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Aiming at the Sun — TAMAL DATTA

Tamal Datta, or TD as he is popularly known, is a Bengal born Leader and management thinker. He is currently the Chairman and Managing Director of Alphaxine and Managing Director of Skybuffer. 

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Tamal Datta, or Tamal as he is popularly known, is a Bengal-born Leader and management thinker.

He is currently the Chairman and Managing Director of Alphaxine and Managing Director of Skybuffer. 

An engineer (B. TECH & M.TECH) turned into a management professional (alumni of IIM-Kozhikode) spanning more than 12 years of rich experience in Oil & Gas, Mining, Heavy Engineering, and IT.
Over the course of his career, Tamal has held various positions that span the following:

  1. Managing Director of a Product Based IT Company, Skybuffer India, and Vice President of Skybuffer APJ along with Founder Chairman of a Consulting Company based out of Kolkata.
  2. Practice Management: Develop, deploy, and manage Delivery Teams with a technology/business focus
  3. Delivery Management: Project and Program Management.
  4. SAP Consulting and Customer Support.

As Managing Director of Skybuffer India and Head of Development and delivery Center India, currently, Tamal is managing operations in the areas of R&D, Product Development, Pre-sales & Sales Support, and Services Delivery.

Tamal has experience in working on global assignments in corporate strategy, management consulting, program & engagement management, change management & systems integration.

Tamal started his career as a Management Trainee in the Project Planning division at Indian Mining before shifting to Capgemini where he spent around 5 years in Consulting, Project Management, Sales, Marketing, and Program Management positions. He joined Skybuffer and started Skybuffer India along with his other friends from Norway in 2018.

Tamal and his wife started another company Alphaxine in the year 2019 in Kolkata to fill the gap in the SAP consulting world.

Tamal is a performance-driven IT leader who led global delivery on various technology platforms spanning across SAP, Enterprise Applications, Cloud, and Software as a Service (SaaS).

He comes from years of hands-on SAP Record to Report, Order-to-cash, and Procure to Pay consulting background with deep exposure to SAP S/4 HANA & other new edges cloud-based SAP Solutions. Excellent exposure to large-scale digital transformation and IT projects.

Tamal loves to dig into business pain points and try to solve them through People, Processes & Technology. To accomplish this, he focused on achieving business outcomes by creating business value, picking the right technology solution to leverage, calculating the budget, defining the delivery roadmap, establishing an efficient project governance model, building & lead a multi-layered team, established a strong relationship with key stakeholders and establish a partnership with the vendor.

He has years of experience in managing end-to-end delivery of large SAP & Non-SAP business transformation programs, ITIL framework adopted SLA/KPI driven 24X7 IT global service operations across different time zones, and also managed many large Enterprise Application Portfolio.

Managed P&L of two companies which he has made with bootstrapped funding. Maintain strong relationships with customers, team members, partners,s and other key stakeholders.

Tamal has more than 12+ years of Delivery Management experience in both T&M and Fixed price engagements and growing them up in the value chain. He traveled a lot for many international clients and played all major client-facing roles during his career. 

Profile

Skills

  • 95%
    Management Thinking
  • 90%
    Business Transformation
  • 85%
    Leadership Coaching
  • 95%
    Growth Innovation
  • 99%
    Digital Transformation
Resume

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Work Experience

Skybuffer

as Vice President Asia Pacific and Japan 

 

March 2021 – Present

Currently, Tamal is leading Skybuffer in Asia Pacific and Japan Region.
Skybuffer is an international SAP implementation and development company founded in 2013.
Skybuffer is an SAP Partner Center of Expertise certified by TÜV THÜRINGEN (ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013).
Tamal and his teammates are proud of their statuses of SAP PE Sell, Service, and Build Partner (HANA 2.0, S/4HANA, Workflow, BI Platform, BW/4HANA, All-in-One). Skybuffer is SAP Gold Partner.
Skybuffer’s Value Proposition Summary:
TRANSFORMING IT LANDSCAPE INTO COGNITIVE ENTERPRISE

