Abhishek Maheshwari, PMP®, CSPO®

Strategic Operations & Digital Transformation Leader | Principal PM at Microsoft | IIT Kanpur Alumnus | Community Advocate

Bellevue, Washington, United States

About

IIT Kanpur alumnus and Principal PM with 20+ years of experience. Beyond scaling digital ecosystems at Microsoft and GE, I am passionate about building safe, high-impact communities and leveraging technology for social good and institutional growth.

Experience

  • Microsoft (10 yrs 10 mos)
    • Principal Program Manager, Operational Health and AI
      Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

    • Senior Program Manager
      Jun 2019 - Aug 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    • Senior Program Manager
      Oct 2015 - Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Product Owner for Marketing Tech, responsible for Product roadmap, Feature Backlog, and partnership w/ Engineering for delivery of below business outcomes- • Owned Lead Acquisition automation, implementing a world class lead acquisition service acquiring Multi-Million leads annually from >40 First Party & Third Party channels (social, content, events, trial) with inbuilt data quality and compliance. • Integrated ML based Scoring model for leads being nurtured. Early results show ML scoring shows 2X increase in HOT leads and 30% increase in MAQL to SQO conversion. • Ideated ‘Social Connector’ tool to automate acquisition of >100K leads per month from Social Paid Ads (LinkedIn, Facebook) into Marketing automation & Event Delivery platforms. • Strategized connectors w/ Events SaaS platforms (In Person, Web), automating acquisition of registration & Attendance for multi-million leads annually. • Integration w/ Bot platform to qualify leads before handing over to Tele. Early results show 20% customer engagement on expired leads, with 5% expired leads converting into HOT leads that otherwise would have been left uncontacted. • Ensured Platform is compliant with various regulations (Russian Data Privacy, GDPR, Cookie compliance etc.)

  • GE Healthcare (10 yrs 4 mos)
    • Manager IT
      Jul 2014 - Sep 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

      IT program manager for Customer 360 initiative for GE Healthcare. While ramping up team size >20 (direct reports & vendors), I managed global program strategy, stakeholders (Regional CIOs and directs), program budget & delivery for below business outcomes - - Customer 360 visibility in SFDC to help sellers w/ account planning & customer visit prep. - Cross functional KYC Process in PEGA across ERP ops, finance, legal, Dealer & Comm Ops. - Platform (UCM) to master customer data across functions for 200+ countries. - Data quality tools (IDQ, IIR) to standardize & deduplicate customer data for 200+ countries.

    • Senior Project Manager
      Oct 2009 - Jun 2014 · 4 yrs 9 mos

      Led end to end implementation of $10 million global UCM program from roadmap development, product evaluations to deployment across the globe, resulting in $8.4 million AR savings in US in first 10 months of launch. Received CIO award twice for my contributions on the program.

    • Solution Architect
      Jun 2006 - Nov 2009 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Lead design & development for GEHC’s Field services program, leading to 'One GE' view for customer service.

  • Software Engineer at IBM
    Jun 2004 - Jun 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Worked on upgrade & enhancement of Siebel Sales Platform for KPMG, UK.