Tuesday 22 April 2014

Karunn Kandoi's Career at Microsoft

Karunn Kandoi, an entrepreneur, businessman, manager of many corporate ventures and a thorough professional… the man has earned several accreditations over the years. He is currently serving as the President, Skill Development Training, Extramarks Education Private Ltd, India’s premiere venture to take education to the virtual platform.  Over the past years, he has contributed his experience and expertise with some giant companies like Philips Medical Systems, General Electric Medical Systems, Swastik Marble et al. He has led numerous projects worth million dollars with the companies and accomplished them with remarkable success. However, his tenure with the Microsoft Corporation as the Product Manager marked the biggest high of his career which fetched him name, fame and most importantly, a potential reason for the country’s youth to look up to him as their icon.

Karunn perfectly epitomizes hard work, unrelenting will and true ingenuity as the formula for making a successful man. What seems to be the perfect extravagant life was replete with struggles and hindrances to reach at this zenith of success. However, as a fighter, he treaded through his difficult times and shouldered the responsibility of his entire family. His tryst with his scientific and inquisitive bent happened during schooling in Jaipur, Rajasthan, in 1982. To follow his aspirations, he cracked the entrance examination of the most prestigious institutes of the country, BIT Bangalore.

The landmark achievement of Karunn Kandoi’s career was in 2004, when he assumed the role of the esteemed Product Manager with Microsoft Corporation. His expertise and wisdom brought tremendous changes in the company, especially in its annual turnover. He took over the responsibility of forecasting and reporting for Microsoft Network (MSN) search, which he successfully accomplished to perfection. He further led yet another prestigious project to evaluate most valuable query volumes across MSN properties, with Microsoft. The project not only concluded successfully on the estimated time-period, but also systemized the monetization system of the company, thus incurring a profit of $12 million in the financial year, 2005.

During his tenure with Microsoft, Karunn essentially led numerous audits in order to develop a better understanding of MSN Search’s internal business reporting structure and market share. The result of these audits later became the baseline for Microsoft Network to build automated reporting for Key Progress Indicators. With his efforts and self-determination, Microsoft Network search graduated to become the premiere search engines by most of the online searchers.  He led a huge team comprising of professionals with multiple ethnic backgrounds so as to automate the query volume designed for reporting to the top notch executives of Microsoft.

His contributions and excellent performance won him various honors and acknowledgements by Microsoft. His significant efforts in augmenting the revenue increasing means with Microsoft Network search, by dramatic measures, won him an eternal reputation for the same with the company. karun kandoi, karun kandoi microsoft.

Tuesday 18 February 2014

Biography of Karunn Kandoi



Karunn Kandoi (Born: January 22 1978) 
Young and dynamic Karunn Kandoi has an extremely interesting and noteworthy life. Despite a modest beginning, at a very young age, he has attained excellent professional success and reputation. At this young age, he has already worked with the giants like GE, Philips Medical Systems and Microsoft and left a memorable impression there. Presently, he is the President of Skill Development and Training of an online education company, Extramarks Education Private Limited and has emerged as a thought leader in the new age learning methods.  

Background
Born in Cuttack, Orissa to Shree Gopal Kandoi and Kusum Kandoi on 22 January 1978, Karunn Kandoi belongs to a very humble background. In 1982, the family moved to Jaipur, and that brought about a huge change in Karunn’s life. After completing his schooling from TPS Jaipur, he went ahead and got an Engineering Degree in instrumentation and electronics from BIT Bangalore.
 
Further Education and Accomplishments
Being an achiever and an all-rounder, he not only participated in many events in the college, but also was chosen as a member of the Placement Cell for the college, where he got an excellent opportunity to gain knowledge and experience. In 1999 to improve his skills, he took up a course in Placement Process of Reengineering (PPR) that was being conducted by a renowned organization named PESIT (Bangalore). Around the same time, he started helping his uncle in managing a company named Swastik Marbles, due to his unmatched efforts this company that had started off with just $10000 grew to a $300,000 worth company.

The Achievements
After the completion of his engineering degree in 2000, he joined the GE Medical Bangalore (General Electric Medical system) as a Quality and Configuration Management Lead and Design Engineer. Soon, Karunn Kandoi won praise in the company for showing his talent in designing an automated testing module. He also got the prestigious GE’s Clinical excellence award and won the honorable certification of Six Sigma Green Belt.
In 2001, Karunn decided to go for further education and joined the University of Washington for MBA. His education was totally self-funded, and he assisted the university as an assistant teacher and was awarded the best teaching certificate in his tenure. After the 3rd quarter of his MBA, he joined Philips Medical Systems as a Corporate Intern and the same company offered him a job as a Marketing Manager the year he completed his MBA in 2004. Here too, all he got was success and accolades; he was responsible for re-engineering the firms’ marketing strategy for the entire North America and led to 50% increase in the market share in the $100 million vascular surgery equipment.
It’s noteworthy to mention that while still in MBA, Karunn along with 4 other friends conceptualized a business called Complianz Inc. The aim of this business was to simplify the process of FDA approvals in the US and to allow the biomedical companies for developing the internationally compliant products for the rapidly expanding global market while simultaneously reducing the time to the market.
In the year 2005, he got an offer to join Microsoft Corporation as the position of Product manager for MSN search. His efforts at MSN led to considerable incremental revenue of $12 Million in FY05 through better monetization. Further, he led the audits for understanding MSN searches, internal business reporting system and market share. 

Return to India
In 2005, he got married to his soul mate and in the year end returned to India for good. Being an achiever and a visionary, he soon launched an educational organization called Focus, which aimed at the career assessment of children and Spoken English classes. The company grew exponentially, and by the year 2009 it was spread to over 10 states and had 70 offices in different locations all over India. Karunn Kandoi is currently the President of Skill Development and Training  business at Extramarks Education.