Bansal Dhan Raj - Microsoft Dynamics NAV Administration

Sharan Oberoi is a seasoned Microsoft Dynamics professional and has more than 11 years of experience working as an architect, consultant, and business leader for Microsoft Dynamics products. He works for Tectura in an advisory role.

He has helped various organizations with large-scale, global, successful implementations of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Sharan has also built and grown high-performing, culturally diversified, and geographically dispersed consulting teams. At the start of his Microsoft Dynamics career, Sharan was an instrumental startup team member for Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) in India. He led a small team to localize and release Microsoft Dynamics NAV in India and subsequently evangelize Microsoft Dynamics NAV across the newly established partner channel in India.

Sharan worked as a consultant for a few US-end clients before moving to New Zealand. He gained his Big 4 consulting experience while working for Ernst & Young in New Zealand for a few years. In 2007, he moved to Vancouver, Canada with his family and started working as a team leader for Tectura. While at Tectura, Sharan has handled diverse roles and has been involved in various product teams and global clients, with complex, high-risk product implementations and application rollouts.

Having worked for organizations such as Tectura, Ernst & Young, and Navision (now Microsoft), Sharan has lived and worked in a dozen or more countries, touching almost every continent. He has worked with clients from diverse industries including ports, financial services, agri businesses, energy and power generation, shipping, and so on.

I believe my Thanks section would go longer than my own profile. I've taken so much from so many people in terms of love, support, knowledge, experience, and so on, that it would be unfair to miss any of them.

I would like to thank my wife Gurvinder for her unconditional support in this project. While I was busy toiling away for the last few months to write this book, she's been busy juggling her own work, taking care of our two beautiful kids, and helping me write this book. I hope I am able to compensate the time I stole from her quota.

Big thanks to my Dad, Mom, and Sister for believing in me and providing me with a rock-solid support and value system to live an honest and positive life, full of love, and giving me the confidence to always take the right path.

Thanks to all my friends and family who have been with us for so many years and to those who have supported me throughout the writing of this book.

Thanks a lot to my dear friend and coauthor of this book, Amit Sachdev, for his endurance, support, and knowledge for finishing this book.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Terry Petrzelka, Lisa Mathias, Vince Castiglione, Chris Harte, Chuck Famula, Kathy Nohr, Naeem Shafi, Tara, and Michael Hamby from Tectura, Claus Hamann from the ex Ernst & Young NAV team and Harmeet Singh from Microsoft for their encouragement and support during the writing of this book and otherwise.

I cannot thank enough, the late Mr. Yash Nagpal for keeping faith in my abilities and giving me some of the most important opportunities in the early years of my career.

For the many nights that I have not been able to tuck you both into bed and for the long winter evenings that I have not been able to play with you, while I was finishing up this bookthis work is dedicated to the two precious jewels of my life Kudrat and Nimar.

Amit Sachdev works as a Technology Advisor for Dynamics products and the lead for SureStep methodology programs at Microsoft Canada. He is responsible for "Dynamics" product awareness, strategic engagement with Microsoft partners, building successful Dynamics practices, and ensuring the use of best principles for partners around delivery and implementation methodologies.

Amit has diverse professional experience, and in the past has worked in various capacities including advisory consulting, management, designing, and implementing business solutions in many countries, spanning across various industries and market segments.