JD Edwards Consultant

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (** years of total experience)

Jan 2008 ~ till date Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. Delhi

Dy. Chief Manager – Corporate Strategy Cell - reporting directly to stakeholders)

 Responsibilities: Leading Strategic alliance activities at BCCL, negotiating price, deal terms & post deal structure. MOU, Term Sheet, Agreement finalization & drafting. Evaluating all M&A (domestic & cross-border) proposals, creating internal profitability analysis, calculation of returns, sensitivity analysis, presenting analysis to stake-holders. Creating complex business models for various scenarios. Working with Director, Corporate (who is also CEO & on the Board of other Group companies – Association with Director is more for information sharing.).

 Activities: 1)Evaluate target company valuations, internal synergies generated, 2)Creating valuation models – Expert level skills in Excel & other spreadsheet software 3) Assisting group companies in business process automation/strategy related projects

 Achievements: Successfully completed JV between two of world’s largest Media giants. Negotiating multiple deals for BCCL. Actively involved in valuations & final negotiations. Built various business models widely appreciated & used for creating business plan during transaction. Creating MoU, Share-holder’s agreement etc. for the deals to safeguard BCCL interests. Networked with various departments for departmental buy-ins, critical for success of deal & post-deal scenario. Already implemented INR 13.2 million pa. of new revenues last FY for BCCL through new alliances executed by me. Various deals in pipeline.

Mar 2006 ~ Dec 2007 Accelerator Group LLC Gurgaon

Manager (M&A – Auto, Metal-forming, Real Estate & IT)

 Responsibilities:

Handling both front-end (adding new clients) & back-end (conducting financial and business research and due diligence to assist client).

Focus on investment banking (primarily M&A) and management consulting related services. This includes business combination target identification, benchmarking comparables, financial analysis of players in the industry, valuation. It also includes research on trend analysis, global market evaluation, supply chain optimization. Working directly with global clients to understand client objectives and meet client expectations on deliverables.

 Activities:

1.) Analysis and study of companies worldwide for internal use & various Investment Banking clients. 2.) Financial Modeling and Valuation in sectors such as Technology / Media / Telecom / Healthcare / Chemicals / Financial Institutions / Banks / REITs amongst others. 3.) Comparable company analysis, Precedent transaction analysis, Pitch Book preparation, Shareholder analysis etc. 4.) Constructing financial statements, cash flow analysis and performance projections 5) Extensive use of various databases viz., Bloomberg, CapitalIQ etc.

 Achievements:

1) Co-managed US$ 19 million cross-border M&A Deal by one of the leading Auto-component manufacturers in India. 2) Instrumental in setting up of the Auto & metal-forming practices – author of white-paper on the metal-forming industry – widely appreciated by industry leaders 3) Added several clients looking for PE funding – represented various clients at Private Equity Conference in New York 4) Delivered speech on M&A Trends in the Metal Forming Industry in conference titled “Globalization of India Inc.: Strategic Alliances Creating Value”, at New Delhi

 Highlights:

o Deep domain knowledge of IT, Metal-forming, Automotive, Real Estate

o Complete understanding of M&A/PE process – hands-on experience (IT, Metal-forming, Automotive, Real Estate)

o Extremely comfortable with financials – valuation, proforma B/S, cash flow etc.

Nov 2001 ~ Mar 2006 Piping Energy & Products Pvt. Ltd./Snapstream Media New Delhi

Team Lead – Software Development & MIS

Responsibilities: International: Demonstration of product for US clients – responsible for both off-site & on-site client interaction. Was in the US for demonstration of product to customers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE(PREVIOUS)

 Customer Interaction - Studying new feature/Customer requirements (predominantly US) for feasibility of implementation and establishing time-lines, in-charge for entire product lifecycle

 Interacting with PTP (Piping Technology & Products (www.pipingtech.com) – our parent company situated in Houston, Texas) for customer feed-back/bugs.

 Comparative strategy analysis of competing products & business development decision-making. Hiring, training & team building for IT operation in India

 Achievements:

 Developed piping support design software with CAD automation – widely used in the organization

 both in India & US for designing pipe supports & generating drawings thus greatly reducing response time to customers. VB, COM, AutoCAD, IntelliCAD, MSAccess

 Single-handedly developed an automated software testing environment for Snapstream Media (www.snapstream.com) owned by same proprietor. The testing was for the product called Personal Video Station. The idea was to implement a one-click-automated-process wherein the entire product could be tested at the click of a button, without any human interaction.

