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Chicago, Il, Us

United States

India

Oversight of Vadodara operating budget with Monthly/Quarterly CAPEX and Cost estimates for the India LocationOrganizing and Chair board meetings and AGMsPreparing Cost Control Reports, Cost estimates, Manpower and facilities requirements forecastsWorking with Finance and Auditors on Quarterly and Half Yearly Audit checks and ensuring timely Tax and statutory paymentsLead the employee engagement activities, build and maintain positive culture in the location

India

Consumer Insights & Market Intelligence company focused on delivering data to over 2200 manufacturers, retailers & agencies across US, Canada, Australia & UK. Managing site operations with 1000+ headcount and budget up to $6MM. Preparing and reviewing adequate plan for the control of targeted outputs, budget spending, efficiency, and manpower utilizationEnsuring the teams are using global standard policies, procedures and tools and are operating within agreed business SLAs and confidentiality standardsPartnering with Operations department heads and USA Senior/Middle Managers to develop processes/initiatives that enhance controls, optimize processes, improve the productivity and reduce expensesAnalyzing and documenting business processes and problems. Developed solutions to enhance efficiencies. Drove business policies and procedure change management decisions through group to implementationPresenting monthly reports on performance for rhythm of Business and other review meetings/discussion as requested by the COOConducting line management for operations managers, including performance management and coaching.

India

Managed database, engineering, infrastructure and customer operations teams across locations.Organized the health check conducted by parent company(Vista) and strategized with local and onshore leadership on recommendations provided.Standardized operations procedures across departments and worked with onshore stakeholders to design org structure.Designed and implemented Data warehouse using MSBI tools.

Chicago, Illinois

Managed global IT CAPEX by coordinating with leaders across departments and locations.Designed and Led the migration from on-Premise Exchange to cloud based Office 365, resulting in 30% cost savings.Managed multiple legacy internal/external ETLs into common data repository, providing business value to compare and analyze datasets across business lines and time periods.Introduced new technologies into the business - Database SAN, OS Imaging, Ticketing system, VoIP, automated Windows updates. Participated in multiple mergers and acquisitions by providing the data required to the leadership and managed the data integrationsLed the effort to move on-premise servers to data centers in NY and Chicago.Focusing on database issues impacting the business - Index fragmentation, DBCC checks, Query Tuning and Error Handling

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting And Business/Management

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services