ASHWINI MAHAJAN

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M 847-***-****

Beaverton, OR-97006

H 847-***-****

Email: acdfey@r.postjobfree.com

Overview

o Business Analyst/ System Analyst/ Project Manager/ Project

Coordinator in a Career Spanning of around 8 Years.

o Extensive experience in Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing &

Implementation of Software Applications.

o Involvement in identifying and documenting business

requirements, preparing budgets for the project, developing a

Software Project Plan, conducting risk assessment, appraising

project personnel, resolving conflicts, defining

responsibilities and maintaining offshore leverage

o Active participation in various PMO related activities as part

of WCS group.

o Involvement in different phases during a project like functional

requirements, test strategy, training strategy, user case, test

case preparation.

o Strong decision making, analytical, logical and problem

resolution skills, ability to quickly adapt to new technologies

by self-learning, Ability to manage multiple, complex

priorities.

o Excellent interpersonal/communication as skills.

Professional and Consulting Experience

POS International (POS)

Role: Business Analyst

Best Buy Corporation, Minneapolis, USA Oct 2007 to

Dec 2009.

Responsibilities and Activities:

Analyze and study the ORPOS base product.

Document the out of box functionality for ORPOS, log defects to Oracle

if any.

Document and finalize the clear, concise and unambiguous requirements

for current and future releases

Conduct power point presentations in various countries for in-country

business leads in order to explain the POS base product capabilities.

Work independently to gather requirements by interviewing business

partners, conduct JAD sessions, active listening.

Act as facilitator between Business group and technical team.

Conduct brain storming sessions within architecture and technical

teams within POS in order to implement new requirements and provide

estimation on the same.

Create 'Detailed Functional specifications' to be used as input to the

detailed design and shall be maintained on ongoing basis.

Conduct comprehensive requirements reviews for approving and

finalizing requirements.

Peer review and inspection on Requirement Specification documents.

Create Module test cases, conduct the testing for the same and

document defects.

Coordinate with various 3rd party teams in order to implement the

integration between POS and 3rd party.

Test the base product feature and raise the defects to Oracle.

Coordinate with technical team for implementing the solution patches

provided and verify the tool for correctness.

Environment/ Technologies:

ORPOS product, J2E, Java, JSP, Oracle.

RDC Miniloader (Distribution)

Role: Business Analyst, Project Coordinator

Target Corporation, Minneapolis, USA Jun 2007 to

Aug 2007.

Responsibilities and Activities:

Work independently to gather requirements by interviewing business

partners, conducting JAD sessions, active listening.

Gather and prepare the different types of requirements like

functional, non-functional, business, user interfaces by using the use

case templates.

Creating flow charts in Visio for 'As Is' and 'To Be' process flows.

Conduct comprehensive requirements reviews for approving and

finalizing requirements.

Manage to project priorities.

Follow up with team to understand certain to meet the schedule for

deliverables and task milestones

Project status reporting and forecasting by scheduling team meetings.

Identifying and assisting in the development of additional business

opportunities within current clients.

Environment/ Technologies:

SharePoint, JSP, Microsoft Office Suite (project plan, Visio, word, excel,

power point), Clarity.

CAMS (Automated Management Services)

Role: Business Analyst

Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, USA Feb

2006 to May 2007.

Automated Management Services (CAMS) project involves analysis of the scope

of work and finalize all requirements. Project uses several windows tools

like Wise for Windows Installer (WfWI), Windows Installshield and Windows

Installer to re-package it into a single click installable which when

clicked would automatically complete the product installation on the user's

machine without any user intervention.

CAMS team also has a website integrated with Remedy and Oracle database

used for monitoring and tracking multiple projects statuses.

Responsibilities and Activities:

Involvement in gathering information from third party for each module.

Manage to project priorities.

Interacting with the clients (Data Stewards) and end users to

understand and finalize all requirements.

Assuring quality of various document deliverables such as support

instructions, test case etc.

Jolting minutes of meetings and do a follow up on action items.

Monitor different server migrations and production roll out.

Coordination with various third party vendors outside company.

Environment/ Technologies:

Coldfusion, VSS, Toad, Dreamweaver, Oracle, Installshield, Flexnet, VMWare,

Wise for Windows Installer, Wise Install Master, Virtual Machines.

