Dewanshu Ranjan Email & Phone Number

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Higher Education and K-12 (Content Creation, Editorial & Production) project operations and supply chain management.• Responsible for P&L, active participation in various business review meetings.

Noida Area, India

• Leading a team of project managers handling content creation and production for textbooks, supplement and Test Preps/assessments.• Practical experience in handling procurement of goods and services from contractors and sub-contractors. Reviewing quality of their work and invoices. • People management including talent acquisition, performance review and appraisal. • Project management operations in-charge for EdTech products: print and digital for various core, supplement and assessments content.• Reviewing monthly billing goals and putting plan in place to achieve the budget targets month-to-month.

Noida Area, India

• Lead and mentor Project Management operations for Education publishers with an overall annual spend of $3.1 million and about $300K offshore PM revenue.• Resource hiring, induction, training & development.• Close observation of processes and deliverables which are created through collaborative workflows, e.g. platforms such as Gutenberg-technology's MEF or Inkling's Habitat.• Responsibilities include but not limited to: requirement gathering, bid and estimate preparation, working along with senior management, production heads and legal team to submit response to RFPs, identify SLA and SOW clauses and ensuring their end-to-end execution for continual customer engagement.• Regular monitoring of invoice milestones and their submission, overall spend, and revenue tracking.• Service Provider (Vendor) Site Lead for Cengage Learning U.S. End-to-End Program

Noida Area, India

• Have had the opportunity of being a part of about $10 million multi-model service delivery program which included end-to-end solutions for project management, design, R&P, editorial, composition and media services.• Played an instrumental role in Lumina (formerly PMG) Noida project management team setup from scratch in collaboration with the inline managers in Chennai.• Responsibilities included but not limited to hiring resources, completing their on-board formalities, induction, training & development.• Monthly invoicing forecast and review of project milestones to ensure in time invoice submissions.• Monthly PM productivity & revenue reporting; Annual P&L report to management.• Worked with in-house Technology team to identify areas of improvements in MIS and Billing portals and helped them execute the programme-level changes to meet business requirements.• Active participation in the RFI and RFP processes to draft response and identify the new bids.• Contributions were recognised by leadership and received two consecutive annual awards for Excellence.

Chennai Area, India

• Project Scope, Budget and Resource management.• Business control and finding a way to generate more revenue.• Led and mentored a team of 5 project managers.• Arranging training for the new PMs.• Handled complex design, multi-authored print products under end-to-end PM workflow for Cengage Learning with a strong decision making and quality check approach.• Performing PM-level quality checks of input files, copyedited materials, page proofs and revisions to ensure optimum quality.

Chennai Area, India

• E2E project management for Cengage Learning higher-ed books; Project kick-off (design, editorial and production) and providing full range of end-to-end project management services as outlined in the SOW contract.• Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, Trafficking, Leading and Monitoring the projects until the book is bound.• Performing PM-level quality checks of input files, copyedited materials, page proofs and revisions to ensure optimum quality.• Executing post-production process.• Final invoicing and project close-out work.

New Delhi Area, India

• Full-service project management for higher-ed books from leading Education Publishers such as McGraw-Hill, Wiley, Cengage, Informa (Taylor & Francis).• Interacting with overseas Production Editors, Development Editors, Designers, Authors, Copyeditors, Print Vendors, Proofreader, Indexers etc.• Making schedules and keeping a close eye on the current status of project to achieve set deadlines.• Evaluating copyediting, proofreading, composition and the other tasks involved in the production of a book and resolving questions.• Attending periodic status and launch meetings of the projects.• Preparing the weekly status report for the jobs in hand.

Noida Area, India

• CSR for STM journals of John Wiley & Sons, U.S.• Coordinated with a team of more than 50 executives which includes, XML programmer, paginators, proofreaders, copyeditors, art editors and quality executives.• Internal TATs tracking.• Responsible for creating productivity reports, outlining the current capacity and work status of my team.• Job allocation.

Delhi

Handled coding of XML and HTML for several higher-ed digital programs.

B.Sc. It, Information Technology, Project Management, Database Management, A

Information Technology, Project Management

Senior Secondary (12Th), Science, A

Science (PCM)

Secondary (10Th), General Studies, Science, A