Vijin Boricha Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Prioritising and owning the pipeline of products to maximize the performance of the portfolio
• Consulting in editorial boards throughout the content development process
• Maintaining and managing all products within the category post-publication
• Gatekeeping and auditing product proposals and author outlines
• Coaching and mentoring team members and the wider team to ensure they remain aligned and focused on commercial priorities and the company’s visions and values

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Designing and implementing key processes around launch and marketing
• Engaging with developer communities and recruiting/leading authors to create book products
• Negotiation of contract terms, royalties, and advance payments with authors and organizations
• Led team scrums, mentoring and conducting regular sessions for Associate Producers, Category Researchers, and Business Development Executives to align them with portfolio strategy and mission

Mumbai Area, India

• Designing successful category strategies as per the company’s vision, owning them, and ensuring that the team is always aligned to deliver on it
• Owning the Publishing list for the assigned category and making sure it is in line with the updated category strategy
• Conducting team scrums, discussing core contracting and commissioning challenges, and driving initiatives to improve output
• Chair Editorial and Outline Board meetings and approve book proposals and outlines
• Take part in interviewing candidates and recruitment decisions

Mumbai Area, India

• Locate significant areas of opportunity within the technology publishing marketplace and create publishing strategies to meet the needs of customers and licensing partners
• Disseminate category insight across the business to improve the relevance of our product pipeline
• Conduct regular category workshops (monthly frequency) for editors to ensure that the mission of each category reaches all stakeholders
• Understand the needs of the Platform, B2B clients, and Channel Partners. Optimize the Product Strategy to convert these needs into product opportunities for Packt

Mumbai Area, India

• Gather technology insights and customer focus
• Develop a deep understanding of core IT technologies and trends within a specific book market
• Oversee the signing of high-value authors to key books ensuring the highest levels of quality are met to primary strategic opportunities
• Work in accordance with the Acquisition Editors and authors to approve and ensure the set outline and schedule, to meet the end goal of the book product

Mumbai

• Working with authors on developing book ideas, book outlines, and book content
• Managing relationships with authors and technical reviewers, keeping them engaged, and ensuring author/reviewer reuse and retention
• Managing products with the acquisition manager, content development editors, project coordinators, and technical editors to ensure that book products are published on time and are of good quality

Mumbai

• Test and run the code files present in the book and flag in case of any errors
• Looked into the quality in terms of the technical aspect of the book
• Edit/Suggest changes to authors to ensure all the required standards are met
• Collaborate with authors to help them with any suggestions related to the structure or technical accuracy
• Set up technical environments from the book to act as a user proxy to ensure book content accuracy

Master Of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science