ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

BE/BTech: IIT Bombay

PROFILE SUMMARY

Engineering professional and a trained fumigator, with 41 years of extensive managerial, techno commercial experience in managing profit centre operations, marketing, unit set up largely in Post Harvest Preservation and processing of Agricultural commodities and horticultural products. Adept in project management, quality assurance and marketing across diverse industries.

CONSULTING EXPERIENCE

4 years

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Head Projects, quality Assurance
Future Consumer Ltd (Oct 2007 - 2019)

- Member of the core project team of 3, as Head Engineering to look after all the projects of the Future Group. Also worked as Chief Operations and Quality Assurance. Projects worked on and other activities-Powdered spices ,Specialty flours, Dry fruit and whole spices.fully automatic cleaning plant for wheat and pulses.
- Layout designs, mechanisation and automation of DCs.
- Additional responsibility as "National Head -Quality Assurance"
- Selection of new talent, Continuous Mentoring and training of employees. Personal interaction to motivate and guide them in their personal domain. personal and product hygiene, infrastructure, close interaction with visiting foreign Retail chain teams.


Head Projects, quality Assurance
Future Consumer Ltd (Oct 2007 - 2019)

- Member of the core project team of 3, as Head Engineering to look after all the projects of the Future Group. Also worked as Chief Operations and Quality Assurance. Projects worked on and other activities-Powdered spices ,Specialty flours, Dry fruit and whole spices.fully automatic cleaning plant for wheat and pulses.
- Layout designs, mechanisation and automation of DCs.
- Additional responsibility as "National Head -Quality Assurance"
- Selection of new talent, Continuous Mentoring and training of employees. Personal interaction to motivate and guide them in their personal domain. personal and product hygiene, infrastructure, close interaction with visiting foreign Retail chain teams.

General Manager Marketing
Frontline Agrofoods Ltd
- The company had developed and patented a technology of fumigant generation and its use in vacuum fumigation as well as stack fumigation of food grains to offer assured insect free products in retail packs to consumers
- Marketed patented Fumigant Generator and FSG Sterile Grain System used for long term preservation of grains, cereals and pulses through
- Awareness campaigns, media coverage, Personal interaction and establishing new relationships with Owners, Managing Directors and Chief Executives and staff of various departments of Processing industries, Export houses, Super Markets & various ministries.
- Seminars, demonstrations with commercial scale pilot plant.
- Finalisation of equipment and process parameters, Preparation of proposals, follow up, negotiations.
- Attended specialised training program conducted by Indian Grain Management and Research Institute.
- Built a pilot plant under the Grant – in - Aid given by Ministry of Food Processing Industry.
- Operated the plant and gave demonstrations of the system to Food Corporation of India, Borivli, largest rice exporters like Satnam Overseas Ltd. (Kohinoor), Lal Quila, KRBL (India Gate), Amira Foods, Government’s Plant Protection Stations at Siwree, Mumbai and Amritsar.
Special demonstration was given to Plant Protection Advisor of India, Managing Director of APEDA, Consultant Ozone cell of Government of India, and officials and members of Rice Exporters Association.

Senior Consultant
Vishakha Consultants Pvt Ltd.
- Technology evaluation and sourcing; sourcing and evaluation of machinery suppliers and export marketing tie-ups for Project for Mushroom growing and processing
- Technology and Export tie-ups for aseptically packed Banana Purée.
- Market Research on Essential Oils and Oleoresins.Based on this report, customer has set up a manufacturing unit near Mysore, Karnataka, for manufacturing Essential oils and Oleoresins
- Market Research on Tropical Fruit Juices and Aromas
- Survey of Agri-business Potential in Gurdaspur District, Punjab for Small Farmer’s Agri-business Consortium and National Agricultural Technology Project of Government of India funded by World Bank.
- Baseline study, Social and Environmental Impact Analysis of International Multi-Modal Cargo Hub and Passenger Airport in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
- Devising a marketing strategy for US Dry Pea Council. Organized seminars for the Council in Hyderabad, Bangalore and Mumbai.
- Devising marketing strategy for California Raisin Board for Raisins and walnuts. The Indian market survey was conducted by me.