B.Tech. (IIT, Bombay), 1978

MBA    (IIM Calcutta),   1980,  Advanced Management Diploma (Germany), 1988

Skills:   Web based Application Software Delivery, CIO/ IT Head, IT Strategy, Microsoft ASP, Java

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Website:    http://pukamble.tripod.com/

Position

Company

Duration

Highlight

Director

Own Software Company, Chennai

Feb 2003  Present

Developed Microsoft based ERP and Java based HRMS packages.

Sr. Vice President

Polaris Software

Oct 2002  Jan 2003

Product Development in Microsoft .Net ASP

Project Director - (E-Com) and Technology Head (Microsoft)

DSQ Software

May 2000 Sep 2002

Company record of all projects on time - Both Java and Microsoft web based projects. Max repeat orders. Click here to read Success Story

SBU Head

Pidilite Systems

(New Start-up)

Nov 1995 May 2000

Set up a new software business. Developed and implemented client server and web products

CIO/ IT Head

Essar Group companies

Jun 1990  Oct 1995

Most successful CIO in the Essar Group in developing and implementing systems

CIO/ IT Head

Saraswati Group (ISGEC Engg. Unit, Sugar Mill, Foundry)

Feb 1985  May 1990

Set up IT department. Developed and implemented systems in record time. Cover article in ‘Computers Today’ Magazine.

Systems Analyst

Modi Rubber Ltd  and ORG Systems

Apr 1982  Mar 1982

Successfully developed and implemented ambitious all India software project as Project Leader

“The Management of Mondaq is shocked to know that the project went live on the date it was supposed to…”

-       mail received from Charles Ashton, IT Director, Mondaq,  UK  my first client at DSQ (Microsoft ASP Project) (Full story available at http://www.sulekha.com/articledesc.asp?md=c&cid=191311

“Even in UK, I have rarely seen projects delivered both on time and to specifications.”

-       Michael Bournat, MD, CQR Technologies, UK, while speaking to P U Kamble on CQR Talisman Project delivered on time and to specifications (Java/EJB Project).

“We are thrilled to death”

-       Jeffery Wu, CEO, Claritas llc, CEO, Enternet Technologies, USA, (while speaking to DSQ’s MD on arrival in India to place repeat order) – C++, ASP Project

“Your team is one of the most professional I have ever worked with on software development.  It is a great pleasure to see the progress unfold.”

           -      Jonathan Brown, Enternet Technologies, USA. Email dated 9.4.2001.(C++, ASP project)

“Please accept my sincere thanks for your leadership role, tenacious efforts and inspiration in developing and implementing HR Systems”

–     Mr. Lalit Vohra, Director HR, DSQ for the in-house systems developed and implemented for DSQ using idle resources (CIO role).

“ If Kamble has done it in Hazira, it is a miracle”

–     Mr. Surya Kumar, Director Commercial, Essar Group of  Companies, commenting on my successful computerisation at a new startup company in record time under difficult conditions at Essar Projects, Hazira, Surat

“ If there is any creative work happening in Essar, it is in Kamble's group”

–     Mr. S Nagarajan, Group CIO, Essar Group speaking to all CIOs of Essar, referring to my work as CIO, Essar Projects, etc. in Hazira (referenced above)

Smile of Success:  Cover Article in ‘Computers Today’, Dec 1988-article on my successful computerization as CIO. Click on the image to open the article or click on the following hyperlink http://premkamble.tripod.com/comptoday1.htm

IT for Business:    Article on how I made my software to contribute to the Business objectives by identifying business KRAs and aligning my software objectives to business objectives was published in Times of India (see copy at TOI.htm)

Achievements as Project Director in a SEI Level 5 software company:

-      A record of delivering all the projects on time to the utmost delight of the customer

-       Maximum repeat orders in his company

-       Highest resource utilization in the company

-      Excellent Skill development: All the record breaking projects were headed by 'first-time' project leaders

-       Excellent Team skills - See “Key Success Factors” published in company magazine and available at: dsqwin.htm

Achievements as a CIO:

-       Story of my successful computerisation was published as cover article in Computers Today. Available at comptoday1.htm

-        Story on my IT Strategy with focus on business published in Times of India (TOI.htm)

Prem Kamble is an engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), and management graduate (with specializations in Systems) from Indian Institute of Management (I.I.M.), both being the most reputed technology and management institutes in the country. He has passed a course "Energo Cybernetic Strategy - Advanced Management Diploma" with flying colors (from Mewes Systems, Germany). The prerequisite for this course was "an open mind" and the course aimed at developing the intuitive skills. He has also attended self-development programs like Est, Forum, Advanced Course, SELP (Self Expression & Leadership Program), etc. organized by Landmark Education Foundation, USA (earlier Centers Network), and “Essential Mind Power” program conducted by Silva 2000.

He started his career as an analyst/programmer and in less than five years, he helped set up and headed a computer center for a group of Companies. He has been extremely successful both in developing complex computerized applications and in implementing them in the toughest of situations. He has about 20 years of experience in IT management, mostly as head of infotech departments. Presently he is working in a senior position in a software company.

He has published articles on InfoTech management in the country's leading magazines. He also has done some objective thinking on the concept of God and Religion and published his thoughts. Most of the articles display an 'out-of -the-box' thinking, a different kind of thinking to see what is not so obvious. He lives in Chennai with his wife and daughter.