPA\. - Drove 35% digital adoption, increased self\-service transactions by 50%, and reduced customer\-support demand by 25% through B2B e\-commerce and customer master\-data modernization\. - Defined a three\-year digital strategy roadmap for BASF Construction Systems using business\-capability mapping, SWOT analysis, business cases, customer journeys, prototypes, and market research\. - Led Salesforce and Customer Service digital transformation across four Sherwin\-Williams business divisions using SAFe 4\.0\. - Rolled out Salesforce\.com to approximately 2,500 sales representatives, managers, and leaders, contributing to 20% channel and divisional revenue growth\. - Helped define the Buy Online and Pickup in Store roadmap and National Accounts PunchOut customer experience at Sherwin\-Williams\. - Supported Sherwin\-Williams website redesign, Oracle web\-services integration, product pricing, order management, pickup in store, inventory management, web analytics, SEO, and SOA\-based integration\. - Trained 25 Diebold product and project managers on requirements\-development practices and created requirements\-review checklists\. - Led requirements\-management tool evaluation at Diebold, including RFI/RFP analysis, comparison metrics, risk analysis, cost justification, business cases, surveys, demos, training, and proof of concept\. - Audited and remediated free and open\-source software usage at Diebold, measured FOSS compliance, and recommended permissively licensed alternatives\. - Advised 15 to 20 associates on architecture best practices and documented more than 200 use cases with alternative and what\-if analysis at Diebold\. - Built an AI\-powered industrial equipment condition\-monitoring product that improved OEE by 45% for initial customers\. - Led a 15\-person product\-delivery team spanning engineering, data science, reporting, and contractors\. - Deployed the predictive\-monitoring product to three customers, with expansion to 10 planned\. - Managed DISYS inventory in SQL Server 2000 and built a query tool for inventory, order\-management, and max\-min sales analysis supporting at least 10 managers\. - Earned an MBA in Project Management from Walsh University in 2010\. - Earned an MS in Computer Science from Kent State University in 2007\. - Earned a BS in Computer Science from Osmania University in 2002 and also studied Computer Science there in 2004\. - Holds certifications including Business Analyst Certificate, SAFe Program Consultant, Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Design Thinking Practitioner, Digital Transformation, Blue Prism Foundations, Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, IB - Speaks French\. ## Experience - **Lead Product Manager at Rockwell Automation** (2020–2020) — Spearheaded product strategy and multi\-year roadmaps for next\-generation industrial automation software and controller\-integrated development environment \(IDE\) solutions\. Established governance frameworks for strategic demand intake, portfolio prioritization, and resource allocation to align agile and waterfall initiatives with organizational priorities and capacity\. §  Achieved 95% milestone adherence, eliminated 30% of engineering workflow inefficiencies, and drove 40% user adoption by leading the enterprise implementation and adoption of the IDE platform\. §  Shortened approval cycles by 40%, generated 20% greater ROI realization, and strengthened investment transparency by developing business cases, portfolio investment strategies, budgeting, estimation, and financial analyses\. §  Elevated release predictability by 35%, eliminated 25% of dependency\-related delays, and drove a 30% gain in team velocity by leading SAFe transformation initiatives and coaching three \(3\) cross\-f - **Digital Enterprise Product Manager at The Timken Company** (2019–2020) — Headed enterprise product strategy and digital transformation initiatives across procurement, supplier quality, and customer experience organizations\. Owned product roadmaps, portfolio planning, budgeting \($10 Million\) , CapEx/OpEx management, vendor governance, and strategic investment decisions to align technology initiatives with business objectives and expected returns\. Conducted business capability assessments, SWOT analyses, and Design Thinking workshops to define future\-state capabilities and guide enterprise transformation roadmaps\. Established enterprise KPI dashboards and performance metrics that refined operational planning, portfolio governance, and executive decision\-making\. Oversaw 3 cross functional teams \. §  Minimized supplier onboarding time by 60%, drove 40% stronger supplier collaboration, and