Co-founder of SkillTelligent Solutions – an industrial workforce training organization where his company works with shop floor workforce to build right competencies and productivity. Past Chairman of Gujarat Council of Confederation of Indian Industry, Chairman of Services Sub-group on National CII MSME Committee, Chairman of zonal council, and on several regional and state committees. Also associated with various professional industry, management and educational institutes, associations, and bodies; Independent Director on several company boards.Ardent advocate of short duration micro-learning and practical training with focus on operations, maintenance, safety, quality, and best practices instead of theoretical learning in classroom over years.Developed unique model of training shop floor workforce in manufacturing and continuous process industry, enabling them with necessary skills and competency to be more productive. Also developed approaches to build competencies in youth in short duration to be gainfully employed as machinery/plant operators.Have assisted small and medium manufacturing companies in establishing shop floor best practices and techniques for quality and productivity using various industry standard tools and methods.3.5 decades of experience in Information Technology business management, product ideation and development, process and technologies, people/resource management; setting up systems and best practices in manufacturing industries. Developed several products in service management arena using cutting edge technologies, has distinction of being creator of a java based product (among the first 100 java products worldwide), a full JMX based management framework, launching SaaS products ahead of market, real time service operation dashboards, adopting Agile and DevOps before their popularity and more. Also a certified SAFe Agile Coach with cross-continental agile implementation experience.