Personnel

Mano Manoharan
Principal, NMM Professional Services

Mano is a professional civil engineer with an MBA in Technology Management from the Deakin University, Melbourne.

Mano was a Senior Contracts Specialist with a New South Wales Utility for 16 years. As a procurement professional, Mano successfully undertook a range of strategic assignments including procurement of

capital work for asset creation and asset rehabilitation
Outsourced services for asset maintenance
consultancy and professional services
IT management systems, IT infrastructure
service provision for strategic business initiatives

In these assignments, Mano designed and implemented a number of innovative procurement methodologies to meet with client expectations.

Mano is a proponent of risk based weighted criteria assessment techniques based on MCDM (Multi criteria decision making) principles. The technique is invaluable in ranking competing proposals.

Mano uses structured Mind Mapping techniques for brainstorming, problem solving, report writing and team management activities.

Mano was also involved in many procurement system reform and improvement initiatives.

In the earlier segment of his career, Mano was a consulting civil engineer in East Africa, involved in integrated urban and rural infrastructure development work in Kenya's Great Rift Valley province and surrounds.