attained 98% supplier data accuracy by deploying SAP Ariba and SAP Quality Management solutions\. §  Decreased manual effort by 50%, shortened process execution time by - **Digital Solutions Manager – Salesforce\.com, e\-commerce, AI at BASF** (2018–2019) — Defined and collaborated on a 3 year Digital Strategy Roadmap for the Construction Systems business\. • Created lightweight business case with the Business Owners to gain portfolio approval of those initiatives\. • Used tools such as Business Capability mapping and SWOT to determine any gaps from a business innovation perspective\. • Provided recommendations from a technology aspect on Business Functions and aligning digital capabilities to those functions\. • Created customer journey maps and aligned those journey maps to Construction Systems business processes\. • Recommended various digital solutions \(old and new\) to help support the customer through the Journey map\. • Used tools such as Proto\.io and MURAL to create customer facing high\-fidelity prototypes and facilitated collaboration with various users\. • Conducted various market research sessions , primary and secondary to help prioritize the various digital projects\. - **Lead Portfolio Analyst \- Salesforce\.com at Sherwin\-Williams** (2017–2018) — Led the Digital transformation of the Salesforce and Customer Service teams and defined the migration path for the • organization across 4 business divisions using SAFe 4\.0 methodology\. • Managed a successful rollout of Salesforce\.com implementation to ~2500 Sales Reps, Managers and Leaders that • contributed to 20% growth in channel and divisional revenue\. • Engaged with partners, vendors, external customers, internal customers, and other IT divisions to align with the program • objectives and goals using Design thinking\. • Analyzed new business opportunities by conducting discovery sessions with strategic leaders to identify capabilities for • Salesforce\.com\. • Provided recommendations from a Salesforce technology aspect on Business Functions and aligning Salesforce\.com capabilities to those functions\. • Gathered and transformed data to help support the decision making process for the organization\. • Facilitated preliminary estimates of opportunity , effort and cost of delay to bette - **Lead IT Business Analyst \(e\-commerce\) at Sherwin\-Williams** (2015–2017) — 1\. Collaborated with Scrum Teams and Product Management on Product and Sprint Backlog definition 2\. Helped with defining the Product Roadmap of Buy Online and Pickup in Store Model 3\. Collaborated and defined the End to End Customer Experience for National Accounts using the PunchOut process and third party procurement systems like Ariba, OPS and Yardi\. 4\. Worked with Product Managers , Product Owners , Scrum Masters and Developers to understand Requirements and communicated the Vision of the Project on regular basis\. 5\. Helped with defining Releases and Features that need to be part of each Release during the Release Planning events\. 6\. Made decisions on how Requirements can be accomplished if the team faced "gotcha" scenarios\. 7\. Always tried to discover options and provided the best and simplest solution to the problem at hand\. 8\. Built relationships during the project and gained trust among team members by presenting the problem statement , options and the best direction for the c - **Senior IT Business Analyst \(Internet Services\) at Sherwin\-Williams** (2013–2015) — Business Analyst for Sherwin\-Williams website redesign, Oracle web services integration and e\-commerce development\. E\- Commerce Initiative: Elicited and communicated requirements to project teams for providing product pricing on the sw\.com website\. Order management, pick up in store and inventory management\. Website Redesign: Understood and communicated as\-is state of the website and provided feedback to clients on website consistency, web analytics and SEO requirements\. Created to\-be flows for customers, internal IT, customer service and Sherwin Williams stores\. Process Improvement: Provided process improvement steps for defect tracking, requirements management plan, BA WBS, enterprise analysis and communication plan\. Web services Integration: Consulted and provided guidance on data integration and business architecture for integrating services based on SOA principles\. - **Sr Software Business Architect \(Cloud Services\) at Diebold** (2012–2013) — As a Sr Business Analyst, I am involved with Project teams and Product Management and act as a liaison between Product Management, IT , Security and Testing Teams\. Core objectives: 1\. Develop as\-is and to\-be business models and BPM flows 2\. Solve team problems with feature analysis and business justification 3\. Analyze Business Cases and conduct decision analysis Other specialties: 1\. Use Case , Activity and Sequence flows 2\. Mock Screen flows using Balsamic 3\. SOA and Enterprise Architecture 4\. TOGAF - **Software Systems Business Analyst at Diebold** (2009–2011) —  Managed Requirements Definition and Management tools for proper requirements collaboration\.  