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Top Skills
Presales
Talent Management Solution
Business Development
Languages
English (Full Professional)
Tamil (Native or Bilingual)
Kannada (Limited Working)
Hindi (Limited Working)
Sridhar Bhaskaran
Senior Manager - Presales EdTech - India & APAC
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
A seasoned presales professional playing a critical role in the
success of technology sales by ensuring that clients receive
solutions that are technically sound and aligns with their business
goals. Have a unique blend of technical & functional acumen,
strategic thinking, and interpersonal skills.
Play a pivotal role in guiding potential clients through the technology
adoption process and ensuring they understand the value and
capabilities of the company’s offerings.
Work closely with sales teams to understand client requirements,
design tailored solutions, and articulate the technical/functional
benefits and features of the products or services. Primary goal is to
ensure the proposed solutions meet the client's business objectives
and technical needs.
Experience
KnowledgeHut upGrad
Senior Manager Presales EdTech - India & APAC
August 2022 - Present (1 year 11 months)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Passionate presales personnel on Ed-Tech platform, with a vast functional
and technical experience. Work with sales team and their customer’s
in understanding their requirement, evaluate and document the scope
appropriately for the operation team in delivering the training.
Understand the scope and recommend the appropriate training of bootcamp,
OSL (Online Self-Learning), ILT (Instructor Led Training) and Virtual Training
right from freshers, mid-level till expert trainees.
Proficient in breadth of technologies across Full Stack Developer (.NET, Java,
MERN, MEAN), Data Science, Data Engineering, Data Analysis, AI/ML, Cloud
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Computing, DevOps, Block chain, Web 3.0, UI/UX Design, AR/VR, Unity &
Unreal gaming.

Work with cloud platform vendors (Azure, AWS & GCP) by providing technical
insights on setting up hands on labs for the outcome driven training.

LatentView Analytics
Presales Manager
July 2021 - December 2021 (6 months)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Presales for North America Geo. Collaborate with the data engineering team to
document use case presentation, case studies, respond to RFP/RFI/RFQ and
prepare proposals for Data Services, Data Engineering & Business Analytics.
Cloud platform - AWS, MS Azure, Google Cloud & Snowflake.
Exposure on data engineering, transformation & analytics across CPG, Retail,
Software Solutions & Asset Management.

Adrenalin eSystems Ltd

General Manager - Presales & Delivery Manager - HCM & Talent
Management Solution - South Asia
August 2013 - March 2020 (6 years 8 months)
Chennai Area, India

Core responsibilities are:

1. Delivery Manager and presales of end to end product implementation of
HCM & Talent Management Solution.

2. Delivery of SaaS (multi-tenant) and on premise models for enterprise clients

across various industry verticals like BPO, IT/ITES, BFSI, Manufacturing,
Retail/FMCG, Hospitality, Healthcare, Consulting, Media/Lifestyle, Education,
Travel/Logistics and Telecom.

3. Manage end to end delivery management from client on-boarding, defining

scope of work, implementation plan, QA, data migration, UAT till go live.
Management of post go live support of implementation from defining SLA,
identifying root cause, incident/support management etc.

4. Demonstrate product and configure proof of concept (POC).

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5. Define the scope of work, arrive at customized solution approach, technical/
functional integration with 3rd party application like Finance, Accounting, CRM
and payroll solutions.

6. Performed consulting role in understanding the process of clients,

suggested best practices, standardized their existing process.

7. Proven expertise on integration with other ERP products like SAP, Oracle
and MS Dynamics across Finance, Accounting, CRM and core banking
modules.

8. Digital Transformation - Offline/Paper based process to complete

automation, replacement of individual systems with a consolidated one,
migration of data from obsolete/DBMS system to RDBMS, transition of server
across geo to a unified network.

9. Understand the requirements and designing solutioning (technical and

functional).

10. Design hardware and software specifications based on offering of ERP

modules, headcount of employees and DC/DR solutions.

11. Accompanied the sales team by providing technical/functional inputs on

product thus shortened the sales life cycle and winning the contracts.
Partner engagement for 3rd party solutions to provide integrated solution for
the bid. Worked with SI (System Integrator) like Tech Mahindra, IBM, FIS,
PWC, Deloitte, Korn Ferry etc.).

TenXLabs Technologies
Head - Client Services & Business Operations
May 2011 - July 2013 (2 years 3 months)
Chennai Area, India

Heading operations and managing client services on implementation of

HRMS & Payroll systems. Responsibilities include sales, presales, account
management, P&L and revenue management, product/project implementation,
support management, team management, client relationship, vendor/partners
management etc.

Ma Foi Randstad
Project Manager

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August 2006 - April 2011 (4 years 9 months)
Chennai Area, India

Project Management – Planning, designing, execution, monitoring and

delivering projects. Specialized in BPO project delivery.
Support Management – Leading the support team to ensure resolution of
clients issues and manage escalation. Provide backend support to BPO team.
Provide inputs to product engineering team on improvement of products.
Sales Management - Supporting sales team on solutioning clients needs,
presales, account management for Payroll process outsourcing (BPO
services).
Project Communication – Requirements elicitation, updating project status to
clients.
Team Management –Training, mentoring, and remuneration appraising
CMMI (Capability Maturity Model) Level 3 Implementation – Drafted, Reviewed
& Implemented process for various phases of software development, change
request management, quality testing, handling customer request and risk
management.
Project Documentation – Drafting project proposal, project contract, system
requirement specification and user manual.

Domain Expertise:
Talent Management, Human Capital Management Solution and Payroll
process outsourcing (BPO).

NonVerba
Project Manager
August 2003 - July 2006 (3 years)
Chennai Area, India

Managing development and implementation of Business Continuity & Disaster

Recovery Management System, Quality Process System, HSE (Health Safety
& Environment) Management & Reporting System and Bespoke web based
content management solutions and e-learning solutions for UK clients.

OfficeTiger Database Systems India Private Limited

Project Leader
February 2000 - July 2003 (3 years 6 months)
Chennai

Leading development and implementation of Business Continuity & Disaster

Recovery Management System, Quality Process System, HSE (Health Safety

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& Environment) Management & Reporting System and Bespoke web based
content management solutions and e-learning solutions for UK clients.

EdNET Software India Pvt Ltd

Programmer Trainee (Software Development & Networking)
February 1999 - January 2000 (1 year)
Chennai

Software Development – Development of web/windows application on 3-Tier

architecture (ASP/VB/COM/SQL).
Networking – Set up of Windows Network (Primary Domain Controller) and
Installation of IIS/SQL/DNS Server to host web/windows application.

Education
MVJ College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
BE, Industrial Engineering & Management · (1993 - 1997)

MGR Adarsh Public School

12th, Maths. Physics, Chemistry & Biology · (1992 - 1993)

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