About the Author





The Author is a technology consultant and enthusiast in Central India (Nagpur). He is involved in training and implementation of free/low-cost or open-source tools in software & mobile-technology for small & medium size enterprises to improve efficiency and productivity of the organizations and help them to deploy technology tools with least overheads.

The Author holds an electrical engineering degree from BITS Pilani (Raj.) and a Masters Degree in the same field from Texas A & M, USA. Before getting into consulting, he has worked for some of top Fortune 500 Companies at GE (India), DELL (USA), Hitachi (Japan) and Flextronics (Taiwan). 

After spending over 10 years with global business giants, the author returned to Nagpur (Central India) and since then has worked with many local small and medium enterprises, offices, manufacturing facilities, retailers & academic institutions to help them adopt technology across different verticals.

He advises ZIM Laboratories (Global Pharmaceutical manufacturing firm based out of Nagpur) and Glow Fixtures LED Lights  as their Chief Technology Consultant and other major business establishments in Central India in other advisory capacities.

He can be reached at akbar at octavesbm dot in for professional services.