Prashant Karandikar
Prashant has over 26 years of experience working with customers from various locations across the globe and has realized ROI/Savings cumulatively over $100Mn. Prashant has done his B.E. (Comp Sc), from DY Patil college affiliated to Shivaji University Kolhapur, in 1991.
As a Process Champion (Includes Lean and Six Sigma, SEI-CMM, ITIL and such) and Global Project/Program Manager, he has helped customers increase revenue, enhance bottom-line, achieve operational excellence, implement strategies, and numerous such successful initiatives. With his passion in “Learning” and “Sharing” he has helped transform several Leaders into stars and freshers into Budding stars, for audience from within and outside India.
- Significant experiences Include:
- Consultant: He has successfully trained and coached over 25 managers of a division of large Food and Health Conglomerate using Lean and Six Sigma tools and processes to get them certified as Green Belts and help them realize an ROI of over USD 400K in their existing operations within 1 year
- IT Delivery Head: he has successfully handled numerous projects of varied team sizes, varieties and models such as ADM, Managed Services, FP/T&M and using Waterfall, Iterative, SCRUM (agile) methodologies. He has worked with clients in US, UK, Denmark, SA, UAE and India. His “Application Portfolio Management” practice helped save over $20Mn annually for customers.
- Pre-sales team lead: He guided and helped the team prepare and present RFIs/RFPs/Tender responses, Presentations and Collaterals to various sectors viz Government, Defence and Large Conglomerates such that most of those responses got shortlisted in top 3 bidders
Prashant likes to ‘Break-free” or spend his ‘Leisure time’ by Learning and researching on new topics, Travelling & Touring, Taking Wild-life safaris, being part of Photography and Birding tours, Learning & playing Tabla, Singing+Karaoke, Organizing social gatherings and events.