Nov 2000 – Oct 2001 AKS Software Limited, Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi

Programmer

Projects handled:

 HHT Programming for Escorts(Faridabad)

 Description: The objective of the project was the integration of the Bar-code reader alongwith Warehouse Management System package.

 Responsibility: Spot survey at Escorts for Requirements analysis, Planning, Designing, Coding and Maintenance

 Environment: Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 on Windows

 Updation Utility

 Description : AKS Software is one of the leading software companies in India who are involved in making software catering to the Sugar Industry. Its ERP Solution – PULSE is today installed in the leading Sugar-manufacturing units in India. The Updation Utility, as the name suggests, has been made to automate the task of Version Updation of the Pulse ERP Package.

 Responsibility : Project Incharge, was responsible for coding about 75% of the project, supervised Testing, and Debugging

 Reporting : Director – AKS Software; Environment: VB6, SQL Server7, Access97

 Automation of Report Generation

 Description: The objective of this project was to create a tool to handle the printing of reports.

 Responsibility: Coding, Debugging

 Reporting : Project Manager / Director; Environment: VC++, VB6

 Dynamic Resizing

 Description : The objective was to implement in the Pulse Application a feature which would maintain the Form appearance on the screen irrespective of the chosen Screen Resolutions

 Responsibility : Coding, Debugging

 Reporting : Director – AKS Software; Environment: VB6

 Pulse ERP – Sales, System, Financial Accounting Modules

 Description : Involved in creation of various FORMS and modules for the mentioned Modules of the PULSE – ERP Package.

 Responsibility : Coding, Debugging

 Reporting : Project Manager; Environment : VB6, SQL Server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE(CONT.)

Jan 2000 – Oct 2000 Astar Information Management A.G.

Project: Socrates Dental Praxis

This project was handled by me as a free-lance Project Developer directly reporting to the Director, Astar Information Managements, AG. It involved the re-engineering of Dental Information Systems Software (Socrates Dental Praxis). This application having a customer base in Switzerland, Germany etc. was initially designed in FoxPro. The objective was to create a Web-enabled Application in VB, with MSDE/SQL Server as backend.

Project Responsibility Summary

• Project requirement analysis (using various UML Methodologies)

• Proposal Preparation, & Project Planning

• Product Development / Construction, Documentation.

Project Flow Details

• Analysis of existing software, Data-model, Data-access layer, GUIs and how each of these layers are interacting with each other.

• Building the Database in SQL server with changes in Database design as required.

• Prototype Testing.

• Creating the front-end in VB-5 with the following features :

o Multi-language option (viz. English, German, Italian, French)

o Multi-user application

o Incorporation of ActiveX components for scheduling & dental mapping, etc.

Environment

Visual Basic 5 & MS SQL 7

Jun 1998 - Dec 1999 Honda Siel Cars India Ltd. , Greater Noida

Executive – Works

 Responsibilities:

 Conducting supplier process-audits as part of Honda’s vendor development program.

 In-charge of Incoming materials inspection, conducting metallurgical analysis at Honda’s in-house lab.

 ISO implementation for materials inspection dept.

 Responsible for reporting/bug-fixing & interacting with suppliers of hi-tech lab software provided by Mitutoyo & others.

 Achievements:

 Implemented materials inspection procedure and checklist for all incoming materials at Honda.

 Reduced materials rejection rates by better process control of casting components at vendor-end.

June 1997 – May 1998 Usha Amorphous Metals Ltd. Gurgaon, Haryana

Engineer Trainee (Engineer-after training period) – Engineering Dept.

 Responsibilities:

 Generating drawings of transformer-cores using customer-given data.

 Carrying out various process feasibility studies and trial runs for first-time manufacture.

 Was primarily responsible for annealing and heat treatment of amorphous materials.

 Maintenance of design software.

 Achievements:

 Involved in design & engineering-production run of heaviest core manufactured till that time.

 Optimized furnace throughput by designing furnace temp control sequence.

EDUCATION

2003~06 Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University, New Delhi

Master of Business Administration (MBA) – Finance – 3Yr PT MBA program

1993~97 Malviya Regional Engineering College, Jaipur, Rajasthan

Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering (BE)

SUNDIRIES

AIMT Mathematical Talent Award.(All-India rank sub-20)

Played for REC Jaipur in Inter-Univ Cricket League

REFERENCES

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