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Amit Chopra
COO, Ecotech

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Shankar Jha
CEO, Ecotech

Uwe Weiss
CEO and Shareholder of WEISS Group

Ingo Nenninger
CFO & CFO of WEISS Group and responsible of SBU Ecotech

Sughosh Kuntal
Competency Development

Abhijit Gaiki
Pre-Sales and Sales

Ashok Borse
Accounts & Finance

Anjali Raval
Human Resources

Arzoo Shaikh
PMO

Sachin Tehare
Operations and Delivery

Chandramowli Srinivasan
Consultant CFO

Sanjeebit Choudhury
VP APAC of WEISS Group and Resident Director of Ecotech

Sumanta Paul
(Technical Lead)

• Have 10+ years of experience as a software engineer / full stack developer.
• Currently handling role of Tech Lead in Dot Net domain. Having expertise in Project Management, Architecture design, Database design and maintenance. Also ensuring that the team is motivated, monitored and measured in line with company targets and performance standards
• Posses sound Knowledge in SQL Server, C#, EF, ASP.NET web, HTML, CSS.
• Handling project management in AJILE SCRUM methodology. Well aware of Dev Ops and TFS for the same. Do planning sprints and manage deliveries.
• Also have functional knowledge of RPA (Tools: Blue Prism, UI Path)

Arzoo Shaikh
(Senior Business Analyst)

A senior business analyst with 11+ years of experience in product development & management, business analysis, and consulting for various projects in multiple domains.

A quality-driven business analyst with a result-oriented approach, good communication skills, and leadership qualities. Passionate about working in collaboration with developers and stakeholders to produce requirements and specifications that accurately reflect the business needs.

Possesses a demonstrated history of streamlining business processes to deliver high-quality user-centric designs and processes. Proven ability to create critical requirement specifications containing detailed use cases, high-end wireframes, and process flow diagrams. Have been a comprehensive support to all the end users and stakeholders through training and documentation.

Key competencies include the following:

• Business Analysis
• Project Scope Development
• Process Improvement
• Change Initiatives
• Leadership & Team Building

Tejas Borate
(Account Manager)

Tejas is a CDAC certified IT professional, with 6+ Years of experience. His expertise is in Business Intelligence and Production Planning tools development. He has executed projects on different platforms in various domains for Domestic and International clients. Tejas is a vibrant, enthusiastic and highly spirited personality who has experience in various roles like BI Developer, Business Analyst, Project Manager and is currently grooming his skills in Account Management with Ecotech.

Vijay Lohar
(Technical Lead)

Vijay has 10+ years of Java /J2EE Experience with vast experience in enterprise applications using Object-Oriented Analysis and Design techniques. His areas of expertise include:

• Experience in application development using Spring Rest Services, Soap Web services, Hibernate framework.
• Hands of experience in Spring framework like Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring MicroServices.
• Experience in Drool, JBPM business process for execution of the flow.
• Experience in Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)including requirement gathering, designing, programming, and testing code development of major modules in the various Releases.
• Expertise in Agile Methodologies including requirement analysis, design, development, implementation.

Rajat Pharaswal
(Director)

Rajat comes from a shipping background, but his Curiosity and passion for technology led him to IT. By qualification he is a Master Mariner with vast experience in Oil and Gas tankers. By nature, he is an IT enthusiast, and besides holding the management position in Ecotech, he is spearheading operations in Supplychainz, a group company of Ecotech, which specializes in Supply chain management, Sales force automation, Field force Automation and Order management.

Rajat is self-driven, detail oriented, well organized, target driven professional with a proven track record in effective Team building and management. Risk assessment, strategic planning and resources management are some of his key interest areas.

Latha Nair
(Admin Executive)

Latha Nair has been working in the Senior Administrative Position since 15 plus years. Her responsibilities include providing clerical and administrative support to ensure smooth and efficient operation of the office. She is committed to office procedures and systems operating efficiently. Her routine includes communicating via phone and emails so that all administrative duties are completed and delivered on time, with emphasis on accuracy and quality.

Additional duties are raising purchase orders and chasing outstanding accounts, PF & ESI. Is in charge of coordinating between vendors and suppliers for arranging repairs of office equipment. In addition to her exceptional administrative skills she has the ability to confront and deal with challenges because of her passion for ensuring excellent employee and customer satisfaction and contributing towards achieving company goals.

Mruganka Patwardhan
(Quality Assurance)

Mruganka has been working in Software Quality Assurance for around 10 years. Her key areas of contribution include-

• Lead the Test Strategies, Test Planning and designing a road Map for QA Team.
• Managing Testing processes, and initiatives to drive continuous quality control efforts and improvements.
• Analysing Business specifications and Requirements Traceability matrix.
• An ISTQB Certified professional, having proficiency in Software Testing methodologies and processes.

Vinod Chavan
(Manager – Quality Assurance)

Vinod has been quality assurance manager at Ecotech since January 2007, responsible for managing & leading the quality team and responsible for quality assurance, security, research and development, technical support, and program management. As a software testing manager, he is responsible to define the types of testing to be performed, and to schedule this work. Before that he was quality assurance lead at Ecotech for maintaining quality & cross-browser/ platforms compatibility across various projects since 2003.

Prior to Joining Ecotech, he has worked for Digital Publishing Solutions Pvt. Ltd., as a Shift Manager — Quality and Process System, Pune in 2001 – 2002 was an e-publishing company. He had multiple roles to play like setting standards & quality outputs of various processes, also was involved in preparing question set for Internal ISO 9001 Audit Training Program which was a great success for the company.

