Professional Content Writer, Editor, Project Manager $ Virtual Admin Rajiv Karran, Writing & Content
Manager with leadership skills and deep technical understanding of the needs and expectations of the organization.
A results-oriented team player with deep experience in Operations. With over 20+ years of experience, an hands on manager with a strong reputation for being driven and highly motivated. My leadership proficiencies coupled with integrity and out-of-the- box thinking helps with running a large, medium, or scalable small organization
I bring operational expertise to companies who are looking for efficient and smooth running of business on a day to day basis by ensuring all functions and verticals of the business are in tune with the vision and organization of the company.
Ability to collaborate with different functions, verticals, hierarchy levels, and integrate different thought processes and strategies in execution are additional traits.
Good with conflict resolution, multi linguistic, and ability to work with colleagues from different time zones and work cultures.
Career highlights
• Oversaw the relocation of org premises from one location of Bangalore to another. This massive project involved many stakeholders such as Facilities, Engineering, IT, and Leadership within the org, and outside vendors and contractors. The project, at the conceptualization stage, was to identify a suitable location that can house 2700+ employees and supporting systems. Over a period of 8 months, from the conceptualization stage to execution and delivery, I worked with different teams and over 500+ employees/vendors/contractors to set up a new office space, labs, data centres, and work spaces etc.
• Over period of 4 months, I worked with Logistics, Engineering, Labs and Facilities, and identified thousands old and unused engineering and lab equipment, and equipment that were not bound by STPI/Custom regulations, and moved them to both bonded and unbounded external warehouse locations that were identified by me. This saved the company millions of dollars, improved our workspace and storage areas, and made the org more environment friendly.
Juniper Networks, Bangalore,
Manager Operations
March 2016 till March 2019
Copypress LLC, Tampa Florida
Project Manager
2008 Mar- 2016 Feb
Max Care Private Limited Assistant Director Operations 2005 to August 2008
Personal
Father's name: Karunakaran Menon
Overall Responsibilities or Programs Driven by me With Regular Cadence
• My role included overseeing and collaborating with the India Leadership at the VP and Senior Director levels, and colleagues from various business functions like facilities, security, engineering, HR, IT etc. Programs and initiatives were run by councils consisting of leaders from different functions, and program managed by me.
• IOC ( India Organizing Committee)
Collaborate with senior leaders in the org to discuss site-wise challenges and plans, for the future plans for the India site of the org.
• EOC ( Emergency Organizing committee)
Collaborate with senior leaders to discuss contingencies and general smooth functioning of vital business functions. Also, oversee the ERT (Emergency Response Team)
• MDP ( Management development program)
Run a council involving some senior leaders to improve the quality and efficiency of the people management skills of managers and above.
• Innovation Council
Collaborate with senior leaders to foster the culture of innovation in the org through various methods.
• Assets Management Control
Responsible for tracking unused or defunct equipment, and moving then to an external warehouse.
• Lab Operations Committee
Committee set up of leaders of various functions such as GLO (Global Lab Operations), JTAC Labs (Customer Suport), Engineering etc to ensure optimal usage or power resources and find and adopt methods to bring down the overall power costs at India centres.
• Sports Program Management
All Juniper Internal and external sporting activities, such as cricket, soccer, badminton, table tennis, chess etc, are run as programs, and I was in charge of driving these programs. I also played for the Juniper corporate cricket and football teams.
Company : Copypress LLC, Tampa Florida
Role: Project Manager
• Responsibilities included overseeing websites acquisitions, direct PR with clients, and overseeing ~500 colleagues which included external contractors from various parts of the globe.
Company: Max Care Private Limited
Role: Assistant Director Operations
• Responsibilities included managing business operations which included managing a team of 80 colleagues
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