Poornima Kamath (She/her/hers)

I have taken up the additional responsibility to support APAC Services business along with Microsoft Research & Services Global Delivery in India. • Establish HR engagement model with APAC Services team with major presence in Singapore, Australia & New Zealand, China, Japan & Korea • Focus on coaching diverse set of leaders across various cultures / countries. • Engage with leaders to drive overall effectiveness of the team • Help leaders land an effective people plan for the organization • Support change management practices / programs • Ensure right culture through diversity & Inclusion and Performance management

I have taken additional responsibility of supporting Research India Lab along with Services Global Delivery during this period • Microsoft Research Lab in India is one of the few research labs that Microsoft has across US, UK, Chine & India. Aim is to build a strong research community focusing on cutting edge/ path breaking technology for Microsoft • Strengthening the current fellow research programs to infuse more research talent into the organization (Research fellow & PostDoc programs) • Be creative in building D&I pipe to increase overall women representation in research organization • Drive creative / innovative programs to build inclusive organization (theatre based programs) • Creating a performance differentiation culture through our performance development framework

• Responsible for driving people agenda for Infrastructure Practice for Service Global Delivery business across multiple regions - India, Middle East, South Africa and Eastern Europe. Responsible for designing and executing talent strategy for the organization. • Played a key role in establishing Consulting business ( GD ) in South Africa and Middle east. Helped the organization to manage change through effective change management strategies and practices. • Rolled out new performance and management model at Microsoft with no rating and performance curve. Implemented this revolutionary model across India and EMEA businesses. • Instrumental in building management capability across business teams both by participating in talent acquisition and development. • Rolled out talent development programs - "Building Future Leaders" and "Technical Leadership and Development Program" - to build business and technical leadership capabilities across services businesses. Ran this program for 2 consecutive years that yielded into strong talent pipe for leadership roles. • Focused on strengthening culture in the organization through various org diagnostic approach and tools like MBTI / Johari Window etc. • Coached leaders to drive the overall effectiveness through HR consulting and application of tools like Hogan Leadership tool and intervention. • Effectively rolled out an onboarding program - streamlining process / automation - to increase new joiners success in the organization. • Built an effective "Diversity and Inclusion" charter for the organization through effective design and implementation of various D&I initiatives. • Worked on employee engagement and retention initiatives across the practices that yielded into higher retention and engagement.

• Responsible for talent acquisition of industry hires for Global Technical Support (GTSC)business in Bangalore, India. Managed planning and execution of staffing strategy for different technology clusters within IGTSC. • Contributed to a successful hiring of ~400 professionals in GTSC • Institutionalized staffing process and KPI driven focus across Time to Hire, Cost Per Hire, Employee and manager satisfaction, Sourcing Mix, Market intelligence etc • Built assessment capability across hiring managers by introducing "Behavioral Assessment methodology" through STAR ( Situation, Task, Action and Results ) framework. • Supported business in technical assessment framework to drive consistency in assessing top talent. • Rolled out an automated Employee Referral program that streamlined processes and enable better employee and candidate experience. • Built market intelligence for key skills for support business. • Responsible for program managing MS engagement and hiring from top technical campuses for our Engineering, IT, Sales, Marketing and Services businesses in India. • Accountable for execution of hiring through strong internal processes • Responsible off-campus hiring • Responsible for driving relationship with premier campuses across Microsoft India (IITs, NIT, etc)

Performed variety of complex, responsible and confidential HR & duties requiring thorough knowledge of organizational procedures. Worked independently, exercising judgment and initiative. • Joining formalities & Induction of New Hires • Managing Payroll • Updating the Human Resource Information System (HRIS) • Managing employee moral events • Maintaining leave & attendance • All HR related confidential documentation • Training needs & identification, skills updating, schedule training