Project Manager

NEHA SANDHIR

Email:

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Phone: 559-***-****

SUMMARY

* ***** ** ********* ********** as a Business Analyst and a Team Player in

Architecting, Designing and Documenting IT, Finance, Insurance, Education,

and Consumer Goods business solutions following various phases of SDLC

(software development life cycle), experience in client interaction,

requirements gathering understanding communicating and implementation, for

some of the top corporations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Well versed in the following -

ERP: SAP 7 CRM, Familiar with MM and FICO.

Modeling Tools: Rational Requisite pro, Rational Rose, Familiar with MS

Visio.

Databases: MS Access, Oracle, MySQL.

Reporting Tools: Business Objects (BOXI R2 & R3).

Versioning Tools: Familiar with IBM Rational Clear Case.

Tools: Microsoft Office tools namely Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and

Word, IBM Rational Clear Case and Clear Quest, TOAD for

SQL.

Work EXPERIENCE

Saber Surge Inc, CA January 2011 -

Present

Saber Surge Inc. is a software product development and business solution

company. It offers a range of software development solutions to a variety

of corporations that include networking, enterprise application software

companies, B2B, B2C, finance, ecommerce, customer-facing web publishers and

others.

As a Sr. Business Analyst Intern, my responsibilities include -

. Gather customer requirements, perform the analysis for current business

systems and processes, provide automation solutions, and create the

Functional Design Document for end users and developers. This involves

interaction with new and existing customers, developers and vendors.

. Work with existing reporting and analytics tools and suggest

improvements. This also involved creating BI reports for executives.

. Create Presentations, UI Wireframe designs, UML Diagrams and Sitemaps

based on the requirements.

. Preparing the Test Cases, Test Strategy and Test Plan.

. Supporting the technical team in the product development, delivery

process and translating the business requirements into Functional

Specification Document.

. Interviewing Clients, stakeholders and IT experts to have a successful

collection of requirements. Coordinated IT and Stake holder meetings and

brainstorming sessions for the projects.

. Worked on SWOT and Cost Benefit analysis for the projects.

International Technological University, CA August 2010 -

January 2011

As an Intern - Customer Relationship Management, my responsibilities

included -

. Identify and provide user problem resolutions for existing and

prospective students.

. Documentation - Interaction with students and staff to find, resolve and

document solutions.

. Assisted IT Web development team with requirement gathering by

interacting with students.

New York Life Insurance Co. March 2007 -

January 2008

New York Life Insurance Company (NYLIC) is the largest mutual life

insurance company in the United States, and one of the largest life

insurers in the world. New York Life has the highest possible financial

strength ratings from all four of the major credit rating agencies.

As a Sr. Business Analyst in EFS (Enterprise Financial Systems) team my

responsibilities included -

. Working with Sr. Analyst and Developers to analyze Business

Requirements for "Training and Networking portal" project and "Group

P&L" project.

. Gathered business requirements to enhance and improve routing,

reporting capabilities and drill-down features

. Communicated and maintained strong working relationship with various

business groups such as Project enlargement and clients regarding

requirements and workflow.

. Understanding about SOX Compliance and HIPAA Compliance and

observance of all aspects for credentials and SOX Compliance Sign-Off

. Worked with the ETL Team to identify and translate the transformation

rules and business logic of insurance and claims processing for the

Source ETL process, simulated it as ETL transformation and conversion

rules and documented them in the Mapping Document.

. Proficient experience through the whole SDLC from requirement

analysis till deployment, using highly efficient RUP process of

software development.

. Functioned as a data analyst to gather, quantify and convert atomic

level data into relational dimensional model format for reporting

purposes.

. Coordinated with the ETL Team to ensure the correct transformation

and loading of the data according to the business requirements.

. Conducted Brain-storming sessions and Joint Application Development

sessions and documented the Concept Description Document (CDD)

. Involved in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with

trainers, agent advisors, sales managers and stakeholders to define

technology applications for business requirements, to communicate

their perspective, resolve any issues, and come to an agreement

quickly.

. Functioned as a data analyst to gather, quantify and convert atomic

level data into relational dimensional model format for reporting

purposes.

. Responsible for preparing the Test Cases, Test Strategy and Test

Plan.

. Facilitating User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for the project.

. Creating Project deliverables such a Business Requirements Document,

Functional Specification Document, Use Case Scenarios Document,

Activity diagram and Use Case diagrams.

. Utilizing Rational Unified Process (RUP) to develop process and

procedures for the project.

. Assisting project manager in managing project resources, project

timelines, identify and escalate project risks and issues.

. Developing and maintain strong working relationships with all key

internal stakeholders including customer executives, product managers

and resource managers.

