Rohit Bafna

Current

• Director - Global Sales at TCR Engineering Services

Past

• Sr. Applications Ops Engineer at Verizon Business
• International Business and Content Management Architect at MphasiS
• Founder and CEO at CyberAds Studio

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Industry

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

Websites

• TCR Engineering Services
• Testing and NDT Services Blog
• TCR Arabia

Rohit Bafna’s Summary

An insightful and commercial director with experience of sales, project management, brand marketing and resource planning. A strategic thinker with proven business development, management, and negotiation skills. Respected for his integrity, leadership and focus on results. A consummate professional, with key skills in developing relationships at all levels. As a Director at TCR, Rohit is personally involved in day to day operations.

Founded in 1973, TCR Engineering Services, is an ISO 17025 accredited independent Material Testing Laboratory, Third Party Inspection and Quality Assurance Company located in India. Currently a market leader in India, based in Navi Mumbai, TCR is slowly strengthening its Middle Eastern presence with recent openings of new offices in Kuwait and Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The company also has representative offices in Malaysia and Washington DC, USA.

The services TCR provides include Mechanical Testing, Chemical Analysis, Positive Material Identification (PMI including onsite carbon detection), Non Destructive Testing (UT, DP, MP, PT, Automated UT using ToFD, Helium Leak Detection, Ferrite Measurement, Portable Hardness), Metallography, Welder Qualification (as per ASTM, ASME and API), RoHS Compliance Testing, in-situ Metallography (with SEM and EDAX), Corrosion Testing (including HIC/SSC), Risk Based Inspection as per API 581, Failure Analysis, Fitness for Service as per API 579, Vendor Evaluation, Factory Audits, Third Party Inspection, Metallurgical Product Evaluation, Post Weld Heat Treatment, Manpower Deployment, Training, Engineering Research and Consultancy using NDT Level III and AWS/CSWIP inspectors.

TCR in India is the back-end material and metallurgical testing house for a number of global companies including Halliburton, Chevron, NDT-CCS, Schlumberger, Caterpillar, Enerflex, Elliott, Sinopec, Reliance, EIL, L&T, and others.

Rohit Bafna’s Specialties:

buying material and goods form india, third party inspection, factory audits, sour gas service corrosion testing as per NACE standards, high temperature tensile, low temperature impact testing, spectrometer based chemical analysis, ultrasonic testing, ASNT Level III, Bgas, AWS, CSWIP, NDT, post weld heat treatment (PWHT)

Rohit Bafna’s Experience

• Director - Global Sales

  TCR Engineering Services

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

  January 2000 — Present (9 years 11 months)

  Rohit is currently Director Global Sales based in TCR World in USA. Under his leadership the US office has grown from its incubation stage to one which is now profitable.
  
  Mr. Bafna has the cost and technical responsibility for execution of specific contract(s), including devising the planning, directing, and coordinating of project activities to ensure that project objectives are accomplished within the prescribed time and funding parameters. Where subcontracts are required, Mr. Bafna manages the development of specifications, statements of work, evaluation criteria, and requests for proposal. Mr. Bafna works with the material testing laboratory and engineering consulting divisions to analyze proposals with respect to cost/risk/quality, lead source selections and negotiation teams, and monitors subcontract costs, schedules, and technical performance.

• Sr. Applications Ops Engineer

  Verizon Business

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

  September 2001 — May 2007 (5 years 9 months)

  Providing Interwoven, Weblogic, Siebel and other e-business tools to large corporations. Responsible for heading the Interwoven project team. Working on providing “master/administror role” for over 200 websites of Novartis Pharmaceutical. Mentoring fellow team members on the Content Management requirements of Novartis, template and workflow requirements, setting up metatagger and frontoffice and ensuring consistency in branding across the client’s web properties.

• International Business and Content Management Architect

  MphasiS

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

  January 1998 — September 2001 (3 years 9 months)

  Responsible for interacting with customer, analyzing requirements, software vendor evaluation and designing the system architecture. Unique understanding of CRM systems helps in devising advanced personalization and integration with 3rd party systems. Content Management Architect and Project Manger for ABN Amro Bank @ccelerator Project, Amsterdam and Chicago (Feb 2000 – August 2001). Role as a Lead Architect and Project manager on the project managing a team of over 45 professionals. Project was a global rollout of Interwoven to several countries including Banco Real in Brasil, ABN London, Chicago and Singapore. Overall 250 different websites spread globally were converted into the Interwoven templates. nterwoven consultant for Banco Real Bank, Sao Paulo, Brasil (March 2001 – April 2001). User Interface Team Member for Chase Manhattan Bank, NY (Jan 2000 – Feb 2000). Project Manager and Interwoven consultant for Singapore Airlines, Singapore (Nov 2000 – Jan 2001).

• Founder and CEO

  CyberAds Studio

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 1995 — February 1999 (3 years 3 months)

  Successfully ran and managed India's leading web design and applications company. Implementation of newer technologies and identifying growth areas. Constant innovation and value addition to enhance web sites. Formulated corporate policy and marketing programs. Interaction with the media to maintain the image of the company on all-social and public levels. Tasks also included mentoring and coaching employees, deputing work on time and on budget and maintaining a strong attention to detail.

Additional Information

Rohit Bafna’s Websites:

• TCR Engineering Services
• Testing and NDT Services Blog
• TCR Arabia

Rohit Bafna’s Interests:

material science, corrosion, failure analysis, NDT services, India Cricket Team, Books on Management

Rohit Bafna’s Groups:

NACE India, ASM India

•    Global Supply Chain Council (Asia, China, Vietnam, India)
•    Executive Suite
•    Grameen Foundation
•    MphasiS Alumni

Rohit Bafna’s Honors:

Excellent Lab in Private Sector Award from NACE. Award of appreciation from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for the company´s contribution to the Project ASLV. Award of appreciation from PetroRabigh, KSA for work on Automated UT using ToFD.

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