Ashish Bhartiya

• Work closely with the Sub -Regional Head for delivering sales, revenue and customer satisfaction targets globally
• Manage and control propositions in the sub-region to ensure that solutions architecting is correct and reflects customer needs and that professional services are correctly sized and profitable
• Manage resourcing needs and collaboration (Training, Project Management, Business Consultant) while balancing sub regionally and global needs in response to sales projections and project forecasting
• Work closely with the implementation teams in the sub-region to manage a seamless transition of proposals from pre-sales to implementation to support and to ensure that pending contracts are successfully delivered according to customer expectations
• Lead Business Consultants in driving and delivering professional services revenue and consultants utilization targets
• Manage Global Project Management Team (PMO) through development, training and ensuring Life Cycle understanding, adherence and improvement
• Manage team, program and product development, and needs of customer-facing Training Department

• Provided timely and consistent project reporting to clients and key stakeholders
• Delivered projects to pre-determined budget, maintaining time parameters and quality standards
• Led and facilitated multi-disciplinary teams throughout pre-sales and ERM software implementation process
• Identified issues and/ or risks while leading resolution and mitigation strategies
• Increased efficiency and team performance by identifying the need, determining the solution, implementing and educating others

As part of the initial TheraSimplicity startup team, responsibilities included identifying key stakeholders, participating in strategic company planning, and leading multi-functional teams in the initial and continual product development. Selective projects and achievements include:

TheraSimplicity Content Management System (CMS):
Directive: Lead a project team of 16 in the planning, development, and launch of the TheraSimplicity proprietary CMS tool.

Results: Completed 12-month, complex project scope on time, within the $250,000 budget while managing multi-cultural, multi-lingual, and educationally diverse end-user needs.

TheraBoards, Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC):
Directive: Manage team of 18 through all phases of $325,000 development of an online Augmentative, Alternative, Communication (AAC) system.

Results: Project resulted in a successful first to the market launch of an online-based AAC system with seamless integration into the medical and educational therapeutic practices.

TheraSimplicity Content Development:
Directive: Facilitate the TheraSimplicity content selection process, vet, contract and lead content authors, content scope development, quality measures, and content implementation.

Results: Completed 172 content areas utilizing 146 authors, and 26 illustrators resulting in 19000 images, 5500 worksheets, with a 72% increase over current content.

TheraSimplicity University Partnership Program:

Directive: Guide a team of 11 in the development, implementation, and automation of the TheraSimplicity University Partnership Program.

Results: An increase from 3 participating universities in 2005 to 115 participating in 2014 and a conversion rate of 58%.

Responsible for the development and ongoing leadership of a multi-lingual and multi-discipline special needs center in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Directive: Lead contracting agency, adhering to American therapeutic standards, in planning, program development, and opening of a special needs center, in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Results: Consistently met budget and milestones despite rough political and economic conditions in the region. The first-year budget produced an additional 15% revenue over budget forecasts.