1. Training for achieving excellence in the planning, directing, and managing of high-level corporate/national agency communications and public relations programs andevents. Expertise in strategic messaging, marketing, and creation of communication products for a corporate/agency level organization.
2. Achieving Expertise in directing and creating effective mass communication mechanisms in order to defend major program objectives before executive, national and international organizations; scientific and professional organizations; national, State, Tribal, and local governments; interagency groups; private industry; special interest groups; NGOs and public meetings which often involve dealing with highly controversial and sensitive issues.
3. Obtain g and utilizing the latest knowledge of public land/natural and cultural resource program development, policy formulation, program and budget accomplishment, as well as how top level government procedures and decision making are handled.
4. Knowledge of and ability to work collaboratively to coordinate policy and program development and/or operational activities directly related to high-level university communications and public relations programs and events.
5. Expertise for successful implementation of an effective internal communication program aimed at the continual delivery of information to employees and enhancement of employee engagement.

1. Creativity and Innovation; How to Develop new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encouraged new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting-edge programs/processes.
2. External Awareness: Understand and keep up-to-date on local, national, and international policies and trends that affect the organization and shape stakeholders' views; aware of the organization's impact on the external environment.
3. Flexibility: Open to change and new information; rapidly adapts to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles.
4. Resilience: Deal effectively with pressure; remains optimistic and persistent, even under adversity. Recovered quickly from setbacks.
5. Strategic Thinking: Formulate objectives and priorities and implement plans consistent with the long term interests of the organization in a global environment. Capitalize on opportunities and managed risks.
6. Vision: Take a long-term view and builds a shared vision with others; act as a catalyst for organizational change. Influenced other to translate vision into action.

1. Conflict Management: Encourage creative tension and differences of opinions. Anticipate and take steps to prevent counter-productive confrontations. Manage and resolve conflicts and disagreements in a constructive manner.
2. Leveraging Diversity: Foster an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual differences are valued and leveraged to achieve the vision and mission of the organization.
3. Developing Others: Develop the ability of students and colleagues to perform and contribute to the organization by providing ongoing feedback and by providing opportunities to learn through formal and informal methods.
4. Team Building; Inspire and foster team commitment, spirit, pride, and trust. Facilitated cooperation and motivated teammembersto accomplish group goals

1. Accountability: Hold self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determine objectives, set priorities, and delegate work. Accept responsibility for mistakes. Comply with established control systems and rules.
2. Customer Service: Anticipate and meet the needs of both internal and external customers. Deliver high-quality products and services; committed to continuous improvement.
3. Decisiveness:Make well-informed, effective, and timely decisions, even when data were limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; perceived the impact and implications of decisions.
4. Entrepreneurship; Position the organization for future success by identifying new opportunities; build the organization by developing or improving products or services. Take calculated risks to accomplish organizational objectives.
5. Problem Solving: Identify and analyze problems; weigh relevance and accuracy of information; generate and evaluate alternative solutions;make recommendations.
6. Technical Credibility: : Understood and appropriately applied principles, procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.

1. Financial Management: Understand the organization's financial processes. Prepare, justify, and administer the program budget. Oversee procurement and contracting to achieve desired results. Monitor expenditures and use cost-benefit thinking to set priorities.
2. Human Capital Management:Build and manage workforce based on organizational goals, budget considerations, and staffing needs. Ensure that employees are appropriately recruited, selected, appraised, and rewarded; took action to address performance problems. Manage a multi-sector workforce and a variety of work situations.
3. Technology Management:How to keep up-to-date on technological developments. Make effective use of technology to achieve results. Ensure access to and security of technology systems.

1. Partnering; Develop networks and built alliances; collaborate across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
2. Political Savvy:Identify the internal and external politics that impact the work of the organization Perceive organizational and political reality and act accordingly.
3. Influencing/Negotiating:Persuade others; build consensus through give and take; gain cooperation from others to obtain information and accomplish goals.

