Project Manager

MANMEET CHAUD HAR I

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EDUCAT ION

Bachelors of Engineering in Information Technology Mumbai University. May-2004

Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration. November-2009

A CH IEVE ME NT M VP-PROJECT

I am a Micrososfft Project MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 3 years.

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals are exceptional technical community leaders from

a round the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world

expertise in offline and online technical communities. Microsoft MVPs are a highly select

g roup of experts that represents the technical community's best and brightest, and they share

a deep commitment to community and a willingness to help others.

W ORK E XPERIENCE

Advisicon I nc V ancouver WA

Sr. P roject Advisor June 2010 – P resent

BASED OUT OF CAMBRIDGE M A, I A M A SENIOR T ECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT W ITH A CAREER H ISTORY I N D IVERSE

ASPECTS OF I NFORMATION T ECHNOLOGY, E NTERPRISE L EVEL I T, B USINESS A NALYSIS I MPLEMENTATION, A ND

TRAIN ING . I H AVE L ED D EL IVERY OF COMPLEX B USINESS PROCESSES A ND E NTERPRISE SOLUT IONS TO

F ORTUNE 100 COMPANIES I N A SIA -PACIFIC, I NDIA N ORTH A MERICAN M ARKETS. M Y D EEP EXPERTISE

A ND

I HAVE I N -

I S I N PROVIDING T ECHNOLOGY CONSULTING SERVICES W ITH L IFE CYCLE I MPLEMENTATIONS A ND

DEPTH K NOWLEDGE I N SOLUTION ARCHITECTURE D ESIGN, D EVELOPMENT, A ND D ELIVERY OF B USINESS

& COLLABORATIONS SYSTEMS.

I NTELL IGENCE U SING B USINESS PORTALS

D uties and Responsibilites:

• Lead planning and architecting for Enterprise Project Management (EPM), SharePoint

Server 2010/2007 implementations.

• Manage EPM implementation and development teams and projects.

• Provide system administration support for client Enterprise Project Management

i nstances.

• Propose, develop, and support proof of concept pilot projects, testing and evaluating

p roposed Enterprise Project Management-based solutions.

• Support other consultants in delivering E PM consulting services.

• Facilitate and/or participate n meetings with clients, team members, and

stakeholders.

• Manage client accounts, stakeholders, and projects.

• Develop and present project, program, and portfolio status reports.

• Develop and deliver Enterprise Project Management training, demos, educational

p resentations, and proposals to prospects, clients, partners, and groups.

• Business Development: Help lead and build Advisicon’s growing Enterprise Project

M anagement (EPM) consulting practice in the US/Canadian Eastern Region Deliver

M icrosoft Project Server (EPM), Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), and

W indows SharePoint Services (WSS) implementation and integration consulting

services to clients.

Maxoffice Service Pvt Ltd M umbai, I ndia

Lead Consultant- Business P roductivity D ec 2007 – May2010

T ransformation

D uties and Responsibilites:

• Conduct pre-sales demo on Project Server, SharePoint and Office 2003 and above.

• Conduct hands on training, seminars and sessions on increasing desktop productivity

using Microsoft Office product.

• Conduct hands on training and seminars on using Microsoft Project and Project Server.

• Desing and implement Enterprise Project management using Project Server system.

• Provide support and consultancy to customers on Project Server system.

• Work as a Project manager for the team implementing Project Server system.

• Create course materials on Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Project and Project Server.

• Provide assistance to Microsoft sales team across Asia in helping them with pre-sales

of Office and Microsoft Project

• Lead planning and architecting for Enterprise Project Management (EPM), SharePoint

Server 2010/2007 implementations.

• Propose, develop, and support proof of concept pilot projects, testing and evaluating

p roposed Enterprise Project Management-based solutions.

• Facilitate and/or participate n meetings with clients, team members, and

stakeholders.

• Develop and deliver Enterprise Project Management training, demos, educational

p resentations, and proposals to prospects, clients, partners, and groups.

Maestros Mediline Services L td M umbai, I ndia

Sr.Executive – Business P roductivity Dec 2004 – Dec 2007

A nalyst

Duties and Responsibilites:

• Conduct pre-sales demo, hands-on training, sessions, seminars, events on Project

Server, SharePoint and Office 2003 and above.

• Desing and implement Enterprise Project management using Project Server system.

• Provide support and consultancy to customers on Project Server system.

• Create course materials on Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Project and Project Server.

• Lead planning and architecting for Enterprise Project Management (EPM), SharePoint

Server 2010/2007 implementations.

• Propose, develop, and support proof of concept pilot projects, testing and evaluating

p roposed Enterprise Project Management-based solutions.

External Consultant to M icrosoft - I have worked closely with Business Management and

Category product leads in Microsoft Subsidiaries - India, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Sri

L anka and Bangla Desh.

I have worked extensively in pre-sales, compete sales, architecture, deployment,

customer/partner training and support.

PROJECTS

1. I mplementation of Ente rp rise P roject Management using P roject Server

2010

: Terasen Gas, Synapse, FRIMO, Meijer

Clients

: Business Analyst/EPM Configurator/EPM Consultant

Role

: 1-2month

Du ration

: 1. Reuquirement Gathering and analysis

Activities car ried out in

2. Creation of Business Driver, custom fields, project

b rief

details pages, Enterprise project type and

templates.

3. Configuration of Driver prioritization methods.

4. Configuration of Portfolio analysis – Cost

constraint analysis, resource constraint analysis

5. Reporting using the Business Intelligence center

and dashboards.

6. Resource planning and forecasting.

7. Assisted in manaing intergartion of Project server

w ith SAP and ClickView systems

8. Integration of Project Server with SharePoint to

manage documents, r isk, issues and other list and

l ibraries for collaboration.

