• Manage diverse teams of over 20 people including senior-level management.
• Interact regularly with senior executives including the CEO/CFO/VPs.
• Experienced facilitator of group sessions with senior executives as well as operational management / staff.
• Direct / program manage challenging, enterprise-level/ mission-critical projects.
• Speaker at various seminars in the US and abroad.

• "Results oriented, energetic and dynamic individual with firm belief in teamwork & collaboration."
• "Fast learner, adept at creative problem solving using a multi-disciplinary, cross-functional approach."
• "High degree of commitment to excellence, ethics, professionalism."
• "Leads and motivates teams towards high achievement in a positive, supportive environment."
• "Versatile, adaptive approach - formal and dignified and informal/personal as the situation merits."
• "Skillfully utilizes a combination of tact, diplomacy, influencing and negotiating skills as appropriate."
• "Amiable, articulate, well-read, with a solid presence."

  Type:  APPRAISER

Appraisers make creative ideas serve practical purposes. They use direct methods to accomplish results. Appraisers are competitive, but other people tend to view Appraisers as assertive rather than aggressive because Appraisers are considerate of others.

Instead of giving orders or commands, Appraisers involve people in the task through persuasion. They elicit the cooperation of those around them by explaining the rationale of the proposed activities.

Appraisers help others visualize the steps that are necessary to accomplish results. Appraisers usually speak from a detailed plan of action that they have developed to ensure an orderly progression toward results. Appraisers are good critical thinkers.

• Sharp / creative thinker & communicator with extensive hands-on planning / directing / managing skills.
• Swiftly absorb and apply knowledge, with excellent analytical skills.
• Sound understanding of concepts & issues in the areas of business and IT / Web Development.
• Solid capabilities in PC and Web-Based personal productivity, financial, graphics software/tools including - financial modeling/spreadsheet analysis (Excel), presentations (MS-PowerPoint), project planning & monitoring (MS-Project), process/ workflow diagramming (Visio), graphics & visual design (Photoshop / CS, InDesign, Fireworks).
• Exposure to a variety of enterprise and web-based business applications/ systems (ERP / SAP, Financial, CRM, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Order Fulfillment systems, LMS, CMS.)
• Experience with multiple/evolving technology platforms, software products, vendors & environments.

    Unique combination of strengths / hands-on skills - from front-end to back-end:

• User Needs Assessment and Product Requirements Gathering / Envisioning / Definition / Analysis.
• User Interface / User Experience / Interaction and Visual Design / Branding
• Web Content Creation / Editing for textual and graphic / multimedia content.
• Information Architecture & underlying high-level systems architecture (data model, database driven dynamic sites, database design principles, program design & development / testing.)
• Website Usability Analysis, Traffic analysis, SEO, site reviews, refinement opportunities.
• Hands-on experience/ proficiency with web design software including Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, Flash.
• Good conceptual understanding and hands-on experience with web development frameworks, project & bug tracking systems, project / team collaboration wikis, programming languages, relational databases, content management systems, blogging systems and forum software. Including PHP, Javascript / AJAX, MySQL DB / RDBMS, Apache Web Server, Perl/ Mason, Ruby on Rails, Mambo / Joomla CMS, phpBB / vBulletin forums, TRAC wiki/SCM et al.