• Working as a consultant for government agencies, businesses, and universities, developing budgets and facilitating international agricultural and technical projects through global collaboration.
• Assessing country-specific entrepreneurial ecosystems and offered expertise to local start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises as they advanced into commercially viable,promising businesses.
• Facilitating strategic planning discussions identified current and future hiring needs,organized job fares, building strong employer brands, and connected thought leaders to companies using online platforms.
• Authored “Desi-American Reflections,” a manual for socio-economic and inter-cultural integration for the Asian and Pacific Islander community

Accomplishments

• Selected as Honorary Director to a State Food Park Project in Uzbekistan
• Technical Auditor to the US Dept. of State supported Science & Technology Center for Ukraine and Uzbekistan, promoting projects that impacted public health and nutrition
• Language consultant to the US Dept of Defense supported National Language Service Corps.
• Procured a Research Support Grant ($300,000 per annum), benefitting Texas Tech as they continued research in plant genetics.

Teaching undergraduate and master’s level courses in international agriculture, economics,journalism, marketing, and management

• Design and develop grant funded project proposals that focused on strengthening the institutional, technical and financial capacity with multicultural learning initiatives and developed new partnerships with leading academic centers in the US and Asia.
• Trained 12 teachers and graduate students in management of all aspects of Civil and Democratic Society organization & education portfolio, leading 3 educational tours visiting leading CSOs in India.
• Traveling to multiple locations, identified economic, social, and political issues affecting national development and potential development needs and rendered detailed advice on emergent socioeconomic and geopolitical issues.

Accomplishments

• Oversaw 6 highly successful student and faculty exchange programs.
• Forged academic and research collaborations between governments and businesses in Uzbekistan, India, and the US, promoting development of bilateral expertise.
• Developed and implemented a Memorandum of Understanding with 3 overseas universities.

• CEO of the PDKV University (premier land-grant Institution www.pdkv.ac.in) and Chairman, Academic and Executive Councils, providing overall technical and administrative leadership in multidisciplinary research projects providing remunerative technology and business interventions. Responsible for academic, research, and international service, curriculum development and instruction, extension, media, PR, web & field publicity, and operational and auxiliary enterprise missions of the University. As advisor to high-level state and central government officials, serving as the point of contact and interaction for state, federal and international grant funded development projects, with the responsibility of quality of the products and overall performance.
• Management and supervision of staff of 3200, including 650 faculty and 4000 students located at 21 stations. Fiscal & administrative management of a comprehensive budget of $5 M, comprising state and central funds, sponsored funding and international & corporate grants. Responsible for planning and directing mail and web-based social media solicitations and donor and volunteer initiatives.
• Demonstrated success in developing and achieving a bold, unified and sustainable vision for the Universities, expanding international research collaborations and strategic partnerships, increased student engagement in global opportunities, strategic partnerships, strengthening infrastructure and building resources. Designing and implementing the PDKV outreach initiative, leading a team of 210 specialists engaged in radio, TV, and mobile phone-based technology dissemination program schedules, employing 11 network stations, 23 local and national newspapers and 7 state and national TV channels, my efforts are currently influencing over 3 million diverse clientele on a daily basis. Teleconferencing each week form three Science Centers, our impact evaluation process involves regular events lead by community leaders and listener participation in direct, as well as virtual contact events organized each week. Our partners in this venture are the Tata Group of Trusts and the Reliance Foundation.
• Lead program recruitment, including outreach to key educational institutions, student groups, and professional associations; Manage extensive selection process, consisting of application reviews throughout network and interviews with staff and stakeholders; Contribute to and support orientation, monitoring, and training programs being led from India; Create processes that are efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable to streamline knowledge management and operations; Expand awareness of Fellowship by reaching out to key stakeholder groups; Revitalize Advisory Council & Alumni Leadership Council; cultivate, manage, facilitate, and develop these councils; Lead communications department to develop and maintain Fellowship program collateral, web materials, and online application process; Liaise with communications department on publications, campaigns and special projects for content generation and curation; Coordinate with communications team on the development and use of streamlined technology.
• Serving as an expert Member of Govt. India’s leading grantfunding agency - Rajiv Gandhi Commission on Science & Technology, empowering projects in strategic alignment with key national and international goals, including advancement of sustainable energy, nanotechnology, and wireless communication.
• As Councilor to the Association of Indian Universities (www.aiuweb.org) involving a network of 63 agricultural and 750 traditional universities within India and abroad. Developing and maintaining networks with partner universities and facilitating increased sharing of information and co-operation in the field of education, culture, sports and allied areas, my accomplishments include recognitions of accredited schools and colleges by internationally renowned associations facilitating study abroad programs and participative joint degree programs.
• International Consultant, FAO-UN panel on “e-learning curriculum on Agricultural Risk Assessment and Management,” advising the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Agency, the Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome.
• Prestigious First-ever FAO online Diploma Courses made available to Agricultural and Allied clientele vis www.pdkv.ac.in (FAO-PDKVe-learningpartnership).
• Drafted and implemented MOUs with Cornell and Texas Tech University, leading to active exchanges of faculties and international student enrolment at PDKV and Texas TechUniversity
• Implementing MoU with Initiatives of Change International, Caux, Switzerland (www.iofc.org - a ConsultativeOrganization to theUN Economic& Social Commission - ECOSOC), so far, I have organized three global “Dialogues on Democracy and Just Governance”. I have also trained students and faculty, from US, Tanzania, South Korea, Rwanda, South Sudan, Canada, South Africa, Afghanistan, Australia, Malaysia,Kenya,Ethiopia andLebanon.

