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Delhi, India

New Delhi

Area of expertise * Engineering & management processes - definition, implementation, reingineering, assessment [ISO/CMMi]* People engagement, team building, performance, development and leadership coaching* Project/Business Diagnostics, Management reviews and appraisal, rescue projects in Jeopardy* Product conceptualization and core design, architecture and design review, Management Dashboard * Startup Mentoring, Handholding * Strategy, Roadmaps, Business Plan, Investor Deck, Risk Assessment

New Delhi Area, India

Created Datacraftz, a IT startup linking healthcare. Connecting disjointed healthcare providers within the ecosystem and with people, transforming "Care".

Gurgaon

Managing suite of products in Retail domain including product management/ delivery, implementations and support independently. Products provide integrated stores solution for medium and large format retail chains in Cash & Carry, Lifestyle and F&B segments.Achievements:* Created stable version, brought 60% customers to this version, reduced support and maintainence cost* Caused '317 roll-outs in a day' - a Guinness world record* Reduction of support staffing from 26 to 6 in 2 years* Achieved 100% productivity gain for Product Development team* Created product for third party ERP coupling, resulting in 80% effort reduction, faster assured implementations

Gurgaon

Enterprise group head and a member of Chief Executive Council, having responsiblity of delivery at the Gurgaon Business Solution Center. Led ERP practices and deliveries - Oracle Apps, Infor/Baan and SAP as well as Enterprice Applications over the periodAchievements:* Highest number of perfect customer rating of 5/5 for 4 consecutive years* Improved project profitability for ERP projects from 13% to 31%, of emerging accounts to above 40%* Brought significant improvement in health of projects in terms of average number of projects in jeopardy from 14 to 3 and weeks to bring back to normalcy to 2 weeks* Master trainer for leadership level in areas of coaching & development, program management, communication and ZERO defect delivery

Head of India Delivery Center and responsible for delivery of all releases of product suite in EGov domain. Products targeted US counties in area of property taxation and appraisal.Achievements:* Build strong India management team, created organization culture to attain average employee age of 5.1 years for the center* Caused 37% productivity gain in product development center, India* Helped release Billing and Collection product to production, a project stuck for 2.5 years* Caused turn-around in Land Record and Mass Appraisal product development in 5 months period resulting in back to back implementations in two counties* Executed major release of Billing and Collection product to convert it in SOA architecture and implemented the same for largest county in US* Implemented innovative business calendar based customer support plan and brought down open issues to manageable steady state within a period of 8 months

Practice Head of Steel ERP Practice and US Steel expert for PPC. Have led various very large projects/programs of ERP implementations in various countries in US, Europe, South East Asia and India.Achievements:* Executed very large programs of ERP implementations in steel plants in US, Europe, South East Asia and India* Executed a 27 months ERP implementation project in 24 months, inheriting 9 months of delay, starting in 12th month * Conceived innovative training method to train 1200+ multi cultural/ lingual sales force of an European Steel major in ERP within a span of 4 weeks using 4 way parallel interpretation* Conceived design of "Recording by exception" and successfully implemented system amongst 1000+ nearly illiterate shop floor operators in a integrated steel plant in India* Mapped complex steel design to Oracle product configurator, working with Oracle Inc. US.

Project Manager, at corporate office, responsible for design & implementations of MIS systems in Finance and Projects Directorate of SAIL. Also managed Wide Area Network for 3 years.Achievements:* Helped standardize operation budgeting and consolidation by developing and implementing common application across all integrated and special steel plants of SAIL* Participated in implementation of Supervisory load control system in collaboration with state electricity boards for data sharing on peak load conditions, bringing down expense on electricity substantially* Implemented an unattended data transfer network across 256 locations, connecting plants, sales offices and stockyards of SAIL* Participated in developed and implementation of "Autoplan", a proprietary PERT package allowing unlimited tasks in constraint era of 64K memory limit

Be, Electrical & Electronics Engg

Mba, Information Technology, Topper

Curriculum For Living, Landmark Forum, Advanced Course, Self Expression And Leadership Program

Activities and Societies: Successfully executed "Each employee to go home on time, at least once a week" as a project. This project has.