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Heramb Kulkarni

Director, Strategy and Development at CCE Finland

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Council for Creative Education (CCE) Finland, INTIAMATKAT, SEWA International USA

Education

Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Tampere University of Technology, College of Engineering Pune

Background

Summary

A resident of Finland for the last 15+ years and has been instrumental in developing Creative ways of learning in schools in Finland and across the globe. Heramb is working closely with schools, colleges, and universities across 4 continents to develop learning strategies for teachers and educators. He is a well-sought speaker and known for his active, energetic interaction with a large number of participants. He has trained 12000+ Teachers, Principals, Educators and Govt officials.

He is on advisory board to Govt of Bahrain, Nigeria, County of Powys in Wales, UK and Govt of Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Goa and Maharashtra within India.
Heramb has been working on domains like EduTech, collaborative learning, and innovation across 12 countries. His research areas are educational technology and creativity, global education reforms and collaborative innovations. As an educator, social entrepreneur and technology wizard, he is on the advisory board of many educational institutes and innovative start-ups across Europe and India. He has held leadership positions across large MNCs like Nokia, Lucent Technologies, Skyworks and Accenture with vast experience in technology, architecture and software development domain.

Experience

Director, Strategy and Development

· Council for Creative Education (CCE) Finland - Oct 2013 - Present (10 years)

Start from scratch developing the strategy and design for CCE’s education products and learning solutions in global markets like Europe, UK, USA; India, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Hong-Kong. Main Deliverable: Business networks, product strategy, architecture, vendor management, seeking funds from Public as well private investors. 20x Business growth in the initial 5 years for CCE and its partners through various channels. Conducted and hosted 6 conferences at international level and designed a state of art evaluation tool in India, Taiwan, Nigeria, Bahrain, UAE and Finland. Trained more than 14600+ teachers and 520+ principals across 140+ Schools.

Tampere, Finland

Founder

· INTIAMATKAT - Mar 2012 - Present (11 years)

Business Strategy and planning : Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and travel planning processes.
Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.
Generated new customer segments and won deals from many top companies for their business travels. For more information, kindly visit - www.intiamatkat.fi

Chief Coordinator, Finland

· SEWA International USA - Jan 2011 - Present (12 years)

Sewa is a universal concept, which involves performing an act of kindness without expectation of reward. It is performed selflessly and without ulterior motive. On Sewa Day, thousands of good-hearted people across the world come together to perform Sewa and experience the joy of giving in its truest sense. By participating in this collective endeavour, we hope that the seeds of Sewa are watered so that acts of kindness and public service are performed more often. Sewa Day is a catalyst in making this happen. For more info, kindly visit : www.sewaday.org

Senior Architect

· ACCENTURE - Oct 2011 - Mar 2013 (2 years)

Client : Nokia Windows Phone Quality
I was responsible for developing and designing state-of-art reporting mechanism and quality metrics which are being used by top management to the developer/tester with Qlikview for Nokia Windows Phone quality Organization.
My deliverable includes :
1. Defining key matrices and lay down the process for reporting
2. Definition and prioritization of various reporting requirements from Test Management and Error Management.
3. Ready made matrices in Qlikview format which can be used by various stake holders within Nokia
4. Training and mentoring a team of Qlikview developers for delivering the requirements.
5. Coordinating with various teams for lean process and defining the exceptions in the process.

Principle Architect

· NOKIA - Jan 2006 - Oct 2011 (5 years)

Technical advisor and SME in product development activities. Special focus on Architecture Management, System Performance analysis, Memory optimization and UX

Achievement : Low cost devices design without compromising UX

Tampere, Finland

Principle Architect and Agile Expert

· NOKIA - Jan 2008 - Mar 2011 (3 years)

Served as Agile Architect – Agile Development Expert leading 6 geographically dispersed teams to build a Nokia Mobile Phones Software Products.
- Implemented Agile practices, established Scrum metrics to track productivity within teams and fully trained the leadership team in Agile principles and Scrum practices for delivering software more effectively and efficiently across the organization
- Organized a collaborative cross-functional effort involving subject matter experts and developers at creating a differentiated User Experience for Nokia Mobiles.

