Project Management Consultant, Nimbus Communications
Bombay Area, India
Project Management Consultant, Nimbus Communications
Bombay Area, India
Professional with more than a decade experience in delivering leading edge business solutions in areas of Information Technology spread over Media, Entertainment, & Technology industry and over 4 years experience in Human Resource.
My area of fore expertise is Project Management Operations, System Analysis, Resource Management, Strategy and Planning. My strengths are analytical reasoning & managerial skills with strong adaptability towards managing team dynamics and passion for meeting timelines.
Having had the exposure to multi-dimensional project planning and operations at Nimbus Communications Ltd. & STAR India Pvt. Ltd., I understand the demands and needs of setting up a New Media venture along with the brand expectations from the internet community. My assignments of covering online the Cricket World Cup 2007 and other International Matches gave me the wide exposure to LIVE streaming, Video on Demand, CDN, Ad Serving, DRM & CRM implementation and operations. The added learning of covering online various reality shows like KBC–Season 3, Star Voice of India-Season 1 and managing several dotcoms & WAP site has helped me understand the true potential of New Media.
I am drawn to projects that are stimulating, challenging and require logical analysis or abstract thinking. I can add value from a start-up venture stage till the project execution at all levels.
Project Management Operations, System Analysis, Resource Management, New Media Setup, Strategy and Planning.
(Entertainment industry)
December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Managed New Media Projects:
• www.cricketnirvana.com is a full service Cricket portal, it generated over 45 Million page views, 45,00,000 unique visits and 275,000+ registered users.
• www.filmnirvana.com is an entertainment portal which has launched its first online short film festival.
Responsibilities
• Responsible for Project Management Operations
• Vendor Management. : Responsible for handling Development Vendors - Sportz Interactive & Dreamscape; Third Party Affiliates; CDN & DRM Provider-AKAMAI, Ad Agencies; WAP: Mkhoj & Vedantech
• Responsible for Infrastructure Management.
• Responsible for co-coordinating with the Production team for the production of on-demand videos & LIVE streaming using Windows Media & Flash Streaming technologies
• Responsible for Site Traffic Analytics (Google & Webtrends), Revenue Generation, Ad-Campaign & MIS Reports
• Content Management for the Films Portal
• Responsible for co-ordination and implementation of SEO recommendations
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1999 — Present (10 years 7 months)
Implementing Turnkey Software Projects for Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd, Bajaj Electricals, Unit Trust of India, Western Outdoors, Wilson Greetings, CPAPass.com and their likes.
Talent Acquisition of skilled professionals for Corporate’s like Infomedia, FCB Ulka, Blue Cross Laboratories, Shriram Insight Brokers Ltd., Visage Images, JHP Securities, FINQUEST, Zuventus Pharma, SEED Infotech & some more. I have also been on board with Media Lab Asia & ABC Consultants as their Project Management Consultant advising them on RFP’s, Project Planning & Implementation and Resource Management. When ABC Consultants entered into JV with International giant Manpower Services, I was the key member involved in the data handover process between both the organizations.
Conducting IT based Business Conferences and a lot of other Training Initiatives.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
December 2006 — September 2007 (10 months)
Managed New Media Projects:
• Cricket World Cup 2007: www.cricketworldcup.com
• Sports Portal:
www.indyablue.com
• Entertainment Portal: www.indya.com
• Social Networking : www.indyapeople.com
• Videos Site: www.videoontherocks.com
• KBC 3: www.kbclive.com
• Star Voice of India: www.startvoiceofindia.com
Responsibilities
• Responsible for Project Management Operations (time, cost, resources) for all new a& ongoing IT projects
• Responsible for quality control measures for adhereing to strong programming protocols and standards
• Responsible for regular performance management of all technical team members
• Developing strong project management and technical management skills in the organization
Key Contribution:
Migration of 20 Servers System Setup of STAR India from VSNL IDC to Netmagic IDC in a remodeled Network Architecture using Netscaler & NAS with zero downtime during transition.
Project Mangement, IT & HR Consultancy