Experience

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  IQS Systems and Engineers India Pvt limited

  • India | MiddleEast | EUROPE | Americas

  • Chief Executive Officer, Director | Non- Ferrous Engineering Metal Product Manufacturers

    • Apr 2018 - Present
    • India | MiddleEast | EUROPE | Americas

    IQS is a nonferrous metal product manufacturing company with the capabilities to produce the end to end manufacturing of engineering metal products catering to various industries. Responsible for all aspects of business development and management of the company.

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  Forging-Process.com

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Strategic Consultant , Forging Industry, Non Ferrous Engineering Metal Supplier

    • May 2017 - Apr 2018
    • Mumbai Area, India

    Consultant for various firms and buyers of nonferrous engineering metal products. Subcontracting and vendor selection consultant, helping firms achieve efficiency gains in process and cost saving.

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  Cox & Kings UK

  • Group Chief Information Officer

    • Aug 2016 - May 2017

    Ownership of all aspects of information technology for all companies spread globally across the group. Spearheaded the global strategy, right from ideation and blueprinting stage to delivering and rolling it out to all group companies and now into benefit realisation stage. Currently focusing on the sustainability of the existing business model and constantly assessing the impact of disruptive technologies and reimagining the future business model.

  • Chief Information Officer

    • Feb 2015 - Aug 2016

    Accountable for setting up core technology practices and implementing technology process and framework for overall structured governance. Exploration of a strategic solution to cater the enterprise level solutions that can be leveraged across group companies spread across the globe.

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  The Institute of Directors

  • United Kingdom
  • Non-profit Organizations
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Certified Chartered Director

    • Jan 2015 - May 2015

    Thesis:--> Bolstering Corporate Governance in India - A Review of Regulatory & Legislative Initiatives by the Indian government in 2013.

  • Studying for Chartered Directorship

    • Aug 2014 - Dec 2014

    Curriculum:- Company Act 2013, Board R&R, Compliance, Maximizing the effectiveness of Board, Driving financial performance, Corporate Fraud and risk governance, Balance scorecard and performance execution, Business sustainability, Sensitising board directors and Organisational dynamics.

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  Barclays Corporate Banking

  • United Kingdom
  • Banking
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Chief Technology Officer - Global Payment Services

    • Nov 2013 - Aug 2014

    • Established a CTO function for Barclays Corporate strategically aligned to business operating model.• Responsible for strategic planning, project management, supporting business initiatives, conducting steering committee and assisting senior management with technological roadmaps to enable decision-making in investment prioritisation process.• Managing the end-to-end responsibility for Run The Bank and Change The Bank assignments worth GBP 150 – 200 million year on year for Payments and overall transaction banking services.

  • Head of IT Global Transaction Banking

    • Aug 2012 - Nov 2013

    • Successfully overlooked the end to end technology implementation of SEPA (Single European Payment Area) proposition for Barclays Corporate.• Rationalised and established an effective testing organisation for global payments. Raising the traceability and automation bar from 36% to 76%, as a result reducing the turnaround time for testing by 25% subsequently reducing the cost of testing for flagship projects by 18%.

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  HSBC Commercial Banking

  • Head of IT Payment Sevices - Europe

    • May 2010 - 2012

    • Implemented a SEPA proposition for HSBC EUROPE enabling business to reach corporate and government institutions for processing low value payment products on a regional, robust, secure and scalable infrastructure. • Played a vital role in organisation effectiveness initiative conducted at a global level, specifically leading the crytalisation of technology target operating model in line with business operating model.

  • Chief Information Officer - Middle East

    • Jan 2007 - Apr 2010

    • Successfully managed the IT department across the Middle East Region and provided Project Management Leadership for large and complex projects.• Utilised strong skills in strategic planning and decision making to optimise the process and substantially reduce IT spending.

  • Head of Information Technology - Middle-East

    • 2006 - 2007

    • Delivered global flagship projects “on time within budget” and also established business partnerships with external vendors.• Bagged the “Peoples Manager Award” in 2006 for mentoring and implementing a training strategy for the IT Team.

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  Electronic Data Systems

  • Netherlands and India

  • Head of Software Delivery - ABN Amro Account

    • 2004 - 2006
    • Netherlands and India

    • Established business relationships with key banking clients and thereby increased resources in the corporate banking domain.• Successfully implemented a treasury application suite and also delivered a SMS banking solution on time and within budget.• Received appreciation for product quality and also bagged “Manager of the Year” Award in 2004 for outstanding relationship management.

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  Tech Mahindra (formerly Mahindra Satyam)

  • Programme Manager - Aviva Insurance

    • 2002 - 2004

    • Delivered and implemented a new commercial insurance system and subsequently an application system merger of the two major commercial insurance systems.• Actively involved in resource building activities and also established processes and procedures related to Incident Management, Problem Management, Release & Distribution and Configuration Management.

  • Project Manager and SME - Banking Products

    • 2000 - 2002

    • Effectively handled the role of a project leader conducting feasibility and risk analysis of major projects and ensuring successful deployment within schedule and budgets.• Major Banking projects included ICBS (International Comprehensive Banking System – Fiserv Product), Data Warehousing System and auto-posting interface for posting the accounting transaction.

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  Mukund Enterprises

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Team Leader System Analyst

    • 1998 - 2000
    • Mumbai Area, India

    • Successfully customised and mapped business processes with JDE (ERP System) functions and subsequently implemented functional modules such as purchase and sales order processing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger, warehouse and inventory management for this steel-manufacturing giant.• Formulated a separate Payroll application from scratch within JDE environment and integrated it with accounts payable.• Designed an automated time logging system and interfaced it with JDE payroll module.

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  VSS

  • United States
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
  • 200 - 300 Employee

  • Software Engineer

    • 1996 - 1997

    • Played a pivotal role in implementing a Disk Mirroring System for quick roll swaps.• Played a key role in several projects as a programmer during my tenure with this firm.• Contributed as a lead programmer for a project, which built from scratch an financial accounting system for a private firm.

  • Hardware and Production Engineer

    • 1993 - 1996

    • As a production Engineer was responsible for production of UNIX terminals, CDAC multilingual cards and manufacturing and assembling of servers and desktop computers. • Successfully did installations of IBM midrange servers AS400 to quite a few manufacturing organisations (Clients of VSS Computer Engineering Firm)