Harshitha A Reddy

Owned execution across 57 concurrent, interdependent initiatives, coordinating 20+ contributors across engineering, quality, and certification to maintain alignment on scope, timelines, and delivery priorities. Planned and managed end-to-end project schedules spanning 100+ tasks and milestones, improving delivery predictability and reducing last-minute escalations and dependency conflicts. Established a consistent weekly and executive-level reporting cadence, providing clear visibility into progress, risks, and trade-offs, supporting >90% on-time milestone completion across active programs. Proactively tracked dependencies, risks, and change impacts across overlapping workstreams, enabling early mitigation and minimizing schedule slippage across multi-quarter timelines. Served as a central coordination point between internal teams and external stakeholders, streamlining reviews and approvals on delivery-critical artifacts. Owned end-to-end execution of a mission-critical airborne system supporting operational readiness, from project inception through flight-ready deployment, managing planning, scheduling, and delivery governance across software, hardware, mechanical, and certification domains, and working directly with DRDO, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), and DGAQA to align documentation, reviews, and compliance expectations. Led execution and lifecycle coordination of a mission debriefing software system associated with the airborne platform, managing updates, validation, and integration readiness alongside flight timelines. Standardized documentation and reporting practices to maintain audit-ready technical and certification records, reducing rework and clarification cycles for engineering teams. Key Result: Delivered a multi-year, safety-critical airborne program from concept to flight-ready deployment, sustaining >90% on-time milestone execution across multiple interdependent workstreams while maintaining full compliance and executive-level visibility.