Amol Gulhane Profile: Tech and Management Leadership Roles

Amol Ashokrao Gulhane

  • Innovative Leader with over 10+ years of experience in business development, project and team management.
  • Proven experiences in establishing businesses and leading teams and individual champions in strategy, branding, finances and synergies.
  • Successfully Grew, Built, Exited a startup business in the EdTech Domain In India.
  • Powerful communicator who leverages teams’ strengths to achieve organizational goals and aspirations. 

Successful Techie Turned Entrepreneur who led the team to secure the Highest Honor for Entrepreneurship, the National Award by Government of India. Having positively contributed to the democratizing of Softwares and Hardwares related to Robotics, Automation, Internet of Things, AI Domain across India through my previous stint at Robolab Technologies. Being a part of Growing Startup, one has to wear multiple hats and perform various roles in various capacities. 

I look forward to making an even larger and deeper impact on dissemination of Technological Products and Services.

 

Professional Roles:
Director,
Company: Robolab Technologies Pvt Ltd, Pune

Duration: From 13-Sept-2013 to PRESENT

Director, Product and Technologies (Equivalent of Engineering Manager, Product Manager), Robolab Technologies Pvt Ltd, Pune 

Duration: From 13-Sept-2013 to PRESENT

  • Lead the engineering department of a company; from hiring and training new team members to managing tech projects and preparing the budget of the team.
  • Fostered product culture based on continuous product discovery and experimentation driven product execution.
  • Sector Focus Robotics, Internet of Things, Embedded Systems, Automation,Softwares, Apps, Websites, Special Purpose Machine for Industries and Technologies for Indian Armed Forces.
  • Transformed the team mindset and approach from “Hardware only” to “Software and Cloud Based Products”
  • Evangelize and articulate the product vision, product strategy and product prioritization to the leadership and overall organization
  • Analyze and understand market trends, competitive landscape and customer needs and preferences to develop industry leading products
  • Drive a data-centric approach to product development and establish success metrics to measure the effectiveness of product launch and a successful product adoption
  • Collaborate with sales, marketing, customer success, and operations teams to gather critical insights and integrate these insights into product development
  • Demonstrate a strong reward to action and promote diversity of thoughts and viewpoints within the product team.
  • Define the product vision and drive the roadmap for our products
  • Internalize and represent the customers’ voice throughout the product lifecycle
  • Collect and measure key product metrics against goals to inform the success of each release and plan iterations accordingly
    Oversee front-end and back-end development teams and their projects
  • Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements
  • Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals and timelines
  • Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources
  • Review and update policies relevant to internal systems and equipment
  • Conceived, Designed and Developed more than 25 Technological Products in both Hardware and Software Categories. These products were the best sellers with a better profit margins 
  • Technologies Worked on

Hardware :PLCs Siemens, Mitsubishi, Atmel Microcontroller, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Nvidia Tegra, Programmer, Wifi and Zigbee Module, Rapid Prototyping (3D Printing), Vacuum, Pneumatics

Software and Programming Languages: Embedded C, C Python, PLC, Zigbee Reprogramming, Bluetooth Reprogramming, Robotics, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Agile, Scrum, Jira, RPA, PLC, Cloud AWS, Python, Android App

 

Products Showcase:

https://www.youtube.com/c/RobolabTechnologiesPvtLtdPune/videos 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fj1PpY6QSk&ab_channel=RobolabTechnologiesPune 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTCE2RGZSdw&ab_channel=RobolabTechnologiesPune 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHpt37U5eq0&ab_channel=RobolabTechnologiesPune 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=300VHV1W8LE&ab_channel=RobolabTechnologiesPune 

 

Director,Growth and Strategy,(Equivalent of Senior Business Development and Growth Evangelist), Robolab Technologies Pvt Ltd, Pune

