
Senior Strategist - Business Development at Persistent Systems
India

Senior Strategist - Business Development at Persistent Systems
India
With over 5 years of experience in the Software Industry. My core focus has always been business and management. I have gathered knowledge and taste of all key aspects of the software industry, from development, testing, project management to business development.
To start my career i was a hard core technical person. I was into building ASP.Net web applications. Gradually i moved into testing and worked on testing for over two and half years.
Now i have moved into Business Development my true passion. I work on variety of tasks ranging from proposals, presentation, customer visits, evaluating new business opportunities. Handling sales opportunities with prospects. Building new service offerings, designing solution offerings.
Proposal development, customer presentation, solution offerings, client visits, sales opportunities, building new service offerings, solution briefs etc.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
My role as a member of the business development team is to enable the sales team with the required information when they are discussing a possible business opportunity. This includes working on RFP, RFI, PQQ, sales pitch, solution offerings, business plan, cold calls, customer visits, business requirements study and analysis.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SYNT; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2005 — August 2007 (2 years )
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)
February 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 5 months)
MS-MBA , Marketing & IT , 2002 — 2004
B Sc , Computer Science , 1999 — 2002
1994 — 1999
hiking, rapelling, swimming, reading, new business developments
Star Award for Team Synergy at Syntel,
Spot award at Persistent for European pre-sales activities and winning critical customer engagements