Graduation in Mechanical Engineering and Post-Graduation in Industrial Engineering.

Served Tata Steel for 6 years. Implemented various quality systems and associated with McKinsey and Booz Allen & Hamilton in implementing various projects.

Joined ISRO in 2000 and assumed key roles in/as:

• Core team member for realising Asia’s largest solid rocket propellant plant at SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota, state-of-the-art mission control centres, assembly & integration facilities for GSLV Mk III project, radars, and critical equipment for the launch complex.

• In charge of the Second Vehicle Assembly Building project – the largest rocket integration facility of ISRO.

• Interfacing with the space industry for the last 22 years.

Deputed for the Space Studies Programme at the International Space University, Austria, during 2011.

Former Director at ISRO HQ and Public Relations Officer of ISRO.

Handled capacity building in the areas of research and academia interface, industry interface, indigenisation, startups, technology transfer, IPR, technical infrastructure, human resource development, and outreach activities of ISRO.