Giridhar Gowda Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Spearheading customer success and project delivery with a focus on streamlining processes, optimizing workflows, leveraging scalable infrastructure, and implementing industry benchmarks. Accountable for delivery excellence, stakeholder alignment, and strategic client engagement, ensuring seamless execution and measurable impact across broadcast, media, and audio content ecosystems.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Timbre Media offers customized, audio & video content for multiple corporates, broadcast platforms, packaged music, and non-music content in various formats tailored to suit business needs.Part of the leadership team, as Vice President at Timbre Media, responsible for the company’s professional engineering & operational consulting services. Leading a data-driven team with processes in place, budget, and executing projects reliably. My team supports business sales and development, qualification of technology choices in line with customer's business objectives, the development of enterprise-wide architecture, and establishes technology strategies, visions, and roadmaps. Oversees and manages the IT operations, infrastructure planning, and maintenance of broadcast facility and project management.

Bangalore

* Planning and managing the roadmap of priorities and projects with defined milestones & measurable outcomes.* Leading the project team(s) of internal and/or external resources to deliver specified programs and/or projects within scope, budget and schedule targets. * Integrating activities, identifying and managing interdependencies (within and outside the project) to ensure coordinated delivery.* Evaluate the impact of business requirements, business roles, and business planning and business processes on projects.* Identify project risks (delivery, benefits realization) and business risks (financial & operational) affecting the project, putting measures in place to manage and control.* Develop, review and improve the performance of the service line/team within a service line.* Periodically review the performance of the team as per the strategy goals.* Be proactive and detailed to avoid client partner concerns/issues and promptly resolve and/or appropriately channelize any partner concerns.* Lead or assist in developing proposals/parts of proposals, requisite services/solutions to increase business from existing clients with the account manager & sales team.* Meet/exceed operationally targets for the team. Overall responsibility for responsible for SLAs; efficiency, quality, process improvements.* Ensure that direct reportee systematically define and communicate operational targets to subsequent team members, thus affirming all team members have clearly defined targets.* Supply in ensuring current service offerings are continuous, upgraded with innovative solutions that are market-oriented and enable the function to continuously, climb the value chain.* Measure and report the effectiveness of new initiatives using defined measures.

Bangalore

* Oversight of retail business development, operations, objectives, key performance, monitor and corporate decision making * Liaise with other executive heads on the implementation of the company’s strategic and operational plans* Develop streaming strategies, technologies, and production procedures to meet client deliverable with a high level of timeliness and accuracy* Involve in the requirement gathering steps and provide inputs into the designs for streaming architecture, delivery mechanism and setup streaming media services based on customer requests

Bangalore

* Oversee support, broadcast ops, production, and perform technology integration, installation and engineering for broadcast and digital audio workstation equipment* Continually monitor and develop departmental performance and strategies in relation to operations. * Manage and maintain relationships with business associates and external partners* Oversee support, broadcast production, and perform technology integration, installation and engineering for broadcast and non-linear equipment* Continually monitor and develop departmental performance and strategies in relation to operations* Ensure statutory compliance with building norms, conducting risk assessments, monitoring performance and reviewing procedures

Bangalore

WorldSpace was the first and only company with rights to the world's globally allocated spectrum for digital satellite radio. Its broadcast footprint covered over 130 countries including India, China, all of Africa, Middle East and most of Western Europe - an area that includes five billion people and more than 300 million automobiles. Its two operational satellites and ground infrastructure was based on proprietary and patented technology. * Project in-charge and lead manager for a $5 million USD broadcast center in India* Overall in charge for up linking from Bangalore* Budget and operations outlay in charge* Lead a team of engineers & producers in technical operations of day to day activities across centers in India & Singapore

Bangalore

* Program lead of a large project that launched 11 Channels on the WorldSpace bouquet, accomplished this in record time* Created 07 broadcasting facilities with 18 independent studio set-up for WorldSpace* Led the project across metros to create broadcasting facilities with studios & programming centers * Key point of contact for Singapore ‘Broadcasting Operation Center’, ‘Indian Production Operation Center’ and Washington HQ supporting 18 channels

Bangalore

* Led the initiative to stream 10 channels online for Internet content & received with great enthusiasm* Mobilized movement of ‘Top 40’ English Radio Station based in US to Bangalore being 100 % operative with no disruption* As part of the cost optimization initiative, localized the radio stations widely spread across the country there by accruing bottom-line benefits to the organization

Radio City 91FM is India's first 24 hours broadcasting leading FM radio brand. It started its operations in India in July 2001 in Bangalore. With its 20 station, reaches out to the SEC AB audience that largely comprises the advertiser consuming class. As solution providers to advertisers, Radio City invests in understanding the advertiser’s imperatives and product propositions. Radio City broadcasts round-the-clock using state of the art digital stereo FM for unmatched quality in signal strength, clarity and brilliance.* Technical budgeting for the financial year* Responsible to implement various new technologies and configuration in the studios, computer systems, administration, technical management and programming of time slots and log set for the next air-play* Periodic as well as preventive maintenance and upkeep of systems, including backups* Develop and manage broadcast & IT related projects under organizational strategic guidelines* Responsible for all aspects of pre and post-production for the station* Direct projects providing broadcast-focused strategy expertise, strategic management, customer service and technology consulting