Recent Infrastructure andHR Development Landmarks

• Infrastructure andHR Development Landmarks: Launched first-ever state-owned Undergraduate College of Business Management and Agricultural Biotechnology Course in Vidarbha in June 2013, with 5400 Sq m infrastructure procuring Special Maharashtra State Grant worthRs. 2767.74 lakhs
• Launched World-Bank supported “Climate Resilient Agriculture” development project worth 2000 crore.
• Launched “PDKV Center for Excellence” at PDKV Akola (2015), procuring SpecialMaharashtra State Grant worth Rs. 33 Crore.
• Initiatives of Human ResourceDevelopment as a special drive for teaching as well as non-teaching staff was undertaken and, in the process, over 160 academic, administrative and technical personnel have been trained via IofC’s (Initiatives of Change) ‘Heart of Effective Living’ and ‘Effective Living for Life’ Programs.
• Popularized the PDKV Project on “Strengthening Agrometeorology and IT-GIS-Mobile Phone-Skype applications for vigilant dryland farming” sponsored by the Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, granting– Rs. 22.93 Lakhs.
• Organized “International Farmers’ Dialogue” (Dec 4-10, 2014) serving to bring in new and highly optimistic global perspectives on subject, leading to effective action plans and watch groups reporting progress.
• A special underprivileged class Girls’Hostel on PDKV premises, Akola (Rs 1 Cr).
• Farmers Hostel’ at KVK Buldana, funded by ICAR, New Delhi (Rs 60 Lakh).
• ‘New Administrating Building’ at KVK Buldana, funded by ICAR, New Delhi (Rs 1 crore).
• A special HR development fund for student and staff training activities, awarded by Central Institute forCotton Research(Rs. 1.5Cr).
• “International Farmers’ Dialogue” conferences (2014,2015). Over 26 participants from Australia, UK, France, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, SouthKorea, Taiwan and 1025 from India.
• Implementing “Rural Ambassadors” project funded by the Tata Trust and Reliance Foundation (India’s leading industrial houses) worth $ 2.34 M, trained remotely located 320 tribal youth and women, imparting skills assuring gainful employ ability.
• Established the “Village bio-energy unit and model bio-fuel park, ensuring local energy demands with livelihood security,” securing funds from the FAO - International Centre for Research on Agro-Forestry (ICRAF), worth$ 1.04M, effective sinceNovember2014.
• Pioneered the launch of World Bank- Govt. of India funded project “Rainwater conservation for perennial irrigation in Rainfed Agriculture” worth $ 5M, in Nov 2013.
• Renewed the “Network Project on MarketIntelligence” funded by World Bank - $ 1.15 M, inDec 2012.

