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Business process management: •Defined production and distribution process at the new print location.•Reduced average investment approval time from 4 months to 1.5 months•Standardized a ‘new print product’ launch process•Improved payment and returns collection process to reduce transportation cost by 35%.Project Management: •Setup of Project Management Office (PMO) and project management practice•Program management of all IT related projects to enable painless movement of production from Safa press to DIP•PM for yearly subscription promotions ‘Good Living’ campaign from 2012 to 2015•PM for PWC audit of Procure to Pay process and SAP access controls•PM of Data center move and IT core switch migration, SAP Customer Information Center (CIC), GeoUnits and ECC 6.0 technical upgrade•PM for implementation of new process using SMS at GulfNews broadcasting, IT support desk, distribution (subscription renewal reminders and subscriber complaint handling).•SAP PP implementation - Blueprint validation and ‘to-be’ process mapping for cost estimation, production planning, production execution and reporting.Business Strategy and tactics:•Represented Support services center (Finance, procurement, credit control, HR) and distribution work stream in Strategy 2020 project at Al Nisr Publishing. Different revenue increment and cost reduction initiatives were identified, evaluated and detailed to achieve 2020 profit targets set by management board.•Conducted workshops for 2016 product design road map setup. Agenda was to move from being a broad based, across market segment, news service provider to a community based news provider. Al Nisr Group organization and processes will be being structured around customer communities instead of products. Marketing road map of Segmenting, Targeting and Positioning is used as a strategy framework. This is work in progress.

Mumbai Area, India

• Project manager for implementing ToC based consulting assignment in Transformer Division of Crompton Greaves Ltd., Mumbai. Team size – 4 SISL consultants + Client implementation team. Average proejct time was reduced from 8 months to 5 months• Project manager for implementing ToC based solution in operations and distribution in Godrej Foods Division, Mumbai. Team size – 4 SISL consultants + Client implementation team. Soya milk and fruit juice average product freshness reduced from 2 months to 15 days • ToC implementation in Project Management (Tata Growth Shop, Crompton Greaves Ltd., Larsen & Tubro Ltd.), Manufacturing (Godrej Tooling Division, Godrej Foods Division), Distribution (Godrej Foods Division)• Identifying Key Performance Indicators for Bharat Forge Ltd. to be used in SAP BW applications• Business process modelling and re-engineering with the aim of achieving process singularity across different locations for Siemens VDO, Germany• Change management partner on SAP implementation @ John Kells Holding, Srilanka

Zonal spare parts Sale & after sales support incharge, Telco Construction Equipments Company Ltd., Udaipur. Responsible for Spare parts sales and after sales sales support in the zone. Leading a team of 5 Telco C.E.C.L service engineer and 3 after sales support dealers

Software development

Pgdm, Marketing Mgmt, Operations Mgmt

Activities and Societies: Additional certificate: Master Certificate in Project Management from Center for Project Management, SPJIMR.

B.E. (Mech), Mechanical Engineering