Sr. Manager with Entrepreneurial Spirit +25 years' Experience

Top level assignments with an organization of repute.

Jan 2006 – Dec 2010 with Tower Galv Products Nig. Ltd, Nigeria as Kano Unit head -Profit Center Manager

-Heading and Managing operations of one of Ltd. Companies of the group in business of Steel Pipes, Roofing sheets - Aluminum GI and Auzinc sheet products
-Achieved three fold sales growths in three years time frame.

Sep’2002- end 2005 with TeraCab India, A’bad as President/ Business Head

-Spearheaded the project and networking equipment marketing activities; successfully concluded arrangements of representing companies in the field of optical networking.
-Developed marketing of special range of telecom cables and accessories products viz. CAT 3/ PIJF indoor/outdoor Aerial cables as per Indian/ UK specs, CAT5e/6, OFC Cables, ADSS, OPGW etc for projects. Effectively handled national and international Tenders for Telecom/ Optical cables for UAE, Vietnam, Yemen, Sudan, Kenya, USA.
-Represented the company in SuperComm India 2004 for Principals, Metrobility Inc.
-Successfully introduced groups’ products to key clients such as Reliance, Bharti, Tata, PGCIL, RailTel, ABB, Alstom, L&T ECC, Guj Petro, IOC, ONGC and registered the products with several large EPC firms and Armed Forces.

Apr’1995-Sep’2002 with GTCL Group, Ahmedabad as General Manager /Group Functional Head

-Successfully set up new plants for manufacturing cables; including optical fiber cables and a grass-root Captive power plant. Installed and Commissioned several types of production lines for plastic extrusion / cabling lines, Plastic Sheathing lines, Wire Drawing lines, and Utilities including DG Sets/ Fuel Storage and Treatment facility, etc
-Managed Plant capacity balancing and de-bottle necking of facility for the varying product mix to enhance the productivity.
-Managed local development of several machines for the cable production lines.
-Effectively managed Operations as SBU head for the group to steer the expansion activities from one plant (200 employees) to five plants with 1400 employees.
-Instrumental in the development of budgetary control system for cost control.

Education

1979 M.Tech from IIT Bombay
1977 B.E (Mechanical) from LD Engineering College, Gujarat University