Rajachitra S

• Lead the development of comprehensive project plans, incorporating scope definition, risk mitigation strategies, and budgeting considerations. Had been the transition manager for various accounts including Books and Journals.
• Manage a team of Project Managers across the Books and Journals domain, providing training, cascading job requirements, trouble shooting, identifying strength, grooming them into key players and leaders.
• Responsible for the overall management of a yearly volume of 45,000 book pages and 50,000 journal pages.
• Streamline project timelines by implementing efficient scheduling and resource allocation strategies, also ensuring adherence to quality standards through technological validations, feedback mechanisms.
• Key Presenter for any KPI meetings, overview calls, project summaries, metrics, status reporting.
• Editorial Trainer for both the production and project management teams.
• Widely experienced in the documentation of workflows, SOW, road maps, business proposals, invoicing, executive summaries, review reports.
• Rich and versatile experience in the Project Management of STM Books, single handedly project managed a yearly volume of 200+ books.

Publishers worked for: Cengage Learning, Emerald Publishing Limited, Optica Publishing Group, IEEE, Sage, HMH.

• Undergone hands-on training in InDesign, Proofreading, and all other aspects of typesetting.
• Actively involved in the documentation of the QMS programme.
• Had been a part of Quality assurance team working on the error reports and quality metrics.