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-- About Pan ----
- Panasonic has been major subcontractor for major auto makers in Europe regions providing them audio units, speakers, headunits, navigation systems
- Large product catalogue from Consumer electronics to non-electronics systems

-------Motivation -------
- I am already worked in Korea for over 4.5 years , i have gained very good insights about the customers in korea and asisan region esp China, Japan and Korean region. At this point of time i want to levereage that experience and bring it back to Germany
- Me and wife plan to stay in Germany for probably the rest of our lives, we have been married for over 3 years now and we plan to raise a family ..and we plan to do that in Europe - Aslo that my wife can speak German we she is also quite familiar with German working style and cutlure..
So next 5-7 years down the line , I want to stay in Germany and raise a family there.. My wife also plans to work...

-------- My Work --------Starting comments ---
-- I have over 10 years of work experience,moved up the ladder from being a software engineer, to gaining more control of the project to Business analyst , to IT consultant and now a Project Manager.
-- Talk about the first job , that was as Software Engineer and handled linux infrastrucutre for a small company with 50 employees or so.. Then moved to Australia for masters..from the Best school in Asia pac. region
-- Then hired by Fujitsu-Siemens (now fujitsu) in the automotive sector , developing products for Car Entertainment systems (Talk about the roles -- see resume )
-- Then with Another company in Hannover ( talk about the role there..)
-- Then hired by SK worked on M-commercce platform and Infrastructure (Elborate about M-commerce Google Wallet Project... )
-- Then worked with Solar World and SolarPark (Joint venture) as Sr.IT Consultant/ Project Manager - Handled multicultural team and hired and coached them, Dealt with negotiating on Infrastructure (eg SAN, Servers (blade) , NAS , switches etc..)
-- Now as IT Project Manager / IT Consultant at Samsung in the Mobile Division

--------- Key Responsibilities ------IMPORTANT ---- FOCUS on project management
- Responsible for Enterprise release management for comissing and releasing the project quarterly
- Handled the linux infrastructure (installation , configuring with other team members, using Open source technologies )for the data center at SK , talking with Hardware vendors like F5, Boracde, EMC etc..
eg : identifying which storage solution is best suited for the company's need .
- Handling level 2/3 support , Business level presentation to higher management
- Project management from hiring to final delivery of solution, project sizing, project planning, scheduling , scoping and time management. tracking the project progress , final training for end users after technology upgrade, providing them documents etc.
-- People management - Hiring resources ,yearly appraisal , Create MBO's for team members , marshilling resources
- Handled and Led multi-cultural teams geographically located, coordinating with them, aligning the tasks with them
- Handling project within a particular time and budget.
- Involved in strategic decision making for the IT landscape within samsu.., initiating new concepts and presenting those concepts to higher management regarding IT trends and future directions
- Project management using Agile methodologies (Agile and Scrum)
- Escalation manager , single point of contact for IT software service from dev to QA.
- Negotiating and Monitoring SLA's , performace risk and change request management ,
- Collaborating with HW vendors for IT infrastructures, creating RFI, reponse to RFP , negotiating requirements
- Worked on integrating Business side to actual production evnironement - ERP, SCM , CRM
- Proactive implementation of solutions typlically leading by example.
--EMM -- Enterprise mobility management
- BYOD security, control, of devices, apps and mobile data

-------------- Salary Validation -------------- Between 65-70K --------
Have over 10 year of experience , with almost 6 years as IT Team Leader/ Project Management position
------ Summary --------
IT Consulting, in different IT sectors like Automotives, Oil and Energy as Lead IT Analyst/ Team Leader- Handled teams and projects with over 15 people geographically located.
Master Degree
Since I have worked in Korea for over 4years I have very good exposure of business ethics, ways to engage with customers in Asian market and have good insights which are extremely valuable, as most of the companies are moving to Asian market for growth.
I can speak 4 languages (English, German, Hindi and Punjabi and Bit of korean )
Bring a lot to the table with MES consluting, New initiatives , Worked with new bleeding edge technologies like Big data, Virtualization , Real Time analytics


-------------- Questions for Pan ---------------------------
- Questions-- Which division of Pana.. is this in Project Management Position is in ?,
- as Panasonic has a large product portfolio, does Panasonic provide training programs for people who join in different departments ?
- From what i understand pana is elctronics and consumer / fmgc company, why are they into EMM ?