Trained 25 Product and Project managers on proper requirements development practices\.  Created several check lists for reviews of Business, Functional, Non\-Functional and Transition Requirements\.  Presented requirements clarity compliance level of each project to product managers and Vice Presidents\.  Supported teams for writing better requirements, best practices on eliciting, analyzing , specifying and validating requirements\.  Performed vendor & competitor analysis on obtaining new tools for Requirements Management\. Some steps included RFI / RFP analysis, Tool side to side Comparison metrics, risk analysis, cost justification, business case creation, employee surveys, organizing demo classes, training sessions, Requirements Management plan, and final Proof Of Concept \(POC\)\. - **Intellectual Property Auditor at Diebold** (2009–2011) —  Scanned, Audited and Remediated projects for Free and Open Source software \(FOSS\) being used within the company using the Palamida Enterprise tool\.  Provided suggestions on usage of various Open Source Software to team leads and project managers  Measured FOSS compliance on all projects that were delivered to the customer\.  Recommended alternative software or code that had permissive licenses\. - **Software Systems Architect at Diebold** (2007–2009) —  Orchestrated analysis and design phases for various software and hardware layers  Advised and Supported 15 to 20 associates on architecture best practices\.  Helped in integration activities with source control and change request management tools  Developed complete architecture stack for all software layers which included various architectural entities such as components, classes, operations and Events  Researched other Modeling techniques such as Model Driven Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture\.  Documented 200 plus use cases with alternative / what\-if analysis - **IT & Business Systems Analyst at Kent State University** (2006–2007) — Worked as a tech support rep for the university\. As a part of this job , I was involved in upgrading Operating systems on PC's and Servers\. Performed Hardware upgrades on Mac/ Dell Computers and worked on Software Licensing issues\. Worked with software imaging tools like using BART\-PE software\. The second part of the year was focused mainly on setting up exchange servers at the university for the new Outlook Express 2007\. - **International Affairs \- Analyst at Kent State University** (2005–2007) — Advising Students on campus accomodations and course selection\. Also as a student consultant worked with individual students during the induction programme for the Fall 2006 and Spring 2007\. Served as the President of the Indian Student Association for Year 2006\-07 which included job duties such as Event Management, Scheduling, Finance operations, Account maintenance and also Fund raising event handling\. - **Analyst at DISYS** (2006–2006) —  Organized and Managed the overall company’s inventory using SQL Server 2000  Developed a querying tool in order to support upfront inventory analysis such as In\-Stock, Out\-of\-stock, Order Management and Max\- Min sale numbers\.  Database support was provided to at least 10 managers  Used tools such as Sage Pro 2004 and SQL Server Reporting Server for data mining and reporting purposes ## Education - MBA, Project Management — Walsh University (2008–2010) - Master of Science \- MS, Computer Science — Kent State University (2005–2007) - Computer Science — Osmania University (2002–2004) - Bachelor of Science \(BS\), Computer Science — Osmania University (1998–2002) ## FAQ ### What does Aditya do at Rockwell Automation? Aditya leads product strategy and multi\-year roadmaps for next\-generation industrial automation software and controller\-integrated development environment solutions at Rockwell Automation\. He also established governance for strategic demand intake, portfolio prioritization, and resource allocation across agile and waterfall initiatives\. ### What did Aditya accomplish at Rockwell Automation? Aditya led enterprise implementation and adoption of an IDE platform, achieving 95% milestone adherence, eliminating 30% of engineering workflow inefficiencies, and driving 40% user