High-impact leader with over 19 years of experience in end-to-end program/project management. Highly accomplished Director with extensive experience in corporate real estate management across APAC. Proven track record in project and program management, financial oversight, team leadership, and stakeholder management. Recognized for delivering multimillion-dollar projects on-time and within budget, with a focus on cost optimization and quality.
Corporate and Commercial Real Estate Assignments – Program / Portfolio Management, Due-Diligence, Leasing, Transactions, Consultants Appointment, Design Management, Tendering & Procurement, Project Execution Management, Handover, Facilities Management.
• Schedule development and management - Creating the plan and schedule for project tasks related to a given project and/or program. These tasks are mapped are aligned to one or more critical milestones. Working with internal functional areas to baseline a project schedule that is mutually agreed upon and meets customer requirement.
• Project management – Leading regular project status meetings and work with internal project resources including, Business & Data Analysts, Operational Leads, Engineering, Project Managers and Consultants to monitor day to day progress of scheduled activities, mitigating schedule misses and escalates to leadership both internally and externally. Ensure projects conform to the established project management standards and processes with staying on budget, within scope and on-time.
• Risk and issue management - Identifying and documenting risks to technology delivery and issues if and when a risk is realized. Formal entry of risks and issues is completed within related project-specific risk registers. Experienced in identifying quality issues in the assigned project; suggesting corrective actions in coordination with senior management
• Financial Management - Responsible for preparing project forecast and financial real estate accounting and NAV Calculations to management on an ongoing basis and preparing monthly project level reports to management for project performance evaluation as required.
• Team Management - Expertise in leading teams ranging from 8 to 25 Members across different locations of the country and APAC region to steer high stake projects using diversified methodologies which are future-ready
• Reporting Management - Proficient in managing technical documentation (project, MIS report, contracts), material management, procurement, and propelling varied steps from project planning, inception, to the final stage. Providing updates to management team, stakeholders on project status, proactively identifying issues and resolving or escalating as appropriate.
• Stakeholder Management – Consistently managing customer expectations and ensure the delivery of quality service. Monitoring and reporting on the progress of all project activity within the project including significant milestones and any conditions which would affect project cost or schedule. Managing dependencies across all stakeholders and project contributors and escalate if any of these dependencies or deadlines may be significantly missed/have an impact on key project milestones.
• Governance and Processes – Setting up and maintain effective project reporting, governance, processes and systems to be utilized throughout project. Managing the design team to develop a set of documentation that aligns with the initial project brief and client’s requirements, in-line with corporate standards and specifications. Identifying and ensuring that the appropriate controls and reporting is implemented for quality, health and safety, compliance, change, risk, and environment issues.
• Communication Management – Leading role in communicating with the client, stakeholders, consultants, contractors, suppliers at all project stages. Managing the effective flow of information between the all stakeholders, through chairing regular meetings, preparing reports, actions registers, presentations, etc. Develop long term business relationships with clients and the wider industry peers, based on integrity, trust, ethics, and delivering great outcomes on your projects. Ensuring that lessons learnt, benchmark data, and knowledge sharing is generated from each project
Managed end-to-end Project: New Development (Negotiation, Scope, Planning, Procurement, Contracts and Budget, Legal, Technical & Commercial Due Diligence, Execution, Change Order) | Stakeholder Liaising (including Government Departments, Clients, & C-Suits) | Audits & Inspections | Project Portfolio: 11 lakh sq. ft. |Team: Successfully leading a team of more than 15 resources
Project Management
Spearheaded multiple projects for the region with end-to-end operations with the responsibility of completing them, within stipulated budget, schedule and adhering to quality standards with effective project management skills
Managing activities right from the feasibility studies stage to the project completion till handover along with operations; involving preliminary plan approvals from clients, design management for architectural, structural & service drawings
Initiating preparation of budgets, AOPs, BOQ, resource flow chart, cash flow chart preparation on a master schedule time scale
Reviewing tenders, quotes for the new assignments; effectuating product scheduling and process enhancement
Understanding requirements and providing strategic, operational, financial and managerial leadership for successful project execution
Construction Management & Site Inspection
Supervising all the construction activities including providing technical inputs for methodologies of construction and coordinating for site management activities with the personnel
Ensuring 100% adherence to project policies & procedures and best practices of QHSE in the industry
Identifying sources for achieving cost-effective material selection to minimize project cost
Conducting regular visit to project sites to validate if the progress of work on-site complies with approved schedules & SOPs, to ensure major milestones have been met and to report deficiencies
Devising project delivery strategies; conducting risk analysis, value engineering analysis & facilitating inputs at all stages
Contract Management
Managing project contracts/agreements, due diligence, formulation and negotiations in coordination with legal/ commercial teams
Heading day-to-day contracts/ commercial administration during execution stages and finally claims and arbitration management towards achieving the targeted financial objectives
Understanding contractual scope of work, quantifying risks & benefits and applying work strategy accordingly
Coordination / Team Management
Coordinating & guiding closely with project stakeholders in resolving the project issues in terms of drawing & details, resources, coordination issues between agencies, contractual obligations, material indents & supply issues, progress hindrances, method of working, quality issues & safety implementation and any other problems pertaining to projects
Meetings with clients, design consultants & vendors to provide insight on project progress; undertaking periodic valuations, assess sub-contractor engagements
Project Manager – PMSI, Seconded role to Deutsche Bank for Corporate Real Estate Function
· Project Manager for projects in Mumbai, Ludhiana, Moradabad, Ahmedabad, Surat, Bangalore and Noida
· Deutsche Bank Retail Branches and Back Office –
· DBAG Noida Branch Relocation – Sept 2016
· Feasibility Study for refurbishment of DBOI VTP Campus – March 2016
· Completion of DBOI FCP Japan and FCP Taiwan Projects – Nov 2015
· DBOI premises Rationalization – Bangalore – June 2015
· DBAG Nungambakkam, Chennai Branch Relocation (Design Phase only)– Oct 2013,
· DBAG Surat, New Branch – Feb 2013,
· DBAG Ahmedabad (LEED Gold Certified), New Branch – Apr 2012,
· DBAG Moradabad, New Branch – Mar 2011,
· DBAG Ludhiana (LEED Certified), New Branch – July 2010,
· DBOI Back Office, Goregaon, Mumbai (LEED Gold Certified) – Feb 2009 to 2010
a. Airtel Datacenter – Uppal, Hyderabad – Dec 2008
b. Reliance Vimal Showroom – Jhansi Rani Chowk, Nagpur – May 2008
c. Asian Paints Outlet – Ranigunj, Hyderabad – Jan 2008
d. Mc. Donalds Restaurant – CMH Road, Bangalore – Sept 2007
a. DHL Service Center – Padmarao Nagar, Hyderabad – Jan 2007
b. GVK Bio R&D Center – Nacharam, Hyderabad – May 2006
Project Management
Member of Council of Architects, New Delhi - India