Vikram R Chari

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Vikram R Chari

• Plan, Collaborate and Lead.

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Vikram R Chari Plan, Collaborate and Lead
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Vikram R Chari Plan, Collaborate and Lead

• Senior Operations and Strategy Actualization
  Executive
• Leverages Technology, Analysis, Creativity and
  Insight to achieve the art of the possible
• An award winning, strategic, pragmatic and
  analytical International Executive in the
  Telecommunications, Media Technology (TMT),
  Corporate Planning, Strategy Governance, Board
  Advisor and Executive Consultancy space who has
  had PL responsibility in excess of 350 million
  at the Executive level over the last twenty years
  as well as pioneering some of the most successful
  technology initiatives in the Digital
  Communication Services, Value added Interactive
  Services, apart from Strategy, Risk Management,
  and Governance. Dynamic, proactive, strong
  communicator, consensus builder, challenge seeker
  with forward thinking orientation.

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Vikram R Chari Plan, Collaborate and Lead

• Highlights
• Exceptional knowledge of leveraging latest
  technology to drive interactive Services
  internationally across client sectors.
• Led successfully multi-cultural, multi-functional
  and talented teams worldwide.
• Worldwide experience, has worked in Europe, the
  Americas, Asia and the Middle East.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in Start-up
  situations Asia and US.
• Excellent connections in the consultancy,
  telecommunications, On-demand Technologies, Video
  Broadcasting, Wireless Telecom and IPTV.
• Member of the IEEE - Telecommunications, Society
  of Satellite Professional International, Society
  of Cable Telecommunication Engineers, American
  Management Association International, DVB, GSMA,
  Association of Computing Machinery and Open
  Mobile Alliance

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Vikram R Chari Plan, Collaborate and Lead

• Key Achievements
• Won Team Emmy Award for technical excellence for
  new technology development and implementation in
  the digital television space.
• Member of the prestigious Lexingtons Whos Who
  for the millennium 1999-2000, and Cambridges
  Lifetime achievement award.
• Directed 3.5 million manufacturing start-up in
  Asia from concept initiation to commercial
  production.
• Led the establishment of Indian office and signed
  two contracts with the two tier-1 groups worth
  75 million for digital video content based
  services.
• Designed master plan for regionalizing and
  expanding business opened 5 international
  offices in Europe, Americas, and Asia.
• Developed strategic partnerships with large
  technology companies (IBM, HP, Intuit) for
  providing Fortune 500 clients end-to-end
  solutions.
• Effectively translated growth objectives to sales
  staff through ROI / total cost ownership modeling
  and revenue sharing plans.
• Captured 55 bottom-line profit on 125 million
  high-tech DTH - Digital Video Communications
  program led to new 120 million business unit in
  company.
• Completed 10 million high-tech advanced
  telecommunication project in Middle East on
  target using local subcontractors at height of
  Gulf War.

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Vikram R Chari - Plan, Collaborate and Lead

• Key Achievements (continued)
• - Recruited and led an international team of 4
  Regional GM/PMs and 40 engineers, technicians,
  analysts and operations and maintenance people.
• - Launched and implemented 3 new IP technology
  based services worldwide in six months worth 50
  million.
• - Directed a team of 5 Managers and 450 staff in
  the Engineering department in a Cable MSO
  building triple-play, two-way infrastructure to
  1.5 million subscribers in 12 months.
• - Forged relationships, on behalf of client
  companies, with various technology partner
  companies such as Cisco (Scientific Atlanta),
  Intelsat (PanAmSat), Motorola, Harmonic
  Lightwave, Tandberg, Leitch, MCL, California
  Microwave, Microsoft, IBM Global, HP, etc.

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Vikram R Chari Plan, Collaborate and Lead

• Strengths
• International Strategy, Planning Implementation
  leadership skills
• Leading Business Development in International
  Regions and new territories round the world
• Soft skills such as leadership, mentoring, team
  development, succession planning and shining in
  multi-cultural settings
• Technology savvy and future oriented thinking
• Process and change strategy management expertise
• Enterprise Risk Management Disaster Recovery
  Management
• Cost Management and Control
• Strategic Market development
• Business turn around
• Relationship building

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Vikram R Chari Plan, Collaborate and Lead

• Capabilities
• To strategize, plan and implement new telecom/new
  media services, and programs
• To build a new business internationally, with
  sustainable future
• To collaborate and build consensus toward new and
  better ways to solve problems facing companies
  today
• To proactively manage risk at various level -
  individual, program, portfolio and enterprise
  wide
• To grow existing businesses using new
  technologies with partnerships and alliances
• To expand existing business by understanding the
  customers market space and actively
  participating in synergistic growth of business
• To initiate and manage change in process and
  methods for increased efficiency at lower cost

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Vikram R Chari Plan, Collaborate and Lead

• My Value Proposition
• Keen multi-cultural leader
• Bringing International perspective in local
  settings
• Strategic big picture thinker with situational
  tactical focus
• Expertise in Digital Video, Cable television,
  Satellite communications, IPTV, Connected
  Television, Social TV, Smart TV, and OTT
  technologies
• Large Budget and Large Team leadership
• Customer Satisfaction and Business Development
  driven
• International Planning, Program/Portfolio
  Management
• My Keys to success
• COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION AND CONSENSUS
• THINK, LEARN AND ACT

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Vikram R Chari

• Need to discuss, or need a solution, or want an
  expert opinion, or want a leader to address your
  business challenges I am available at
• Telephone [phone]
• Mobile [phone]
• E-mail vikchar_at_yahoo.com OR vkrmchar_at_yahoo.ca
• LinkedIN Profile http//www.linkedin.com/in/vikra
  mrchari
• Skype vasisht12
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