adoption\. He also developed business cases, portfolio investment strategies, budgets, estimates, and financial analyses that shortened approval cycles by 40%, increased ROI realization by 20%, and strengthened investment transparency\. ### How has Aditya improved agile delivery? Aditya led SAFe transformation initiatives and coached three cross\-functional teams on agile practices\. This work increased release predictability by 35%, eliminated 25% of dependency\-related delays, and improved team velocity by 30%\. ### What was Aditya's role at The Timken Company? At The Timken Company, Aditya headed enterprise product strategy and digital transformation across procurement, supplier quality, and customer experience\. He owned product roadmaps, portfolio planning, a $10 million budget, CapEx and OpEx management, vendor governance, and strategic investment decisions, while overseeing three cross\-functional teams\. ### How did Aditya support enterprise transformation at Timken? Aditya conducted business\-capability assessments, SWOT analyses, and Design Thinking workshops to define future\-state capabilities and enterprise transformation roadmaps\. He established enterprise KPI dashboards and performance metrics to improve operational planning, portfolio governance, and executive decision\-making\. ### What operational results did Aditya deliver at Timken? Aditya deployed SAP Ariba and SAP Quality Management solutions that reduced supplier onboarding time by 60%, improved supplier collaboration by 40%, and achieved 98% supplier\-data accuracy\. He also implemented AI\-driven automation and RPA solutions that reduced manual effort by 50%, shortened process execution by 45%, and produced more than $1 million in annual productivity savings\. ### What customer\-experience results did Aditya achieve at Timken? Aditya led customer transformation initiatives including a B2B e\-commerce platform and customer master\-data modernization\. The work drove 35% digital adoption, increased self\-service transactions by 50%, and reduced customer\-support demand by 25%\. ### What did Aditya do at BASF? At BASF, Aditya defined and collaborated on a three\-year digital strategy roadmap for the Construction Systems business\. He created lightweight business cases for portfolio approval, used business\-capability mapping and SWOT analysis to identify innovation gaps, aligned digital capabilities to business functions, and created customer\-journey maps tied to business processes\. ### How did Aditya approach digital product discovery at BASF? Aditya recommended digital solutions to support customers throughout mapped journeys, created high\-fidelity customer\-facing prototypes with Proto\.io and MURAL, facilitated collaboration with users, and conducted primary and secondary market research to prioritize digital projects\. ### What did Aditya accomplish as a Salesforce portfolio leader at Sherwin\-Williams? As Lead Portfolio Analyst for Salesforce\.com at Sherwin\-Williams, Aditya led digital transformation for Salesforce and Customer Service teams and defined a SAFe 4\.0 migration path across four business divisions\. He managed a successful Salesforce\.com rollout to approximately 2,500 sales representatives, managers, and leaders that contributed to 20% growth in channel and divisional revenue\. ### How did Aditya guide Salesforce portfolio decisions at Sherwin\-Williams? Aditya engaged partners, vendors, external and internal customers, and IT divisions using Design Thinking\. He conducted discovery sessions with strategic leaders, aligned Salesforce capabilities to business functions, transformed data for organizational decision\-making, estimated opportunity, effort, and cost of delay, analyzed initiative viability and benefits, created business cases, and led internal task forces for joint application development with globally distributed teams across time zones\. ### What was Aditya's e\-commerce work at Sherwin\-Williams? As Lead IT Business Analyst for e\-commerce at Sherwin\-Williams, Aditya worked with Scrum teams and product management on product and sprint backlogs, helped define the Buy Online and Pickup in Store roadmap, and defined end\-to\-end customer experience for National Accounts using PunchOut and third\-party procurement systems including Ariba, OPS, and Yardi\. ### What methods and tools did Aditya use in Sherwin\-Williams e\-commerce delivery? Aditya worked with product managers, product owners, Scrum Masters, and developers to communicate project vision, define releases and features during release planning, resolve requirement challenges, and present options and recommended directions\. His methods included