Dinesh Tantri

I am a Enterprise 2.0 Strategy Consultant with the Web 2.0 Labs at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Chennai, India. I have 7 years of experience in Application Development, Social Computing, Knowledge Management, Organizational Change Consulting, Business Development and Teaching. I currently maintain a weblog titled Collaborative Enterprise at http://dinesht.typepad.com. It focuses on the implications of social software on enterprises.

Dinesh Tantri’s Specialties:

knowledge management,collaboration,web 2.0,enterprise 2.0,social software,consulting,solution marketing,pre-sales consulting,trend spotting,learning,education

Dinesh Tantri’s Experience

Head, Knowledge Strategy

ThoughtWorks

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Social Computing Strategist - Next Gen Learning Platforms

TCS

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TCS; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Responsible for the visioning and strategy for next gen learning platforms for education institutions in India
Enterprise 2.0 Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services Limited

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TCS; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

As a Enterprise 2.0 Consultant I work closely with Industry practices to conceptualize, design and take to market verticalized next generation collaborative solutions to address the needs of both global and local markets.
Lead Consultant – KM, Collaboration and Organizational Change

TCS

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TCS; Computer Software industry)

May 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 7 months)

Lead Consultant in the Collaboration Stream, part of Project Infinity launched in 2004 with the goal of defining, designing and deploying state-of the-art collaboration infrastructure and processes to enhance knowledge sharing among 40,000 employees located in 32 countries. Project Infinity was a corporate-wide strategic initiative that had a broader scope with multiple streams working towards implementing world class IT Infrastructure within TCS. Today, this Collaborative KM system caters to the needs of over 90,000 employees. Project Infinity was selected by Computer World as one of the top 10 IT projects for the year 2007.
Programmer

TCS

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TCS; Computer Software industry)

December 2002 — May 2004 (1 year 6 months)

This assignment, executed for a leading credit reporting and scoring company in the US, involved reverse engineering and migration of solutions running on Tandem to a Mainframe-hosted application software infrastructure primarily to achieve reductions in hardware and software maintenance costs.
Programmer

Arkin Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2002 — July 2002 (3 months)

This assignment involved development of a web based tool for synchronizing Power Point, audio and video files. It was designed to allow users to create, edit, search and synchronize various media files on the web.
Lecturer and Career Counselor

Kongu Engineering College

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry)

August 2001 — March 2002 (8 months)

My responsibilities included the following:
Lecturing on Web technologies, Organizing and conducting workshops (around 6 workshops) on personality development and emerging technology trends (for 2nd, 3rd and final year engineering students),Counseling students on crucial career related decisions,Training students for GRE, GMAT and TOEFL