Rajiv Dabhadkar
Program Manager at Viacom International , Founder at NOSTOPS.ORG since April 2004. A seasoned senior executive with a track record of leadership and achieving excellent results through strategic skills in driving efficiencies and profit growth.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://www.indiaverified.com |
| Industries: | Computing, Education, Information Technology, Internet, Media |
| Skills: | AJAX, Business, Copy Writing, Database Administration, Databases, Design, Editing, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Facebook platform, HTML / CSS, Human-Computer Interaction, Javascript, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, PHP, Public Relations, Recruitment, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Viral marketing, Web Development, Windows, Writing |
| Location: | Washington DC, NYC |
| Visas: | USA,Canada,UK,Australia, India, Singapore,HongKOng and UAE |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | background checks, foreign workers, verification |
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WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | NOSTOPS.ORG (National Organization for Software & Technology Professionals) |
| Position: | Founder |
| Time period: | April 2004 - Present |
| Description: | NOSTOPS.ORG is an organization that is knowledge worker centric, with a mandate on the H1 and L1 visas. As a founder of the organization, my role defined the directives of the organization. To make the presence felt, I built the entire web site from scratch which included a template based framework that served as content ware and which also was incorporated within the database driven applications throughout the web site that served as application-centric solutions for the organizations membership based services. Identified and created 'properties' (business models). |
| Employer: | Viacom International (MTV Networks, NYC) |
| Position: | Program Manager Visio Documentation |
| Time period: | June 2003 - August 2004 |
| Description: | Working closely with the directors and the team lead of the divisions, I performed as a Program Manager to document the work flow processes, which included: Flowcharting workflow processes of the finance, advertising (publishing) and marketing divisions of the company using Visio., Documented detailed workflow using RoboHelp to generate reports for the management, Worked closely with directors and team leads of the divisions to arrive at the workflow logic, Reported to the Director of Channel Programming MTV Networks |
| Employer: | Reliance INFOCOMM |
| Position: | Usability Engineer |
| Time period: | October 2002 - June 2003 |
| Description: | The company launched the CDMA technology based mobile telephone service. I performed within the sphere as a Usability Engineer. And demonstrated the Information Architecture of the CDMA based mobile telephone locator web based model. The tasks performed were: -
Conducted needs analyses and user testing efficiently and effectively, drawing insightful conclusions and write up expert reviews. Worked closely with Business Analysts to define new business logic. Experienced in translating client and user needs analysis into workflow processes. Designed case scenarios (via page mock-ups) and think aloud studies to emulate prototyping and de fragment task functionality. Determined information architecture, taxonomy, and nomenclature, determined tasks. Designed site maps/page flow and site wire frames using Visio. Supplemented site maps with page flow and other diagrams effectively. Wrote user documentation to chart the work flow logic and process schematics. |
| Employer: | FikerNOT! Inc |
| Position: | Software Consultant |
| Time period: | October 2001 - August 2002 |
| Description: | Fiker..NOT is a reverse auction site for products and services. Buyers typically post an RFP (Request for proposal) and sellers (merchants) bid on this RFP. I performed as a webmaster to making various enhancements to the existing web site and to continuously plug in features and re-writing existing Perl scripts to add functionality. Configured and installed the Apache Server as a pseudo server to test locally the Created a task sheet. This task sheet requires users to complete common tasks on the Web site being tested. The tasks are chosen according to the needs of key stakeholders (such as company investors), current user behavior, and own understanding of the way users navigate a site.
Designed object oriented user interface components Created and verified screen/site mock-ups and screen Dumps with domain experts, end users, and software developers to visually map the page/site layout Defined and documented user interface standards Formally critiqued the aesthetics and usability of layout and design components with software designers and developers Made educated guesses via interaction with the development team about how a user will react based on data available. Unified content via collaboration efforts by populating page layout with content thrown from the data repositories stored in the database using MySQL Provided the technical documentation for the site; involving compilation of process details from groups, management; compose text to be used by, and equally understood by, developers, support staff and management; design site, build illustrations and publish in timely manner. |
| Employer: | Atlantic City Convention Centre Atlantic City |
| Position: | Usability Consultant |
| Time period: | June 2001 - October 2001 |
| Description: | Performing as a Project Manager, I was responsible to document and generate the feasibility report and detailed workflow analysis for the Atlantic City's newly designed Convention Centre.
Wrote a feasibility report and detailed workflow analysis for the form flow implementation and site Information structural architecture. Incorporated flow-charting techniques using Smart Draw 2.0. Some essential features included within the report were: The Software Project Management Plan, Process Model, Technical Process (Methods, Tools, and Techniques), Work Packages, and Dependencies, Schedule and Key milestones, and Project Cost estimation. |
| Employer: | Asia tone LLC |
| Position: | Usability Consultant |
| Time period: | November 2000 - June 2001 |
| Description: | Researched and wrote reports on development tools, web site traffic analysis and product technical documentation. Took independent decisions on ad-hoc issues these were related to server hosting, graphics optimization, web page building, programming client/server functionality, and end user training.
