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SHASHIKANT. SHAMRAO. KULKARNI
Agriculture -Product Development
Secunderabad
Summary
Personal Synopsis Over 30+ years of experience in leading, planning, monitoring, reviewing and delivering business goals in Product development, Seed Production research, Parent seed production functions. Specialization in Testing/Regulatory/Training related activities Distinction of consistently achieving predefined targets across the career span. Demonstrated abilities in cementing healthy relationship for achieving business and corporate goals. Demonstrated leadership, management & organizational capabilities in keeping abreast of the changing industry trends and flair for adapting to leading edge technologies. Trainings Attended Problem solving and Decision Making (Genco, internal) Personality development (high Places) Self Reliance and career Development. (Group training, internal) Ownership at workplace (Group training, ACCORD). Iso Internal auditor Training on ISO 9001:2000 (CII) Stress Management (Group training, ACCORD) 3 | Page Team building (High places). Regulatory aspects of seed Industry NBA/PVP&FRA acts- relevance to India Seeds act and its complain es by seed companies. Seven habits of highly successful people 360 feedback and people management.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
5
5
Languages
Work History
Advanta Enterprises Limited, UPL Ltd
04.2012 - Current
- In charge of
- Product Development activities for South Asia
- The activities and deliverables are
- Trailing, Data analysis, data Presentations
- Started PD- Product Development as an independent function and shaped the team as per the new requirement
- Set the testing protocol- SOP for end-to-end activities of Trialing for uniform, error free and scientific data collections
- Trained team for effective deliverables for required quality data
- Developed Market segmentations for South Asian countries
- Built systems for Data verifications so that only quality data is filtered and considered for analysis and making business decisions/ advance products
- Protocols and plans for Agronomy Trials for confirmations of product value- old or New hybrids/product
- Build crop tour protocols for effective ways of demonstration of products with their USP to commercial people/All stake holders
- Build product demonstration system by sales team as well
- Developed ERP for Trial Management for easy and efficient management of Trials
- Regulatory: Registration and Notifications
- Developed registration system for India and expanded to south Asia region and kept a data/registry of the same for effective review/information/plans implementation
- Handled the Notification process- CVRC and SVRC systems
- Developed protocols to test/add value to existing Products through SAU/Institutional testing for their agronomic value to farmers
- Supported Third party organization in getting the out Licensed products registered into their License in different regions/states of India/South Asian countries
- Training
- Hand holding of sales/marketing team for new product Launch
- Training the entire sales team on crop agronomy/product and FAQs to prepare the team for handling the complaint.| Page
- Prepared training calendar and material to be used for Agronomy/Biotic stress so that team is educated to handle the issues in field and collect the data
- Hand holding of sales/marketing team for new product Launch and if needed Market research as well
- Complaint Management
- Complaint management /redressal system developed for effective monitoring and reviewing which helped organization to arrive at causes to minimize the quality issues there by farmers complaints
- Trained team for scientific analysis of compliant to find a root cause
- Trained the team in usage and compliances to complaint management systems for systematic management of complaints
- Budget and expenses Management
- Planning and monitoring of Budget for Trials/SAU/registration/PR etc
- Segment gap fill/Export Import of Sample seeds:
- Identified the products for addressable Segments gap fill for domestic and international markets
- Negotiated and coordinated amongst different international units of Organization/external institute to get the products imported in time for of sowing window
- Making sure that the samples seeds are delivered to international markets for registration/trialing for internal customer of international markets (all international units of organization are coordinated from
- India) or Business partner units
- Achievements during last 10 years in PD functions are
- Trailing, Data analysis, data Presentations: Executed nearly 1000 Trails completed with nearly 30 products advancement in 7 crops with major being corn, Rice and Forages followed by Sunflower, Mustard
- Millet
- Regulatory: Registration and Notifications: Accomplished nearly 650 registrations of new products in different parts of India/South Asia and got nearly 18 products notified through CVRC
- Training: Conducted nearly 50 online and offline trainings across south Asia- on crop/product/Quality data/communication with Customers/Complaint handling
- Complaint Management; Handled nearly five major complaints and many smaller one amicably
- Segment gap Fill/Export/Import; Planned and imported nearly 200 samples from different parts of Globe of different crops
- Over all other carrier activities.
DeVGen Seeds and Crop Technology Pvt. Ltd
01.2007 - 01.2012
- Establishing packing/producing unit for Foundation seed
- Developed ERP for Foundation/Supply chain.
India Limited
02.1992 - 01.2007
- Handled early and late R&D trials in KRK/MH/Punjab/Bihar/AP: Identified 900M and 633 corn hybrids
- Handled Breeder/nucleus seed production
- Responsible for Sorghum breeding activities as Assist Breeder sorghum
- Foundation seed production/ Maintenance breeding
Education
M.Sc Agri - Agronomy
College of Agric. Dharwad, University of Agric. Sciences
Dharwad 10.1989 - 1 1992
B.Sc - Agriculture
College of Agric., Raichur, University of Agric. Sciences Dharwad, Jamkhandi
Raichur , Karnataka 08.1985 - 1 1989
Skills
Trailing, Data analysis, data Presentations ❖ Started PD- Product Development as an independent function and shaped the team as per the new requirement ❖ Set the testing protocol- SOP for end-to-end activities of Trialing for uniform, error free and scientific data collections ❖ Trained team for effective deliverables for required quality data ❖ Developed Market segmentations for South Asian countries ❖ Built systems for Data verifications so that only quality data is filtered and considered for analysis and making business decisions/ advance products ❖ Protocols and plans for Agronomy Trials for confirmations of product value- old or New hybrids/product ❖ Build crop tour protocols for effective ways of demonstration of products with their USP to commercial people/All stake holders 1 Build product demonstration system by sales team as well ❖ Developed ERP for Trial Management for easy and efficient management
undefinedAccomplishments
❖ Trailing, Data analysis, data Presentations: Executed nearly 1000 Trails completed with nearly 30 products advancement in 7 crops with major being corn, Rice and Forages followed by Sunflower, Mustard, Millet
❖ Regulatory: Registration and Notifications: Accomplished nearly 650 registrations of new products in different parts of India/South Asia and got nearly 18 products notified through CVRC.
❖ Training: Conducted nearly 50 online and offline trainings across south Asia- on crop/product/Quality data/communication with Customers/Complaint handling
❖ Complaint Management; Handled nearly five major complaints and many smaller one amicably.
❖ Segment gap Fill/Export/Import; Planned and imported nearly 200 samples from different parts of Globe of different cro
Software
Interests
Cricket
Travel
Listening to songs
Learning histryy
Timeline
Advanta Enterprises Limited, UPL Ltd
04.2012 - Current
DeVGen Seeds and Crop Technology Pvt. Ltd
01.2007 - 01.2012
India Limited
02.1992 - 01.2007
M.Sc Agri - Agronomy
College of Agric. Dharwad, University of Agric. Sciences
10.1989 - 1 1992
B.Sc - Agriculture
College of Agric., Raichur, University of Agric. Sciences Dharwad, Jamkhandi
08.1985 - 1 1989
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