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Internet Marketing, Article Submission, SEO, Creative Writing. Blog maintenance.

Software Development and IT Consulting for Database Development, Business Intelligence, Data Consolidation, and Integrated Reporting.

Analyzed business, Operational & Financial, performance of Textile and Garment UnitsDeveloped business plan for a Business Club & Developed marketing plan for an Island Holiday Resort.Implemented a Knowledge Management System for a large business groupWorked with firm's clients to assist them to develop business strategy such as vision, business plan, and to implement Balanced Score Card system. Conducted business process audit to identify areas for improvement. Developed strategic business plan for a Business Club, and a marketing plan for an Island Resort. In addition, proposed and mediated a negotiation for a 2-Million Dollar merger between a Hill Resort and a Business Club. Conducted open source product evaluation and implemented Knowledge and Document Management System for a Business Group in Indonesia. Participated in negotiation with a Japanese imaging company for a business tie-up to jointly market the document management system in Singapore. Analyzed business processes in Textile and Garments units and suggested measures to improve the business effectiveness in terms of clarity of manager's roles, Budgeting & Planning, KPI Reporting, and Financial performance.

Managed a 10-member software development teamDeveloped training program to train developers in open source development platformDeveloped 5-year technology road map for the Textile Division with my superiorDesigned an integrated IT system on Open Source platform (LAM-Java) to generate consolidated reporting system from disparate application systems i.e. Processing, Logistics, and Finance. Managed a team of software developers to develop integrated application to replace islands of applications. Developed training program to educate programmers on open source programming platform. Developed a 5-year Information Technology road map to create a common vision for the Textile division. Evaluated new technologies such as software development platforms, database systems, operating systems, and web servers, for instance. Did network design, troubleshooting, and IT asset optimization by server consolidation, database tuning, for example.

Managed a Telecom Billing System in four metrosDeveloped automated data import solution to save hundreds of man-hours in a monthDeveloped an interface between Paging System (Unix) and Telecom Billing software (Windows)Worked extensively on telecom billing system and developed a solution to acquire and update data from external agencies. Managed help desk to support paging call centers all over India. Further, I was selected a team member to participate in the prestigious 'Motorola Teaming for Excellence' annual national level competition to represent the company. I led part of the Billing Software development Project (Win/Oracle) to replace the high maintenance DOS based Billing System.

Developed Customized Software Applications for Internal usersDeveloped an interactive ERP Data Query System (QuickView) Managed an ERP system Managed ERP system and developed customized applications to suite the localized business requirements and policies in the areas of Purchasing, Engineering, and Materials. The ERP Data extraction and reporting system saved considerable amount of time to many users as earlier they had to wait for MIS department to generate reports. With the introduction of interactive query system, users could generate their own customized reports thus allowing MIS staff to focus on core MIS functions rather than generating and printing reports to tens of users everyday. Designed and developed a unique system to track Old and Slow Moving Items (OSMI) that helped the company to identify and clear the old, unutilized inventory items worth USD 600,000 and also provided means the Purchase Head to block certain items from being purchased by purchase engineers.

Developed Quality Control system for a VSAT company, POS for a consumer goods retail outlet, data analysis application for a multinational courier company. In addition, I have worked as a teaching faculty for a computer training institute in Bangalore.

Bachelor, Electronics Engineering

Master, Business Administration

Online - General Management (Completed Organization Behavior (OB), Marketing (MM), and Finance (FM))