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2.2.1: The institution assesses the learning levels of the students and organises special Programmes for advanced learners and slow learners PAGE S.NO CONTENT NO 1-10 1 Soft skills 11-15 2 Language and communication skills 16-31 Life skills (Yoga, physical fitness, health and 3 hygiene) 4 ICT/computing skills 32-61 Trainer profile Name of the Trainer : Tony Xavier Name of the Agencies : IMS Date : 26 November 2014 Program Name : Soft Skill & Aptitude Training 1 Tony Xavier An alumnus of IIM-Lucknow, Tony Xavier has more than 8 years of experience in the area of standardized aptitude testing. After graduating in 2004, a preference for academics led him to move from the retail division of the Aditya Birla Group and join the Academics Department of IMS Learning Resources in Bombay. Over a span of the 6 years he designed and developed learning and testing content for all national and international aptitude tests such as the CAT, GMAT® and the GRE® and by 2010 became the Head of the Academics Department of IMS. During this period, he took both the GMAT® and the GRE® and achieved scores of 750 out of 800 and 331 out of 340 respectively. In 2012, with the intention of taking on a larger business role and helping students more directly, he decided to take up the IMS Business Operations for the city of Chennai and is currently based there. 2 Vijay Janakiraman Vijay Janakiraman, Academics Manager - IMS Chennai, has been an IMS Trainer for more than 7 years and excels in Verbal Ability training for the CAT, GMAT, TOEFL, IELTS and TSE exams. He specializes in training MBA, job aspirants and college students in Group Discussion, Personal Interview and Etiquette skills. Through IMS, he has trained more than 5000+ individuals in Chennai alone. His sessions have been widely appreciated by freshers and experienced professionals alike due to their realistic and wholly interactive nature. One of his key strengths is his ability to connect with his audience and speak to them in a language and manner they understand. His "Inclusive" classes involve case studies, role-plays, extempore sessions, written tests and face-to-face one-on-ones. His work experience across 4 years spans several industries and verticals. He began his career at Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai, where he was the Module Lead for a major telecom project. He was with them for 3 years before moving to Reliance Telecom, Chennai, as a Business Development Manager. While at Reliance, he rose rapidly through the ranks and eventually headed the Videoconferencing Business for South Zone. Shortly after that he did his MBA from Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, where he majored in Marketing. While at Great Lakes he was picked up by Optima Advertising, a young and dynamic full-service ad agency in Chennai. While at Optima as an Account Manager, he was responsible for several memorable ad campaigns for a host of large, medium and small companies. In April 2010, he moved out of Optima and joined IMS Learning Resources Pvt. Ltd. full-time and is currently the Academics Manager. He is an Electronics and Communications engineer from S.R.M Engineering College, Chennai and he did his schooling from Bombay Scottish, Mumbai and P.S. Senior Secondary, Chennai. He lives in Chennai and is fluent is English, Hindi and Tamil. 3 Muneesh Narang An alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur and IIFT-Delhi, Muneesh Narang is a test-prep veteran with more than 8 years of experience with leading national test prep organizations. Over the course of his career Muneesh has trained more than 15000 students across all areas of Quantitative aptitude - DI, DS and Logical- Reasoning for tests such the CAT, the GRE and the GMAT. Apart from training students Muneesh has been involved in recruitment and training of faculty team on various aspects of academics and evaluation co-faculty in terms of delivery, subject knowledge, and general feedback from students. He has also been actively involved in content development for Quantitative Aptitude and Reasoning. Prior to joining the test-prep industry in 2003, Muneesh was working in the Banking and finance sector for more than 25 years. 4 SHYAM SUNDER Widely considerd as one of the most experienced Quantitative aptitude trainers in Chennai, Mr. Shyam has more than a decade of teaching and training experience after he retired from a long and illustrious industrial engineering career. He has taught from than 10000 hours of classes and has focussed on every conceivable aptitude test, although his prime interest is in CAT and GMAT exams. He is the trainer of choice when we conduct special intense workshops for our promsing CAT and GMAT aspirants. His methodology is something to marvel at because he stresses the need to solve problems by using simple, mental logic instead of putting pen to paper. He completed his Masters in Industrial Metallurgy from PSG Coimbatore after which he worked with various domestic and foreign industrial engineering companies. When it comes to aptitude training, his focus areas are Quantitative Aptitude, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning. He is also a corporate trainer and regularly conducts workshops for such organizations like Ma Foi, ThoughtWorks and Born 2 Win.Currently compiling a book on Numerical Ability suitable for Aptitude Training. 