Seasoned operations and business leader, expertise in learning and development
Delhi Area, India
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- Vice President at Polaris Software Lab
- Quality & Systems Practice Head and Delivery Head at NIIT
- Instructional Designer, Project Manager, Sr PM at NIIT
- Consultant at CLR and Co., Guyana
- EDP Head and Scientific Officer at Guyana Pharmaceutical Corp
- Customer Service Engineer at HCL Ltd.
- Education
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- University of Pune
- Indian School of Business
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Manish Mohan’s Summary
Manish Mohan is Vice President at NIIT Ltd., a global IT education and training company. He has twenty years experience in the learning and content development industry. Manish has a wide range of experience as a manager and business leader in the field of learning and training development. He has been holding senior management positions for last 10 years, including holding P&L responsibilities for last 6 years. He has a wide-ranging technical background and has developed and managed many technical products and projects.
In a career spanning nearly two decades, Manish has held varying responsibilities in many functional roles, including customer engineer, programmer, EDP head, instructional designer, project manager, head of quality and information systems, account manager, delivery head and most recently, business leader and sales. He has a deep experience in managing multi-functional, culturally diverse and geographically spread teams. Manish has rich experience of working across the world in countries including USA, Ireland, France, Malaysia, Singapore and Guyana.
His work in e-learning and content development has won many awards, including two Excellence Awards, President’s Club award and Chairman’s Quality Club award. He has led engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Pearson, Countrywide Finance, and UBS.
Manish is an engineering graduate in Electronics from University of Pune. He has also undergone Leadership Skills for Top Management from Indian School of Business (ISB). Manish is also a certified trainer for Crosby’s Complete Quality Management System.
Manish is an ardent blogger and writes a popular blog on learning and management (Learn and Lead), and mentors a multi-author blog of a team of instructional designers (eCube). He is a member of All India Management Association and eLearning Guild.
Manish Mohan’s Specialties:
Business management, project management, operations management, people development, leadership, content development, client relationship, presales, business development
Manish Mohan’s Experience
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Head, India Development Center
Element K
(E-Learning industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
* Manage operations at the Chennai development center
* Focused on Product development and enhancements, and improving quality, productivity and time to market.
* Responsible for all aspects of running an independent development center, including HR, finance, administrative support, operations, product deliveries, people development etc. -
Vice President
NIIT
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; NIIT; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)
Currently heading a new business initiative Talent Development Campus at NIIT.
* Strategize and set up a new business initiative for NIIT
* The new business initiative requires me to be hands on in setting up. Managing a small core team and working with a distributed virtual team.
* Responsible for all aspects of a new business, from business plan, sales & marketing, branding, operations, processes etc.
Sep 2004 - Feb 2008
* Responsible for the Content Practice P/L
* Handled business of about $20Mn, team size of more than 500.
* Managed culturally diverse team distributed across 6 locations across the world.
* Key job responsibilities include budgeting, presales, product development, resource planning, recruitment, and other operations.
* Key goals include revenue for content business, gross margin, customer satisfaction, productivity, talent retention and talent transformation -
Vice President
Polaris Software Lab
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2004 — September 2004 (6 months)
* Responsible for one the key accounts.
* Key job responsibilities included revenue from the account, people retention, fulfillment of requirements -
Quality & Systems Practice Head and Delivery Head
NIIT
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; E-Learning industry)
January 2000 — April 2004 (4 years 4 months)
Quality and Systems Practice Head
* Creating and implementing Quality policy, BCP, Outsourcing policy
* Designed various management reporting dashboard
* Designed Vendor Management System
* Introduced online bug tracking database
* Responsible for ensuring quality in customer deliverables, managing internal systems, managing outsourcers, managing technical support teams, maintaining QMS, maintaining ISO 9000 certification
Delivery Head
* Responsible for project execution by large teams, customer engagement, presales, project execution, people development
* Handled large and distributed teams
* Handled business of over $6Mn/year
* Key job responsibilities include budgeting, presales, product development, project execution, customer engagement.
* Key goals include revenue for technology vertical, gross margin, customer satisfaction, productivity, quality, utilization, talent retention and skill development -
Instructional Designer, Project Manager, Sr PM
NIIT
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; E-Learning industry)
January 1992 — December 1999 (8 years )
Project Manager, Senior Project Manager
* Managed small and large projects.
* Responsible for project planning, timely deliveries, quality of deliverables
* Managed teams
* Handled projects of over $1Mn
Instructional Designer
* Design and develop elearning courses
* Interface with clients to gather requirements and deliver to requirements
* Interface with subject matter experts and other functional teams
* Developed new products, designed user interfaces for products, created templates -
Consultant
CLR and Co., Guyana
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Accounting industry)
March 1991 — October 1991 (8 months)
* Set up computerization of accounting systems
* Conceptualize and develop payroll system
* Market and sell payroll system
* Train clients on computerized accounting systems -
EDP Head and Scientific Officer
Guyana Pharmaceutical Corp
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
March 1989 — March 1991 (2 years 1 month)
EDP Head
* Headed the EDP department. Handled IBM System/34 operations.
* Responsible for running computer operations of the company. Tasks included running timely reports, debugging and updating programs in COBOL.
* Introduced networking in the company. Installed network and ERP software in the company.
Scientific Officer
* Responsible for maintenance and repair of bio-medical equipment in government hospitals across the country.
* Headed a team of technicians responsible for maintenance -
Customer Service Engineer
HCL Ltd.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1988 — December 1988 (4 months)
Manish Mohan’s Education
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University of Pune
BE , Industrial Electronics , 1984 — 1988
D Y Patil College of Engineering, Pimpri, Pune
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Indian School of Business
Leadership Skills for Top Management 2007
Additional Information
Manish Mohan’s Websites:
Manish Mohan’s Interests:
Learning, Training, Web 2.0, eLearning
Manish Mohan’s Groups:
Member of All India Management Association (AIMA)
Member of eLearning Guild
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Indian School of Business Alumni -
Learning, Education and Training Professionals Group -
E-Learning Forum of India -
CXO India -
Courseware Development -
eCube, Forum for Learning, Education and Training professionals -
D.Y.Patil College of Engineering Pune Alumni -
Instructional Designers Community of India -
The Indian Startup Fraternity -
Ed Tech Start Ups -
Technical Writers from Chennai
Manish Mohan’s Honors:
* Awarded company annual Excellence Award on two occasions.
* Peer selection for the President’s Club Award (PC) for demonstrating speed and innovation.
* Selected as member of Chairman’s Quality Club (CQC) to work on special projects with the Chairman of the company
Manish Mohan’s Contact Settings
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