Power Plant Manager

Rajvi Dar/Sheth

[pic] Foster City, CA [pic] ********@*****.*** [pic]650-***-****

Talented Business Analyst with 7 years of experience in leasing, lending

and financial services

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

. Expert in business process engineering and software development life

cycle, including analysis, design, development, testing and

implementation of software applications.

. In-depth knowledge of Rational Unified Process (RUP); risk

engineering; data modeling and mapping; and design using UML, and

Visio.

. Familiar with current industry standards such as SOX, ISO, Six Sigma,

and Capability Maturity Model (CMM).

. Adept at reducing development costs and providing traceability of

projects.

. Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal, and presentation

skills; expert at managing multiple projects simultaneously.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

. Databases - Oracle, MS Access, SQL

. Languages - HTML, XML, Visual Basic, Basic knowledge of Java, C, C++

. GUI/Tools - Microsoft Office Suite, Visio

. Testing Tools- Quick Test Pro, Load Runner, Test Director.

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, US 05/11-

Present

Project: Global Business Project Management

Cisco Systems Capital Corporation provides financing in Europe, the United

States and Canada, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and Japan. It focuses on

offering leasing programs to small and medium sized businesses, and large

enterprise businesses worldwide. The objective of this project is to

provide a global platform for the various front end and back end processes

involved in the lease life cycle of products that Cisco Capital leases.

Responsibilities and Achievements:

. Work as functional expert for Pricing of leases and loans. Understand

the pricing calculations and document the existing process in BRD's

and workflows. Create the "To be" process flows and automate the

workflow and approvals. Define the requirements for the lease/loan

"Pricing as a service" - a web service call that can price and

calculate the monthly payments of the lease/loan.

. Liaise with business and process owner during risk engineering and

high-level review sessions to derive and execute action plans, meeting

deadlines and standards.

. Interface with business users to prepare and update Business Process

Requirements (BPR) and Software System Requirements (SSR).

. Create Master Business Requirements List, end to end scenarios and

test cases to determine the capabilities of the new software and

perform fit- gap analysis of requirements.

. Prioritize the requirements and determine the in-scope and out of

scope requirements for the project in short term as well as long term.

. Perform GAP analysis of business rules, business and system process

flows, user administration, and requirements.

. Develop use case with UML for new product functionality.

. Trace test cases and functional specifications to SSRs and BPRs.

. Apply change requests, versions, and addendums.

Business Analyst, Third Pillar Systems, Burlingame, CA, US

10/06- 05/11

Project: Loanpath application

The Third Pillar Systems product called "Loanpath" is used by most leading

financial institutions for their leasing/lending/real estate branch. The

application handles end-to-end management of loans from the sales call to

completion of a contract.

Responsibilities and Achievements:

. Work as a Pricing Analyst/ Pricing SME and understand the

Pricing/Quoting processes of various leasing/lending companies and

incorporate them in the automated software.

. Understand the Credit Approval process of client and configure the

software to meet the Compliance, Credit and Risk policies

. Understand the Reporting requirements and work on ETL and Ad hoc

Reports.

. Gather and analyze business processes to meet clients' expectations

and present Loanpath functionality to the business users.

. Develop business cases and assist the client in all stages of SDLC

until UAT.

. Design solutions that include workflows and wireframes of the screens

to capture all relevant data.

. Document the requirements in use cases, user interface specifications,

and cross-functional specifications in detail as to cover each aspect

of the process. This involves all the complex manual techniques (e.g.:

formulas in excel) so that all these can be incorporated in the

automated system.

. Work with technical leads and developers to walk through the use cases

and address all concerns raised from technical team and from clients

to come to a common platform.

. Create test-plans for functional testing and co-ordinate the User

Acceptance Testing. Guide QA team in end to end testing.

Business Analyst/ QA Analyst, Vision InfoTech, Bangalore- India 06/03-

12/04

Project: Inventory Control System

This system includes inventory control and maintenance. It prepares goods

received note/stores receipts note (GRN/SRN) for received materials and

purchase return note for returned materials and routes to the financial

system. Received materials after inspection are accepted by the system

after proper validations. The system prepares material requisition note

(indent), stores return note (returns). Complex queries and reports are

incorporated. Reports on inventory status as on date, total inventory cost

are also prepared by the system.

