Durre Tabish Bibikar

Experience

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  Thermax Limited

  Aug 1993 - Aug 1997

  Senior Engineer - Marketing

  Worked for 4 years in different departments. Joined in as an on campus trainee and then got absorbed in as a production planning executive. Later moved on to the Marketing department and worked as Engineer marketing. Responsible for new enquiry generation, market research, market size estimation, conducting campaigns, liaising with advertising agencies, organizing events, participating in trade shows etc. Imparting product training to the field sales team and query resolution. Working with the marketing manager to create the sales forecasts based on history data, market trends etc. and converting it to the annual business plan. Show less

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  Ador-Samia Limited

  Aug 1997 - Mar 1999

  Senior Engineer - Marketing

  Worked for 2 years as Senior Engineer marketing for industrial waste incinerators. Responsible for enquiry generation, proposal development and leading all stages of the sale until closure of the deal.Result oriented, driving towards launching 'new product-in-new market' successfully for Ador-Samia.

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  Sutra Systems India Pvt. Ltd.

  Jun 1999 - Jun 2005

  Test Manager

  With Sutra, worked on a large number of projects in a span of 6 years time, all ranging from small (2 person months) to medium (80 person months) size each. I grew from being a test analyst to Test manager in this company and quality architected multiple projects.With Sutra, I had the opportunity of establishing an independent testing function, involving establishing senior leadership buy-in on recruitment, overall test framework and strategy. Training for new recruits, tool evaluations, overall test management and on-going BAU management of projects. Show less

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  Persistent Systems Pvt. Limited

  Jul 2005 - Jul 2008

  Project Manager

  Project Manager and Quality Architect :My work involved : - Product Test Strategy design and planning- Cohesive integration of test and development activities - Liaison for inter-department interactions- Customer interactions- Staffing, Training, Automation Test Tool introduction and support framework design- Test effort estimations, scheduling- Acquisition of hardware & software for test environment- Test process definition and continual improvement- Use of metrics for test process continual improvements- Liaison with company level SQA for audits- Overall accountability of quality of deliverables- Account management support Show less

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  Barclays Technology Centre India

  Sept 2008 - Dec 2013

  Vice President - Global Payments Technology

  While at Barclays, I was leading the Global Payments Technology - Testing Portfolio. I worked in the financial banking domain in various challenging roles Head of Portflio Testing, End to End Test Manager, Test Project Manager, NFT Manager and Functional Test Manager.I have extensive experience in strategy design and end-to-end test management covering functional and non-functional areas of testing, spanning all test phases on large and complex programmes, managing globally spread teams (onsite and offshore) comprising of a mix of perms, contractors and vendor partners.Have had good exposure to :• Project management.• Vendor management.• Management of a globally spread team using excellent interpersonal skills.Skills that I specifically enhanced included estimating and costing, planning, delegation, budgeting, communication and motivation. Show less

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  ActionCOACH Business Coaching

  Feb 2014 - now

  Certified Business Coach

  I am a professionally trained coach with a prior hands-on corporate working experience of over 20 years in the technical industry. I have varied experience in different roles across my working career which gave me extensive exposure to sales, marketing, advertising, quality control, delivery, vendor management, team management and customer relationship management. My constant exposure to industry challenges has helped build a unique ability for problem solving and strategizing.My goal is to help SME business owners, in growing your business, by leveraging the extremely structured ActionCOACH system, developed over a decade and applied to hundreds and thousands of businesses across the world.As part of the coaching engagement I will meet up with you at your business premises on a regular basis, to discuss, strategize and help implement simple yet accurate processes, to deal with the business issues you are facing. This structure keeps you and your business on the track you have set — continuously moving forward toward your goals and objectives. Show less

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  Expandus Business Coaching

  Feb 2014 - now

  Expandus is a High Growth Business Coaching and Mentoring company, located at Koregaon Park in Pune. We coach and mentor business owners with the fire in the belly to achieve great results and get to the next level in their own game. We help implement strategies for sustainable growth and profitability.

  • Founding Director & Principal Coach

    Aug 2019 - now

  • Co Owner

    Feb 2014 - now
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  TiE Pune

  Jan 2015 - now

  Associate Member

  The Indus Entrepreneurs is world's largest Non-Profit Network of Entrepreneurs and is committed to fostering entrepreneurship in all forms, as a way to create self-fulfilling cycle of individual achievement and wealth creation.

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  Business Network International (BNI)

  Apr 2015 - Mar 2016

  Chapter Director

  I have been the Chapter Director at BNI Dynamic, Pune and have lead the Entrepreneur Networking team. With the BNI Givers' Gain Philosophy at the core, members work together as a team to generate business referrals for each other. If you are keen to visit our BNI weekly chapter meeting as a visitor, please do contact me. We offer loads of networking opportunities with 50+ entreprenuers from Pune!

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  Engage & Grow Global

  Aug 2018 - now

  Licensed Employee Engagement Coach

  The world has an employee engagement crisis.According to Gallup only 13% of employees worldwide are engaged. A disengaged employee has checked out. They are not enthusiastic and do the bare minimum to get by.For every disengaged employee in your business, you are throwing away ₹3,400/- in lost productivity for every ₹10,000/- you are paying them. This silent problem is having long-lasting and negative impacts on businesses all throughout the world.Working with me as your “Engage & Grow” Coach, your organisation can expect a more engaged workforce, improved productivity, stronger culture and more profit. Show less