Specific development includes authoring of web based administration tools. - Conducted needs analyses and user testing. Worked closely with the end users to arrive at a user centric interface. Experienced in translating client and user needs into user and functional requirements, including use case definition. Drove the User Centre Design process in the web development team. Collect user data through usability testing, customer visits and focus groups Conducted user experiential studies including user profiling, and contextual task analysis. Identified the demographics characteristics of the site audience. Conducted heuristic evaluations, designed site maps/page flow and site wire frames using Visio. |
| Employer: | Little India, Reading, PA |
| Position: | Software Consultant |
| Time period: | January 2000 - October 2000 |
| Description: | Lead the effort to methodizing the development process.
Created a scooping process that includes detailed documentation and prototyping. This process insures the integrity and clear understanding of the client's needs before starting development. Met with clients and prospects to understand their audience, message and communication goals. |
| Employer: | Agency, Inc (Agency.com), NYC, NY |
| Position: | Information Architect |
| Time period: | July 1999 - January 2000 |
| Description: | Worked with the product development team to design online user experiences.
Assessed operational impacts, created solutions, and ensured co-ordination and communication of impacts to the key operations stakeholders. Identified and documented major Operations and customer client use cases. Developed functional wire frames. Coordinated usability testing. Identified changes to client use cases, workflow, canned e-mails, and phone scripts. |
| Employer: | Merrill Lynch (ml.com), NYC |
| Position: | Usability Engineer |
| Time period: | March 1999 - July 1999 |
| Description: | Developed a 50-page style and procedures guide for Merrill Lynch' web coding and documentation department. This document helped reduce editing times and served as a clearing house for style and usage issues. Lead for establishing documentation template and style guidelines for the parent url of the company web site.
Planned and completed this project ahead of schedule with limited access to the development team which offered an in-depth and appropriate instruction for the html coders and coders. |
| Employer: | Xanthus, Inc (NJIT), NJ |
| Position: | Programmer Analyst |
| Time period: | September 1998 - March 1999 |
| Description: | The Company is an on-campus subset of the Information Technologies Division of NJ Institute of Technology, functioning as a software application development company. In addition to being an outsource company for the end-client Sovereign bank. The team consisted of four developers. Project coordination was achieved virtually. Reported to the project lead located at Ohio. I performed as a Cold Fusion / XML developer |
| Employer: | AT&T (Att.com),NJ |
| Position: | Software Consultant |
| Time period: | September 1997 - September 1998 |
| Description: | As a Software Consultant; my role was in the Market Analysis & forecasting division for AT&T's Voice communications Intranet. |
| Employer: | Sheridan Software Systems |
| Position: | Tech Support / QA Engg |
| Time period: | April 1997 - August 1997 |
| Description: | The Company is a leading third party reusable component developer for the high end RAD tools useful in client -server application development. Some of the present intrinsic controls of Visual Basic 5.0 are originally the products developed by the company. |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | Developed a 50-page style and procedures guide for Merrill Lynch' web coding and documentation department. This document helped reduce editing times and served as a clearing house for style and usage issues. Lead for establishing documentation template and style guidelines for the parent url of the company web site.
Wrote treatment content and proof read existing technology worker content for media houses such as the Times Group and several related web media Wrote a knowledge paper titled ‘Leveling the playing field – Education as an alternative to Migration’ used for and by the Kotak Education Foundation. Wrote courseware on ‘Social entrepunership’ for the Kotak Education Foundation |
| Books: | Have authored 3 books - For technology professionals titled - ‘American Work Permit', April 2004, ‘Green Carrot - America's Work Visa Crisis' - April 2006. For the BPO industry – ‘Americanisms- Guide to the Medical Transcription', April 2005 |
Rajiv's Startups (3)
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Foundups.com
"A foundup® is a founder with an idea for a lean startup bootstrapping a prototype using the Open Incubator™ "collaborative" Framework - it's that simple!
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Like Minded Group
We specialise in Oracle applications (implementation, support and project management), Health and Safety and Risk Management. We can put together teams or provide links to individual highly qualified and experienced contractors.
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Condor Technology Associates
Condor Technology Associates is an information technology startup changing the world by making bridging gap between service provider and the consumer. we are working on green technology to replace 80% of paper based traditional business processes.
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Sridhar Seshan
Graduated in Bachelor’s in Business Administration from University of Madras, Technology Consultant and Solution Consultant for Couriers, Logistics Companies Since 03, System Analyst ‘n’ Technology Analyst of Condor Technology Associates since 2002.
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