• Taught basic and advanced courses in Sciences. Demonstrated skills in advisement, faculty recruitment, student mentoring, course curriculum design, and development and utilization of e-learning and bioinformatics resources.
• Assisting TTU’s Graduate School and International Cultural Center, served as liaison between TTU Graduate School and Regional, National and International Universities, and High-Schools, attracting & recruiting high-quality students. Actively contributed in the recruitment of TTU’s STEM, MBA, International Exchange and Leaning Abroad Programs based in Spain and over 20 other affiliated Universities abroad. Leading exploratory missions to countries of Southeast and Central Asia and East Europe, organized high-visibility contact events, working in close collaboration with the Fulbright Organization in India and organizing high-visibility publicity fares in major Indian Cities.
• Thrice deputed abroad by U. S. Dept. of State supported Science & Technology Center in Ukraine & Uzbekistan (STCU), as Auditor and Party Chief, for the task of evaluation of US govt. funded civilian research projects rehabilitating former weapon scientists.
• Led technical inspections of projects. Provided authentic end-of-assignment reports enclosing strategic advice, impacting the future of commercial projects and defining new strategies in postChernobyl human health, environment&natural resource management.
• Representing theUniversity inUSDA’s US-IndiaKnowledge Initiative Program, facilitated exchange programs and training ofIndian scientists at TTU
• Implemented pioneering material Transfer Agreement (MTA) with Plant Research International ofHolland, resulting in industrial contract worth $300,000.
• Twice deputed abroad by USAID’s Partners of the Americas International Development Program in the Caribbean; advised the Jamaica Agricultural Development Corporation achieving gainful international educational collaborations involving TTU and University of WestIndies.
• My efforts have resulted in achieving intellectual and scholarly enrichment goals, as follows:
  • Recruitment of over 450 high-caliber students from leading Indian Universities, specializing inSTEM andBusiness Management.
  • Unique exposure to international learning experiences that have been academically challenging, professionally relevant, and personally engaging.
  • Strategic policy advice on the future of US Govt. funded civilian research projects, such as those impacting the design of post-Chernobyl environmental management strategies.
  • Extended outreach of new US technologies contributing in a major way to industrialization empowering developing countries.

• Assisted the USDA in implementation of protocols facilitating active exchanges of scientists and specialists.
• As Executive and Fiancé Management leader of USDA-PL-480 grant funded project, coordinated activities ensuring accuracy and compliance with mandated organizational standards. Reviewed and evaluated processes directing project staff located in India and abroad
• Seeking assistance from the Indian Technical & Economic Cooperation, developed comprehensive international education programs identifying partnering institutions. Trained specialists from Bangladesh, Nepal, Egypt, Nigeria, Vietnam,Ethiopia, Indonesia,Burma, andTaiwan.
• Working closely with interagency colleagues, promoted inter-governmental liaison via collaborative ventures enhancing learning, creativity, discovery and analytical abilities. Justified budgets in review committees addressing key issues impacting projects funded by the World Bank, PL 480-USDA, USAID, and Natural Resources Institute,U. K.
• The above efforts have resulted in improved academic standards with superior instruction and research recommendations and publications contributing in a major way to the adaptation of modern e-learning based educational technologies.
• Supervised multidisciplinary staff of 65 engaged in research & extension education projects resulting in advancement of economic growth and environmental safety, generating resources worth US $ 3.5 M. Organized “Lab-to-Land” and “Front Line Technology Demonstration” campaigns resulting in popularization of low-cost biological control measures.
• Promoted the work of major policy decision making bodies, viz. Genetic Engineering Approval Committee & Review Committee on Genetic Manipulation. Contributed in the success of US-India BT cotton venture, currently a$ 2 Bn industry.
• Monitored the progress of the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) sponsored international technical and financial assistance projects enabling collaborative ventures benefitting specialists in agribusiness, environmental & human health, education, and allied industries. Led exploratory appraisal missions in Tashkent, Samarkand, Andijan and Namangan. Identified economic, social and political issues impacting national development and through this process, potential development needs. Contacting diverse stakeholders provided expert advice regarding the implications of emergent socio-economic and geo-political issues. Defined step-by-step action plans that have helped in realizing bilateral grant funded project development goals. Representing Indian universities,facilitated collaborations that have enabled active student and faculty exchanges.
• Organized and led bilateral industrial and academic delegations and visits to various scientific and organizations in Uzbekistan and India

• Taught Grammar, Translation and Composition courses to students of Certificate and Junior Diploma Courses