Apoorv Durga

Experience	July 2006–Till Date Wipro Technologies Group Head, Portals and Content Management Group As the Pre Sales head, responsible for the new business target Advise senior management of clients on their Portal and ECM strategies Creating solutions and frameworks to ensure non linear growth Thought Leadership Guest Analyst at CMS Watch http://www.cmswatch.com/Analyst/17-Durga Invited to speak at many conferences including AIIM Published articles and contributed to Industry Forums Member of CM Professionals. CM Pros is a membership organization that fosters the sharing of content management information, practices, and strategies. Write a widely read blog (http://apoorv.info) April 2003–July 2006 Wipro Technologies Practice Manager with the Portals and Content Management Group Responsible for all the aspects – operations, new business and delivery for the Web Content Management (WCM) practice Owner of the internal Knowledge Management initiatives
	Aug '2000 – Apr’2003 Planetasia.com Senior Member Technical Staff · Involved in architecting portal and content management solutions using services like Google, Atomz, Webdunia and Commtouch and products like Interwoven, ATG Dynamo, ichat, Hyperseek, Open Market and Weblogic · Led projects for MTV, Esplanade and Malyala Manorama among others · Involved in setting up the Planetasia Application Architecture Lab (PAAL) · Making pre-sales consulting proposals for different clients. Some of the clients for whom I’ve been involved in pre-sales are MTV Europe, Radio TV Hong Kong, ESPNStar, Crisil, British Telecom, Ogilvy, Thaifin.com and Singtel.
	Aug '99 - Jun '2000 Indya.com Specialist · Joined Indya.com as the second employee and hence was involved in the initial conceptualization and formation phases · Design, rollout and operations of the web environment running technology based consumer services like messaging, web chat, e-communities and search engines. · Taking make/buy/hire/postpone decisions for different products and services, vendor management, process development and performance tuning initiatives. · Designing the complete multi tiered, fault tolerant and redundant architecture of the portal
	May '99 to Aug '99 Hindustan Lever limited Management trainee, Information Systems · Studied the distribution system of HLL and evolved a business model for the use of Internet by HLL's redistribution stockists · Evaluated different e-commerce/e-business solutions and interacted with vendors of payment systems, hardware and other software.
	July ’96 to June ’97 Information Management Resources (I) Ltd., Bangalore (IMR) Software Engineer · Involved in the designing, preparation of specifications, coding, testing and implementing of the different modules making up the project i.e., credit approval, card embossing, statement processing, reporting and ongoing day-today client services
	American Express (I) Ltd Trainee · Worked on Institutionalization of Software Project Management at Global Financial Microsystems (GFMS) · Worked mainly with Project Leaders and Managers in the streamlining of processes for reporting, work plans for different projects and leave plans for employees
Education	§ B.Tech. (Honors), Electrical Engineering, IT-BHU (1996) § MBA, IIM Calcutta (1999)
Interests	Roller Skating, Blogging