
Strategic Planner at DFC | Founder at Adelaide Green Drinks Network
Adelaide Area, Australia

Strategic Planner at DFC | Founder at Adelaide Green Drinks Network
Adelaide Area, Australia
Suhit is a Strategic Planning Officer at the Dept. for Families and Communities (DFC) with the State government of South Australia.
Suhit recently founded the Adelaide Green Drinks network.
Suhit worked as an "Environmental Project Officer" at DFC. He is an MBA graduate from the International Graduate School of Business in Australia.
Suhit is a contributing author on Micro-Finance to the book WorldChanging.
Suhit has co-founded www.bpodigest.com, India's first interactive vortal on the outsourcing industry which was launched by the CM of AP, YS Raja Shekara Reddy. It caters exclusively to the outsourcing community providing news, information, knowledge, blogs, forums and jobs.
Suhit’s worked as a Project Manager with Deeshaa Ventures (www.deeshaa.com) involved working with the RISC core team members in helping formulate the business strategies and evangelizing the idea and has also created a community of interested members (~350) though an online community.
Suhit has been part of the core group behind the Tsunami Help website (htt://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com) which provided critical information in the Dec, 2004 Tsunami and was covered by major newspapers magazines all around the world.
Prior to joining Deeshaa he worked as a Senior Analyst at ADP India, a company that focuses on providing mission-critical software and Business Process Outsourcing services to Investment Banks.
Suhit has a very strong interest in sustainability, environment, economics, technology and development and maintains a weblog chronicling this interest at www.worldisgreen.com. The weblog was nominated as the “Best IndiBlog of the Year” for 2004.
Suhit is a featured writer for Oh! My News International where he writes on various topics.
He lives with his wife, Bindu Madhavi, in Adelaide, Australia.
* Business Strategy and Sustainability
* Business Development and Green Technology
* Project Management
* Start-Ups
(Environmental Services industry)
July 2008 — Present (3 months)
Adelaide Green Drinks is part of the worldwide Green Drinks Network. Green Drinks is an organic, self-organising network running in 380 cities worldwide.
This will be a monthly meeting on the second Tuesday of every month starting July ‘08.
(Government Administration industry)
April 2008 — Present (6 months)
* Strategic Planning for Facilities
* Financial Analysis and Reporting
* Project Management
* Communication and Collaboration
(Government Administration industry)
August 2005 — April 2008 (2 years 9 months)
*Implement the Government's Greening program (www.greening.sa.gov.au)
*Build a central data management system
*Development of Environmental Indicators
*Develop and Implement Energy, Water and Waste Conservation plan
*Creating a strategy for environmental management
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)
April 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 4 months)
Suhit conceived and developed the idea and brought it to fruition with a team based in the United States and India. BPODigest.com is successfully running a daily newsletter with 700+ members and building partnerships to further the cause of outsourcing in India.
Suhit is the content and strategy head.
**We have currently stopped working on BPODigest.com due to lack of funds.
Accomplishments:
Indias First portal dedicated to the multi-billion dollar outsourcing industry.
Launched by the Honlb Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Dr. Y. S. Rajashekara Reddy.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Commercial Real Estate industry)
September 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 2 months)
One of the three resident members along with Atanu Dey and Rajesh Jain working in close consultation with a virtual team based in the United States. Participated in the development of the business model, strategic planning and partnership building with a special emphasis on evangelizing the concept.
Major Accomplishments:
Deeshaa Network (www.deeshaa.net)
Spreading the meme RISC to various quarters of the society.
300 commited members in 12 months
Members like Kevin Werbach (www.werbach.com) from the The Wharton School and Satish Jha, Special Advisor, Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICTs and Chariman of Digital Partners.
Members from the private sector, government, not-for-profit ventures, volunteers & future employees.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ADP; Financial Services industry)
August 1999 — September 2003 (4 years 2 months)
Over the period of four years, I had the opportunity of working in the grades of Sr. Analyst, Analyst, and Junior Associate across three projects. In this period I developed the ability to handle large mission critical projects managing teams across continents and developed extensive knowledge of International Financial markets and various financial instruments along with experience in using information sources like Open Bloomberg, IDSI, Telekurs from Standard and Poors and Bridge pricing sources while maintaining high quality standards.
Major Accomplishments:
Worked in NJ, USA at ADP US.
Responsible for migration of 1/3rd of the Masters Securities Description project.
Awarded Star Performer of the Month in January and February 2002.
Created and implemented the first Quality management framework of the division.
(Public Company; Investment Banking industry)
1999 — 2003 (4 years)
(Renewables & Environment industry)
1999 — 2003 (4 years)
MBA, Business, 2005 — 2007
B.Com(Hons), Finance, Economics, August 1996 — April 1999