Prasad P.S.

Experience

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  Indian Telephone Industries

  Jul 1983 - Jun 1996

  Senior Engineer (Plant Electrical)

  Responsibilities/contributions:1983 – 1988: Maintain factory buildings, including various types of machines, plating plants ; Maintained the township with over 1000 individual residences and amenities like school, club house, theatre etc1988 – 1996: Executed projects in Bangalore plant. Involved expansions to existing factory and renovation of existing factory buildings to make them suitable for the Electronics Exchanges manufactureConstructed/renovated 15 lakh sft of factory buildings for R & D centers and machine shops within budgeted time and cost.Designed and built state-of-art VLSI manufacturing plant requiring high-reliability infrastructures, including 20 MVA 11 KV substation was also set up to augment power Show less

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  Wipro

  Jun 1996 - Jan 2000

  Manager – Infrastructure Services

  Responsibilities/contributions :Space management for company’s operation and rapid growth; and maintenance of all facilities of Wipro including Technical and soft services.Set up new facilities as per company growth, in time.Ensured highly reliable utilities (electrical, air conditioning) for the buildings. This was done for campuses and city buildings in Bangalore, Hyderabad and ChennaiIntroduced processes for preventive maintenance practices, there by avoiding major break downs, and achieving high uptimes of all utilitiesCost control as a major initiative for optimizing operating costs – mainly electricity, by formal energy audits, introducing energy saving gadgets and getting reduced tariff from Government for electricity and tax exemptions for diesel for DG sets. 25 % reduction in electricity expenditure was achieved.Processes and sustainable improvements in areas of vendor data base and management, spares inventory control, expenditure tracking & control, house keeping, transport and canteen services.Led initiative for ISO 14000 (EHS&S) certification for company’s buildings Show less

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  Hewlett Packard Global Soft Ltd

  Jan 2000 - Jul 2006

  Head – Facilities,

  Real Estate Management and Operations & Maintenance of facilities. I was managing multiple locations, totaling to 12 lakh SftReal Estate Management function involved:Work closely with HQ in USA for strategy planning and implementationPlan, execute Space for the business, in line with business forecastsOperation & Maintenance function involved:Ensure 100 % uptime of all utilities like electricity, HVAC, water supply systems etcManage Soft services like house-keeping, security, canteen, stationary and transport servicesEnvironment, Health and Safety: Maintain high EHS standards as per corporate guidelines; safety audits, mock drills, reviews for continuous improvements. Ensure all safety installations are in good working condition.Constructed new office spaces and Data Centers in quick time, thus enabling company growth.Provided additional space of 12 lakh square feet having 8000 seats. This included 8 lakh sft campus in Electronics City, Bangalore, with 5000 seats.The campus was executed end-to-end, starting from getting the 25-acre land allotted by State Government. Included 3 high end data centers.Received “Star of Company “Award for Year 2001 in recognition of outstanding performance.In addition to the campus, did fit out of three more buildings in Bangalore, 4 lakh Sft and 3000 seats.The utilities design is state of art, highly efficient and has one of the least per seat & per sft operating costs for electricity, for a software building. Achieved a 15 % reduction is electricity expenditure, from June 2003, sustainable continuously, 100 % uptime of critical utilities for the 6 year period, including three data centersHigh standards of EHS, with no accident; 100 % compliant with regard to all statutory requirements. Set up Emergency Response Teams in all locationsImplemented measures to conserve natural resources, by 6 sigma projects for optimizing use of water and paper Show less

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  Dell International Services Pvt. Ltd,

  Jul 2006 - Jan 2007

  Director – Projects

  Provide infrastructures required for the business in India. This included space planning, identifying and finalizing real estate space / land, design of building, interior layouts, and utilities and executing the same. The job involved identifying business requirements, budgeting and control, appointing designers and vendors, space design with reliable utilities, and executing the projects in cost, quality and time.Did 5 lakh square feet of office space each in Bangalore and Gurgaon,2.5 lakhs square feet R&D center and hard ware lab in Bangalore as per planSet up computer manufacturing factory in Chennai. This included a state of art Tier 3 data center with High Density cooling. Show less

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  Ascendas

  Oct 2007 - Jan 2011

  Vice-President – Property Services

  I was part of senior Management Team with Pan India role, to take care of expansions and operation of existing properties. I worked closely with the HQ, Singapore to implement corporate policies and align with company’s overall strategies. Key deliverables were customer delight and cost optimization.Involved in developing infrastructures for the company in new cities – Pune, Bangalore and Gurgaon. I was part of the core team to select land parcels and finalize master plan.Led company’s initiatives in Quality Management, Environment Management, Work place Health & Safety and Business Continuity Management Programs and am the Management Representative.Reduced cost of construction for upcoming massive projects by Value Engineering, efficient layouts and reworking sourcing strategies.Efficient management of budgets, realistic budget forecasts, cash flow tracking; met profit targetsIncrease in customer delight, cost reduction in operations and near to 100 % uptime of infrastructures in all operating parks. Show less

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  Indian Green Grid Group Limited

  Jan 2011 - Apr 2015

  Vice- President – Projects

  A Chennai based company, in the business of designing, building and operating high security and reliability facilities for Data Centers and IT operations.Responsible for design, construction and operation of 1 million square feet state of art green data center and 2.5 million square feet IT space/campus.

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  Looking for employment

  Apr 2015 - now

  Free lancer - advisory role, peer-review consultant

  Advisory role for companies, guide in setting up organisation, processes and strategies. Review design drawings - peer review