Amitesh Sinha

43689 Phelps Ter Ashburn VA 20147 amitesh@iconnectgroup.com 703-899-9630

Executive Biography Amitesh Sinha Senior Retail Furniture Consultant Ashley Home-Stores North America
CIO | VP IT | Director Operations | Senior Program Consultant | Amitesh Sinha Amitest Sinha is the most contemporary Technology consultant based in North America, has +20 years of hand-on experience with corporate clients as CIO, VP-IT, Director Operations and Senior Program Consultant specifically providing services to Home builders and Furniture retailers in Ashley homestores. Mr. Sinha credentials made him significantly distinguished among home furnishing technology providers due to extending contribution in the development and successful deployment of retail furniture software, furniture store software, furniture inventory software, STORIS Furniture Software, POS Furniture Software and reengineering of software with extended features and support. He is truly a strategic thinker, policy maker, and highly focused to ensure results according to timelines and persuaded to strategically and cost effectively utilize technology in alignment with organizational goals and objectives. Excel at IT integration, business planning, program/project management, implementing best practice methodologies and continuous improvement programs. Proven area and expertise includes:
Communication Management Commercial and Retail Operations Logistics and Supply management IT Integration and Collaboration P&L Portfolio/Program/Project Management Procurement and Contract Management Business Analysis & software development Financial Control Management Processes and System Analysis Monitoring, Control and Execution Credit and Collection Analyst

Progressive, decisive and innovative individual highly valued for expertise, interpreting corporate vision and strategy, translating objectives into actionable plans and providing decisive leadership to multifunctional and cross-cultural teams. Mr. Sinhas professional synergies made him a significant choice for commercial and government agencies by delivering cutting edge solutions and services according to the company demands and contemporary business requirements. He is in the list of top most furniture consultants, retail consultant and retail home furnishing specialist, facilitating Ashley home-stores providing centralized, unified and easily replicated database system to perform their query operations on a single click. He is fully responsible to the management of IT operations to provide centralized solutions of data centers, firewalls implementation and related security issues. His retail consulting experience provides insight to home furnishings, appliance, electronics, merchandising and fire, patio industries to bring more scalable and optimized solutions with better functionality and improved performance. Sinha has a perfect vision to coordinate with Store Managers, Architects, Engineers, Merchandising, Advertising, and Display Teams, to transform an empty plot of land into a successful retail showplace using retail technology software. As credit and collection specialist, he has great insight on consumer finance and retail credit management also has an experience in establishing credit policy, audit functions, all phases of collection procedures, and real estate finance. This vast experience has enabled him to become one of our industrys most respected business analyst, consultant and roundtable group facilitator. Sinha earned MBA from JBIMS, Mumbai India and started his professional career from Stock Holding Corporation India Limited and served for 07 years. Later, he decided to move USA in 2000 to extend his professional journey. Here he started professional consultancy business by establishing iConnect group. Technology management was the main focus to deliver services. In a little time, clients network grown up due to strategic developments and by executing customized solutions according to client business requirements. Currently working with top notch companies to steer technology strategies (short term and long terms) providing flexible solutions by anticipating their needs and requirements. Words elicit from experiences brings immediate opportunity to new learners. Mr. Sinha, publications are overly welcomed by industry leaders. His book on Data warehousing (ISBN # 9780790612492)

