
Timeline
About me
Engineering Lead SEAT - ASSET AI at Shell | Passionate people manager | Guiding data science team to success | Cultivating talent and driving results.
Education

Walchand college
1998 - 2001Bachelor of engineering (b.e.) computer science and engineering aActivities and Societies: Volunteer in National Level Technical Exhibition 'VISION-1999', Participation in Online Software Contest 'CYBERMIND', Coordinator in National Level Technical Exhibition 'VISION-2000', Seminar on “Sophisticated Web Interaction with User"

Centre for development of advanced computing: c-dac
2001 - 2002Diploma in advanced computing computer science a+
Experience

Honeywell
Jan 2003 - Oct 2016• Interacting with Project sponsors, stakeholders and multiple business teams to define and deliver project.• Monitoring and managing cross-functional team dependencies.• Managing the day-to-day operational aspects of the project.• Anticipating bottleneck, escalating and making tradeoff between needs vs technical constraints.• Establishing the overall success criteria for a project, including; time, cost, technical and performance parameters.• Creating, maintaining and disseminating project information to stakeholders• Identifying, assessing, tracking and mitigating issues and risks at multiple levels Show less • Responsible for people management (~8 subordinates)• Drive productivity by better resource engagement• Facilitator for support team engagement and coordination• Single point of contact with respective line of business• Demonstrated competency improvement of different resources• Demonstrated employee retention goal via different means• Worked with HR to hire new employees, organizing training, awards etc• Showcase growth and productivity by better employee engagement• Certified for Essentials for Supervision• Certified for Supervision for Success Show less
Project Manager
Jan 2011 - Oct 2016Project Leader
Jan 2010 - Jan 2012Team Lead
Jan 2008 - Jan 2010Technical Lead
Jan 2004 - Jan 2008Senior Engineer
Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

Shell
Oct 2016 - nowShell is a international oil and energy company. Retail is face of Shell, serving 30 million customers every single day which makes primary driver of company's brand. Retail IT support retail line of business in achieving their business plan. Retail ambition is to evolve as mobility retailer to meet our customers’ changing expectations around convenience, quality, digitization and service.As Retail IT project manager (Delivery Manager), I am managing a loyalty future program with complex integration landscape to retain and attract new customers by rewarding their loyalty for company's brand. This challenging role gives me opportunity to manage 12 different stakeholders along with 26 IT systems. It is quite encouraging Agile journey with inherent complexity.Always exciting to be part of ever growing business journey and be part of key contributor into business growth. Show less Shell committed to introduce new innovative fuels regularly into market which are more efficient, powerful, superior and less polluted. As a fuel launch program manager, I was accountable for delivering V-Power fuel launches into different markets. I drived 8 different launches into regions like Europe and Asia. My accountabilities were• Stakeholder partnership with different market business team to deliver/launch new fuel.• Monitor the continuous complexity and ambiguity, such as frequent scope changes• Program manage the fuel launch projects and deliver according the agreed scope document.• Selection and adoption of required delivery approaches, to include consideration of Agile, or other accelerated delivery approaches. • Establish and maintain appropriate and effective governance structures and procedures to obtain resources, drive decisions, resolve issues, and deliver project/programme objectives.Achievements• Delivered Vpower launches across 8 different markets like UK, HK, SG, MY, SA, IN etc• Identified and implemented process improvement opportunities by reducing the lead time of stage gate approval and increasing bandwidth to handle many launches. Rewarded for CI award. Show less
Engineering Lead
Mar 2025 - nowCC Lead - C3 AI Dev
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025Product Delivery Lead - Asset AI (C3 AI Platform)
Jun 2022 - Dec 2023Sr Project Manager - Production Optimisation (RTPO)
Jan 2020 - May 2022Sr Project Manager - Mass Balance (FLMB)
Feb 2021 - Mar 2022Project Manager Retail IT (Shell Go+)
Sept 2017 - Dec 2019Retail IT Fuel Launch Programme Manager
Oct 2016 - Sept 2017
Licenses & Certifications

