
Pushpalatha Gowdra
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About me
Naturalist - Curious about the patterns of nature; Digital Transformer - automate for better future; Senior Program Manager
Education

J N N College of Engineering, SHIMOGA
2000 - 2004Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Science/Studies
Udacity
2020 - 2020AI Product Manager Nano degree Program Artificial Intelligence
Experience

SLK
Sept 2004 - May 2007Software EngineerWorked on Order Management Domain - Developed tools to migrate Orders and Customer data from Legacy system to Oracle 11 ERP as a Full stack Developer

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India
Jun 2007 - now- Build a Strong and self sustained team - Drive Digital transformation for End Customers by understanding their pain points and providing end to end solution - Utilize the technology disruption to provide state of the art solutions - AI/ML (DL, ML, Computer Vision, OCR) - Focus on continuous learning for self and for the team - Drive Digital transformation for End Customers by understanding their paint points and providing end to end solution - Utilize the technology disruption to provide state of the art solutions - Customer orientation and Stake holder management - Played the role of Finance and Controlling SPOC for the department; here I got the opportunity to learn Finance aspects of project management Research Topic: Digital Graphical Model based documentation system. Was part of the complete life cycle of this topic starting from research to production roll-out and maintenance. - Played the role of Technical Lead and Project Lead by guiding the team with project planning and tracking and also with technical guidance Research Topic: A web based system for sharing all necessary part information along the whole process. The parts were tracked using RFID Tags.The setup of RFID tags, Readers and Web application to communicate between all of them and providing interface to end users was the scope of the project. Supported this topic as a full stack developer for web application development Research Topic: An Integration Concept for Automatic ID based Process Modules & Interfaces (Bar code, RFID etc).I supported in this topic as an Assistant Researcher - by detailing the UML diagrams - identifying the error scenarios by reviewing from IT point of view Supply Chain Domain: Electronic Supply Chain Cost calculator, used to calculate the supply chain cost based on the transport modes selected by users- as a full stack Java Developer
Senior Program Manager
Apr 2019 - nowProgram Manager
Apr 2016 - Mar 2019Senior Technical Lead
Apr 2014 - Mar 2016Technical Lead
Jan 2012 - Mar 2014Senior Lead Software Engineer
Jan 2011 - Dec 2011Lead Software Engineer
Jan 2009 - Dec 2010Senior Software Engineer
Jan 2008 - Dec 2008Software Engineer
Jun 2007 - Dec 2007
Licenses & Certifications
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Improving Your Focus
LinkedInJun 2020 - View certificate

The Essential Elements of Predictive Analytics and Data Mining
LinkedInMay 2020 - View certificate

Time Management: Working from Home
LinkedInJun 2020 - View certificate

Balancing Multiple Roles as a Leader
LinkedInJun 2020 - View certificate

Leadership Mindsets
LinkedInSept 2020 - View certificate

Developing Resourcefulness
LinkedInDec 2020 - View certificate

Entrepreneurship: Finding and Testing Your Business Idea
LinkedInAug 2020 - View certificate

Working with Difficult People
LinkedInAug 2020 - View certificate

Managing High Potentials
LinkedInJun 2020 
Self-Driving Car Fundamentals: Featuring Apollo
UdacityJun 2020
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Pushpalatha GowdraIT Innovation Award Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India Feb 2025 Optimization of Data integrity check in XDIS Application
- Awarded to Pushpalatha GowdraProcess Innovation Award Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India Feb 2024 - Data Driven Vehicle Concept- One planning One Tracking
- Awarded to Pushpalatha GowdraAI Ideathon Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India Feb 2023 - Voice of My Choice
- Awarded to Pushpalatha GowdraProcess Innovation Award Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India Feb 2022 -Solution to Supplier 2D data Quality Check through AI/ML
- Awarded to Pushpalatha GowdraProcess Innovation Award Mercedes Benz Research and Development India Mar 2021 - Process Innovation Award for Corrosion Recommendation Engine- Process Innovation Award for Certified Weight Calculation
- Awarded to Pushpalatha GowdraLeadership Award (Gold Award) Mercedes Benz Research & Development India Oct 2020
- Awarded to Pushpalatha GowdraStar Team Award Mercedes Benz Research & Development India Oct 2019
- Awarded to Pushpalatha GowdraStar Team Award Mercedes Benz Research & Development India Nov 2009
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