Amitesh Sinha

43689 Phelps Ter Ashburn VA 20147 amitesh@iconnectgroup.com 703-899-9630

entails quality learning and provide a platform to implement best practice solutions within the field of data mining. Throughout the professional tenure, Mr. Sinha personality is the ideal for professional learners who want to grow with distinction. He has given his services to various organizations during the crunch time and gives them opportunity to flourish again by meeting their technical objectives according to the growing vision of organizational structure. According to him, Organizational technology resources are always a prime asset of any system that needs to improve with adaptive approach to keep the system growing, organized and up-to-date. Successful business analysis, business planning, financial control and management are the assets of Sinhas professional expertise. Vision: Growing with the vision to provide quality services as retail and furniture consultant in order to overcome the lapse of technology integration and centralized operations. Mission: Being a part of connecting world, enthusiastic to deliver challenging solutions in guidance of professional insight and execute quality based accomplishment by leveraging technology methodologies. As home furnishing professional, he believes; a micro-vertical strategy, built on strong domain expertise, ensures that no matter how complex a companys business problem is, it can offer an exciting solution that is sustainable and innovation-driven. Professional Values: Passionate, Persuasive, Persistent, Dedicated and consistently Competitive to grow with technology world in order to provide more focused and streamline solutions to retail industry. Clients hired him due to professional reliance, quality assurance and by keeping adaptable approach to deliver services. Goals: Being technology consultant, primary goal is to integrate deep technology expertise and industryspecific insights into well connected processes and workflows to deliver solutions that can easily help our clients to achieve business outcomes with agility, speed and certainty. Mr. Sinha objective is to help organizations by implementing the tools and techniques that will help to achieve high profit margins and refine business. By focusing on best practices consulting, businesses will perform better than competition. He is fully capable to provide consulting services to furniture, homes goods, interior design and retail industry specialized in Operations, Sales, e-Marketing, Inventory Management, Financial Planning and Management, Service, and Distribution. Being a speaker and moderator on NAHB Technical Panel, once he said; time flies, money flies but experience never flies from you if you want to place it with integrity, wisdom and by focusing on core objective. He loves life and living happily with his family in Ashburn, VA. Mr. Sinha accomplishment journey is moving on; during the tenure, worked on various programs and projects delivered diversified services to industry stakeholders, companies and organizations. He has successfully implemented engaging solutions according to the highly scalable and optimized products. From project planning to scope management, project execution to quality control/assurance and monitoring to procurement, Sinha became a vital part of each and every step of the project and undergoing programs. Project management is the highly technical and most contemporary way of delivering professional services in a business system. Sinhas approach to deliver a successful project within approved cost and timeline based on PMI, Project management knowledge areas that significantly given him a room to grow intellectually in order to attain required deliverables. Expertise and skills are always adaptable according to business requirements and scenarios; in various cases, it includes proposal analysis, technical bidding, commercial supervision, contract management, budgeting and procurement of hardware. He has significantly contributed to client success by providing

Amitesh Sinha

43689 Phelps Ter Ashburn VA 20147 amitesh@iconnectgroup.com 703-899-9630

extremely engaging Project reviews, workflows/process, internal control systems, operational feasibility testing and developed team of professionals. Working on IT solutions, providing integration and collaboration on global technologies are the niche of his professional career. Mr. Sinha mentally conceptualizes a vision according to the requirements and resources of client, his leadership skills strengthen the confidence of business owners and financers to invest in order to deliver timely solutions. His legacy encourages companies to hire him to grow their technologies according to contemporary needs. He believes to create opportunities rather to find. Demand management, devising strategy, technology governance, implementing control procedures, risk analysis/management/mitigation are the most powerful areas of his services with information management. Mr. Sinha has concise thinking to develop new solutions that grow clients business by delivering potential revenues. Consultancy is the productive process which enables stakeholders to convert dream into reality. Mr. Sinha grown up and connected with the world stakeholders under the umbrella of iconnect group, majorly worked with; Comstock Homebuilding Companies, Capital Homes, Old South Homes, Vintage Homes, Flying Horse Realty, IPS Worldwide, Trivetts Furniture, Ashley Furniture, ITCNP Inc, ROO, Builders CoPilot, Realtors CoPilot, Weichert Realty, Medical / Doctor / Dental Facilities. Living in a digital age and working as technology entrepreneur is the bit tricky in order to keep update with latest advents and technology developments. Mr. Sinha is always inclined to work on Cloud computing networks, Microsoft technologies, Agile and Scrum developments, open sources CMS, Business intelligence, Data warehousing, Data bases (SQL, Oracle) and loves to work on Windows and Unix. In the light of above inclinations, he has co-founded and developed automated ERP cum CRM application database strategy, compatible with most of the commonly used ERP and CRM systems. This strategy includes the implementation and data collection for initial test data and developing a product reporting strategy for assurance to end customers. Along with this, developed and implemented Business Intelligence database to generate complex reporting with accuracy. This resulted more accurate and complete contractor bids, reduced change costs and therefore reduced restocking and warehouse cost time by 20% to 30%. The direct result was a 1st year cost reduction. In the same way, developed bidding portal for transportation and logistics companies which resulted 15-25% savings on the annual spend for trucking of 3PL and Logistics companies. Sinhas insightful journey comprise of working on diverse projects which includes Home building industry product that implemented to streamline operations and system processes AS-IS to current stage that resulted to save ROI with extended support. The product was originally designed to handle electronic payment processing and integration with ADP. In the same way, Retail furniture and appliances product implemented to achieve ROI in short period and has proven track record. The product primarily facilitates and support large volume critical online payment processing using check and credit/dept processing. Amitesh Sinha professional journey and experiences can be vital for any organization that struggling to grow according to real time techniques within retail and furniture industry. His commitment to identifying and meeting client needs is consistently reflected through his innovative program designs and implementations, use of sophisticated experience-based projects and extended simulations, his highly interactive facilitation style, and attainment of tangible results with improved performance are the endorsement for the varied clients of iConnect group. He can easily be accessed through below information: 43689 Phelps Ter Ashburn VA 20147 Email: amitesh@iconnectgroup.com Call: 703-899-9630