This is my second stint here. I had earlier worked in this organization in the same capacity from March 2006 to March 2011.

Brief Profile: Post-graduate in Management and Alternative Dispute Resolution – ADR. Possesses several years’ top/senior management experience as an employee, entrepreneur, and consultant across diverse verticals in manufacturing, service, IT, and not-for-profit sectors. Services/content delivery: Based on learning and mentoring acquired in multifaceted environments/verticals interspersed with experience sharing examples. No bullshitting, no jargon, no clichés, no melodramatic stance/posturing. Service/content delivery in an interest holding environment.Services: I. Advising/Consulting: Experience and expertise in aspects/issues relating to:- Startups, turnaround and corporate renewal operations. - Formulating and laying down milestones and operating practices that evolve into a sustainable and consistent operations philosophy.- Revisiting and reinventing organizational strategy - analyzing key business drivers and developing strategies to grow the bottom-line. - Issues in organizational cross-functional, cross-cultural integration. - Organizational presentations for stakeholders and general interest stimulation. - MOUs and Agreements – Assisting, Evolving, Drafting, Assessing. - Mediation & Conciliation – resolving/settling disputes/disagreements, evolving/building consensus in contentious matters/issues.II. Speaking: Knowledge and experience acquired sharing on: - Entrepreneurship – mindset, issues, approaches, risks, rewards.- Leadership – leadership attributes/qualities, job knowledge, leading by example, leading from the front, pitfalls, dos and don’ts. - Organizational human dynamics, recognizing complexities, understanding peers, superiors, subordinates and their interlinked behaviors and attitudes in the evolving organizational culture. - Motivation and de-motivation in employees - understanding its dynamics and identifying emerging signals through them.

Established in 1988, AMDISA is an international not-for-profit association and a 'Recognized Body' of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), the inter-governmental association in South Asia.• As Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer reported to the President of the Association and the Executive Board.• Professionalized operations from hitherto founder-centric, to institutionalization of systems and processes with appropriate functional decentralization. • Turned-around the Association through a strategic re-orientation of operational thrusts. This was specifically through shifting operations focus to the recently established South Asian Quality Assurance System (SAQS), for business schools in South Asia. • Prepared budgets developed and implemented budgetary control systems, recordkeeping systems, and administrative control processes.• Managed and enlarged memberships by adding improved value added services.• Organized fundraising, sponsorships and their facilitation through donor tax exemptions from income-tax. • Planned and Organized seminars/events, peer review and NGO workshops, South Asian Management Forums in South Asia duly ensuring their financial viability through securing funding for them.• Administered the construction and completion of the South Asian Secretariat building of the Association.• Published the quarterly South Asian Journal of Management, an internationally recognized management Journal, indexed by the international database service entities EBSCO and Proquest.• Administered the Post-Doctoral and Doctoral Fellowship Program funded by the Commonwealth Secretariat.• Liaised and networked with professional management development associations worldwide.

SP Software is a multi-division company. Its operations include marketing of computer hardware and software, software development, consulting and resourcing.• Previously worked with the organization from April 1999 to August 2000 as Vice President (Operations) but requested to return to establish the Consulting and Resourcing Division.• Hired, mentored and managed staff for the resourcing division. Prepared position descriptions, work schedules, assigned targets and put in place periodic performance appraisal mechanism.• Built and managed cross-cultural and cross-functional teams for on-site deployment. • Restructured the corporate legal framework involving development and administration of contracts/agreements pertaining to employees, business associates and vendors. .

Etiam serves a worldwide client base from offices and development centers in the USA, UK and India on software technology and media solutions with focus on enterprise wide e-Solutions. • As General Manager and Country Head for India reported to the CEO in the USA.• Managed the resourcing for the project teams through recruitment of experienced, technically qualified, skilled Software Engineers.• Administered the mentoring program for hired software engineers in emerging technologies in telecom and networking and their deployment in USA for on-site and off-site enterprise wide solutions.• Liaised with the US office and project teams and managed all related activities of US- H1, B1 and J1 visas. • Managed with P & L responsibility the Group's e-Media offshore development facility with focus on marketing and new business development in India.• Ensured statutory compliances and managed the legal framework of contracts and agreements.

This is a computer hardware and software marketing organization with a software development division. • Reported to the Chairman & Managing Director.• Managed the marketing, supply-chain, and vendor development, logistics, budgeting & finance and HR. • Revamped the marketing organization to make it responsive to identified targeted clientele. Channel arrangements were reoriented consistent with the revised strategy. • Introduced management information systems and its inter-active analysis process with appropriate feedback and review mechanism.• Developed and administered all commercial contracts.

This company is into marketing Computer Systems, Peripherals, Operating Systems and related IT products.• Devised and implemented turnaround strategy as part of corporate renewal operations. Overhauled operations involving a strategic shift in operational plans from marketing of electronic components to its foray into IT.• Introduced contemporary HR practices and re-built and mentored a new and vibrant marketing team, brought in a radical transformation in administrative and fiscal discipline. • Implemented corrective action plans to solve organizational and human resource problems pursuant to strategic shift in operational plans.• Put in place budgetary control systems and practices. Oversaw financial growth with due emphasis on viability of decisions impacting the bottom-line.• Negotiated contracts and agreements with suppliers, distributors, and other organizational entities.• Organised a sound supply-chain management system and tied up arrangements with leading vendors for supplies with appropriate warranty support arrangements. • Added high-end networking marketing solutions by way of value added services.

This company manufactured fine bone china tableware. It was conceptualized on the marketing concept of integrating its fine bone-china tableware with plastic thermo ware manufactured by market leaders such as Eagle Flasks Pvt. Ltd., Pune; Milton Plastics, Mumbai; Cello Thermo ware, Mumbai in India.• Involved in the conceptualization, planning and implementing of the Company’s start-up project with P&L responsibility.• Managed the financial crisis when the institutional funding was inordinately delayed on account of sudden credit squeeze in the bank by effecting cost cutting measures and emergency financial gearing to sustain operations.• Inducted a professional team comprising of contemporary functional specialists in the areas of Production, Marketing, Finance and HR.

This company is a Joint Venture between the State and first generation entrepreneurs. It manufactured consumer durable ceramic tableware. • As Managing Director of this public limited company conceptualized and implemented the project with multilateral institutional funding.• Managed the total project activity starting from site selection to construction of the factory, erection and commissioning of the plant and machinery. The project involved a firing technology (tunnel kiln) from Germany and manufacturing technology from Japan. Implemented the project in 18 months from the date of site selection till start of commercial production.• Had full P&L responsibility with accountability to the Board of Directors. • Recruited senior professional team comprising of functional specialists in all major functions impacting the bottom-line. Introduced and rigorously implemented budgetary control systems and practices. Developed and administered all contracts related to employees, business partners, vendors, government & regulatory authorities and commercial contracts. • Managed intellectual property protection rights and third party licensing including management of trademarks, trade names, copyrights and patents.• Received award for the best industrial promotion effort in the State of Andhra Pradesh from the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Indian Airlines (now Air India) is India's national airline.• Joined the Airline as a Management Trainee and progressed to middle management level. • Was absorbed in the then personnel (now HR) department and obtained grass-root experience in all aspects of HR. Was responsible for recruitment to officer cadres, manpower planning, all HR activities pertaining the flying crew..• Was subsequently inducted into the Managing Director’s Secretariat as Executive Assistant to the Managing Director of the Airline.• Later, transferred to Administration with independent charge of the division then known as Co-ordination Cell. This division was solely responsible for overseeing accountability of the Airline to Government and Parliament.