Continuum Content Solutions delivers technology based content solutions and services.We collaborate with information creators to propel their content to greater reach, impact, and utility through integrated and personalized knowledge products and services of the future.Our mission is to deliver excellence in content services as we advise our clients and help them reach their goals.

In April 2013, Planman Technologies, a global leader in integrated content transformation solutions, re-branded the company as Contentra Technologies. This new name represents the company’s focus on content transformation services and the broadening of its service lines.Over the past 10 years, Planman Technologies has been a trusted partner in the book publishing, library, and news industries. Now the company is taking its content transformation expertise to new markets and to new industries. This new name reflects our expanding expertise, our new markets, and our specialized offerings in transforming content for publishers around the world.Key responsibilities included -• Lead the North American Business – Operations, Business development, Sales & Client relationships. • Provide Strategic direction, Business planning and generate new business with clients. • Work with managerial staff to devise a strategic plan that will generate revenues, create new opportunities for business and help the company to remain competitive in the marketplace. • Make Strategic & operational hires in line with business growth and expansion plans of the company.• To ensure that all lines of business within an organization are running efficiently and within the budget set forth. • Other responsibilities include overseeing a company's investor relations department, financial statements, creating company and performance objectives, evaluating high- or low-performing businesses and teams, appearing in news media to proactively represent the company.• Having a strong managerial presence of overseas operations.

Extensive direct sales and client development experience in publishing vertical. Selling solution-oriented services in educational publishing industry. Key accomplishments include –1. Developed business and sales plans for US operations for publishing services.2. Setting up an onshore sales and delivery office in US including key hires from the industry. 3. Responsible for managing and developing business specifically in North American region.4. Developed and built a strong onshore and offshore delivery team.5. Initially Increased sales and strengthened market presence through Inorganic growth by identifying, developing and successfully establishing strategic partnership with a US based editorial services company.6. Developing key contacts across various levels within US K-12 educational publishing industry.7. Working with client team’s to determine needs and develop solutions along with in-house team to take print products on digital devices such as iPad, Nook, Kindle etc.In my role I am responsible for selling content services to publishers and aggregrators. Services include – - Magazine conversions from PDF to PRISM XML, Replica XML conversion for Amazon Kindle, REPUB conversion services for Google Play- Technology Based Solutions (HTML5, Mobile apps)- Interactive product development & eLearning (Flash and HTML based products)- Editorial development services - Packaging services (Page production and Design) - Art development programs, Photo research and permissioning- File conversions including QuarkXPress to InDesign Conversion - NIMAS and Daisy conversions - Large scale XML conversions for Newspaper content (both archive and contemporary) - METS ALTO for archive, NITF for contemporary, NewsML.- eBooks conversion - Reflowable and Fixed Layout ePub2, ePub3 and mobi file formats

Responsible for selling content conversion and digitization services to Publishers, Libraries, Institutions, and Universities etc among others. The list of services include - - Data Migration & Keyboarding- Other file format conversion include:- ePub - Kindle- DocBook• TEI based XML files- POD & eBooks file creation- PDF to XML- DTD creation & custom defined XML conversion- Large scale XML conversions for Newspaper content (both archive and contemporary) - METS ALTO for archive, NITF for contemporary.- Books, Journals and Magazines digitization in XML formats - DocBook, PRISM and other XML formatsThe end products are Books and Journals, Conference proceedings, Magazines, Newspapers, bound and loose leaflets etc.

Planman Consulting is a multi interest consulting firm with business interests in HR Consulting, Marketing Consulting, Media & Entertainment. In my role as an Account Manager, I was responsible for key accounts like Fair Isaac, American Express and General Electric.Key responsibility areas included - Account management, resource mapping, prospecting and key position closures Instrumental in setting the BI & Data Analytics practice.Key position hires & manage closures for the clients.Part of the job involved interacting with the hiring managers and operation team at the client end to understand the needs. Trained and mentored recruiters in headhunting, profile matching, sourcing and people networking Headhunting and positioning the client company to target candidates, interviewing and validating candidatures. Scheduling interviews with the client evaluation team.Negotiating Salary with selected prospects. Ensuring completion of the recruitment life cycle.