Ashwath C
B.E, PMP, Safe Agilist 6.0
Chennai
Summary
A result-oriented professional with over seven years of experience in handling projects and business development. Keen learner and achiever; interested in pursuing suitable postion in your esteemed organization that provides promising opportunities for mutual growth.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Lead
Tata Indian Institute of Skills, Tata Indian
Chennai
01.2021 - Current
- Setting up of IIS Mumbai & IIS Ahmedabad, Institute of Skills is a section 8 company incorporated by the Tata Education and Development Trusts to set up and operate two world class skilling institutes in Mumbai and Ahmedabad
- Key Result Areas:
- Assist training manager, training instructors with key potential and short-listed areas to identify skill gaps and develop courses for the same
- Work closely with the CEO on strategic development and risk assessments of the program; prepare visual presentations for the CEO as a means to provide regular updates to the board and trustee committee members
- Prepared LFA (Logical Framework Analysis), project proposal and organizational budget for initiating activities related to campuses at Mumbai and Ahmedabad, respectively, while coordinating with multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Created and managed a culture of robust and comprehensive documentation process across the various streams of the project
- Worked in strategic planning of the organisation, led monitoring and evaluation the activities related to the program launch of short-term courses with external stakeholders
- Working with cross-functional teams such as Legal, Training, Human Resource, Finance and Administrative departments to lead various activities related to the project.
Consultant
Tata Trusts
Bangalore
06.2018 - 12.2020
- Setting up of Tata Indian Institute of Skills, Tata Trusts symbolise humanitarism and personify the prodigious force that advances new frontiers in social and economic reforms and development through various initiatives
- Key Result Areas:
- Coordination and evaluation of quotations received from training companies for various training programmes
- Established project proceses to be followed for raising travel request and claim reimbursements for the project team
- Established working model for budgeting, billing and reimbursement of miscellaneous expenses such as printing of collateral, marketing materials, gifts etc
- Worked with program managers to identify budget rerequirements for various quarters and assisted in planning with accounts team and financial reimbursement
- Coordinated and assisted in conducting 6 workshops across 3 cities - Bangalore, Pune and Chennai
- Out of the 6 workshops, 3 workshops consists of Sr.leaders from various industries and 3 workshops consists of SME's from various industries
- These workshops was used to identify potential current and future job roles in the manufacturing sector
- Preparation for the workshop - Coordination with participants, preparing briefing notes, organising stationeries, analysing and documenting the outcomes from the workshop etc
- Analyzed and identified key job roles from the workshop
- Worked with SME and Industry partnership track team to analyze and shortlist ten future job roles
- Prepared Job roles and job description for the identified ten future job roles
- Worked with the Industry Partnership track team to create a brochure for short term courses
- Prepared notes to be incorporated into the brochure, identified pictures, arranged course details into weeks etc
- Assisted the industry partnership track for research, company visits to identify key requirements in terms of skills and shortlised two short term courses- Digital Manufacturing Engineer and Factory Automation Engineer
- For the same a training brochure was created
- Extensive desk research was done for Industry 4.0, Future of manufacturing and digital manufacturing to understand the future skills requried
- The research was done using journals, newspaper articles, interaction with experts and also taking online courses in coursera,udemy etc
- Worked with program team and Tata Trusts legal team for drafting Operations agreement, land agreement, etc
- Understood about the formalities required in setting up a section 8 company
- Worked with the program team, to create an activities plan for short term delivery of short term courses
- A checklist was also created for the same to keep track of the both
Inventory Controller
Countdown Supermarkets
Christchurch