Six sigma certified
Honeywell
Pmi-acp
Project management instituteSept 2014
Scaled agile framework agilist (sa)
Scaled agile, inc.Mar 2016
Microsoft azure fundamentals
MicrosoftMar 2020
Project management professional (pmp)
Project management instituteNov 2020
Certified scrum master
Scrum allianceMay 2012
Certified scrum professional - scrum master
Scrum allianceJun 2015
Shell edge green belt
ShellJun 2017- View certificate

Artificial intelligence for project managers
LinkedinAug 2019 
Honeywell certified project manager
HoneywellSept 2010
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Abhijeet DeshpandeVP Award Shell May 2019 We want to thank you for your contribution to the recent successful go live of Lion/GO+. I know that for you, the successful completion of this transaction represents sometimes several years of work, often on top of your ‘regular’ job and a significant time and personal commitment. Be assured that you have played a critical role in the successful delivery of this market go-live. This go-live is critical in enabling Shell’s UK business to leverage and truly maximize the integrated value of… Show more We want to thank you for your contribution to the recent successful go live of Lion/GO+. I know that for you, the successful completion of this transaction represents sometimes several years of work, often on top of your ‘regular’ job and a significant time and personal commitment. Be assured that you have played a critical role in the successful delivery of this market go-live. This go-live is critical in enabling Shell’s UK business to leverage and truly maximize the integrated value of our core existing loyalty landscape and will be the base for many loyalty initiatives to come. Lion/GO+ is a very complex and challenging environment and the dedication and tenacity shown by you to enable the delivery of the project over the course of the past couple of years has been outstanding. Thank you for your professionalism, teamwork and collaboration across all the businesses and vendors to reach this tremendous accomplishment. I truly appreciate the work done by you and the outstanding ‘can-do’ spirit that was demonstrated throughout. The Business has been made aware of your contribution, and you have been nominated for an award acknowledging your efforts and our sincere appreciation. Congratulations on your achievement and thank you for your contribution. We wish you continuing success in your role. Show less
- Awarded to Abhijeet DeshpandeVP Award Shell Dec 2018 You and the team have successfully delivered Lion RII on time and the Lion's steerco and DRB really want to thank you for all the hard work which has been put into this, achieving this important milestones.
- Awarded to Abhijeet DeshpandeExcellence Reward Shell Apr 2018 Working beyond your duties by driving the Swat team to resolve deployment issues and protected impact on project delivery.
- Awarded to Abhijeet DeshpandeCustomer Award - May 2015 Excellent efforts in managing the end to end execution and enabling the successful launch of TOPS product to market. He identified several smarter ways of risk mitigation actions which helped the Trend business
- Awarded to Abhijeet DeshpandeCustomer Award Honeywell Mar 2015 For excellent contributions for the sucessful project execution and delivery of 963 v3.7 supervisory project for the Trend business
- Awarded to Abhijeet DeshpandeCustomer award honeywell Jul 2014 Has been awarded for dedicated efforts in managing the 963 v3.61 and v3.61 projects to meet the schedule, cost and quality of deliverables. His proactive interactions with all the stakeholders has been highly appriciated and helped the project to meet the all commitments
- Awarded to Abhijeet DeshpandeCustomer Award Honeywell Dec 2013 Excellent demonstration 963 v3.61 project execution with ASDP L5 100% compliance & meeting all the project commitments in spite changing in the scope of project and resolving field issues at the same time. His “ready to help” behavior has been highly appreciated by all
- Awarded to Abhijeet DeshpandeCustomer Award Honeywell Dec 2012 wonderful contribution in driving the team for the execution of TEM, 963, TOPS projects and always takes the team along with him in making the things happen; a true solution provider
- Awarded to Abhijeet DeshpandeCustomer Award Honeywell Mar 2009 dedicated and sincere efforts towards the completion of incremental releases of IQEYE during the year 2008. His/Her contribution has helped Trend business to grow significantly.
- Awarded to Abhijeet DeshpandeIndividual excellence Award Honeywell Jan 2008 dedicated support, high responsiveness and good contribution to the successful beta release of IQEYE
Volunteer Experience
Volunteer
Issued by Honeywell on Jan 2005
Associated with Abhijeet Deshpande
Languages
- maMarathi
- hiHindi
- enEnglish
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