Amar Wategaonkar

About Amar Wategaonkar

Strategic Business Enabler & Promoter with nearly 22 years of overall experience in Project Management, Design Engineering, Manufacturing /Production Management, Project Control – Cost Estimation, Model Development & People Management for large-scale projects & Resource Management / Training & Mentoring team on project management practices Certified Project Management professional (PMP) with leadership & relationship-building skills. Experience across Engineering, R&D & Project management - Exposed to complete product development life cycle from Ideation to monetization. Excellent communication, relationship management, leadership, analytical and negotiation skills in swiftly ramping-up the project operations Developing and managing Project portfolio, governance mechanism, managing offer roadmap. Experience End 2 End (E2E) product life cycle management (Ideation to product withdrawal) Created product development protocols, testing, & specification setting. Conducted research and identified trends relevant to target clients and led team in applying knowledge to new products and innovations in conjunction with the Marketing Team and Manufacturing Excellence in managing end-to-end delivery / successful rollout of project in planning & implementation including various standards (IEC / ANSI) from scope management, to activity sequencing, effort & cost estimation, pre-sales activities, risk analysis to quality management in line with the guidelines & norms, Incisive acumen in developing project baselines, establishing KPIs, monitoring & controlling projects with respect to cost, resource deployment, time overruns & quality compliance to ensure satisfactory execution of projects & evaluating + improving continually.

Experience

1. Sgm Dpo- India Data Privacy & Protection

   Schneider Electric

   Jan 2024 — Present

Education

• Pune Vidhyarthi Griha's College Of Engineering And Technology

  Bachelor

  1994 — 1999

• INSEAD

  Transforming Schneider Leadership L3

  2017 — 2017