About Me

In quest of senior level assignments in end-to-end Program/ Project management, Relationship Management, Vendor management, Government interface, etc. A technology management professional, Headed Corporate Management Function - Strategic Planning & M... A technology management professional, Headed Corporate Management Function - Strategic Planning & Monitoring, Program Management, HRD, Legal, Audit and MIS/ERP, with about 38 years of experience, worked in progressively evolving Telecom & IT technology development institution. Successfully served successive C-DOT Management Boards for last 25 years and has the rarest distinction to serve six Management Boards out of the total seven regular and interim Boards since inception. Also, provided seamless integration of management practices across Boards with management switch-over through persistent and continuous efforts and working closely with Board to enable the Board to manage the conflict / issues efficiently whatsoever, if arisen pertaining to projects, resources (manpower, finance / budget) organization policies etc. Significantly contributed in the management of state-of-the-art technology development, institution development / building, business operations, etc. A snapshot of good contributions in the R&D governance, can be seen as follows Strategic Planning and Program Management (PM) functions - Strategic plan formulation for enterprise-wide corporate planning for telecom technology development programs, budgeting, cash-flow, progress (technical, physical & financial) monitoring, project audit, business process standardization, etc. Contract and Legal Services Management – Managing contracts and its lifecycles involving reviewing, drafting contracts and preparation of related documents (e.g. MoUs, project & ToT agreements, & other administrative services contract) and the contract administration. Legal Services Management involve contract related disputes resolution concerning projects, service contracts and staff-service related legal matters, engagement /empanelment of lawyers to represent organization in the arbitration proceedings, court etc. Human Resource management (HR) – Managing man-power hiring program through Campus Recruitment form premiere academic institutions, Performance Appraisal (PA) system, promotions, career progression, job-rotation planning, soft-skill, employee-related issues and grievance handling. Enterprise-wide Process Management – Adept to integrate business /& product development processes using automation using IT /& knowledge management tool-sets such as PM, PLM (Product Life-cycle Management), workflows, ERP, etc. Institution Building - with strong organizational / institution building acumen, supporting management to rejig the HR, Legal, etc. functions to build a dynamic, vibrant and bureaucratic-free mindset next generation delivery focused, business-oriented, client-centric organization sustainable in the competitive market, and encourages R&D entrepreneurship to take on challenges in the projects. Industry interface and Relationship Management - A skilled communicator with strong interpersonal and relationship management skill, par excellence liaison skill and good ambassadorship to interface with C-DOT technology partners - manufacturers / vendors & System Integrators (SIs), premiere academic / scientific institutions & labs for undertaking joint R&D programs, Industry Associations – TEMA, FICCI, Export Promotion Council, etc. government institutions e.g. MietY, Department of Telecom, Niti Aayog, ministry of finance, and very well represented C-DOT across statutory bodies e.g. C& AG, standing committees of parliament, Central Information Commission, etc.