Project Manager Management

ALOK SINHA, B.TECH, MBA, PMP

**** ****** ***** **** **********, ON L7M 0J5

C 416-***-****, H 905-***-****

**********@*******.***

PROFILE

A strategic thinking, results-oriented, trusted and PMP certified, “Agile” techniques trained project manager with

excellent analytical, interpersonal, team building and coaching skills. Experience in dealing with business groups

and development teams located in Canada, Europe, India and US. Excellent at meeting deadlines, is a quick

learner who thrives on challenges and is good at multi-tasking. Winner of System and Technology Services

recognition awards at CIT. Valuable contributions led Powergrid’s HRD Department in India to get the prestigious

Asian Regional Training and Development Organization award. Possess expertise/experience in:

Project/Change Management Agile project management techniques

Contracts Administration Business Analysis

Financial evaluation/ project feasibility Software Development

Training and Development Accounting for Not for Profit organization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CIT FINANCIAL LTD 1998 to 2013

Project Manager/Development Manager

Managed projects and support for Infrastructure upgrades including Win 7 deployment, lease origination systems,

payables and reconciliation systems including its surround systems, implementation of Front end and web-based

applications, reporting to stakeholders located in Canada, Europe and US, including data owner and application

owner.

Accountabilities:

• Review, analyse, prioritise, define the project scope, deliverables and requirements, including project

documentation, in collaboration with project stakeholders from business units in Canada, Europe and US

• Determines resource and budget requirements, cost estimates, and timelines

• Plan, develop, monitor and oversee the end-to-end delivery of the projects within scope, budget, timelines

and all other requirements

• Identify project risks and develops and implements mitigation and contingency plans

• Develop/oversee project team members and manage needs/expectations of the relevant stakeholders.

• Incorporate information technology and PMI project management best practices

Major Projects:

• Redesigned Asset based lease origination and reconciliation systems

• Low to high complexity Enhancements for new business programs, audit compliance, CIT Bank, Master

Scale, PD regrading, Credit Risk Management, Electronic Documents, Automated Advisory, Scorecards,

Project Columbus Canada, etc

Project impacts:

• Projects completed within agreed deadlines

• Doubled the business through EBOSS to over CAD 1.2 billion dollars a year

• Reduced cost of funds from over 10 % to less than 5%

• No issues reported from the re-designed user-friendly legacy applications since over 2 years (which

reconciles over 6 million records and process over 40K payable instruments a year)

Methodology:

• Prioritized the deliverables jointly with stakeholders and divided projects in smaller but low risk projects.

• Used “agile” style development process – shorter duration development, testing and project review cycles

• Involved end users during development/unit testing through direct contact/web conference

• Short daily/weekly project updates/review meeting to monitor projects closely

• Built motivated/cohesive distributed development team (in Canada, India and US) by creating open,

fun/stress free environment

• Close interaction with end users/stakeholders built trust, relationship effectively managing stakeholders’

needs/expectations

Special activities:

ALOK SINHA

Involved with planning/execution of Business Continuity Plans, Disaster Recovery exercises, Compliance

activities including Access Control Certification list.

• Developed detailed procedures, test instructions for Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery of

the applications, helping smooth recovery of systems needed for applications under disaster

• Developed procedures and coordinated Access Control Certification list with data owners, application

owners and information security, ensuring only authorized users had access to the

applications/databases/servers

• Analyzed/detailed changes if needed and organized testing by users, ensuring the infrastructure re-

location and upgrades didn’t affect functionalities of the applications

SIGMA SYSTEMS GROUP 1997 - 1998

Software Engineer

Accountable for Business analysis, design, development and testing in of applications in Powerbuilder/Oracle.

SHOPPERS DRUG MART 1996 - 1997

Analyst (Contract)

Created adhoc SQL queries including formatting of reports to retrieve “Point Of Sales” information from Data

Warehouse under HP UNIX environment.

SONY OF CANADA LTD

Software Developer (Contract)

1996

Converted Application package "Authorized Sony Service Center Evaluation Report" from MS Access to

Powerbuilder 5.0.

POWER GRID CORPORATION OF INDIA LTD, NEW DELHI, INDIA 1992 - 1996

Manager (Human Resources Development/Corporate Planning)

NATIONAL HYDROELECTRIC POWER CORPORATION LTD, NEW DELHI, INDIA 1981 - 1992

Deputy Manager (Mechanical)

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Project Management Institute PMP Certification (valid till January 2018)

Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo Master of Business Administration

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Bachelor of Technology (Mechanical Engineering)

COMPUTER SKILLS

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Red Brick

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Powerbuilder

Software/Tools: MS Project, Visio, HPQC, Team/Time Track, Sharepoint,

PVCS, Salesforce, Power point

Operating systems: WINDOWS, DOS, and UNIX

VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

IIT Alumni Canada Vice President (Finance) – Managed Alumni’s finances,

membership, event registrations, public speaking during

events. Successfully reduced CRA’s GST/HST claim of

over $12,000 to zero

CIT Employee Fun Club founder

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