AMC Shared Pool (AMC SP)

Role: Business Analyst, Project Manager

Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, USA Jun 2003 to

Jan 2006.

AMC TCS Shared Pool is a support structure designed to offer technology and

services consultancy across various departments and value cycles in one of

the largest pharmaceutical company. The Pool works on multiple

projects/applications in Web and Lotus Notes technology at the same time.

These applications are of different nature and may be for support,

development, or enhancement.

Responsibilities and Activities:

Feasibility study of a new system.

Execution of multiples small scale projects simultaneously.

Evaluating alternative solutions and come up with technology which is

best fit for existing system.

Interacting with customer for understanding the system and requirement

Gathering.

Analyzing the project and estimating the efforts.

Communicating the functional requirements to the project team

Monitoring the various deliverables of Validation documents like Test

cases, test plans, traceability matrix, status reports.

Coordination of various groups such as Oracle, ISG as per the project

requirement.

Creating the lessons learned document from recent projects.

Environment/ Technologies:

Java, Toad, Coldfusion, Visual Basic, Java Script, Microsoft Access, 2 Way,

Boldfish, IBM Web sphere 5.0, Visual Studio 6.0, Macromedia Dream weaver,

Rational Clear case, Remedy, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Project, SharePoint.

eTCS (Ultimatix)

Role: Team Lead

Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India May

2002 to Mar 2003.

Ultimatix is extended improved version of Billing system. It uses

centralize database for all the cycles, activities, happening in TCS.

Responsibilities and Activities:

Production support for various modules in Ultimatix.

Resolved online queries related to customer creations, funding

adjustments, agreements linking, and budgets submissions.

Implemented the concept of group client for report purpose.

Coordinated with end users and team to provide adhoc reports as and

when needed.

Followed quality procedures to maintain the log for each and every

data entry and updates in the same. Customer creation and sales person

creation in VSS to keep the track on modifications.

Acquired knowledge about different module set-up like Account

Receivable, Project Accounting, and PRM etc. and identify business

need across the modules.

Environment/ Technologies:

Oracle Apps, VSS

Web Based Billing System

Role: Module Lead

Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India Jan 2001 to

Apr 2002.

Billing System handles TCS financial flow. The system is linked to TCS

branches all over the world and have a centralize database for ease of

billing calculation, manpower allocation monitoring and report generation.

It is a web-based system and provides various MIS to users.

Responsibilities and Activities:

Conducted project for maintaining and enhancing the Domestic Billing

System website.

Assisted team members in designing and development of front-end.

Did requirement analysis for the various modules and documented the

same as part of requirement gathering.

Optimization of the outstanding queries to run the reports faster.

Maintenance of the softex module (along with the softex declaration

form).

Make certain the deliverables for outstanding reports (with different

age parameters) meet the desired dates.

Created stored procedures for frequently asked reports for faster

results.

Environment/ Technologies:

ASP, VB, VB Script, Java Script, SQL Server, Database administration,

Microsoft Visual Interdev 6.0

Library Search System

Role: Web Developer

Indicos/ ACE Software, Mumbai, India Oct

2000 to Dec 2000.

Responsibilities and Activities:

Did requirement analysis for the system to be developed and documented

the same as part of requirement gathering.

Design and development of front-end.

Maintenance of the existing system

Attended training sessions on Java.

Environment/ Technologies:

Java Script, J2EE, JSP.

Education

. Degree in Electronics Engineering (BE) from Vivekananda Education Society

and Institute of Technology

. HSC from D G Ruparel college

. SSC from Utkarsha Mandir

Technology Competencies

. Languages:

SAS, Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML), Active Server Pages (ASP), Java,

C, C++, Visual Basics 6.0, HTML, Java Script, VB Script

. Application / Tools:

IBM Web sphere 5.0, TOAD, Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0,

Macromedia Dreamweaver, Rational Clear case, Remedy, Citrix, Install

Shield, Flex net, VM Ware, Wise for Windows Installer, Wise Install Master,

Virtual Machines.

Professional Memberships and Achievements

. PMP - Project Management Professional certification, organized by Project

Management Institute (PMI).

. CSQA - Certified Software Quality Analyst organized by Quality Assurance

Institute.

. SAS Base Certification - SAS Base Programming for SAS (r) 9 organized by

SAS Institue.

. Sun Java Certification - Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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