Manage and monitor overall operations for various projects ensuring execution within costs & time frames.Taking care of the project right from its inception to its culmination in a book, as well as analyzing, estimating, scheduling, and supervising the operations.Ensuring TAT, controlling the Quality Management System and interacting with the clients on daily basis.Accountable for end-to-end program development and effectively plan resource utilization and manpower deployment to ensure delivery of projects within time, cost, quality and budgetary parameters. Proficiently liaison with clients, other departments & colleagues abroad while track and maintain status for each stage of projects.Efficiently managing a team of 348+ employees (260 in Noida facility, 56 in Trivandrum facility & 32 in Dehradun facility) including direct and indirect resources.Defining project management practices/processes for smooth execution of projects.Defining workflows to ensure seamless co-ordination between various functional groups of Aptara to enable smooth delivery of projects to customer.Ability to manage and mentor other PMO Analysts in all aspects of Project Planning whilst having the ability to develop high level plans.Experience of managing the governance and reporting requirements within a Change environment.Ensuring adherence to all project management practices, including communication and reporting, risk management planning, escalation resolution, milestone tracking etc. on all projects.good understanding of all stages in the project lifecycle with strong and well developed communication and stakeholder management skills with peer group and senior executives.Hiring, up-skilling, and evaluating project managers.Auditing project plans.Extensive experience in analyzing existing operations, proposing optimizations, implementing strategies to improve overall productivity, efficiency and profitability of the engagement.

Heading new projects including production, customer interaction and management, deciding the deadlines and ensuring quality expectations.Strategically planning all aspects of the publishing project including technology selection, know-how and engineering arrangements and optimizing product configuration.Carrying out advance planning for resources, manpower deployment and rendering technical support; ensuring execution of publishing projects within time, cost & budgetary parameters.Interfacing for decision-making processes, profitability analysis & finalization of agreements contracts.Introducing professional project management practices, streamlining the reporting and critical planning processes throughout the publishing project life cycle.Conducting few training sessions for new updates available and ensuring the usage of the updates to increase the productivity of the floor.Coordinating with team members for motivating group members & ensuring harmonious environment. Closely interacting with the customer regarding their problems and queries.Generating analytical reports and graphical view of the areas of improvement.

Handled a skilled team which involves in processing and Digitalization of books including various formats like: Print ready PDF, ePDF, ePUB and XML.Streamline of workflow, production planning, and quality improvement.Handled a skilled team of 132 members including DTs, Quality Controllers, Proof-readers, and HTML/S9ML programmers.Updating and preparation of reports daily and monthly reports including profit and revenue reports.Identification of points which reduce cost of production and time, improve accuracy and efficiency, to achieve organizational objectives.

Responsible for:Strategic PlanningProject Management - Understanding of WorkQuality Assurance - Project Operations Work Flow & Process Designing

Assured that the quality, technical and schedule expectations of every project are mutually understood and are achieved by team members.Sensitive to client needs and perspectives, effectively convert client expectations into company and team expectations.Effectively planned and managed use of time based on the priorities and the goals of the organization.Analyze problems to identify contexts, cause and effects to initiates appropriate containment and corrective action.Identified opportunities to simplify processes and improve productivitySignificant HighlightsWe started the India Book House Publishing Services Pvt. Ltd. (IBHPS) division with handful of people with the help of its parent company India Book House in the month of January, 2005 and the company is now having more than 450 employees in both Financial and Composition. I am proud to be a founder member of IBHPS.Implementation of production guidelines, workflows & processes.

Provided support to the team to achieve targeted goals & optimum efficiency from the entire team.Established procedures and necessary actions to meet the day to day production-graph up.Interacting with colleagues to understand their requirements and customizing services accordingly, so that can work in the best environment and can generate the best then.Budgeting and monitoring effective utilization of resources and developing best of the art facilities.Coordination with prospective clients for project approval and with existing clients for timely execution of projects.Reports Generation and performing Quality and Accuracy Audits along with documenting the QA Procedures.Significant HighlightsJoined as a Sr. Programmer in Quark division in December, 2001 and promoted as a Group Leader in January, 2003.Awarded the best employee of the month for process improvement.Worked for ISO awareness.