SANTOSH KUMAR SINGHMobile:+91-9308855817, +91-8877660422 ~ E-mail: santoshkr16@gmail.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY___________________________________________________________________Santosh has experience of over 4 years in multiple domains. Post-MBA he led couple of large e-governance projects in Bihar. For last two years he is working as Project Manager for setting up/revamping IT based system for execution of flagship schemes (MGNREGA, UID) of various companies and departments of state government.

Santosh has managed large cross-functional & multi-location operational set-ups, while directly/ indirectly managing large teams. He possesses a reasonable level of numeracy with a high standard of personal integrity and decisiveness, in addition to problem-solving and influencing skills.

In his current assignment, Santosh is helping State Finance Commission, in preparing strategy and helps in successfully implementation of e-Panchayat for a statewide launch of E-PRI for Bihar. EXPERTISE__________________________________________________________________________________E-governance Project Management Business Process Reengineering Liaison / Coordination with Govt. OfficialsFinancial Inclusion Operations

EMPLOYMENT RECORD______________________________________________________________________

Since June’14: 5th State Finance Commission, Bihar as Research AssociatePresently working on Digital Bihar: Digital Bihar is an umbrella programme of the government comprising various projects to transform the country into a knowledge economy. The programme includes projects that aim to ensure easy access to technology infrastructure and government services are to citizens.e-Panchayat Project: E-Panchayat has been launched by Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India to provide G2C coverage for better delivery of citizen services in the village through computerization of the functions of the Gram Panchayat. Roles & ResponsibilitiesProviding strategy to Ministry of Panchayati Raj through the 5th Sate Finance Commission

Bihar: As-is to-be analysis Proposed a new centralised IT architecture to facilitate integration of various applications

being used in schemes. Prepared the detailed functional specifications for the proposed application. Preparing different documents for revamped e-Panchayat, which includes monitoring of e-

Panchayat applications, writing process guidelines, operational manual & Project Plan. Designed various MIS reports to be incorporated in new system.

Since March’13 - February’14: iBow Solutions Pvt. Ltd., as Project Manager of IT & Operations UID & MGNREGA project

An ambitious project of Government of Bihar to create a biometrically de-duplicated data base of rural resident of state and to issue a smart card to all enrolled residents which can be used

for implementation of all biometric authentication based service system, To start with, system is being used for implementation of MGNREGA and providing various financial services under Financial Inclusion drive.

Since Jan’11 - March’13: Smarftech Techno serve Ltd.(a subsidiary division of Glodyne Techno serve Ltd.) as Project Manager of IT & Operations UID & MGNREGA

project

Growth Path Jan’11-May’12 : Team LeaderJun’12-Mar’13 : Assistant Manager (IT & Operations)

Role & Responsibility Handled two large size projects e-Shakti and Financial Inclusion simultaneously Led a team of approx 70 “On Roll” and more than 250 ‘Off Roll” employees Responsible for timely delivery of services for both the projects, which included Prepared and started implementation of Business plan Recruited, trained and led a team to start the functioning of company

o An application to facilitate “end to end” technology based paperless system for implementation of MGNREGA

o An application to provide various banking services to more than 20 Lakh rural people through Business correspondence model

o Capacity Building of Stake holders to facilitate the proposed “paradigm shift” in the way MGNREGA is being executed

o “Awareness and Sensitization” exercise for stakeholders o A call centre for grievance redressal.

Noteworthy Credits Deftly handled the Project “e-Shakti”, one of the largest e-Governance projects initiated by

Government of Bihar for ICT intervention in implementation of NREGS (National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) and Financial Inclusion.

Covered every single village of Patna District under FI, which required handling gamut of activities like collection of data, identification of Customer Service Point (CSPs) in every Panchayat of Patna District, capacity building of stakeholders, application development and creating awareness & sensitization among rural masses.

Gathered the demographic & biometric details of 5 million beneficiaries across 4 districts. Credited for initiating nearly 2.0 million beneficiaries under Financial Inclusion. Recognised for successfully completing:

o PoC for UID, during its planning phase.o PoC for e-PDS for GoB

Accredited as the Super Star Performer of the year (2011-12). Rolled out the first phase in 37 District, within 15 days Rolled out phase II in 69 Blocks within 4 months

EDUCATION__________________________________________________________________________________

2013 PGDBA- Human Resource Management from Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning, Pune with 60%.2011 BCA WITH 60%& MCA WITH 58% from IGNOU.Others Certificate in Computing from IGNOU in 1999.

PERSONAL DETAILS_________________________________________________________________________Father’s Name : Sri Jai Nandan Singh Date of Birth: 1st March, 1981Marital status: SingleLinguistic Abilities: Can read, write and speak Hindi and EnglishAddress: Rajbanshinagar, Qtr. No. 373/400, Road No. 5, Post-Shastrinagar,

Patna: 800023.

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