Honwad Arun, PMP

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Senior IT professional with extensive experience in managing end-to-end

implementation of strategic projects with global delivery teams

Managed large scale projects with budget ranging from $1M to $5M and team

size from 10 to 30 people

Responsible for Program/Project management, PMO compliance, SOW, RFP/RFI

process, risk management and financial management in successful project

execution within budget and on-time delivery

Extensive experience in the domain of Business Intelligence (BI), Data

Warehouse, CRM, Campaign Management, OLAP, Master Data Management (MDM),

Customer Data Integration (CDI), Pricing Management, Price Science, and ERP

industry segments

Established 'trusted advisor' relationship with clients and provided

effective leadership in managing diverse teams in offshore/onshore model

Strong communication and inter-personal skills in managing client

expectations and project teams

Skills

Program/Project Management, PMO methodologies, Planning, Risk Management,

Budget preparation and tracking, SOW, RFP/RFI process, Manage consulting

bookings, P&L, MS Project, Visio, MS Power Point

Industry Experience: Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, Pharmaceutical,

Beverage-Alcohol, Consumer, Retail and Distribution, Manufacturing,

Telecommunication

Technical Skills: Multi-dimensional OLAP, Data Warehousing, Business

Intelligence (BI), KPI Scorecard applications, Dashboard implementation

Unica 7.4, Crystal 10.x Reports,, Ad Hoc reporting, ETL, E.Piphany CRM,

Siebel CRM, JAVA, HTML, XML, Visual Basic, Oracle, PL/SQL, IBM-COBOL,

CICS/DB2, ACT Contact Management

Education

M.S. (April 1986) Computer Science, Statistics, University of Bombay,

India

B.S. (April 1984) Statistics, Operations Research, University of

Bombay, India

Certifications/Training

- PMP certified (July 2011)

- APICS certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) (October

1999)

Professional Experience

Vistaar Technologies, NJ June 2011 to Mar 2014

Program Manager

Pricing management system to make real-time pricing decisions to optimize

revenue and profit. Use improved segmentation based upon multi-

dimensional site attributes, better analytics to measure volume impacts of

price differentials and competitive pricing information to reduce manual

pricing decisions

. Managed large scale implementations for suppliers and distributors in

the beverage-alcohol industry to manage pricing across 3-Tiers of

supply-chain. The clients include, Pernod-Ricard, DFV Wines, Glazer's

and Proximo Sprits

. Managed Pricing solution for a national fuel retailer (Suncor Energy)

in Canada operating across 1200 Petro Canada gas stations

. Managed solution delivery in Vistaar offshore/onshore model

. Acted as a single-point-of-contact for IT/business sponsors. Provided

executive summary to steering committee stakeholders.

. Accountable and responsible for the creation of the project plan and

qualify schedule, resources and budget based upon the detailed bottom

up work plans performed with the delivery teams

. Designed data warehouse Star schema and OLAP data models for data

mining and analytical reporting

. Created risk mitigation plan to ensure the mechanisms are in place to

proactively manage issues / risks with appropriate escalations to

sponsors; build contingency plans and take corrective action

. Accountable to track milestones, cost, risks

Dun & Bradstreet - Purisma, NJ Oct 2008 to May 2011

Program Officer

Master Data Management (MDM) solution to master key data elements across

various transactional systems. Integration with inbound source systems and

outbound systems for consumption of master data attributes

. Managed strategic master data management programs for clients ADP,

Yellowbook, Aon Insurance and US Foodservice

. Designed and built the project structure and teams to ensure that

development tasks were executed on time and within budget

. Applied project management methodology and framework to deliver on all

project management deliverables in the plan

. Ensured proper governance mechanisms were in place to provide program

status with customers, and internally with business & IT stakeholders

and strategic partners; chair program status meetings

infoUSA, NJ May 2005 to Sep 2008

Director, Project Management

Database marketing toolset provided individual and business data with data

processing services such as, data hygiene, close loop campaign management

and analytical reporting. The marketing solution was used by B2B and B2C

clients for their Direct Mail/E-mail/Telemarketing needs to campaign

targeted customers/prospects and post-campaign response analysis

. Managed strategic projects for clients - Medco Health, HCI Direct,

dressbarn, FedEx, Kodak

. Responsible for hiring and mentoring team of software professionals

including Project Managers, Business Analysts and System Analysts

. Provided regular status updates to 'C' level executives and project

stakeholders

. Managed project resource capacity and work with a staffing function to

ensure project resource needs are met

Business Objects, NY Apr 2002 to Apr 2005

Engagement Manager

. Managed diverse teams in deployment of Business Intelligence (BI)

solution- Data Warehouse, OLAP, Dashboard, Reporting, KPI Scorecard

for various clients such as, Aetna Insurance (HIPAA implementation),

Pfizer, Schering Plough, Cendant real estate, SEI investments,

Deutsche Bank, AT&T and Coca-Cola

. Achieved quarterly booking numbers, increasing services and education

attach rate to license deals, farm existing accounts, P&L, tap up-sell

opportunities

. Managed sales cycle with the sales and pre-sales organizations.

Actively participated in Proof-of-concept (POC) demos, service

offerings, implementation methodology and estimates, and statement of

work (SOW)

. Prepared and maintained project plans, prepared and tracked project

budget, identified critical path, risk/mitigation plan and kept all

stakeholders informed of progress and issues, managed project scope

and change control procedure

. Actively participated in designing the Project Management Methodology

using best practices. The project management methodology was

successfully used across the organization in complete life cycle

execution of projects for various clients

Epiphany Inc, NY Nov 2000 to Mar 2002

Solutions Architect

. Managed large scale implementation for client Cendant Marketing

. Prepared SOW for CRM implementation identifying project scope,

deliverables, dependencies, hardware and software architecture,

assumptions, milestones and risks

. Designed functional requirements and use case scenarios

. Implemented Campaign Management solution for the client

Syntel, Inc., MI Feb 1996 to Oct 2000

Sr. Project Manager

. Managed end-to-end implementations for clients: GMAC Mortgage, Eaton

Trucks

. Acted as a key resource in customizing and implementing Siebel Finance

CRM application and Oracle manufacturing ERP application

. Led team in gathering business requirements from business managers,

prepared specifications for UI changes as per the functional

requirements, prepared task estimates and resource estimates, project

planning, design/configure and coordinated day-to-day activities as a

team lead

. Managed extensive cross-functional interaction with offshore/onshore

teams

American International Group, NY Oct 1990 to Jan 1996

Project Lead

. Managed reservation system for underwriters. Involved in configuring

GUI screens using Visual Basic and integrating with back-end legacy

IBM/DB2 database

. Designed and implemented client/server system tracking Premium and

Loss activity for Accounts

. Managed offshore/onshore teams for project development and

implementation

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