Tampere, Finland

Technical Leader

· Sasken Finland Oy - Jan 2005 - Aug 2007 (2 years)

Client : Nokia
I was responsible for integration GSM/GPRS/EDGE specific protocol stack with key tasks like Project planning, Mentoring the team, handling cross functional issues.

Achievement : Instrumental in establishing Sasken - Customer focused Development Center in Finland.

Senior Design Engineer

· SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS INC. - Mar 2003 - Jan 2005 (2 years)

Worked as a Senior design engineer for and concept developer for Multimedia Service Provider Team.
Designed Service Provider (CODEC) architecture and standardizing the interfaces. Architect for development of protocol test tool with Telelogic Tau/tester.
Cross Functional tasks: Interface with other teams like Device Drivers, Tools, and RTOS API teams.
Post-silicon verification of hardware blocks in ARM9 based Baseband MM chip.

Senior Software Engineer

· LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES - Jun 2000 - Mar 2003 (3 years)

Module Leader and Design Engineer for BSC (Base Station Controller) - Layer 3 team.
Senior Design Engineer in BTS Device Drivers team.

Bangalore, India

Education

Tampere University of Applied Sciences - (2013 - 2014)

· International Trade and Export, International Business, Trade and Tax Law

Degree

Master Degree

Description

The education aims at providing the students with understanding and competence in internationalization requirements, strategic planning of international sales and marketing and systematic implementation of the internationalization process in new markets.

Tampere University of Technology - (2006 - 2010)

· Communications Engineering, Newtworking and Protocols

Degree

Master Degree

Description

International Masters degree in IT - Communications Engineering with major as Networking and Protocols.
Thesis topic : Secured Intranet browsing using mobile phones with NTLM authentication : Architecture and design issues.

College of Engineering Pune - (1996 - 2000)

· Electrical Engineering

Degree

Bachelor Degree

Activities and Societies

Debating Secretary and won more than 70 state and national level prizes in debating competitions.

Certifications

Authorised Google Education Trainer - (Jun 2015 - Present)

Certification Authority:

Google

Certified Scrum Master - (Sep 2008 - Present)

Certification Authority:

Scrum Alliance

Six Sigma Black Belt - (Oct 2005 - Present)

Certification Authority:

ASQ

Language

Marathi

Proficiency

Native Or Bilingual

Hindi

Proficiency

Native Or Bilingual

Finnish

Proficiency

Limited Working

English

Proficiency

Full Working

Skills

Agile Methodologies

Business Development

Education

Educational Technologies

Mobile Devices

Product Development

Project Development

Scrum

Six Sigma

Software Development

System Architecture

User Experience

Publications

Creative use of Google apps in Classrooms (Conference)

Publication Date

Feb 2014

International Conference on ICT effectiveness in Education at Pune, India

Projects

MySchool ICT enabled framework for Schools - (Sep 2013 - Oct 2013)

The goal of My School Framework project is to evaluate the need of Mobile collaborative learning / communication framework which enable students to learn and collaborate at anytime and anywhere. The market study may cover sample mobile services and shall run on mobile hand held devices (Andrioid based Akash tablet). It may involve communication channels for interactions among teachers, parents and school administration.

MySchool Project has been divided in several phases like:
Phase 1 : Market Survey and Educational Requirements
Phase 2 : Architecture and Planning
Phase 3 : Tools Development and Deployment
Phase 4 : Ramp-up for solutions and Scalability

Creative Schools Program across India - (Aug 2013 - Sep 2013)

CCE initiated a project across many locations in India to implement, design creative schools, developing learning environment and effectively using ICT in learning, wherever conducive and possible.
Funded by : CCE and Finnpartnership

Secured Intranet Browser - (Jan 2008 - Mar 2010)

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