Professor V. K. Garg carries with him over 35 years of experience in the fields of information technology, management consulting, and academics. He has been on the boards of various companies for over 10 years and has worked with well-known organizations such as A F Ferguson, Larson and Turbo, Zenith Computers, NITIE, Lupin Laboratories, Rolta, Datamatics, and others. He is an acknowledged authority in the various areas related to project management. He has also been associated with various World Bank sponsored projects as an expert.
As a corporate trainer and consultant, he is associated with many leading IT organizations and institutions. He is the brain behind two of the training programs that have been highly appreciated by various State Electricity boards and Public Welfare departments around Project Identification Formulation and Appraisal (PIFA) and Project Implementation Monitoring and Control (PIME) with the help of World Bank. His training programs are well recognized, widely accepted, and attended by senior and middle management personnel from diverse industries and government agencies. He is a much sought after trainer, and his diverse disciplinary experience equips him with a wide perspective and deep insights into the challenges and issues of the business world.
Professor Garg is also a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and has been the guiding force behind over 200 Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma projects in various organizations for more than 10 years.
He is the author of two best-selling books—Enterprise Resource Planning, and Workbook on System Analysis & Design, both published by Prentice-Hall of India Publications. Both these books have run into multiple editions. He also has to his credit numerous articles and research papers that have been published in leading journals and conference proceedings.
Prof. Garg is a gold medalist in Bachelor of Engineering and an MTech from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.
Alaeddin Hallak is a senior business analyst and a Six Sigma Green Belt at HP Enterprise Services. He currently leads the business analysis team at SADAD Payment System, Saudi Arabia's national payment gateway that handles over 90 percent of the Kingdom's payment transactions. Previously, he was the lead BPM specialist for several Saudi government institutions including the General Authority of Civil Aviation, Jeddah Municipality, and Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu.
A graduate of Computer Science from the Jordan University of Science and Technology, Alaeddin holds several industry qualifications in business analysis and IT. He is a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), Certified Six Sigma Green Belt, TOGAF 9 Certified, and a Certified Usability Analyst. His diverse training and over 9 years of experience in and outside IT gives him a unique perspective on approaching business problems from different angles and building solutions that facilitate optimum change for the business.
Sarabjeet S. Kochar is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from Thapar University with over 13 years of experience in the field of quality. He has rich experience of deploying quality systems and improvement methodologies, such as Six Sigma and Lean, in multiple industries and environments. His experience also includes the set up and governance of various improvement methodologies. Most recently, Sarabjeet has been a part of one of the largest financial services companies in the world, deploying Six Sigma at their processing centers and customer-facing businesses. He has been leading a team of Black Belts providing high-impact benefits to the business in terms of efficiency, customer experience, risk mitigation, and loss mitigation. He has also been program managing various multi-shore projects.
Sarabjeet has been involved in the development and delivery of Six Sigma training curriculums and materials as part of his roles involving Six Sigma deployment.
He has also been involved in multiple community service / volunteering efforts supporting organizations that give back to the community.
Sidhartha Mukherjee, or Sid, began studying and applying Six Sigma during his MBA days at Symbiosis (2006-08). As a part of the Operations Management curriculum, he had the opportunity to attend an introductory GB-level training in Six Sigma, conducted by KPMG. The certification process required working on an industrial Six Sigma project, giving him a chance to augment his classroom learning with first-hand implementation. The challenges of real-world process improvement including statistical data analysis, value streams, and change management proved too exciting, and Sid decided to make it a post-MBA career choice. He started his process improvement career with WNS Global Services (formerly a captive unit of British Airways) in Pune. Since then, he has worked in Process Improvement roles with Genpact (formerly GE Capital) and HSBC Technology and Services (as a Process Reengineering Consultant), in addition to freelance projects. Today, he works as a Process and Quality Consultant with Cognizant Business Consulting and is based in Pune, India.
In his career spanning 8.5 years so far (up to the time of publication), Sid has had the opportunity to work on process efficiency and cost reduction, process reengineering, and variation and NVA reduction across a wide variety of domains including finance and accounting services, banking and financial services, and IT application and maintenance services (his current field of engagement).
Sidhartha is a BE and MBA by education—he received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) in 2003, and an MBA in Operations Management in 2008 from the Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management (Symbiosis International University) in India. He is also a certified Master Black Belt (Indian Statistical Institute), as well as being a certified BB from ASQ and SSMI.
In addition to projects, Sid is passionate about delivering performance improvement training using Lean and Six Sigma methods, and is a passionate people-person who believes in driving sustainable, long-term change through a combination of metrics, reengineering, and motivation. A firm believer in personal and professional Kaizen, Sid's vision for himself is to contribute to organizations by offering a value-based skillset of performance, change, and project management.
Beyond work, Sid can be found spending time with family and friends, travelling to offbeat locations, volunteering at blood-donation camps, and listening to music, especially when navigating the treacherous and variation-afflicted terrain of the Calcutta area traffic.