Vinod holds a graduate degree in commerce from Pune University. He is a Certified Software Testing (CSTE) from College of Engineering, Pune. Also holds diploma certificate in Cyber Law from Asian School of Cyber Law.

AKHIL GAJENDRAKAR
(Team Lead – Intergration & Support)

Having 17+ years of IT experience in Microsoft technology touching every component of SDLC. Certified professional and well skilled in developing critical, sensitive jobs along with strong back-end technology and information support. Plays very effective role in developing Web/Windows applications and REST APIs. Keeps valuable presence in recruitment and mentoring human resources. Prime focus on feature intergration and deliverabilities. Handles technical issues and challenges with ease.

Archana Ambike
(HR Manager)

Archana is a Human Resource professional with 12+ years of progressive experience in Business Partnering and Employee Engagement. She has worked extensively with leadership teams on Organisational Development, Assessments and Performance Management. She has managed end-to-end Talent Supply Chain using combination of Talent Acquisition from market and in-house Skill Development.

SHYAM GOPALKRISHNAN
(Project Lead)

Shyam has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, divided equally between development and management. He has performed multi-functional roles ranging from coding, team-lead, tech-lead, system administration, database administration, to project management with startups as well as market leaders, and has handheld projects of varying sizes from concept to production.

Holding degrees in computer sciences as well as business administration, he has initiated, conceptualized, developed, and implemented best practices and processes in software development and project management in every workplace he has been a part of.

Sagar Tambe
(IT Manager)

Sagar has more than 7 years of experience on various technologies in IT Infrastructure. He holds global certifications from Microsoft, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Amazon Web Services, etc. and he is an open source enthusiast.

Virendra Sonawane
(Project Lead)

Virendra has 14+ years of IT experience as a Full stack developer. Some of his areas of expertise include:

• Well skilled in various Open Source CRM and CMS systems.
• Microsoft Certified in developing “ASP.NET MVC Web Applications” and “mcad.net windows-based applications”.
• Excellent technical abilities, leadership, decision making, strong communication skills, and adaptability to new technology.
• Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Solid skilled in Performance Management & Process Improvement activities.
• Hiring and training technical personnel.
• Delegating work and assignments to team members.
• Guiding team through technical issues and challenges.

Arjun Singh
(Projects Delivery Head)

Arjun is a highly delivery oriented IT professional with over 12 years of experience in IT projects execution and management. Having executed projects in various sectors of IT, Arjun possesses a blend of diverse technical and non-technical skills that prove to be instrumental in effective project management and delivery. Arjun has delivered projects of all types and sizes on different technology stacks, and has vast experience of working with clients in India and overseas. Also having worked with design studios, publications and production houses in the past, he brings in a fine streak of creativity in enhancing the user experience of working with technology.

Covid-19 – Ecotech’s response to the Pandemic

Business Intelligence

How Ecotech helped a leading Automobile Manufacturer to take business decisions quickly.

One of the world’s largest Automobile Manufacturer was aware of the power of data and had systems in place to acquire copious amounts of it. However, the team also recognized significant redundancies in their data acquisition methods. All data was manually acquired. Even with all the data collated, it took the management days to process the data and prepare reports.

We digitized the manual data entry processes by creating equivalent web based screens, connected to a powerful data warehouse and built extensive data models to process the data and calculate meaningful metrics. This reduced several man days that were previously being lost in just data acquisition which assisted the business to take decisions quickly.

FIROJA KACHHI
(Project Manager)

Firoja has 10+ years of experience working for Open Source portals.Her areas of expertise include:

• Routinely provide supervision of a project or multiple projects to achieve a corporate vision. Her work include leading a team, and perform liaison activities with upper management
• Participate in development of team tools/systems and liaise with engineers in build, and integration
• Assist in maintenance of in-market open source softwares
• Ability to produce deliverables in a short time frame using Open sources and CRM’s

Srinivasan Satagopan
(Chief Executive Officer)

Sri holds a Management Degree in Information Systems and has over 20 years of global experience in IT Services. He started his career with a leading bank in India and moved on to IT-enabled services before taking over as CEO in the year 2001. He has successfully conceived multiple business models around web- based products for Ecotech and its customers that have stood the test of time and markets.

Sri has lived in the US and parts of Europe, where he has helped customers manage the tricky waters of cross-cultural project execution. He has helped multiple American and European companies across business sectors set up development centres and establish critical partnerships in India. Sri also serves as a board member of a few companies acting in an advisory capacity. He has helped these companies develop their corporate culture, institute various systems and processes and ensure that the balance sheets are healthy. Sri is a firm believer in collaborative working and holistic value creation across the board.

Ravindra Gajendragadkar
(Advisory)

Ravindra has 30+ yrs of global Project and Risk Management Experience, of which 10 years are in training and consulting for Infrastructure, Financial Institutions, Information Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Wind Energy, and Shipping Projects.

He has taught 10,000+ Project Managers in various areas of project and program management. He has a wide range of project delivery experience ranging from a war front in Uganda delivered with the European Union to Infrastructure Projects in Oman.

He is an Ex-Faculty of S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, one of the top 10 business schools of India.

In the past 10 years Ravindra has conducted customized education programs for PMO teams, PMP, PRINCE2 and Managing Successful Programme (MSP) for various MNCs and corporates in India, USA, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore and Srilanka.

As an active Advisory member to Ecotech, he adds a lot of value through his participation in management by giving strategic advice in setting up company wide processes, besides training our project managers from time to time.