Duration: From 13-Sept-2013 to PRESENT

  • Directed the company in keeping with the vision of “Taking Technologies to Masses”
  • Established and Measured goals for each department in partnership with leaders
  • Demonstrated leadership in the areas of EdTech, Business Strategy, and People Management Initiatives
  • Engaged and onboarded C-Level and Senior Executives of various other organizations for synergy and collaboration purposes 
  • Successfully lead teams and projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating delivery schedules
  • In this journey of around 10 years, Hired and Coached around 100 Interns and Employees to become Independent Champions in their areas of interest. 
  • Through our venture, we could reach out to more than 50000 students and faculty members across India.
  • Create and update pitch deck monthly with growth figures and targets.
  • Budgetary planning and allocation for marketing, sales, tech development and operations
  • Revenue modeling, annual financial and revenue projections
  • Improve processes for marketing, sales, and operations to reduce costs and revenue leakage

 

Director, Branding and Community Engagement, Robolab Technologies Pvt Ltd, Pune

Duration: From 13-Sept-2013 to PRESENT

Robolab Technologies is one of the most recognised brands In Educational sector. Institutes and allied companies trust and rely on for their long term requirements. It took us serious policies, strategy, and implementation efforts to achieve this. 

  • Independently lead and managed a cross discipline team
  • Strong ability to organize effectively, delegate responsibility, solve problems quickly and communicate clearly
  • Leadership skills, including the ability to manage time effectively and handle both internal and external conflicts
  • Analyze complex scenarios and use creative problem-solving to turn challenges into profitable opportunities.
  • Have secured more than 25 coveted awards and recognitions for the organization and team members. That too at no extra cost. Purely organic way. Smiles and Satisfaction on the faces of our customers is the best award and recognition.
  • Organically got associated and featured in more than 100 news, magazines and startup news portals, increasing the trust and brand image in the eyes of customers. We enjoyed positive reviews in both National and International Markets.
  • Manage the company website and social pages. We used get around 1M inbound visitors a month. 
  • Manage and mentor other project managers, database administrators, programmers.
  • Implement a CRM system to increase connection and revenue opportunities in all areas.
  • Work with functional teams / customers and new business / proposals to capture and architect cloud computing approaches.
  • Craft all PR, Media communications, including monthly newsletters, invitations, and updates copy.

 

Formal Education:

Degree Name

College , University 

Year

Remark
Executive Management Development Program (E-MDP) Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L) 2019 Certificate of Distinction
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, B. Tech ExTC College of Engineering, Pune (COEP)  2013 CGPA: 7.92 / 10 
HSC, 12th Science Amravati University 2009 94.33%
Merit Rank Holder
SSC, 10th Amravati University 2007 82.76%

Awards, Achievements and Recognitions:

  • National Award Winner 2018, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), Government of India
  • Industrial Person Of the Year Award Winner, District Industries Center, Government of Maharashtra 
  • Young Achiever Award by Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and The Economic Times 2018 
  • Industrial, Entrepreneurial Person of the Year 2020 Award by IEEE Pune Section 
  • Global Best Project of the Year 2019 For Digital Twinning of Flexo The Robotic Arm by Dassault Systemes
  • Top Innovators in India who changed the Startup world by Insights Success Media
  • Youth Inspiration Award by Sakaal
  • South India’s Best of 40 under 40 Startup Entrepreneurs by The New Indian Express
  • Young Super Achiever 30 under 30 title by Hindustan Times

Personal Information:

Marital Status: Married

Current Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Availability: Serving Notice Period. Can Join Immediately.

Location: Open for Work from Office as well as Remote Work Opportunity in India and Abroad.

Website: https://AmolGulhane.in/bio 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amolgulhane 

Email: connect@amolgulhane.in ,
connect.amolgulhane@gmail.com 

Contact:         091 8262 8555 47 , 091 8793 10 2996

My Entrepreneurial Mindset, Enthusiasm, and Experiences would be an asset for the organization in both technology and business domains.