Skybuffer

as Managing Director India

December 2018 – Present

Currently, Tamal is leading Skybuffer India.
Skybuffer is an international SAP implementation and development company founded in 2013.
Skybuffer is an SAP Partner Center of Expertise certified by TÜV THÜRINGEN (ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013).
Tamal and his teammates are proud of their statuses of SAP PE Sell, Service and Build Partner (HANA 2.0, S/4HANA, Workflow, BI Platform, BW/4HANA, All-in-One). Skybuffer is SAP Gold Partner.
Skybuffer’s Value Proposition Summary:
TRANSFORMING IT LANDSCAPE INTO COGNITIVE ENTERPRISE

Alphaxine

as Founder Chairman and Managing Director

July 2019 – Present

Alphaxine is a Digital Company.
Alphaxine Solutions Private Limited operates in the knowledge domain with a team of experienced and qualified professionals like Senior HRs from tier 1 corporates, IIT/ IIM Grads, Ex Bureaucrat, and Engineers.
It helps the clients to develop their long-term digital strategies. They know their client’s world; they help them to grow. Alphaxine builds long-lasting relationships with talents offering them continuity through successive placements, training, and career development.
With their in-depth industry experience, extensive resources and effective IT solutions they connect clients with what they need, and the people with what they want.
We are a group of innovators and experts in the fields of web designing, web development, digital marketing, and programming. With complete transparency and ample communication with our clients, we deliver the digital face of the brand that they are looking for.
In this world, online visibility matters the most. We, ALPHAXINE are proficient at creating smart business solutions and outlining the online market in order to leverage the swing towards digitalisation. Catapulting any business to success through a strategised campaign, from website creation to digital marketing, is what we do best.

Capgemini

Senior Consultant/Consultant/Associate Consultant/Senior Software Engineer

January 2013 – December 2018

As an SAP Consultant, Tamal was responsible for project implementation, roll out and support in the field of SAP Project System and SAP Project Portfolio Management.
Worked actively under the DevOps process including Incident Management, Problem Management, and Change Management for SAP Record to report, Order to cash, Procure to Pay for a number of Clients including a Leading Oil & Gas Manufacturer Globally HQ in Stavanger, Norway. Tamal was mentoring young professionals in the Functional domain. 

Indian Minning

Project Engineer

August 2011 – December 2012

Tamal had a working experience of more than One year in the following projects:
Chhattisgarh Mineral Development Corporation – IFFCO Chhattisgarh Power Limited (Tara Central Coal Block). The job was for Preparation of Mine Plan, DPR, EIA/EMP report.
Pt. Bina Insan Sukses Mandiri (Indonesia). The job was for Production enhancement from 1 MTPA to 3 MTPA.
Tata Sponge Iron Limited (Radhikapur East Coal Block including Utkal – F). This includes Evaluation of Bid Document for selection of a MDO for the Coal Block allocated to TSIL.
His responsibilities as a Project Engineer was Providing Assistance in Mine exploration, Preparation of Detailed Project Report (DPR), Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Report, Environmental Management Plan (EMP), Mine closure plan and Bid document. Identification of scope of outsourcing. Evaluation of Bid document and selection of Mine developer and operator (MDO) and also Washery Developer and Operator.
The responsibilities mentioned above are all in respect of Project Management which deals with Management Information System (MIS), Budgeting, Controlling, Reporting etc.
Also, he was responsible for updating our Website, creating new corporate email ids for their employees by coordinating with HR and Internal IT team.

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

from Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

in Strategy, Finance and IT management

Master of Technology (M.Tech)

from West Bengal University of Technology

in VLSI & Micro Electronics

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)

from West Bengal University of Technology

in Electronics and Communication Engineering

  • The Bachelor of Technology (commonly abbreviated as B.Tech.) is a undergraduate academic degree conferred after completion of a four-year program of studies at an accredited university or accredited university-level institution. The degree is conferred in the Commonwealth of Nations, the United States and elsewhere.
    In India it is regulated and set up under the aegis of the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
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