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About me

A bit about me

I served in the Information Technology industry for three decades with multinational companies in Service Delivery and People Management.

Service Devlivery and People Management roles demonstrated my people skills as an excellent listener, motivator and coach. As a people manager, I focused on spending quality time with my team and helping team member’s to work on their goals and shape their life and future. The focus, always on better quality of life for the individual. The passion to assist and guide people with their life and career slowly made its presence in casual everyday discussion with people from all walks of life; the self discovery and turning point in becoming a 'Profiler'.

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Vinod Ponoth

Career Profiler, Trainer and Coach

RESUME

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Employment

  • 2012-Present

    Career Profiler, Trainer and Coach @ DISHA – Imparting Life Skills

    Career Profiling and Coaching for individuals.
    Program Manager OneWorld Foundation for Performing Arts.
    Volunteer Vivekananda Kendra Vedic Vision Foundation.

  • 2010-2011

    Manager, Technical Support @ Cisco Systems

    Managing Service Delivery Business, including business transition, Strategy, Operations.
    People Management, Training and Development.

  • 2004-2010

    People Manager @ Microsoft

    Member of the Multi-Region Support Team for Office.
    Leading and enhancing the performance of Support Engineering teams.
    Coaching engineers to perform above and beyond.
    SME for Office application Suite and SharePoint Technology.
    Knowledge Engineer - Knowledge Base article creation, scrub and publish.

  • 2002-2004

    Head of Technology and Services @ Axcenta

    Startup - Plan build the Support Division
    Building a strong customer base which included premier organizations
    Coaching engineers to perform above and beyond.
    Initiating new avenues in business selling unique support solutions

  • 2002-2004

    Technical Executive @ IBM

    Plan, deliver and implement Y2K readiness,for IBM premier customers
    Coaching and mentoring partner engineer’s on PC Server/Desktop/Laptop technologies.
    Account Management and providing pre-sales technical support for partners.
    Support Escalation Point (statewide) for PC Servers/Laptops.

Education

  • 1988

    Diploma in Electronic Systems @  Fort Electronics, Kolatta

  • 2001

    Diploma in Programming and System Analysis @ CIT, Toronto, Canada

  • Professional Certifications

    Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
    Microsoft Certified System Administrator
    Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist(Microsoft Windows Vista, SharePoint(2007,2010), MOSS)
    Microsoft Certified IT Professional – (Consumer and Enterprise Support)
    Microsoft Certified Professional - Internet Specialist
    CCNA (Course Completed)
    Certified Practitioner Neuro Linguistic Programming
    Certificate in Crucial Conversations Mastery Course
    Tom Hopkins Sales Training Program

Skills & Things about me

photography
90%
Wonderful Listener
Punctual
91%
problem solver
Blogger
61%
Travelling & Blogging

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My latest projects


Sunday, September 6, 2015

What is DISHA

DISHA in sanskrit means direction

Discover the Self

              The Merriam dictionary defines this word as - to make known or visible or to find out or to obtain sight or knowledge of for the first time. An important factor in any individual’s success. 

Identify the Goal

              Every Goal has its roots in a Dream. So dream away..The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next  plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth”. – Dan Rather 

Seek Opportunities

              "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."- Winston Churchill  

Hold on to your Passion

             Passion is all about following your heart.  Do not put your Passion on hold. Hold on to your Passion. "A winner is someone who recognizes his in-born talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." - Larry Bird

Attain Bliss

              Bliss means Complete or Happiness.
              This is the state which everyone in this world aims to reach.This is where we will help you reach. "Try not be a person of success, but rather a person of virtue." - Albert Einstein

Services


Profiler

Profiling comes naturally, I love working with people, especially children in the age group 13 - 16, to help them discover their strength areas, reinforce their passion and overcome their not so strong areas.

Motivater

I believe to be good motivator one needs to be a great listener. Careful listening helps to unravel the hidden stengths in an individual and use the discoveries to motivate them. Today with so much of negativity around it is not easy to be focused and motivated.

Coach

Coaching is a continuous developmental activity both on the personal and professional areas. In Coaching there is always goal setting, guidance and advice. Coaching is not mentoring. Coaching is always a specific agenda, whereas mentoring is more general.

Trainer

Training is the form of development which involves harnessing skills and knowledge. Training is a continuous process and there are no age barriers. My decades of IT background have helped me to garner IT skills and knowledge for effective use in everyday life. I have the expertise in MSOffice suite of applications, Visio, Productivity Tools, and can impart trainings for professionals or a casual IT user.

Photographer

A casual hobby and passion. Photography is a form of story telling and every photography assignment has a story to tell.

Consultant

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Contact

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Adress/Street

Ponoth Narayanalayam, Ponoth Road, Kaloor, Kochi 682017. Kerala. India

Phone number

on request