Ravichandra Kshirsagar

Global Internal Consultant

• Analyzed and anticipated M&A strategy of a major competitor for 2011 and prioritized likely targets for internal action. 15+ senior executives from internal businesses were interviewed for the project
• Consulted Telecom business head/Mckinsey team on global market estimation and business plan preparation for top 5 countries. Working with country teams to prepare go-to-market strategy
• Developed model analyzing products/services to forecast synergies for a target company acquired by Schneider Electric
• Analyzed financials of key competitors to anticipate their likely business moves in the near future. Created an business impact matrix to forecast possible impact on Schneider Electric.

Strategy

• ADACSYS, Paris (Sep-Dec’10): Prepared award winning business plan to pitch for funding for Hi tech start up in Paris
• CAP-ATLANTIC CONSULTING, Paris (April-Jul’10): Devised market strategy for travel/ tourism mobile application

Senior Solutions Consultant (Planning and Optimiza

• Delivered 3G project for 20+ turnkey markets worth $25M by coordinating the rollout with implementation, sales and field teams. Led team of 5 engineers for south and west region of Colombia
• Identified client business opportunities by statistical network data analysis and collaborated with Sales team to deliver new generation products/service features for network performance improvement worth $15M
• Drove consulting led sales by advising customer management on major network performance issues, key expansions; Implemented recommendations that improved network performance by 5% and call capacity by 13% DU 2G/3G Project, UAE UAE
• Lead Performance & Quality management for DU new mobile operator launch project for UAE

Radio Network Performance Improvement Consultant/T

• Led team of five local engineers to deliver capacity planning project for INDOSAT network of order $20M. Interfaced extensively with logistics teams for prompt expansion and project delivery
• Accelerated business opportunities in collaboration with sales by identifying customer requirements and presenting cases for new products deployment. Supported solutions delivery of $12M of new products/services
• Consulted NTS, a new telecom operator, senior management to assess broadband business opportunity

Assistant Manager - Engineering and Planning

• Promoted to Cluster Manager – North/South Maharashtra in a year, constituting 25% of circle subscribers.
• Developed automated financial CAPEX model for budget worth $60M for 2005-06. Recommended technologies to lower OPEX by 5%. Coordinated the entire budgeting exercise with operations, finance and vendor teams
• Prioritized & launched mobile services in 150 new towns by RoI, resulted in additional revenues of $7.5M
• Received an award for most significant performance improvement drive for 2004-05 that resulted in 40% improvement

HEC Paris

University of Pune