5 Revanth Pedapudi Revanth Pedapudi, an alumnus of GITAM Institute of Foreign Trade, Visakhapatnam also has more than six years of teaching experience in Verbal Aptitude.His interest in Training Programs can be traced back to his father who retired as the HOD – Training and Development Centre, Visakhapatnam Steel Plant. Prior to his joining the mainstream education industry, he was working with the Dun & Bradstreet at Hyderabad - Andhra Pradesh.He was involved in Credit Rating of SMEs, which helps in easier access to investments. He has participated in conferences held by CII, NSIC and various other organizations looking towards development of SMEs. He was instrumental in analyzing growth markets for Indigenous SMEs and preparing a detailed insight into the subject’s history, operations, management quality and marketing capabilities, and also providing exhaustive financial analysis, industry benchmarking and SWOT analysis. His passion for the education industry compelled him to take up a mid-career change towards education sector. His interests apart from Education are Sports Management and E Commerce. 6 Parthasarathy Rajagopal Parthasarathy Rajagopal has been with IMS as Verbal Faculty now for more than 3 years and handles verbal training for the CAT, GMAT, GRE, SAT, MAT, CSAT, and IELTS exams. Conducting Vocabulary workshops in addition to Classroom training for MBA aspirants is his métier. He has received consistently good feedback from students on the manner in which he conducts his classes. Before he joined IMS, he had worked with reputable organizations such as Asian Paints, The India Cements, among others, in the roles of TSI and Senior Officer (Marketing). He had also worked as a Quality Trainer (Voice) for Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai. Parthasarathy is a commerce graduate from St.Joseph’s College, Trichy, and now pursues a post graduation in English. He is married with two children. 7 VIKASH SINGH An Engineer from Hindustan College of Engineering with a First Class degree in Electronics and Communications, Mr. Vikash has always displayed a passion for teaching. He has more than 6 years and more than 4000 hours of teaching experience in the areas of Quantitative Aptitude, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning. He is a 99 percentiler in the CAT exam. He is also an expert in other MBA entrance tests such as XAT, IIFT and SNAP. He is an MBA from the prestigious MDI college in Guragaon. He specialized in Finance and Marketing. Professionally, he has worked in the IT sector in companies such as Infosys, Naskorp and Cognizant Analytics. In his latest profile, he works at CTS as a Senior Financial Analyst. His interest include Stock trading, Billiards, Poker and Tennis. TUSHAR KUMAR 8 An engineering graduate from SRM university, Mr. Tushar Kumar is also an MBA from IIM Lucknow where he specialized in Marketing and Strategy. Although a relative fresher to the field, he has rapidly developed a steady fan base and is widely appreciated for his down to earth approach and academic brilliance. He specializes in Quantitative Aptitude, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning and he has wriiten and aced all the major MBA competitive exams such as CAT, SNAP, IIFT, XAT. He has also scroed a 710 on the GMAT where his Quantitative aptitude score was in the 99th percentile. He has close to a 1000 hours of teaching experience. He has close to a year of work experience in diverse areas such as oil and gas and governance. He is currently the Business Head of IMS Vellore. Mr. Tushar is also very active in the social work circuit where he has been a dedicated volunteer at CRY Chennai. PARVATHY PILLAI A relative newcomer to the aptitude training domain, Ms. Parvathy is a seasoned banker. She retired from SBI and now spends her free time in training competitive exam aspirants. Her focus area is Verbal aptitude and in the short time she has been with IMS, she has proved her language skills. She is now an expert trainer for verbal aptitude for the CAT, GRE and GMAT exams. Her average GRE verbal score is 156 and her highest score is 168 on 170. Apart from these main exams, she also trains for TOEFL and IELTS english exams which are used for visa and immigration purposes to countries such as USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Singapore etc. She has more than 1000 hours of students training experience. But more than that, her gentle teaching methodology coupled with her enthusiasm for the English language make her a much sought after mentor here at IMS.