Project Manager Management

Saumil Badia

Richardson, TX ***** | ***********@*****.*** | 972-***-****

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Summary

Graduate MIS student actively looking for an entry level Business Analyst/Project Manager position. Excellent analytical and problem solving skills; enthusiastic team player with willingness to learn and ability to work well under pressure

Education

• MS (Information Technology and Management) - The University of Texas at Dallas, May 2011

• Bachelor of Commerce, B.Com (Finance and Accounting) - University of Mumbai (India)

Work Experience

June 2010 – June 2011 Finance – Analytics and Reporting Rent-A-Center, Inc., Plano TX

Responsibilities as Business Analyst and Documentation Specialist

• Project MAPS: (Modernization of Applications, Processes and Systems): Managing and gathering business requirements, analyzing and documenting technical and functional specifications

• Part of a team which successfully delivered R3.2 Phase Oracle Retail’s Invoice Match, a component solution to Rent A Center’s Retail Merchandising System (RMS)

• Responsible for identifying new processes, finding out breaks in existing processes, organizing training sections for new process developments and completion.

• Mapped business processes in order to track all corporate/store information through various data models.

• Project SIMS (New POS System) - Gathered client requirements, understood the business and project objectives through brainstorm meetings and feedback sessions in collaboration with all stakeholders

• Visited RAC stores to understand store reporting needs and integrate operational requirements in new tools

• Worked closely with Data Warehouse and IT teams to harmonize process planning and performed Data Gap Analysis for the purpose of migrating to a new Point Of Sale System

• Developed use cases, work flow charts, screen mock-ups, and conversion requirements

• Updated and maintained the functional and technical specifications on SharePoint

• Liaised with the project manager and business owners to coordinate work plans using MS Project and provided status updates to Senior Management

• Developed reports using Business Objects - Crystal Reports 2008

February 2010 – May 2010 The University of Texas at Dallas Admissions Coordinator

Responsibilities as Teaching Assistant

• Admissions Coordinator for the Full-Time (COHORT) MBA program

• Liaison between the Director, Admission’s committee and prospective applicants

• Streamlined data tracking to reduce process cycle time by 10%

School Projects

• Marketing Management – Developed a marketing project plan for Wattrack Inc., a green venture, that designs and sells products that monitor the use of energy. Segmented target market to increase response rate to an expected 4%

• Business Intelligence Project – Team lead for a data mining project for direct marketing to identify those customers that are most likely to respond to the mailing / catalog campaign using SAS and Enterprise miner tools and suggested the most suitable prospective customers to whom catalog must be sent to maximize profit

• Database Management - Developed a relational database management system (RDBMS) using Microsoft Access for a home improvement retailing business (similar to Home Depot) with more than 1500 stock-keeping units facing several challenges and deficiencies such as: inventory database management, customer order management, employee management

Coursework

• Data Warehousing (SAP) • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP - SAP)

• Information Technology Strategy Management • Advanced Business Intelligence (SAS)

• Database Management Systems (SQL) • Operations Management

• Marketing Management – International Business

• Business Data Communications • Quantitative Analysis to Risk and Uncertainty in Business - Statistics

• Software Analysis and Project Management

Technical Skills and Certification

• Applications - Business Objects Crystal Reports, MySAP ERP 2005 ECC 6.0, XLMiner, SAS , Weka, SAP BW, MySQL, Toad for Oracle, SQL, Sharepoint

• Software - Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Adobe Photoshop, Windows 9X, XP, Vista, Windows 7

• SAS Certified – The University of Texas at Dallas – May 2010

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