Shirish Bendre

About Shirish Bendre

Technology evangelist with strong business acumen and outstanding communications, organizational and budgeting skills. Over 18 years of well-rounded diverse experience in multiple industry verticals; with Fortune 500 as well as start-ups. Proven track record of delivering quality projects on-time on-budget. Built and managed multi-million dollars consulting business with over 60+ employees. Successfully managed onsite and offshore teams of 50+ professionals.Outstanding success in presenting, interacting, selling and negotiating large projects with senior client executives [CEO, COO, CIO] and successfully managing client relationship. Proven expertise in managing and building consulting practices. Successfully lead large teams of professionals delivering IT solutions that consistently resulted in high financial, organizational and user impact. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Effective at technology as well as management and strategy consulting.

Experience

1. President Founder, Professional Services

   workMETHODS Solutions Inc.

   Jan 2001 — Present · Reston, VA, US

   Shirish Bendre successfully built WORKMETHODS, a global IT company providing IT Strategy, Turnkey Solutions and Managed Services to clients in Telecommunications, Higher Education and Healthcare markets. For past 15+ years, he leads the organization and provides strategic management consulting to clients as well as technical leadership to complex technology projects. He has also successfully built and is managing an Offshore Development Center in Pune, India with over 60+ IT professionals. He has also established multi-year service contracts with customers in the US and India. His leadership has accomplished both maintaining high customer satisfaction as well as building a group of motivated and dedicated employees. Shirish Bendre takes time from his schedule to coaching soccer. He has also directed few theater plays. He has delivered lectures at University of Maryland and Dublin Management School on Telecommunications and IT for graduate students.

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  BE, Engineering

  1983 — 1987

• Columbia Business School

  MBA, General Management

  1997 — 1999

Skills

• Software Development
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Start-Ups
• Business Intelligence
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Business Development
• Java
• IT Strategy
• Professional Services
• Leadership
• Mysql
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Management Consulting
• Outsourcing
• Sharepoint Server
• Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp)
• Program Management
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Saas
• Cloud Computing
• Project Management
• Integration
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Erp
• Business Strategy
• .net
• Telecommunications
• Product Development
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)