Joseph Abraham, Sr. Business Development Executive

Joseph Abraham

Sr. Business Development Executive

Pearson

Location
India
Education
Diploma, Linux
Experience
18 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months

Sr. Business Development Executive at Pearson
  • India
  • My current job since November 2012

Going to schools and meeting with the Principal's in order to convince them to change to our books.

Sales Manager at Trior United
  • India
  • December 2011 to November 2012

• Sales Manager - Trior United ( 1 Dec 2011 to 11th November2012)

Assistant Store Manager at Max Lifestyle
  • India
  • November 2010 to October 2011

• Assistant Store Manager - Max Lifestyle (1 Nov 2010 - 31 Oct 2011)

Manager-IT/IS at Housefull International Ltd
  • India - Mumbai
  • November 2009 to September 2010

Designation: Manager-IT/IS
Housefull International Ltd (A Retail Company) (1 Nov 2009 - 27 Sep 2010)
Implementation of JDA Win/DSS & JDA MMS: Implemented WinDSS and MMS in 20 stores started across India.
JDA WinDSS: New location creation, Server Setup and PoS (Point Of Sale) setup.

Assistant Manager - IS at Housefull International Ltd
  • India - Mumbai
  • March 2007 to October 2009

Designation: Assistant Manager - IS
Housefull International Ltd (A Retail Company) (12 March 2007 - 31 Oct 2009)
Implementation of JDA Win/DSS/Retail Excel (Retail Software):
2nd level support to locations i.e. Pune (4 Stores), Nashik, , Surat, Surat2, Bangalore (5 Stores), Mumbai (5 Stores) and Warehouses under said Location Daily Checklist for IT officer's at locations and audit, Problem Handling Management, Win/DSS/Retail Excel application Security Management, Defining Backup & Restore policy of the database, Implementation of Backup & Restore process, Periodic Audit of the Backup & Restore process, Periodic Data restoration process & Audit, Timely resolution of Backup & Restore related problems, Issues in WMS to be escalated to vendor, HR Software (Paysoft) installation & configuration, Maintenance of Paysoft, Problem resolution for HR Software - Paysoft, Technical Support for Retail Excel and Implementation of the same in the Stores as well as HO and Warehouse, Vendor interaction and Incident Management for the above software's. Backup of AS400 Server is been taken and maintained on a monthly basis. Creating user id's in MMS and defining the rights to them. Manually updating the poll files in JDA MMS when the EOD polling doesn't happen due to any issue. Daily maintenance of the Translog and clearing the errors in it.

IT Officer at Housefull International Ltd
  • India - Surat
  • September 2006 to March 2007

Designation: IT Officer
Housefull International Ltd (A Retail Company) (11 Sep 2006 - 11 March 2007)
Handle all the IT activity of the store both of hardware / networking as well as software (RetailExcel - Polaris) . Also to send reports and to take backups, configuring email ids in outlook. Creating reports for HO. Managing Vendors for procuring as well as services of hardware's procured from them. Escalation of issues related to software's to the vendors.

Sales and Service In-charge at Focuz Computers
  • India
  • April 2006 to August 2006

Designation: Sales and Service In-charge
Focuz Computers (April 2006 - Aug 2006)
Achieve the sales targets of service income by service engineers. Also to make them do the assigned job correctly and in a specified time. Profile also includes servicing laptops, maintenance of PC's and installation of operating systems and applications, Linux and Windows Networking.

Assistant Store Manager at Focuz Computers
  • India
  • April 2005 to August 2006

• Sales and Service In-charge, Focuz Computers (April 2005 - Aug 2006)

Designation: Senior Business Development Executive - Digital Products
Pearson Education a subsidiary company of Dorling Kindersley (12 November 2012 - 30 June 2013)
Direct reporting to Zonal Manager. Visiting schools in the given territory and understanding the probable titles which are planned to be changed and according to it giving samples. Visiting the current user schools and ensuring that our titles are been retained for the current school year too. In case of the school planning to change our current title ensure to give them the samples of the next alternative title. Giving demos of our tablet and its content to the Principals and School Management. Promoting Active Teach platform in the schools which have smart class solutions.
Designation: Sales Manager
(1 Dec 2011 - 11 November 2012)
Direct reporting to Operation Manager. Ensuring that the work queue is been completed by the staff and making sure they give hundred percent productivity and quality. Making sure the sales team achieves the monthly targets given by the company. Escalating the sales related issues faced in the market by the sales team if it's related to our product. Organizing promotional activities to improve sales. Ensuring the stores get the stock on time and damaged goods are sent back to the warehouse every month. Identifying the fast movers and trying to push the sales of the slow movers so that they don't pile up at warehouse.
Designation: Assistant Store Manager
Max Lifestyle Ltd (A Retail Company) (1 Nov 2010 - 31 Oct 2011)
Entire store responsibility. Direct reporting to the Operation Manager. Distribution of target for each department to the Department Managers (Daily, weekly & monthly) . Daily staff meeting to convey the previous day's excess/shortfall and current days target. Daily auditing of the Store Opening and Closing checklist, Department Manager Checklist, Head Cashier Checklist, IT Checklist, Security Checklist & Housekeeping Checklist. Sending of sales reports as well as sales data to the Head office. Updating the day start procedure in the server as well as in the point of sales machines. Daily taking backup and day end process on the point of sales machine and server. Requisition for stock replenishment send to the Head Office on the basis of Sales through Report (STR), Weekly performance Report (WPR), Daily sales Report (DSR) and Monthly business Report (MBR) . Tracking our replenishments with the help of Vendor card Report.

Service Engineer at Focuz Computers
  • India
  • April 2005 to April 2006

Designation:Service Engineer
Focuz Computers (April 2005 - April 2006)

Profile includes servicing laptops, maintenance of PC's and installation of operating systems and applications, Linux and Windows Networking.


Personality Traits
• Self-motivated and Hardworking.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Quick learner and high level of task commitment.
• Team worker.

Education

Diploma, Linux
  • at Accel IT Academy Cochin
  • January 2004

• Bachelor of business administration, 2004, with aggregate 70%. • Accel Certified Linux Professional from Accel IT Academy Cochin • Hardware and Networking • CCNA (Completed CCNA training from Vibrant Technologies) • MCSA (Completed MCSA training from Vibrant Technologies) • Assembling, Upgrading and Troubleshooting of PC's and Installation of Operating Systems like Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/2003Server, and other applications. Key Responsibilities

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Windows
Point to Point
Linux server administration
Endpoint Security
DATABASE
MAINTENANCE
SECURITY

Languages

Hindi
Beginner
Malayalam
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English
Beginner
Tamil
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