Sam George, General Manager, Regional Operations

Sam George

General Manager, Regional Operations

Mer Bleue Jewellery DMCC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, BBA
Experience
23 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 11 Months

General Manager, Regional Operations at Mer Bleue Jewellery DMCC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since November 2016

Days to Day management of Gold
Day to Day Sales reconciliation.

Head of Operations at Core Edge Technology
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since June 2016

Supply chain management
Business Development
Finance management

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Gitanjali Gems Ltd
  • India
  • July 2005 to March 2016

Define System Policies for the group.
Setup an IT company for the group, which outsourced IT operations to this company as services. 60 member team of programmers, Infra Tech and Delivery managers.
Strategize workflow management for the Production plants.
Develope an inhouse ERP solutions for the Jewellery Business.
Man management.
Lead cost cutting initative in the group by making IT as the contributor and enabler for most of the business functions.
Setup VPN networks for the retail busniess.
Setup Business Intelligence Unit for Worldwide ops

CIO at Samuels Jewelers - A Division of Gitanjali Gems
  • United States
  • July 2015 to March 2016

Board member for the implementation of the Microsoft Axapta 2012, Product shortlisted by
my team after a study of 6 months and comparing 3 other software’s in depth with EY team.
Key role as follows.
• Formation of the core team with key divisional stake holders for accountability.
• Data migration from AS400 to Microsoft AX of last 6 years.
• POS rollout planning for 140 stores with a team of 5 people.
• Manage training on new system for Accounts payable module, which is outsourced.
• E-commerce integration between Ms. Axapta and Magneto.

Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Gitanjali Ventures DMCC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2014 to March 2016

EA / Solution Architect, Business Strategy, E-Commerce
1. Focused on operational services, where understanding managed operations is important.
2. Responsible for coordinating all services provided to the organisation by way of Strategy, Business consulting, Projects and Operational services.
3. Focus on Design, Planning and Governance of strategic and Cross-Organisational optimisation of Enterprise’s services & processes.

Director at iVida Technologies Pvt Ltd
  • India - Mumbai
  • July 2007 to March 2011

Created as a IT services startup for Gitanjali Group with its own P&L
All IT assets and connectivity systems were managed by iVida.
All resources for Server & Networking management for 15 sites managed by iVida.
All resources for Software developers for ERP VB/.NET/Oracle was centralised at iVida.
All resources for Web development was centralised at iVida.
E-commerce fulfilment centre for all brand websites were managed at iVida.
Call centre & CRM for Ecom was setup and run by iVida.
Total team strength of 60 people servicing 15 companies

Manager eStrategy at Traveljini.com Ltd
  • India
  • June 2000 to December 2003

Responsibilities include:
o Defining system policies and work flows for all the departments in traveljini.com. Leading to integrating the system and people involved with the service for maximum customer satisfaction.
o Defining and Implementing CRM policies on Talisma in accordance with the work flow of the relevant service departments.
o Developing navigation patterns for customers to experience minimum click and maximum details. This strategy would eventually get the user to the transacting page earlier than what he would expect the site to be 6 months back.
o I was also Coordinating project with a team of 12 people, programmers, graphics and site administrators from the inceptions of the site thru 2 phases of site development. This process also included assisting synergy building with two remote offices in Bangalore and Delhi and Kolkatta.
o Overseeing the dispatch of newsletters from the mail server to over a lakh registered users on the site. Also providing Technical guidelines to all the different alliances on traveljini.com.
o Participate in all the technical issues/support for the internal department in the company.
o Initiating the process of setting up teams/workgroups for different projects including setting project deadlines and monitoring the work process.

Pre Sales consultant at Uberall Solutions (I) Pvt Ltd
  • India - Pune
  • June 1998 to January 2000

An Internet Development Company based in Pune.
Installation of Mail servers and Networks on Windows platform.
Pre Sales presentations and After- Sales Customer support
Coordinated more than 50 websites for update and new development.

Education

Bachelor's degree, BBA
  • at Madurai Kamaraj Univercity
  • April 2015

BBA Retail

Master's degree, MBA IT
  • at Indian Institute of Business Managment
  • August 2013

IT, Project management, Six sigma

Diploma, Green Belt
  • at Six Sigma
  • June 2011

Completed Six Sigma certification to streamline production management.

Diploma, Networking, Techno-managment
  • at Advance Diploma in Software Engineering, Aptech
  • December 2000

Networking, Software Development System study Project Management

Specialties & Skills

Planning Systems
People Management
Operations Management
Functional Analysis
Business Intelligence
Oracle 10g
Management
Vendor Management
Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows95
MS-Office
Program Architecture
Ecommerce management
Strategy
SAS VA Business Intelligence
Team management
IT infrastructure management
Project management

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Malayalam
Beginner
Gujarati
Intermediate
Tamil
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Green Belt (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2012
Valid Until:
November 2012

Hobbies

  • Playing Musical instruments, Basketball