12.2015 - 06.2017
- Months)
- Key Result Areas, Perform inventory control to check inbound and outbound of goods in stores
- Documents shortages, check overstock of goods, overseeing store management area
- Assist in devicing strategies to get them out and ensure proper products are placed correctly in the store
- Ensure stocks are placed correctly and refill of stocks happens correctly
- Assist in devicing strategies for customer satisfication, participate in human resource allocation meetings to ensure the stocks are correctly placed at the right time and place
Warehouse Inventory Assistant
Hop & Vine
Christchurch
12.2015 - 03.2016
- Perform inventory and communication of shortages
- Receive in deliveries, document the quantity sent to customer and also liase with the transport companies for logistics operations
- Perofrmed operational activities in the warehouse such dispatch of materials and reduce inventory
Graduate Trainee Engineer
C&S Electric Limited
Bangalore
09.2013 - 06.2015
- Key Result, Assisted and prepared quotations for tender documents, government and other electrical projects for various customers
- Worked with factory team to coordinate dispatch of products to various customers across karnataka
- Worked with warehouse team in Bangalore to coordinate various dispatch activities to various customers
- Primary Coordinator and team work with 5 stakeholders in RMU project - ABB, Schneider, Siemens, Crompton and greaves and BESCOM for Ring Main Unit panels project around 150 locations in Bangalore
- The project involved agreements, commissioning of products at site, quality testing and quality assurance
- Maintained and coordinated with QA team in Factory to provide certificate for each locations across bangalore
- Created formats for proforma invoice and service invoice to raise bills against the needs of the customer
- Coordinated with customers and R&D Team to convey technical and physical requirements of customers for product imporvement and competitiveness
- Conducted primary research to understand the market in Karnataka and shortlisted key customers
- Developed, assisted in creating background pointers and analysis for various meetings with partners, customers and government officials
- Coordinated and assisted in organising our stall in the Elecrama event
- Responsbile for maintaining, contracting, set up of our stall during the event
Education
Graduate Diploma - Operations and Productions Management
Ara Institute of Canterbury
Christchurch, NZ 07.2016 - 07.2017
Grauate Diploma - Project Management
Ara Institute of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand 07.2016 - 07.2017
B.E - Electrical and Electronics engineering
Anna UniversityThe Curriculum Usually Covers Topic
Chennai, India 09.2009 - 05.2013
Skills
PMP Methodologies
Agile Methodologies
Lean Thinking and management
Project Planning and Scheduling
Stakeholder managementRisk AssessmentBudgeting and Cost control
Politicial and cultural awarenessChange managementBudget control managementQuality Management
Futuristic Thinker, Restorative, achiever and competitor (Gallup Strenghts)
Change Management
Jira, MS office, word, excel and power pointskills
Status reporting & performance tracking
Negotiation & Conflict resolution
People Management
Client Relationship Management
Phython
AI Fundamentals
Strategy & new business development
Problem Solving
Affiliations
Instructional Design for E-Learning by Marina Arshavskiy
Introduction to Project Planning and Management – Tetra Noodle Team
Unpacking the Internet of things by Ayora Berry (Instructor at PTC [American Conglomerate] )
Learning How to Learn by Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski
Digital Manufacturing & Design from University of Buffalo
Certification
AI for Everyone
Timeline
Safe Agilist 6.0
04-2023
AI for Everyone
03-2023
Google project management professional
12-2022
Lead
Tata Indian Institute of Skills, Tata Indian
01.2021 - Current
Project Management Professional
12-2020
Data Science Pro-degree
07-2019
Consultant
Tata Trusts
06.2018 - 12.2020
Graduate Diploma - Operations and Productions Management
Ara Institute of Canterbury
07.2016 - 07.2017
Grauate Diploma - Project Management
Ara Institute of Canterbury
07.2016 - 07.2017
Inventory Controller
Countdown Supermarkets
12.2015 - 06.2017
Warehouse Inventory Assistant
Hop & Vine
12.2015 - 03.2016
Graduate Trainee Engineer
C&S Electric Limited
09.2013 - 06.2015
B.E - Electrical and Electronics engineering
Anna UniversityThe Curriculum Usually Covers Topic
09.2009 - 05.2013