I am graduate in B.E. CSE (Computer Science and Engineering) from College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), Anna University. Thereafter, I joined Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited – Electronics Division (BHEL-EDN) as Engineer Trainee in Jul 2011. I began my career in Control Equipment-Material Management-Purchase Resold (CE-MM-PR) in Nov 2011 and subsequently promoted to Senior Engineer in Jul 2016.

Despite the extremely tough nature of job, procurement trapped my attention while I was only an Engineer Trainee and that interest is self-sustaining as there is great scope for improving processes and bringing value for money for our organization. My procurement work profile includes preparation of bid documents, floating many types of tenders including global tenders, commercial evaluation of offers, being member of bid opening and negotiation committees for various items for many power plant projects. Since my department is focused on third party items directly shipped to customer site, my job role also includes follow up from purchase order placement to achievement of turnover.

I am lucky and proud to acknowledge that Certificate Program in Public Procurement (CPPP) was made mandatory as a part of Sourcing Policies workshop conducted in BHEL-EDN in Apr 2018. CPPP was very informative and provided insight into the basic concepts as well as finer aspects of public procurement. Transparency and innovation are few key qualities required in the professionals that this course propagates and successfully inculcates in the participants. I would like to thank the World Bank for designing this extraordinary knowledge-enriching programme.