Vishal V. Bhalerao

About Vishal V. Bhalerao

With 25+ years leading teams across four distinct organizations, I\'ve gained a deep understanding of how a company\'s culture and values directly influence its team\'s effectiveness. Throughout my career, I\'ve benefited from working in environments that championed employee engagement, empowerment, and a strong feedback culture. These environments fostered not only a sense of ownership and accountability, but also a willingness to learn and grow. Additionally, these experiences instilled in me the importance of inclusivity and diversity, ensuring all voices are heard and valued. I strive to create a positive and productive work environment where everyone feels empowered to contribute their best work, where open communication and feedback are encouraged, and where diverse perspectives are valued. By fostering this type of environment, I believe I can help my teams achieve exceptional results.Outside of work, I cherish spending time with my two lovely daughters, supporting my wife in her entrepreneurial ventures, cooking, reading, attempting to train my two dogs (though they often end up being pampered) and being a part time farmer managing two farms has taught me patience and an important lesson \"Nothing grows overnight and everything needs nurturing and care\".

Experience

1. Delivery Director

   Thoughtworks

   Jul 2020 — Present · Pune, IN

   Governance & Standardization: Established robust delivery governance processes and frameworks across the North American portfolio, ensuring consistent and predictable project outcomes. Implemented standardized delivery dashboards across multiple teams, providing clear visibility into project performance and enabling data-driven decision-making. Value Articulation & Celebration: Empowered teams to effectively communicate the value they deliver to clients through hands-on workshops with experts. Created a bi-weekly spotlight event for showcasing work across the portfolio, fostering a sense of community and cross-learning, and reinforcing a culture of recognizing achievements. Scalable Onboarding Solution: Developed a scalable and adaptable onboarding program for the core North American market, ensuring a streamlined and effective onboarding experience for new hires as the team continues to grow. This program incorporated a 45-day buddy program, creating a supportive environment that fosters new hire integration and accelerates their contribution to the company. Knowledge Sharing & Community Building: Fostered a collaborative learning environment by encouraging tech communities to host lunch-and-learn sessions across the portfolio, promoting knowledge exchange and skill development. Continued to champion Agile practices across multiple teams, ensuring new joiners understand the value proposition of Agile methodologies and how they contribute to client success. Also setup forums for the core market team members to share their feedback with the market leadership, created opportunities for them to lead different initiatives within the market and create a sense of ownership towards the community.

Education

• IBM Certificate Course

  IBM_ADC, Computer Science- Softwares

  1999 — 2000

• Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

  eMEP, General Management

  2007 — 2008

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  BCS, Computer Science

  1995 — 1998

Skills

• Quality Assurance
• Business Analysis
• Global Delivery
• Consulting
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Test Management
• Integration
• Program Management
• Pre-Sales
• Agile Project Management
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Itil
• Outsourcing
• Business Intelligence
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Leadership
• Project Management
• Test Automation
• Testing
• Vendor Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Java
• Sdlc