Responsibilities and Achievements:

. Understanding business requirements for the system and documenting

the functional specifications - My effective and elaborative writing

skills were much appreciated by the managers and developers.

. Analyzed application, system, and security errors. Escalated issues

to developers and verified fixes - My communicative skills helped me

in explaining the defects / requirements to developers.

. Designed test plans and defined cases for functional, integration

system, and user acceptance testing.

. Manual testing of the product and bugs tracking using Jira.

. Deliver the test plan inventory to client for the monthly release

cycle.

. Attended weekly defect report meetings and presented progress

updates.

Business & Finance Analyst, Malavalli Power Plant Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore

-India

05/02-05/03

Malavalli Power Plant Pvt. Ltd. is a 4.5 MW power plant located in Mandya

District, Karnataka. They are pioneers in generating power from Biomass

fuel. The company supplies power to KPTCL grid and in turn supplies

electricity to 50 villages. The company does Usage based Carbon Emissions

Leasing Transfer to European countries in lines with the "Go Green"

approach.

Responsibilities and Achievements:

. Forecasted company's expense accounts and assisted in vendor contract

renewals and invoicing.

. Created presentations for quarterly business reviews for corporate-

level management documenting business status, performance, and pending

business initiatives.

. Handling of Leasing for Carbon Emissions Leasing transfer related to

Kyoto Protocol.

. Quarterly Budgeting: Revising budget every quarter so as to have

effective cost control.

. Supervise Financial Accounting and Cost Accounting Activities.

. Working as Information Manager: Making Management reports on plant

performance and operations and heading weekly meetings to analyze

business needs/ issues and determine the best solution to address

them.

. Monitoring M.I.S.: Analyze plant performance data and work with

technical team to make recommendations for continuous improvement.

. Manage treasury and legal functions, liaison with government

departments for finance related matters.

Major Accomplishments:

. Earned numerous performance-based promotions as a result of hard-work

and accuracy.

. Instrumental in creation of "Grameena Abhivruddhi Mandali": Community

managed energy plantation and crop residues supply chain.

. Coming up with lease agreement with German company regarding carbon

leasing.

Manager- Finance and Deputy Management Representative, Specific Ventil

Fabrik-India.

12/00 to 04/02

Specific Ventil Fabrik is a leader in Manufacturing of Automobile Tyre

Tube Valves & Cores, established since 1961. They are major exporters to

U.S., U.K., Russia and Asian Countries like Indonesia, Malaysia etc. and

also to Tyre Manufacturing Giants like JK Tires, MRF Tires etc in India.

They have been certified with ISO-9001 and have won numerous quality and

export related awards.

Responsibilities and Achievements:

1. Assistant Manager-Finance

. Performing Internal Audits of all the departments.

. Preparing master budget to achieve management objectives.

. Monitor and review budgets of different departments.

. Supervise Financial Accounting and Management Accounting Activities.

2. Deputy Management Representative (D.M.R)

. Coordinated training programs and mentoring the achievers to nurture

the high performance culture.

. Assisted in preparing documentation of Quality policies, procedures,

and work instructions.

. Conducted Management Review Meetings with strong emphasis on customer

satisfaction and continual improvement.

. Implemented a systematic Customer Complaint System and actions taken

for Customer Communication and Satisfaction.

Major Accomplishments:

. Recipient of Best Employee Award.

. Achieved ISO 9001 certification for SPECIFIC VENTIL FABRIK Company

within deadlines that escalated the revenue of the company in a few

months.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATES

. Certificate Courses in Software Testing Tools, Programming Languages-

SQL, VB Script, Java (College of San Mateo), Oracle 8.

. Masters in Business Administration, Finance -South Gujarat University,

India (2001)

. Bachelors in Engineering, Chemical - South Gujarat University, India

(1999)

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