Dr. Harshita Bhatnagar

• Advising Dean (R&D) on improving the outcomes and funding for sponsored R&D projects at the Institute.
• Liaison with international and national Funding Agencies for R&D project sponsorship, grant management.
• Manage 22 interdisciplinary Centres of Excellence in various R&D areas.
• Develop and finalizing MoUs in R&D areas of mutual interest with national and international organisations.
• Fund management for R&D projects.
• Managing publication, Newsletter and social media besides organising international R&D conferences and events.

• Lead South Asian Sub-Regional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Information Highway project in India to establish ICT Research and Training Network in SASEC sub-region in -Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and India.
• Lead the development of online skill development (vocational) courses for rural youth to enhance employability Successfully implemented Telemedicine project in Assam under SASEC Project.
• Lead the development of an ecommerce portal -“Village Bazaar” to boost rural economy.
• Prepared a variety of different written communications, reports and documents to ensure smooth operations.

• Teaching MBA/PGDM (AICTE approved) and BBA(Entrepreneurship) courses in Information Systems, Project Management, Operations Management, and Business Mathematics Conducting Management Development Programme (MDPs) for Public Sector Organisations.
• Made contributions in curricular development and innovation in teaching strategies, including incorporation of new technologies for learning and grading.
• Mentored students, including directing research, projects or internships, as well as advising on career paths, degree requirements and post-graduate education options.

• Instructional Designing lead to develop Online Training content for an SAP ERP project for a fortune 500 Mining client in Australia.
• Efficient Client Account management and Delivery management for WBT/eLearning/Training project/ Knowledge management.
• Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.

• Project management for end-to-end implementation of e-Migrate Project Monitoring project progress w.r.t.
• RFP for implementation at 10 locations within India and 17 locations abroad Multi-stakeholder management with MHA/BoI, MEA, 6 Airport operators, 10 Insurance Companies, 17 Indian Embassies abroad Installation and testing of IT (Data Centre/DRC, WAN, LAN) and Non-IT infrastructure.
• Preparing Project Review reports for Steering Committee and Hon'ble Minister of External Affairs.
• Providing support for high-level dialogues with foreign dignitaries for signing of MOUs on strategic and policy issues.
• Parliament Questions and RTI queries, Policy papers, Press releases related to e-Migrate project.

• Operationalization and roll-out of e-Panchayat MMP under NeGP in 15 State/UTs of India Designed, developed and executed Training Plan for State Govts.
• For application training on PRIASoft and Planplus software applications.
• Evaluated 6 software modules under e-Panchayat Application Suite for the use of PRIs for G2G and G2C services Strengthened the Ministry efforts towards appointing consultants in 19 states/Uts for pilot roll-out of project.

• Consultancy for implementing e-District MMP pilot projects in Haryana and UP.
• Successfully lead project teams, project management efforts and reporting function.
• Represented the company at Project Review and Steering Group(PRSG), Ministry of Electronics and IT meetings.
• Provided outstanding service to clients to maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
• Attained improvement in technical project delivery processes by leading project management process improvement.

• Played a key role in handling a $4billion worth National E-Governance Plan of Govt.
• Of India.
• Provided strategic level consultancy to Department of IT for Capacity Building for the National E-Governance Plan of India.
• Formulated INR 313 crore Capacity Building Scheme for NeGP Developed RFPs, SFC and EFC documents for the Project.
• Contributed to Planning Commission report on Domestic Software and Services.

Worked as Instructional Designer for developing e-learning courses for US based corporate clients and Ivy League universities.