• Visiting Professor, Adjunct Faculty and Academic Adviser to Engineering and Management Institutions in multi-disciplinary subjects of ‘Technology and Management’

  • Corporate Trainer, Instructor and Specialist in Outreach programs/workshops in ‘Business Strategies, Behavioural sciences, Quality Systems and Technologies’
Commander Prasad YVV, though well noted and vastly regarded as a very ‘Senior Professional’ and ‘Expert-Consultant’ in ‘Defence, Aerospace & Homeland Security business domains’ owing to his extensive professional background and over 36 years of hands-on professional experience in those, is also widely known and quite acknowledged as an ‘Academician’ & ‘Scholar’ in the field of “Education and Academic Disciplines”; and also a distinguished faculty for ‘Academia-Industry Interface’.

Over and above his engineering & professional qualifications in electrical/electronics, control systems, communications, naval electronic systems and other specialist qualifications in various weapon-electronics, radars, sonars, missiles, combat systems, electronic warfare, data-link, communication systems, artificial intelligence, reliability engineering & others, he holds many managerial qualifications too, having done various managerial long-courses & certification-modules in Human Resources, Material Management, Logistics, Marketing, Operations, Strategic Finance Management, Operations Research, Production & Project Management, Industrial relations & Law and others during his career-times from Indian Navy/Naval School of Management Studies (stood first in the overall top-merit as an outstanding management student/program-participant), College of Naval Warfare, NITIE, Jamnalal Bajaj School of Management and Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore); and has since done extensive research and works in many management disciplines during his career-phases at different levels in Government, Public & Private sector appointments.

He had trained & coached many students during 1977-79, even when he was through engineering graduation, in Science, Mathematics and Engineering for competitive examinations of Engineering & Medical entrance tests and IIT entrance tests. He had taught many subjects, ranging from English literature to technology and management subjects from the early times of his career. He had worked in many institutions from his student-life to career-times; and a few of them include ‘Academy of English, Academy of Arts & Sciences, Shanti Vidya Niketan, Kareer College and Administrative Staff College. He was one of the ‘Most wanted’ Professors, referred to as ‘Professor Prasad’, in Mumbai during 1987-90 when he used to visit many academic institutions for training the students of CA, M.Sc., PGDM and Engineering subjects. He has continued since then to guide many students at graduation and post-graduation/Masters’ levels from time to time and authored many useful academic material on various subjects.

He had trained many students for Civil Services’ Competitive Examinations and IITs/IIMs. Many of his students had joined IITs successfully after being trained by him at his own place akin to Gurukul phenomenon. He has been visiting many Post-Graduate level institutions, i.e., both Civil and Military colleges, as a guest-faculty and conducting management workshops in management-disciplines of ‘Decision-making by Statistical techniques & tools’, ‘Quantitative Techniques & Operations Research’, Human Resources and Behavioural Sciences, Material Management and Logistics, ‘Project/Program Management’ and others. Many of his students are currently the Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, General Managers in many reputed companies and leading enterprises.

As ’Adjunct Faculty’ to BITS-Pilani, he had formulated the syllabi and content for BITS’ Students a course-framework titled, “Design Engineering for Industry-Interface” analogous to typically a capstone project practiced by American Universities which usually require a great deal of research and effort. He had guided BITS’ students for their projects and one of his subjects for project-training to BITS’ students was on ‘Reliability & Maintainability” modelling and analysis. He was also an external guide to JNT University scholars for their project-works in ‘Reliability studies” when he was the Director of the “Reliability & Maintainability Advisory Group” in Hyderabad. He was also the Visiting Faculty to a PG Management Institution, “Institute of Advanced Management Education and Entrepreneurship (IAMEE)” and he had taught many Management-Students in this institution various subjects viz., ERP, Operations Management etc. He had also been honoured as “Chief Guest, Key-Note Speaker and Invitee-Speaker” on many academic functions which include convocations, entry-behaviour conferences and advisory council meetings. He happened to be a special invitee as a distinguished speaker for many summits in R&D sessions, electronic design, India innovation, Shipbuilding, defence SMEs’ contributions, national self-reliance, defence production planning and other prominent conferences. He regularly conducts Master-Classes in electronics R&D, reliability engineering and technical management subjects too.

He is currently on the board of National Advisory Council of IAMEE. He had conducted many workshops on outreach programmes in industry-firms for their ‘Executive Training Courses” in the disciplines of Project Management, Product-Realisation, Optimal Production Strategies, Total Quality Management, ISO-9001:2008 Quality Management System and its perspective for implementation & audit, AS-9100 C QMS objectives and implementation process, CMMI-awareness and implementation initiatives, Software Project Management and Standards, Quality Systems and Best Practices, Customer Relationship Management & Business Communication and such others.

Commander Prasad was a chief member of a Task-Force Group, formed by a defence institution in reviewing and setting up the software design & development and documentation standards and he is a noted speaker on software standards. Having done his stint as a General Manager (SAP) in a Defence PSU and also heading the “IT and Systems”, he has been a good ‘ERP’ professor with hands-on experience of having done the ERP audits. There happened to be some excellent sessions over a number of workshops conducted by him which were related to “Challenges and Opportunities in Defence & Aerospace Go-To-Market Strategies, Corporate/Strategic Planning, Defence procurement and contracting, Creation of new Strategic business Units/Entities, Infrastructure planning for creation of Project-facilities in defence and aerospace domains etc. at CEOs/COOs level; and these sessions were well taken.

He is a qualified Lead Assessor of ISO 9001 and 19001 standards and a member of IRCA; and he has done many ‘internal audits’ of business concerns on request and consulting; and conducted workshop sessions on quality Management Systems and Best Practices. He has also been an invitee-speaker at many a forum on ‘Security Systems’; and he presented the sessions on ‘Information & data Security’ and ISO 27001 based information management systems at the Government levels. There have been numerous sessions on ‘Security Systems’ by him in different academic institutions. He has also been a professional speaker on different ‘defence & aerospace’ matters and in various Industry-forums.

Commander Prasad has contributed significantly to the academic world; and he continues to have the immense passion and penchant for serving the academic institutions & Industry through ‘Corporate Training’ & ‘Institutional Coaching’. He is available for in-house & outreach training programmes at all levels, i.e., from CEOs/COOs to Senior/Middle Management Executives and to spend his professional time as a ’Faculty-Member/ Department Head or/and as an ‘Academic Guide & Adviser’ to any Engineering and Management Institution.

He is a professional teacher & a passionate speaker where the principles of learning are invoked with the sincerity of purpose.               
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  • Corporate / Strategic Planning & Performance Measurement
  • Risk Management and Analysis
  • Decision-making by Statistical techniques & tools
  • Quantitative Techniques & Operations Research
  • Human Resources and Behavioural Sciences
  • Material Management and Logistics
  • Project / Program Management
  • Marketing, CRM and Business Networking
  • Production and Operations Management
  • Strategic Finance Management
  • Industrial relations & Law
  • Software Project Management and Software Standards
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