Pranay Manocha

Current

Business Partner at teacities

Past

MBA at Cass Business School
Software Developer at Systems Integration
Project Manager at Logica

Software Developer at Ferret Information Systems

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Education

Cass Business School
Delhi University
Delhi Public School, Noida

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Pranay Manocha’s Summary

A top business school MBA with over 7 years’ experience in information technology, consulting, corporate strategy and project management. Possess excellent technical, analytical and financial skills.

My accomplishments as a project manager include being the youngest high-achiever at a FTSE250 company, managing offshore delivery for a £1.5million/year service and 15 direct reports. I've won awards and appreciation from clients in diverse industries for my consultancy work. As a software programmer, I developed award-winning products that have helped my company achieve commercial success. In addition, my communication skills have consistently been rated among the best by my reportees, peers and by my superiors alike.

I won a studentship to study a Full Time MBA at Cass Business School (City University London) in 2009, which is consistently rated among the top 50 business schools in the world. At Cass, I was the recipient of several awards, including for a 4 month long Corporate Strategy project and towards understanding Trans-Atlantic policy at a conference hosted by the European Union.

My specialisations included Information Management, Consultancy and Strategic Change. I also possess a technical 4 year Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology.

Unlike most 'social media experts' out there, the basis of my knowledge lies in technology. My current focus is on developing a website that integrates different social media and location based services to create a unique marketing channel for our products.

I am currently most upbeat on the prospects of integrating location based social networking (like Foursquare) with more traditional social media (Facebook, Twitter) and utilising these for commercial benefit. So if you're an existing brick and mortar business, or a startup requiring consultancy in this area then feel free to contact me via Linkedin or at pranman@gmail.com

Pranay Manocha’s Specialties:

Information Technology, Management and Strategy with Full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Experience, including software development, project management and business analysis. Consultancy, with experience in Insurance, New Media, Local Government, Engineering Services and Retail. Other areas of expertise include People Management, Finance and Corporate Strategy.

Pranay Manocha’s Experience

Business Partner

teacities

(Internet industry)

June 2009 — Present (10 months)

Partner in an online retail company.
MBA

Cass Business School

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

September 2007 — May 2009 (1 year 9 months)

Winner of the 2008 Cass Interstate Award and the team award for 'Best Strategy Project'.

Provided consultancy to several companies in the areas corporate strategy, change management and marketing.
- Fortnum & Mason - British Retail Brand
- BiproRaf - Polish Engineering Consultancy
- ChangeBase - Software Start-up

Challenges included brand management, building cultural awareness, adoption of new media, client relationship management and employee motivation.
Software Developer

Systems Integration

(Computer Software industry)

November 2008 — April 2009 (6 months)

Managed remote databases on SQL Server. Wrote SQL Procedures and built VB.net applications to automate database operations that reduced run time by a factor of 12 - from 2 days previously to under 4 hours.

Introduced the company to using location based services, especially the Google Maps and AJAX APIs, for commercial projects. Developed a pilot project incorporating full postcode search, that helped locate the closest (and/or quickest) recovery vehicle site based on the GPS location of the caller.
Project Manager

Logica

(Public Company; Logica PLC; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2004 — August 2007 (3 years 7 months)

A high achiever, I was promoted quickly to become the youngest project manager in the company, managing the offshore services delivery for an over £1.5 million/year insurance services project. Held line management responsibility, including performance reviews for up to 15 direct reports. Responsible for hiring and firing decisions.

Achievements: improved team productivity by over 50%, consistently met 100% SLA and delivery schedules; managed project to the strictest CMMI Level 5 quality standards; underwent Project Management Professional training (PMP, Prince 2); improved knowledge of insurance to provide second-line resolutions to product writers and brokers on issues such as rule writing and scheme structure using ProductWriter/RTE.

The products and services developed by the team included ProductWriter, RTE and Data Dictionaries. Together, these products supported underwriting and broker services for the majority of retail insurance business conducted in the UK, including motor, household and commercial insurance.

Developed significant technical expertise in these technologies:
- IBM DB/2
- Lotus Notes/Domino Server
- IIS
- Merant PVCS
- XML/XSLT
- EDI
- Data conversion and analysis
Software Developer

Ferret Information Systems

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

October 2001 — September 2003 (2 years )

Developed software to calculate and administer welfare benefits and charging for local councils in the UK. Remit included technical architecture, development and testing activities on the Microsoft Pocket PC/Windows Mobile platform.

Technologies used:
- VB.net
- embedded visual Basic
- CF.net
- XML
- Microsoft Access
- ActiveSync

Pranay Manocha’s Education

Cass Business School

MBA , 2007 — 2009

Started 'Life at Cass' - the first Cass MBA blog with a current Google Pagerank of 5. My posts on this blog were cross published on several other MBA websites around the world.

Took part in the MBAT, the MBA Olympics, at HEC Paris in 2008. Took Bronze medal in Team Chess and participated in the 7K Cross-Country run and Rugby events.

Graduated with Merit.

Activities and Societies:

Class Student Representative, Various Sports Teams, MBA Blogger
Delhi University

Bachelor of Information Technology , Software Engineering , 1997 — 2001

Graduated in First Division (2:1)

Activities and Societies:

AIESEC in Delhi IIT
Delhi Public School, Noida

Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science 1983 — 1996