Walking Skeleton Analysis, Pareto Analysis, feature building and breakdown, story writing, Fibonacci estimation, backlogs, product demos, and retrospectives\. He used Rally, Axure RP, IBM WebSphere Commerce Feature Pack 8, Sterling Order Management, UCM, Endeca Experience Manager, procurement systems, and a proprietary point\-of\-sale system\. ### What did Aditya do as Senior IT Business Analyst for Internet Services at Sherwin\-Williams? As Senior IT Business Analyst for Internet Services at Sherwin\-Williams, Aditya supported website redesign, Oracle web\-services integration, and e\-commerce development\. He elicited requirements for website product pricing, order management, pickup in store, and inventory management documented current and future\-state flows addressed website consistency, web analytics, and SEO improved defect tracking and requirements\-management processes and advised on SOA\-based data integration and business architecture\. ### What roles did Aditya hold at Diebold? At Diebold, Aditya served as a Senior Software Business Architect for cloud services, a Software Systems Business Analyst, an Intellectual Property Auditor, and a Software Systems Architect\. In these roles, he connected product management with IT, security, and testing developed business models and BPM flows performed feature analysis, business justification, decision analysis, use\-case and UML flows, mock\-screen design, SOA and enterprise architecture work, and TOGAF\-related work\. ### What requirements\-management contributions did Aditya make at Diebold? At Diebold, Aditya managed requirements\-definition and management tools, trained 25 product and project managers in requirements practices, created review checklists for business, functional, non\-functional, and transition requirements, and reported project requirements\-clarity compliance to product managers and vice presidents\. He also performed vendor and competitor analysis for requirements\-management tools, including RFI and RFP analysis, comparisons, risk and cost analysis, business cases, surveys, demos, training, requirements\-management planning, and proof of concept activities\. ### What architecture and intellectual\-property work did Aditya perform at Diebold? Aditya audited and remediated projects using free and open\-source software with the Palamida Enterprise tool, measured FOSS compliance for customer\-delivered projects, advised teams on open\-source usage, and recommended alternative software or code with permissive licenses\. As a Software Systems Architect, he guided 15 to 20 associates on architecture practices, supported source\-control and change\-request integrations, developed architecture stacks spanning components, classes, operations, and events, researched model\-driven and service\-oriented architecture, and documented more than 200 use cases with alternative and what\-if analysis\. ### What did Aditya do at Kent State University? At Kent State University, Aditya provided technology support, upgraded operating systems on PCs and servers, completed Mac and Dell hardware upgrades, addressed software\-licensing issues, used BART\-PE imaging tools, and helped set up Exchange servers for Outlook Express 2007\. He also advised students on accommodation and course selection, supported Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 induction programs, and served as President of the Indian Student Association during 2006–07, with responsibilities for events, scheduling, finance, accounts, and fundraising\. ### What did Aditya accomplish at DISYS? At DISYS, Aditya organized and managed company inventory with SQL Server 2000, developed a query tool for in\-stock, out\-of\-stock, order\-management, and max\-min sales analysis, supported at least 10 managers with database support, and used Sage Pro 2004 and SQL Server Reporting Services for data mining and reporting\. ### What is Aditya's industrial AI product experience? Aditya built an AI\-powered condition\-monitoring product for industrial equipment using customer research, operational data, quality metrics, growth objectives, and service\-ticket reduction rather than feature requests alone\. He led a 15\-person team across engineering, data science, reporting, and contractor delivery delivered a 45% OEE improvement for initial customers through predictive monitoring deployed the product to three customers and had expansion to 10 customers planned\. His industrial AI work covers data, machine learning, and customer\-facing applications, with emphasis on building operator trust through proof and measurable customer value\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/adityaprahalad