Project Management
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Neha Sharoff Ashwin Tel: 704-***-****
email:***********@*****.***
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Dublin, Oh- 43017
Career Summary
MBA with specialization in Strategy Management from Aston Business School,
Birmingham, United Kingdom.
In addition, have 5+ years well rounded IT experience with exposure to several languages
& technologies with hands-on development experience and experience in all phases of SDLC
(software development life cycle) processes in Agile/Waterfall methodology. Extensive
experience in working with various renowned Telecom, and entertainment sector clients.
Consistently recognised as “ Top Talent” by IBM.
Key skills gained through exposure through Business Knowledge
Strategy Leadership and • Organizational • Business
• •
management and Development Behavior Ethics
Planning.
Operational Marketing • Corporate Finance • Positioning
• •
management Strategy and Accounts Strategies
Competitive Public Speaking • Application • Influencer
• •
/Industry Analysis and People Development Marketing
Management
Business Project • Opportunity • Internet
• •
Planning and Management Identification Marketing
Proposal
Development
Professional Work Experience
IBM GBS, Warwick, United Kingdom MBA Intern
Role: Business Consultant – Cloud June 2012 to Till date
computing
This project was developed to increase the presence of IBM UK cloud market as, UK IBM was
niche in this market. This project involved studying the complete UK cloud market,
understanding IBM and its competitors position, doing market research, Gartner studies,
market analysis, and developing strategies to help IBM position itself with good internet,
influencer and social media marketing strategies to list itself in the top cloud service providers.
As part of cloud strategic team of IBM UK, responsible for developing strategies that
would help IBM cost effectively improves its influence on key influencers.
Analyzed and researched on how does influence work as a system in the UK Cloud
market.
Understood the cloud market, recommended areas of improvement and formulated a
detailed analysis with strategy to help IBM position their product and service.
Designed and developed a business marketing plan on the most important influencers
and how to approach them.
Worked on several tools such as Klout, Gantt chart, Marketing world, Toad for SQl
queries etc.
Worked on several tools such as Klout, Gantt chart, Marketing world, Toad for SQl
queries etc.
Prepared detailed specifications, including the screen design/layout, process flow
charts, detailed information of the cloud influencers, their position and stake in market.
Demonstrated our research findings to the Class-C suite managers and help publish in
the IBM white paper for UK Cloud team
Full time Employee
IBM India Private Limited
Feb 2010 to Aug, 2011
Global Business Services. – India, Bangalore
Client: AT&T
Managed projects for client AT &T and responsible for end-to-end delivery.
Worked closely with Program Managers, Project Sponsors, Stakeholders and Project
Core Team for defining the technical, business and functional requirements.
Analyzed, automated and developed web-applications, providing support and
managing enhancements.
Interviewed stakeholders and key users with a view to
gathering requirements with functional and technical specifications.
Prepared detailed programming specification including design layout, flow charts,
database and functional requirement documentation.
Generated funding proposal for the business including a complete strategy with
estimates, function points and productivity for 30 projects.
Improved the quality process by Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) management thus
achieved revenue for AT&T.
Responsible for software audits by customers.
Forecasted, planned projects and managed customer relationships.
Responsible for defining testing requirements together with the QA & Testing Team as
well as the clients.
Monitored the development status of product requirements throughout the product
lifecycle process and raises risks and mitigations to leadership.
Single point of contact (SPOC) between the onshore/offshore team.
Expert level exposure in all the phases of Software Development Process.
Administered customer-oriented procedures of quality management.
Rated and awarded the Star Performer of the Year from IBM with client appreciation.
Highest productivity award amongst 360 projects.
Familiar with testing tools to design and develop test plans and good at quickly learning
technologies and systems that are organization/project specific.
Collaborating with business in UAT and securing Signoff.
Mahindra Satyam, Full time Employee
Bangalore -India 2007 - 2010
Client: Elsevier Publications and FIFA
Collaborated with internal stakeholders including the senior team to gather analysis
requirements and goals
Proposed and developed the FIFA PoC (Proof of Concept) and was responsible for
getting the project to Satyam as a big contract during their downfall.
Led and managed multiple projects necessary to enhance existing applications and
internal processes
Interfaced with development leads to ensure product requirements are properly
understood.
Monitor and communicate the progress of project delivery and ensures timely and
effective communication of project status in terms of cost, forecast, schedule and
assessment of risks/issues.
Work with Test Teams in creating their Test Plans and manage the interaction between
Test Analysts and Business analysts to ensure appropriate test coverage with respect
to the use cases.
Test Analysts and Business analysts to ensure appropriate test coverage with respect
to the use cases.
Initiated the analysis of Satyam Development Centre, executed the project and
successfully achieved 98% feedback rate.
Recruited resources for the project.
Rated as the Best Performer for two consecutive years.
Single Point of Contact for cross-functional requirements/ dependency management.
Analyzed competitors’ offerings and analyze industry trends to identify & propose
product enhancements with suggestive order of prioritization.
Organized cultural event across the south of India for the ELTP batch.
Developed web based applications.
Education Qualifications
Degree Institute Year of Major/Subjects Grade/Percentage
Passing
MBA Aston Business School 2012 Strategy First Class with
Birmingham, United Management Merit
Kingdom
B.E Visveswaraiya Technological 2007 Electronics and First Class with
Communication Distinction (74%)
University, Bangalore –
India
Class Mount Carmel College, 2003 Science First Class (84%)
12th Karnataka Board, Bangalore (Physics,
–India. Chemistry,
Math’s, Biology)
10th Goodwill Girls High School, 2001 General Distinction (90%)
Std. Karnataka Board, Bangalore
Technical Skills/ Additional Information
Certification (310-055) SCJP 5.0 Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2
Platform, Standard Edition 5.0
Awards and MBA student representative for PG Learning & Teaching
Recognition Committee
Best IBmer of the year
Best Automator for the AT&T project.
Received PBC of ‘1’ at IBM
Requirement
Management RequisitePro, Clear Case, Clear Quest
Tools: Rational Rose, UML.
Modeling Tools: JAVA/J2EE,
IT Skills Oracle, SQL, Toad.
Databases MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint,
GUI/Tools Windows 9x/XP, UNIX.
Operating System Function point and productivity.
Training
Personal Data
Date of Birth 15th January 1986
Nationality Indian
Interests Painting, Networking with people of different culture and traits,
Traveling
Work Authorization
Valid H1B approved visa authorized to work in the United States.
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