Vikas Singhal, MBA

E-mail: acgg6j@r.postjobfree.com Telephone: 408-***-****

Professional Overview

Vikas Singhal's progression has included experience in small, midsize, and

large companies. He obtained MBA from Seattle University in 2009 and

offers years of successful experience in software engineering and strong

expertise in client relationship management.

Qualifications Highlights:

Product development: Experience in scoping, designing, developing, deploying,

and supporting enterprise scale business application and business intelligence

software.

Solution Concept to Execution: Unique competency in translating business issues

into customer solutions including opportunity identification, requirements

development, software development management, delivery, deployment, support,

and analysis. Results have included 50% reductions in timelines and 50%

increases in accuracy with no loss of quality.

Considers the human element: An engaging professional who understands and

enjoys people, practices active listening and builds trust quickly. Experience

in interfacing with cross-functional, cross-organizational teams on highly

complex projects to identify, prioritize and obtain rapid results.

BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Information Builders, Inc. - New York, NY 2013 to Present

Pre-Sales System Engineer

Key Clients: Manufacturing, Food and Health Care Industry

Technical lead responsible for the entire sales cycle.

. Gathered customer requirements from discovery calls to creating and

delivering a customized solution/demo for potential and existing

clients.

. Deliver in-depth product demonstrations; responses to RFIs & RFPs;

custom "sandbox"-type demo environments for client use cases.

. Work with the Sales team for sales strategy.

ADI Strategies - San Francisco, CA 2012 to 2013

Sr Infrastructure Consultant

Key Clients: Banking Industries, Food industry and Insurance Industry

Responsible for the entire installation and configuration of Hyperion

EPMA (Enterprise Performance Management and Architect) Suite.

. Work with the IT Team to design the hardware architect.

. Make presentation to the leadership about the infrastructure

requirements for Hyperion EPMA.

. Install and validate Hyperion suite - created custom install

documentation specific to each customer.

. Provide training to the IT team as how to install and manage Hyperion

EPMA suite.

. Shadow and Coach IT team on installation procedures.

. Shorten the install and validation time by 25% by standardizing

install scripts.

BOEING COMPANY - Renton, WA 2006 to 2012

Software Release Manager / Project Manager

Involved in the entire SDLC for systems-critical Financial Planning and

Analysis (FP&A) implementations, from requirements gathering and scope

analysis through delivery.

. Manage Software Release Management team, trained and mentored new team

members.

. Scheduling and coordinating migration efforts with different teams.

. Synergize with IBM Management team to escalated and quickly resolve

the defects in the product.

. Increased efficiency of migrations by 500% by partnering with other

Business Managers in creating a streamline migration process and

combined different teams into one central resource team.

. Led an analysis of existing systems and processes, converting numerous

manual processes to automated procedures. Designed a Java tool to

eliminate the human element, successfully reduced errors with code

migrations by 50%, and timelines from six to two hours average.

. Responsible for comprehensive management of the SDLC for a critical

FP&A .NET application, ensuring implementation complies with Boeing's

procedures and contract requirements. Managed block point releases,

building and testing a .NET and TM1 solution.

1 ANSWER SOLUTIONS, INC. - Denver, CO 2004 to 2006

Senior Consultant

Key Clients: Haemonatics, Lexus Survey Redesign, New York University,

Toyota Motor Sales, US Oncology, Yale University

Charged with overseeing comprehensive SDLCs- requirements

gathering/definition meetings, managing design elements, development,

testing, creating technical documentations and delivery of the product.

. Skillfully managed all professional relationships and engaged with

business customers.

. Negotiated customer agreements relative to project scope, objectives

and deliverables. Managed customer expectations for project

requirements and implementations.

. Single point-of-contact for project issues and responsible for risk

mitigation.

. Took time to understand the business process and needs, evangelized

these needs to technical staff, transmitted blueprint version of ad-

hoc query and custom reports to Developers via Hyperion Intelligence.

. Presented final build reports to Business managers and provided

training to business users.

. Architected custom JSP/BQY solutions via Hyperion Intelligence

reporting system. Architected complex queries against both relational

(Oracle) and multidimensional (Essbase) data. Leveraged local results

sections to combine both query result types. Created multi-faceted

dashboard/EIS sections for data display via HPS i-Server and multiple

report sections for displayed data and PDF export. Reduced the time to

generate business reports from 3 days to 15 minutes cost saving over

$150k

HYPERION SOLUTIONS - Santa Clara, CA 1999 to 2004

Software Engineer

Integral contributor to the development of Hyperion Metrics Builder,

named InfoWorld's 2003 Product of the Year. Defined and documented

development policies and procedures for Metrics Builder

. Developed the Metrics Builder Installer using Install-Shield

Multiplatform. Identified and validated the data sources, wrote a

validation plan, created build scripts to create the Installer,

executed the scripts, and posted executables on the download center.

Upgraded the install process to support automated IIS/Tomcat

installation and configuration.

. Created a Java utility for importing and extracting data/metadata from

DB2, Oracle and SQL Server databases. Developed procedures and

functions for DB2, Oracle and SQL Server Databases.

. Managed offshore team for testing of Installer.

EDUCATION / TRAINING / TECHNICAL SKILLS

Post-MBA, International Business - Seattle University, Seattle, WA (06/11

Completion)

MBA - Seattle University, Seattle, WA (Certificate in Leadership)

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering - University of

California-Davis, Davis, CA

( Boeing Genuine Leadership Curriculum Certificate ( Boeing

production System Lean Academy

( Dale Carnegie High-Impact Presentations ( Dale Carnegie Sales

Advantage

( IBM Cognos TM1 Developer Fundamentals ( Fujitsu Consulting

Project Management

( Hyperion Performance Suite ( Hyperion Intelligence-

Sarbanes Oxley

Languages: Java, C, C++, Pascal, Prolog, Lisp, PL/SQL, .NET, VB.NET

Scripts: Perl, JavaScript, Bat Script, Shell Script

Databases: MS SQL Server 2000, DB2 8.2, Oracle 9i/8i/7.3, Microsoft Access

Platforms: Windows, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Linux, UNIX, Lifecycle methodology

(Fujitsu Macroscope)

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