Remi Vaz, GM-HR

Remi Vaz

GM-HR

SurePrep (I) Pvt. Ltd.

Location
India - Mumbai
Education
Master's degree, Human Resources Development
Experience
31 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :31 years, 4 Months

GM-HR at SurePrep (I) Pvt. Ltd.
  • India - Mumbai
  • My current job since October 2015

As a HR Generalist, managing a team of 6 colleagues am,
● Responsible for General HR, talent acquisition& development, brand building, social network hiring, and improving the overall identity of the organization
● Responsible for Performance Management, HR Policies & procedures, HRIS, Statutory compliance, Employee engagement, Rewards and recognition programs.
● Conducting periodic employee surveys, grievances handling, counseling procedure and documenting follow up
● Responsible for change management and introducing Agile Development Methodology based on Scrum
● Driving cultural change within the organization
● Working with Local and US stake holders to deliver value added HR solutions in line with overall people and business strategy
● Leading Training and Development initiatives for change management and career development
● Defining and updating career path and succession planning.
● Responsible for identifying and deploying a HRMS solution meeting organizational needs and goals.
● Acting as a catalyst and ensuring HR strategies and plans are translated into concrete actions and tangible results.

Achievements
● Staffed the product development team with requisite skills before deadlines and bought in significant cost savings with strategic hiring activity.
● Set the ball rolling for a cultural change strategy
● Set up the automation team and TAS FDD team
● Restructured the development team to move away from waterfall to agile scrum method
● Renewed all policies and SOPs for the organization

Head – HR at Apex Wyreless Tech Pvt. Ltd
  • India - Mumbai
  • March 2015 to October 2015

As Head of Operations and HR was
● Responsible to set up the team, general administration, facilities and managing operations.
● Assisted in developing CRM products targeting the R&R Vertical (Loyalty, Gift& Meal industry).
● Identified key resources in software development, finance & marketing & sales.
● Responsible for Talent acquisition as per business plan, C&B, Statutory compliance, brand building on social networks.
● Responsible for strategy, marketing, raising capital, developing product & service collaterals.
● Tie Ups with Vendors, business partners and 3rd party technology solution vendors.
● Translated market challenges into opportunities for the organization to develop new products and services including patent filing.
● Statutory compliance and handling all ROC related affairs.

GM - HR & Operations at Kyros Soft Tech Limited
  • India - Mumbai
  • January 2003 to March 2015

● Responsible for human resources, general administration, infrastructure management, and commercial operations.
● Handling end‐to‐end HR functions like manpower planning, recruitment, selection and induction.
● Responsible for PMS, HR Policies & procedures, HRIS, C&B, statutory compliances and employee rewards and recognition programs.
● MR for ISO 9001 processes and internal auditor of ISO quality processes.
● Additional responsibility of loyalty & gift voucher program delivery on mobile platform and handled Pre-Sales, Budgeting, Presentations design and execution for the same
● Conversant with e‐governance project execution in DL/RC, RSBY and various smart card projects and mobile application development.

Achievements
● Executed large scale manpower deployment to execute an e‐governance project in record time.
● Designed and executed various employee loyalty and rewards programs.
● Launched a universal coalition loyalty program on smart cards and mobile technology

Senior Manager HR at Spectra Innovations Inc
  • India - Bengaluru
  • June 2000 to December 2002

● Responsible for HR function of the entire group.
● HR policies and procedures, recruitment, induction and mentoring, PMS, competency profiling, C&B, succession planning, career development, employee relations, & legal compliance.
● Headed the IT consulting division (Spec‐Soft) for the US consulting business and facilitated the entire recruitment process from initial contact till offer acceptance.
● Forecasting resource pool strength, prepared recruiting forecasts, resource pool aging and availability reports, submitting consultants to delivery managers.

Achievements
● Increased consultant strength from 15 to 150 on very niche and specialized skills.
● Consultant pool was acquired for $10M in a dot com bust era for niche skill expertise

Manager at Recruitment Clarisoft Corporation
  • December 1999 to May 2000

Responsible for recruitment of software professionals for US consulting operations.
•Set up the entire operations independently and set up a team for South India Operations.
•Handled H1 filing for US and work‐permits for UK & Singapore.
•Forecasting resource pool strength, prepared recruiting forecasts, resource pool aging and availability reports, submitting consultants to delivery managers

Sr. Executive HR at Tekedge India (Xoriant Corporation)
  • October 1998 to November 1999

Involved in Recruitment, HR policies and procedures, developing JDs, HR budgets and handled personnel and administration activities.
•Identifying, attracting and motivating well‐qualified candidates. Coordinating for technical interviews with the Technical panel.
•Facilitated the entire recruitment process from initial contact till offer acceptance. Handled Visa processing (H1, B1s).
•Created a "Welcome to US" document for consultants going for US assignments.
•Forecasting resource pool strength, prepared recruiting forecasts, resource pool aging and availability reports, submitting consultants to delivery managers.
•Remotely handled online timesheets of consultants, billed regular work time and overtime hours against time sheets

Executive Associate at Personnel Search services
  • India - Mumbai
  • March 1997 to September 1998

Responsible for Client Servicing, Head hunting, networking of candidates for assigned search.
•Assessment of candidates, search reports, candidate profiles, and database management.
•Special emphasis to the recruitment of hot skills for Domestic/Overseas projects.

Personnel Officer at Gujarat Nitrates Ltd.
  • India
  • December 1992 to February 1997

● Handled the Personnel and Administration Functions of the company.
● Involved in preparing policies, procedures and administering them.
● Handled activities such as recruitment, contract labor, pay roll, PF, ESIC compliances, labor laws, health and welfare benefits and employee services.

Education

Master's degree, Human Resources Development
  • at NMIMs
  • August 1998
Master's degree, HR
  • at NMIMS (Mumbai University)
  • January 1998

Bachelor's degree, Economics
  • at MVLU (Mumbai University)
  • January 1992

Specialties & Skills

Science
Availability
Economics
Induction
Soft Skills
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
BUDGETING
BUSINESS PLANS
DELIVERY
FILE MANAGEMENT
FINANCE
HUMAN RESOURCES