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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Global SPOC for all effective communication with regards to operations (Rights Management, Onboarding, Metadata, Subtitles and Gaming).• Managing the entire Ingestion Operations to ensure smooth end-to end flow between content providers and Vuclip's End Product.• Ensuring best quality metadata is available to Vuclip's end consumer by means of robust metadata structures, accurate metadata tagging and enhancement for supporting new features for product.• Coordinating with Engineering team to set up technological automation.• Empowering the team to be capable to autonomously handle project with little to no supervision.• Responsible for creating new working process flows and restructuring old processes to maximize workflow and efficiency in terms of manpower and cost.• Managed a team directly responsible for all content ingestion and regulated production of content. SPOC if required between Internal stakeholders and content partners/ production house/ external vendors.• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, both India and International teams to ensure overlapping workflows/processes are in sync across the department.• Led the team organizing data files, file naming conventions and archiving & restoring for OTT & Syndication platforms. Defining, maintaining and strictly following Process and Policy Guidelines for all asset operations.• Worked cross functionally with Finance and legal on policies, processes, and help drive key accounts payable initiatives and best practices.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Global SPOC for all effective communication with regards to operations (Rights Management, Onboarding, Metadata, Subtitles and Gaming).• Managing the entire Ingestion Operations to ensure smooth end-to end flow between content providers and Vuclip's End Product.• Ensuring best quality metadata is available to Vuclip's end consumer by means of robust metadata structures, accurate metadata tagging and enhancement for supporting new features for product.• Manage all of Vuclip's Vendors with regards to Localization in terms of costing, delivery and operations.• Coordinating with Engineering team to set up technological automation.• Empowering the team to be capable to autonomously handle project with little to no supervision.• Responsible for creating new working process flows and restructuring old processes to maximize workflow and efficiency in terms of manpower and cost. • Managed a team directly responsible for all content ingestion and regulated production of content. SPOC if required between Internal stakeholders and content partners/ production house/ external vendors.• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, both India and International teams to ensure overlapping workflows/processes are in sync across the department.• Led the team organizing data files, file naming conventions and archiving & restoring for OTT & Syndication platforms. Defining, maintaining and strictly following Process and Policy Guidelines for all asset operations.• Worked cross functionally with Finance and legal on policies, processes, and help drive key accounts payable initiatives and best practices.• CMS 2.0/RMS 2.0 (Discussion, Implementation & Migration Support):- Sharing of all business critical requirements for CMS 2.0 related to Onboarding & Rights Management with the Vendor in coordination with the Internal product and engineering team.

Mumbai Area, India

Acquisition• Define and deliver the strategy for content acquisition and new business models.• Establish Vuclip as a strong brand in the ecosystem focusing on all genres of Content for existing & upcoming markets.• Represent acquisition team interests across - operations, legal, finance, business intelligence/reporting, content marketing.• Campaign negotiation - financial analysis and forecasting, agreement discussion, security requirements, amendments.• Develop market expertise, focus on knowledge of the competitive and market environment.• Working closely with the Curation & Business Development team to maintain the positive ROI for Content Partners.Client Servicing• Negotiate core business terms, providing analytical support/recommendations.• Manage and evaluate external accounts, performance tracking, and relationship cultivation.• Responsible for building strong relationships with Content Partners.• Coordinate ingestion and reporting with satisfactory feedback from Content Providers/Clients, assist in the launch, onboard all Content Partners to self-service portal and App.• Periodically assess existing Content Providers by analysing sales information and historical information.• Regular recommendation & packaging requirements from Content Providers basis COE & Market trends.• Plan for promotional activities with the partners as per their promotional bandwidth & reach.• Critical thinking & problem-solving skills to client problems.• Organizing various workshops for Partners in co-ordination with the internal teams to smoothen the process both internally & externally.

Mumbai Area, India

I. To drive the revenues of the company.II. Coordinating with the Corporate office and Internal Product team for implementation and launch of various products.III. Working closely with the Circle VAS Managers and technical team for UAT of our products and ensure timely delivery of the products.IV. Planning all the promotional activities and ensuring all the timely delivery of the promotional materials.V. Take inputs from daily MIS reports to observe the trends of downloads / usage.

• Handling clients in Middle-East, South-East Asia, Indian Sub-continent, Africa regions• Maintaining client relations on end to end basis• Coordination of daily promotions and pushes.• Major responsibilities include – o WAP and WEB portal management.o Promotion planning and execution.o Follow up with clients on a monthly basis for finance and MIS matters.o Tracking and analyzing content downloads and MIS.o Interaction with content ingestion team for timely content ingestion.o Coordinating for contests and merchandise give away.• Working with Internal teams for development, implementation and deployment of various WAP sites and websites.

Harshad SapaligaOperations & A/C ManagementDigital - VAS

● Verify The Metadata Entered By The Ingestion Executive based on expertise & understanding of content (Raw Content)● Provide Suggestions/ Proposals/ Opinions For Content.● Categorize the content Based on standards.● Listen to the physical tracks for verification of the metadata quality.● Tag & attach produced content (Derivatives) in CMS (Content Management System)● Provide Support For Content Related Quality Expertise. ● Ensure Quality And Clarity Of Content.● Quality check for the files of Audio, Video and Imagery.● Quality check for the files on the website.● Co-ordination with different teams in the system as per required● Production of Content for Audio in different formats.

● Taking responsibility of all kind of creative works (Videocards, Video Ringtones, Game sounds, Presentations etc.)● Have gathered complete knowledge of MIDI programming and Midi technology which is highly required for making ringtones and game sounds kind of works.● Acquired a complete knowledge about Sound Engineering / Designing with the help of all modern Music softwares / tools (Nuendo, Cakewalk, Adobe Audition, Goldwave, Pro- Tools, Sound Forge, etc. )● Overseeing the Digitisation Process & Quality Check for music content. ● Worked on the project for making Game Sounds for DTH (Direct To-Home Television) Games. ● Worked on various presentations (background sounds for Virgin Mobile Presentation, Shaadi.com’s Press Presentation & some Web Presentations.)● Creating new music server architecture so that searching of a track has become easier and user friendly. ● Working closely with content team for plan making, music-content package creation, genre wise bifurcation etc.● Have learnt data-management process for digital content management as well as information (meta-data) management.

● Handled all the content creation and management for the Ringtone section for 3 months.

● Worked as a Freelance Midi Programmer & Formatter (like making MONO-POLY, CRBT, SING TONES etc. in to different Handset Compatible Formats) for One and a half years in mobile industry.

Diploma, Electronic & Communication Engineering

Hsc, Science

Activities and Societies: Cultural Activities

Ssc, School

Activities and Societies: Cultural Activities & Sports