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Deepkishore Reddy Chandrasekhar
Associate Director, Projects , PSA India
Mumbai
Summary
Professional leader with a proven track record of driving strategic initiatives and fostering effective team collaboration. Demonstrated expertise in project management, budget oversight, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring efficient achievement of organizational goals. Recognized for adaptability, reliability, and a strong focus on delivering impactful results. Skilled in leveraging data-driven insights to optimize processes and mentor teams to excel in dynamic environments.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Languages
Work History
Associate Director of Projects
PSA India
Mumbai
06.2024 - Current
- Leading the Green field MMLP Project at Indore, where PSA India signed the O&M contract expected to commence by 2H of 2026
- Managed cross-functional teams for multiple large-scale projects, successfully completing each on time and within budget constraints.
CEO
CITPL
Chennai
01.2023 - 06.2024
- Company Overview: PSA Chennai
- Heading the Business unit CITPL, PSA Chennai & handling the legal matters of PSA Sical, Tuticorin
- Managing and ensuring smooth day-to-day Terminal activities (Operations/Engineering/Marketing/IT/Finance/HR/IR activities)
- Liaising with Port authorities, marketing and developing the business at the location
- Coordinating with all the stakeholders to attain the business goals budgeting, and conducting the Board meetings as required
- Established and maintained strong relationships with customers, vendors, and strategic partners.
- Improved organizational structure by reallocating resources and redefining roles for greater efficiency.
- Monitored key business risks and established risk management procedures.
- Created succession plans to provide continuity of operations during leadership transitions.
- Created a positive work culture, resulting in increased employee satisfaction and retention rates.
- Delivered consistent revenue growth by identifying new markets and devising targeted expansion strategies.
- Enhanced brand reputation with effective marketing campaigns and public relations efforts.
Terminal Manager
PSA Sical
Tuticorin
07.2018 - 01.2023
- Heading the business unit at Tuticorin
- Managing and ensuring smooth day to day Terminal activities (Operations/Engineering/Marketing/IT/Finance/HR/IR activities)
- Liaising with Port authorities, marketing and developing the business at the location
- Coordinating with all the stakeholders to attain the business goals / Budgeting & conducting the Board meetings as required
- Optimized inventory management practices for better stock control, reduced wastage, and increased cost savings.
Sr Manager Project Development
BMCT (Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals)
Mumbai
08.2014 - 12.2017
- Company Overview: PSA Mumbai
- Contributing to the Operational requirements, HSSE, Equipment specifications for the terminal functioning
- Liaising with the design consultants on the requirements of a terminal (operational, HSSE, layouts, etc) & civil requirements related to terminals
- Verifying the drawings of the yard, wharf, gate, Security systems, and ISPS
- Coordinating with the Global IT team on the TOS requirements, testing the same, process improvement, Testing and analyzing the bugs encountered
- Coordinating with the Finance dept on the Terminal Billing process
- Coordinating with Port Authorities and Civil Project team
- Liaising with government authorities (customs and railways) and fulfilling their requirements
- Monitoring the timelines, flagging up the delays etc
- Reviewed and analyzed reports, records, and directives to obtain data required for planning department activities.
Sr Consultant (Domain Expert)
IGO Solutions
Chennai
01.2012 - 06.2014
- Company Overview: Deals with Port automation and business process mapping globally
- The scope of work in IGO is as a domain expert in Shipping and Terminal/logistics operations & Assistance to the team of QA and Business Process Mapping
- London Gate Way Terminal: Automation process of gate /yard process and BPM
- Abu-Dhabi Terminals (Automated Stacking Cranes Model) - Dubai
- DP World, Yarmica, Turkey (Equipment automation & BPM)
- Rotterdam World Gateway – (Automated Stacking Cranes & Automated Guided Vehicle concept development)
- Visiting the Project sites at London/Dubai/Turkey, Interviewing the departments and analysing the same for betterment of process (Process Optimisation)
- Planning and forecasting deliverables in terms of QA & BPM
- Responsible to deliver the Business Process and SOP on time
- Identification of Business scenarios in consultation with Clients
- Creation of test artefacts in line with the scenarios
- Testing TOS and Integrated Systems
- Deals with Port automation and business process mapping globally
- Prioritized projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates.
- Mentored junior consultants, helping them enhance their skills and contribute more effectively to projects.
- Troubleshoot issues by understanding the issue, diagnosing the root cause, and coming up with effective solutions.
Assistant Manager Planning/Operations
ICTT, DP World
07.2010 - 04.2012
- Coordinate with VOAs/operation team to fix the windows of the vessels
- Ensure to get the best possible/agreed productivity on vessels and turnaround the vessels well within the window time
- Ensure the gate carting time to be continuous and prepare the yard for the same
- Ensure optimal utilisation of equipments (RTG/QC/RS/ECH/ITV) while operations
- Coordinate with Engg./ops & commercial teams and plan the yard and release the equipments for preventive maintenance
- Set the monthly targets and review the same with the planning team
- Ensure the segregation is as per the standards and follow the safety regulations
- Review the reports related to truck turnaround time/throughput /TDR/yard utilisation and amend the process periodically
Asst Manager Imports
Maersk CFS
Chennai
01.2009 - 01.2010
- Involved in project stage and commencement of operations until 2009.
- Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work.
- Improved marketing to attract new customers and promote business.
- Improved customer satisfaction scores by overhauling customer service protocols and training staff in customer engagement techniques.
- Evaluated employee performance and conveyed constructive feedback to improve skills.
Asst Manager Operations & Equipment
MAERSK Line
Chennai
01.2007 - 01.2009
- Responsible for equipment and its availability at Chennai cluster (BLR & Tuticorin)
- Positioning of required equipment’s to the locations
- Managing stock levels of all types of equipment’s, coordinating with QC maintenance team for repairs and timely delivery
- Meeting forecast requirement
- Forecasting the future inventory levels and advising the contracted plots to ensure stacking capacity and service levels
- Effective equipment management in Chennai
- Responsible for equipment management and repairs for locations-Chennai, and supplying equipment to Calcutta, Haldia and Bangalore and assist in all aspects of intermodal operations, feedering and any other operational related activities
- Ensure that –equipment are made available per forecast and Asia box
- Ensure that-there are no import full and export full long standing containers in MAA, as per the targets set in the MAERSK Line world
- Ensure that-our empty storage yards have the necessary capacity to handle our increased volumes in 2007
- Ensure that-positioning cost to ICD’s reduced by 5% by setting up alternative mode of positioning
- Ensure that –RKEM is updated 95%within 4 hours of an activity taking place
- Ensure that yards, both empty and full container yards are audited to ensure that they are meeting our companies requirements and values
- Ensure that-third party recovery of cost must be 100%
- Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
- Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work.
Yard Planner/Vessel Planner
CCTL
Chennai
02.2002 - 01.2007
- Company Overview: P & O Ports
- Handled Yard planning and vessel planning post for 5 years
- Export yard: segregating containers according to haz class, wt, pod & o/b vessel
- Forming clusters for quay cranes
- Coordinating with documentation department on gate opening & closing for vessels
- Checking out for dwell time for imports & Exports, allocating space to shuffle
- Minimizing unproductive moves in yard by forecasting cargo
- Allocating space to offload containers line-wise if possible
- Trying different strategies & combinations to receive imports
- Analysing the data & preparing reports for the same
- Planning containers from yard to vessel for different QC s without any clash and complying with the requirements of both VOA & vessel stability criteria
- Coordinating with VOA, c/o of vessel; central planner
- Amending plans to suit the yard & vessel requirements
- Maintain optimum crane intensity for various vessels
- Fix targets for the vessels, Complete the vessel within the window time
- Preparing TDR & analysing the same for improvement
- P & O Ports
- Redesigned yard layout to minimize the truck turnaround time to reach the target with minimum time
- QC (resulted in increased productivity) almost increased 3-4 moves/hr
- Participated in pre-deployment workshop on ISIS software project at TCS, Hyderabad, India
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align goals and ensure project success.
- Optimized inventory control, reducing waste and improving cost efficiency.
Education
B.Sc. - Science
PVKN Govt Degree College
Chittoor, AP 06.1989 - 03.1992
B.E - Mech
Bangalore Institute of Technology
Bangalore 01.1992 - 01.1996
Skills
Team collaboration and leadership
Budgeting & Goal setting
Strategic leadership
Decision-making
Organizational development
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 04/07/71
Accomplishments
- Redesigned yard layout to minimize truck turnaround time.
- Participated in pre-deployment workshop on ISIS software project at TCS, Hyderabad, India.
Locations
- PVKN Govt College, Chittoor, AP, India
- Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India
- P & O Ports, Chennai, India
- Maersk Line, Chennai, India
- ICTT, DP World, Cochin, India
- IGO Solutions
- BMCT (Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals), Mumbai, India
- PSA Sical, Tuticorin, India
- CITPL, Chennai, India
- MMLP Project, Indore, India
Software
Oracle
MSOffice
Interests
Collecting old coins
Travel & Cooking
Watching Movies
Watching Cricket
Timeline
Associate Director of Projects
PSA India
06.2024 - Current
CEO
CITPL
01.2023 - 06.2024
Terminal Manager
PSA Sical
07.2018 - 01.2023
Sr Manager Project Development
BMCT (Bharat Mumbai Container Terminals)
08.2014 - 12.2017
Sr Consultant (Domain Expert)
IGO Solutions
01.2012 - 06.2014
Assistant Manager Planning/Operations
ICTT, DP World
07.2010 - 04.2012
Asst Manager Imports
Maersk CFS
01.2009 - 01.2010
Asst Manager Operations & Equipment
MAERSK Line
01.2007 - 01.2009
Yard Planner/Vessel Planner
CCTL
02.2002 - 01.2007
B.E - Mech
Bangalore Institute of Technology
01.1992 - 01.1996
B.Sc. - Science
PVKN Govt Degree College
06.1989 - 03.1992
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