About

Abhinaw Paliwal is a seasoned Delivery and Program Management Professional with over 19 years of diversified product/program/project development and management experience. He has a strong background in delivery/program/product management, business analysis, vendor management, strategic consulting, analytic, issues/risk handling, people management, e-Government processes, and project appraisals. Abhinaw has worked in diverse work environments, including startups, CMMI level 5 service companies, and product companies. He has experience in product/program/project management, product and project life cycles, waterfall as well as agile methodologies, product concept testing, product launch, project cost control, vendor management and negotiations, team building and motivation, coordinating with tens of different stakeholders for product development and management, presenting status and reports to stakeholders, and managing multiple simultaneous projects spread across different time zones. He is also skilled in people management as well as managing without authority. Abhinaw has driven complete product in startup single-handedly, in charge of customer handling, requirement, negotiations, development, and delivery. He has experience in stakeholder management, including client interactions, managing/influencing onshore and offshore teams, working with internal as well as external vendors, working with senior management and top bureaucrats in government, and large eGovernance projects appraisal and program management. Abhinaw has a strong technical background in mobile (2G, 3GPP-LTE) and wired communication technologies (ADSL), physical layer telecom, digital signal processing, embedded systems, familiar with ecommerce, web, mobile development technologies, and Google Analytics. He is also skilled in geo-specific product adaptation and localization and fond of number crunching. Abhinaw is currently working as the Head of Program Management at Pine Labs. He has previously worked as Delivery Head at Fareye and Senior Program Manager, Product Globalization Group at Adobe. He holds an IPMX degree from IIM, a Module in International Finance and Managing Innovation from McGill University, and a Btech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. Abhinaw's tech stack includes mobile, test, product manager, and web. With 19.11 years of relevant experience, Abhinaw is a highly skilled and experienced professional in the delivery and program management space.