Learning design for early career tech talent

You don't have a skills gap. You have a system built for the wrong centre.

I design outcome first learning that turns engineering graduates into deployable professionals. Thirty years across Capgemini, Revature and iamneo, closing the distance between training performance and job performance.

About

Now
Head, Training Excellence and Talent Development, iamneo (an NIIT Venture)
Based in
Bengaluru, India
Focus
Campus to corporate readiness, blended learning, learning systems that prove they worked
Languages
English, Tamil, Hindi

Most organisations design learning for institutional comfort. Completion rates. Filled calendars. Then they wonder why nothing changes on the job.

I start from a different question: what should this person be able to do afterward, and how will we know it worked? The modalities, the content and the schedule all follow from that answer.

My focus is early career tech talent, where the distance between training performance and job performance is widest and most expensive to get wrong. I diagnose first, design second, and prove it changed something.

Selected work

Acceptance

Changed what counts as success

Replaced completion rate with client acceptance rate as the primary quality measure, and built curriculum paced to deployment timelines instead of training calendars.

iamneo

8 weeks

Cut bench time from the pretraining cycle

Re engineered the India pretraining program that decided who reached client deployment, removing weeks from an average eight week cycle and reducing per head bench cost across cohorts.

Revature

18 courses

Moved delivery from classroom to blended

Built 18 eLearning courses in four months, shifting Capgemini India from fully instructor led to blended delivery, with an estimated 40 to 60 percent fewer trainer hours per learner.

Capgemini

40%

Grew a learning practice as a business

Ran knowledge management, digital learning and content as a business unit, owning solution design, delivery and P&L, with 40 percent year on year growth for two consecutive years.

Capgemini

800+

Scaled without trading off quality

Grew total learning hours by more than 15 percent in twelve months while enabling over 800 technology certifications.

Capgemini

7,500+

Built an anytime learning library

Created 12 eLearning modules and 200+ recorded web seminars that delivered over 7,500 learning hours with no added trainer cost.

Mahindra Satyam

How I work

Diagnose

Find where training performance and job performance diverge, and what that gap is costing.

Define the outcome

Agree what the learner must be able to do afterward, and the evidence that will show it.

Design backward

Choose modalities, content and pacing to serve that outcome, using practice and simulation over passive content.

Prove it

Measure on the job, then feed the results back into the design.

Writing

Essays on trust, readiness and the campus to corporate gap are on the way. Until then, my writing lives on LinkedIn.

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