He started his career with an automobile company, Ashok Leyland, India in 1982 and then moved to Tata-Robins-Fraser (TRF). TRF is an Engineer to Order Company. He joined XLRI as a full time faculty in June 2005, but has been associated with XLRI as a visiting faculty since 1993. His interests are in the areas of Production Planning, Project Management and Theory of constraints. He has taught various courses and programs at XLRI, ISB, IIM Udaipur, IIM Ranchi, Great Lakes etc.

He has worked in the areas of Manufacturing, Project Management and Theory of Constraints with companies which include McKinsey, ITC, Frito Lay, Hero Motocorp, Larsen and Toubro, Tube Investments of India, Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Britannia, BALCO, CESC etc.

He has published various Operations management cases in Ivey Publishing, Case Center etc. He has been an external assessor for the Tata Business excellence award and has been part of the assessment team for five Tata companies.