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Chennai Area, India

Dubai

* Manage operations and logistics functions in the company, overseeing a staff of 8 people; Role also involves demand forecasting and liasioning with customers on a regular to basis to preempt imports based on customer needs * Prepared the business plan and negotiation deck for the firm’s vertical integration by acquiring a printing press (Mazaya Printing Press) in 2014; Computed the various purchase consideration scenarios along with the financing plan for the acquisition.* Negotiated purchase contracts with various vendors around the world based on sales forecasts, and handle delivery assignments, incoming shipments and export schedules for various customers* Recently moved from on-field business development to managerial duties within firm in July 2015.

Dubai

* Prepared our annual budget and devised a monitoring system to compare budgeted incomes and expenses against actuals to facilitate computing monthly variances to the approved budget. * Revamped the costing and pricing of our products by developing detailed cost sheets based on absorption costing principles for each product as against the earlier system of negotiated pricing

Dubai

* Manual posting of entries in books for various customer accounts* Manual verification of accuracy of customer accounts with sales invoices and receipts* Maintaining excel spreadsheets for the amounts payable to various suppliers and amounts receivable from customers.

Diploma, Film Editing And Sound Design

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Activities and Societies: Entrepreneurship Club of CEG, Event Organizer Techofes '12, National Sports Organization

High School

Activities and Societies: Student Council, Environment Club, The Duke of Edinburgh Club