Allegro Capital Advisors April 2006 -

March 2007

Allegro Capital is a comprehensive Investment Bank that comes with years of

expertise in offering financial solutions and advisory services across the

corporate world. The company is in the business of managing the assets of

individuals and corporate. List of its corporate clients include senior and

middle management from organizations that include Intel, IBM, HP, Coke,

Pepsi, Whirlpool Corporation, Hindustan Levers, 3M, Gillette and Cisco

amongst others.

As a Business Analyst-II in Investment Management team my responsibilities

included -

. Involved in writing Use Cases, Functional Specifications, Scenarios,

Business processes, Work flow diagrams and process flows for the Web

based portal to handle client investment portfolios along with

Advisor details.

. Defined and baseline functional requirements that were used by the

development, testing and client organizations.

. Reviewed time and cost estimates for the project.

. Reviewed and approved system feature and design requirements.

. Provided Project Management support as needed to ensure projects were

successfully delivered.

. Experience with SQL queries to retrieve, validate and manage data in

Data base.

. Involved in conducting GAP analysis, conducting JAD sessions, User

Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis and

ROI analysis

. Exceptional ability to maintain and build client relationships, able

to comfortably converse with all facets in the client's organization

for gathering requirements and validation.

. Create Test readiness and Test Status Summary report.

. Participate in daily defect meeting and taking status from each

vertical manager.

. Manage the overall coordination of the testing activities for System

testing and UAT.

. Interacting with higher management people to identify and analyze the

given information, processes and decision flows. Contributed ideas

towards building the company's core business and marketing plan;

implementing them into the business and functional requirements of

the system.

. Working with different design tools and UML to create use case

diagrams and activity diagrams for better understanding of the

project.

. Monitoring the progress of project with respect to schedules and

effort estimates. Providing AGILE project plans and timeline

schedules.

. Using Business Objects reporting tool (BOXI R2) to create reports for

business.

. Educated advisors and stakeholders on the benefits and risks

associated with the project.

. Business Development through Making strategies and organizing various

events in communities to create brand awareness and acquire clients,

Making Corporate presentations with a view of creating awareness of

the brand and also marketing the financial advisory services

(presented in Wipro, Ambuja), and Arranging corporate desks (arranged

in Keane, Coca- Cola).

Gillette February 2005 -

April 2006

Gillette (India) Ltd. The Company's principal activity is to manufacture

and market consumer products. The Company operates in three segments:

Grooming, Oral Care, and Portable Power. Grooming segment includes blades,

razors and toiletries. Oral Care segment includes toothbrushes and oral

care products. Portable power segment includes batteries, torches and

lamps.

As a Business and Data Analyst in the Gillette Vector Plus launch team my

responsibilities included -

. Used ExCenium and Sombol proprietary analysis and reporting tools to

analyze the Gillette Vector campaign data and create summarized data

stores based on business rules.

. Gathering user requirements, analyzing and preparing project

deliverables like Business Requirements Document (BRD) and Functional

Specification Document (FSD).

. Supporting the technical team in the product development, delivery

process and translating the business requirements into Functional

Specification Document (FSD).

. Interviewing Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), stakeholders and IT

experts to have a successful collection of requirements. Coordinated

between Research, Marketing, Sales and Stake holders for the projects.

. Managed all the requirements in Rational Requisite Pro, making

requirements available to all team members and stakeholders involved

in the project.

. Monitored stakeholder expectations and skillfully negotiated with

stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of the project.

. Followed UML based methodology using Rational Rose for creating

Business Cases and Use Case Models after assessing the status and

scope of the project and implementing Business Intellegence reports

that will meet their strategic business processes needs.

. Identified Use Cases from the requirements and wrote Use Case

Specifications document.

. Reported status to project management and project owners on a weekly

and monthly basis.

. Used MS Project 2000 for status reporting and project planning.

. Involved in the periodically held JAD sessions for the purpose of

project updates as well as involved in the weekly meetings to discuss

the current project status.

. Actively involved in developing, executing and coordinating functional

and user acceptance testing (UAT).

. Leading the Requirements Gathering Sessions and Joint Application

Development (JAD) Sessions to gather and document the business

requirements.

. Analyzing large volumes of data, SWOT analysis of the brand, locating

trends, providing strategic recommendations, report writing and

presentation of analysis. Main focus of the reports was on CSD

customers.

. Training Customer support staff and updating them about Gillette

Vector Plus's features.

Skills: Windows XP/2000, SQL, MS Office Suite, RUP methodology, Project

2000, HTML, DHTML, XML, Oracle 9i, BOXI (R2 & R3)

EDUCATION

. Master of Science in Engineering Management, ITU University, Currently

Pursuing.

. Master of Business Administration, Marketing-IT, ICFAI University.

. Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Pune University.

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