Nearly a decade plus years of experience in multifarious roles across IT Service Delivery and Project Management, Development centre / Global Operations setup , Pre-sales and System Analysis & Design.

Presently heading Chikisak Health Services as Director Technology

Chronicled record of success in:

• Delivery Centres Set up & Management: Setup of new delivery centre in Bangalore catering to the organisations QA , Content Automation from Web , Web Development needs. Launched operations for clients.
• Setup of Global Operation Centre : Setup of global operations setup in India and later transitioned to China considering time zone and other operational advantages.
• Management of Regional Teams: Attained high managerial feedback scores, sustained great team morale, restrained attrition amongst senior talents and ensured outstanding performance for Asia as a region.
• Business Transformation: Followed-up organisational restructuring due to acquisitions in recent past and was instrumental is managing the new companies operations during restructuring.
• Outsourcing: Driving successful IT Outsourcing for various activities including web development , mobile application development and Test Automation process.

• An effective communicator with strong relationship management, people management, planning, coordination and analytical skills. Worked at overseas locations at India, China , Europe and Honk Kong.

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Jul ’04 – Apr ’14 ISI Emerging Markets, Bangalore Senior Manager: Global Projects and Asia Technology Manager.

• Driving enhancements in core portal www.securities.com including new search engine functionality optimisation and other new key features of the regional products.
• Overseeing delivery of programs by providing support to load new data like local CGI script management et al.
• Rendering support and acquired a similar business model company in Honk Kong.
• Nominated for the technology merger between the 2 companies.
• Strengthening and improving IT business partnership to transform IT from being a support function to a partner in the decision-making process.

Accomplishments

• Instrumental role in setting up a global operation center out of Beijing.
• Established a QA team in Bangalore to help company install software testing processes for some of thin client tools developed in house.
• Improved operations with new automation / data harvesting projects for new products launched.
• Functioned as Global Project Manager worked on setting up a development team in Bangalore which will work with the existing Global development team located in Chille.
• Pivotal in improving compliance & strengthening controls for business by achieving timely delivery of projects/ programs, within budgetary allocations.
• Attained success in running the mobile initiative of the company and already developed version 1.0 of the existing portal.
• Worked with Parent group company ( Euromoney Institutional Investors ) for a social networking portal www.thefinancialnet.com as well as other internal company initiatives like working with Harvard school of Islamic Finance on new web portal ( http://ifp.law.harvard.edu/ ). Co-ordinated the outsourcing and team build up for the same.
• Got promoted to additional role of Global Projects along with the Regional Technology setup.
• Initiated Elearning Initiatives within the organisation.
• Initiated and successfully developed 2 versions of Mobile Application for our EMIS ( www.securities.com ) and DW ( www.securities.com/dw/ ) service called ISI2GO.

Jun’98 to Jun’04 Optimal Solution Providers, location Senior Manager: Technical Consultant Accomplishments

• Drove software turn key projects with end to end solutions from infrastructure deployment to development of software and setting up of operations.
• Significantly developed and implemented Railway Protection Force Automation system for KRCL in Informix and 4GL in Digital Unix environment.
• Worked on different open source based projects during early days gauging the potential for Open Source software’s ahead of time.

Others

• Visiting Faculty for various colleges like S.I.E.S.C.O.M.S., Hiray College, St. Andrews College ○ Provided lessons to post graduation & under graduation courses.
• Been speakers on Opens source and other topics for CSI (Computer Society of India , youngest speaker) and also for companies like sama technologies during early days of open source in india.

Academics

• Master in Computer Science (MCS) from University of Pune in 1998.
• Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.S) from University of Pune – Fergusson College in 1996

Certifications

• Advance Diploma from Aptech
• PMI Certified