2. I mplementation of Ente rp rise P roject Management using P roject Server

2003/2007

: Thyssen K rupp, Thermax, ITC, Zenta, First India Credit,

C lients

G IL, Centurion Bank, Dialog (Sri Lanka), Demag Cranes,

M ahindra & Mahindra, Terasen Gas, Lattice

Semiconductor

: Team Member/ Project Manager

Role

: 1-2 months

Du ration

: 1. Presales Demo on Project Server

Activities car ried out in

2. Creation of Proposal

b rief

3. Deployment of EPM

a. Installation of SQL server

b. Installation of Project server

c. Installation of Project Professional

4. Custom configuration of the server

a. SMTP configuration

b. Data analysis configuration

c. Configuration of roles and permissions

5. In-depth analysis of existing project management

system and practices

6. Requirement gathering

7. Creation of resource pool (integration with AD if

exists)

8. Creation of templates for faster creation of

p rojects

9. Configuration of customized enterprise level

f ields, views, calendars on Project Web access

based on the requirement gathering phase

10. Role based training for Top Management, Project

M anager, Team Members

11. Publishing of Projects to the Server

12. Handhold Project Managers/ Team Members to

update individual tasks and timesheet for each

p rojects

13. Generation of reports and dashboards

14. Integration with SharePoint Portal, MS Office

15. Handover to client with deliverables

16. Provision of after implementation web/phone

based and helpdesk

3. Maximizing Office Ut ilization using MaxOffice

Maxoffice is a methodology which guarantees increase in productivity of an individual and

t hus the organization on the whole by enhancing, encouraging full usage of MS Office. This is

a very unique service offering worldwide. I have been an essential part of the team that

i ntroduced and took forward this initiative.

: Bank of Philippines Islands, PLDT/SMART (Philippines), Maybank

C lients

( Malaysia), LHDN (Malaysia), Mastek (India), NTGOV (Australia),

Siemens (Singapore), Abacus (Singapore), State Bank of India,

I ndusInd Bank, HDFC Bank

: Productivity Analyst and Coach

Role

: 1. Business process/reports analysis

Activities car ried

2. Mapping of features to the individual role in organization

o ut by me

3. Demonstration of faster/better/effective ways of doing things

using MS Office

4. Training for users

5. Creation of custom course material in form of video files and

Word documents

6. Provision of web/phone based helpdesk

7. Session for top management to demonstrate the benefits

accrued

4. I mplementation of Document M anagement system using SharePoint Portal

Server

: Essel Propack

Clients

: Team Lead

Role

: 20 days

Du ration

: 1. Presales Demo on MOSS 2007

Activities car ried out

2. Creation of Proposal

3. Deployment of SharePoint server 2007

a. Installation of database server

b. Installation of application server

4. Requirement gathering

5. Mapping of user needs to system

6. Creation of departmental sites and sub-sites

7. Configuration of roles and permissions

8. End user training

9. Documentation of work done

10. Creation of deliverables

5. POC - Financial Budgeting Planner using SharePoint Portal 2010

: HDFC Bank

C lients

: Team Lead

Role

: 10 Days

Du ration

: 1. Presales Demo on MOSS 2010

Activities car ried out

2. Deployment of SharePoint server 2010

3. Requirement gathering

4. Mapping of user needs to system

5. Creation of departmental sites and sub-sites

6. Configuration of roles and permissions

7. Creation of list and templates to capture budget

i nformation

8. Collaboration of budget information across

departments

9. Creation of Excel based final reports for Sr.

M anagement

10. Documentation of work done

11. Demo of the SharePoint based system to

Sr.Management

12. Creation of deliverables

6. Managed implementation of Project Server 2010 and SharePoint 201 at UC Davis. The

i mplementation revolved around mapping project cost and budget requirement and

enhancing the process of managing project and resource cost using Project Server.

7. Invited by Microsoft to design and create Microsoft certification questions.

8. Co-authored books and white papers for Microsoft and MVP press:

a. White Paper - Project Server 2010 – Demand Management

b. White Paper - Project Server 2010 – Portfolio Strategy

c. White Paper - Project Server and SharePoint 2010 – Better together

d. Book - Managing Project using Project Server 2010

e. Book - Managing Portfolios using Project Server 2010

f. Book - Managing Projects using Microsoft Project 2010

9. Conducted webcasts for Microsoft on Demand Management, Portfolio Strategy,

SharePoint and Project Server Better together, New features of Project 2010, New

features of Outlook and Office.

10. Created scripts, f lowcharts and video for Microsoft product development team to assist

t hem in customer immerging experience.

11. Created 6 Project Professional desktop scenarios for Microsoft field sales team.

12. Imparted t raining on Project Server, Microsoft Project, SharePoint and Microsoft Office

for more than 500 companies across the globe. These t raining, sessions and seminars

were conducted for audience across doamins and different profiles including top

management.

CERT IF ICAT IONS

1. Most Valuable Professional (Microsoft Project)

2. Microsoft Master Instructor

3. MCTS: Microsoft Project Server 2010, Configuration

4. MCTS: Microsoft Project 2010, Managing Projects

5. MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional - Planning, Deploying and Managing an

E nterprise Project Management Solution)

6. MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Managing Projects using Microsoft

Office Project 2007)

7. MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Enterprise Project Management

using Microsoft Project Server 2007)

8. MCTS: Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Configuration

9. MCITP: Enterprise Project Management with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

10. MCTS: Microsoft Project 2010, Managing Projects

11. MOS Expert (Microsoft Office Expert - Excel 2003)

12. MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist - PowerPoint 2003)

13. MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist - Outlook 2003)

14. MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist - Word 2003)

E XPERIENCE

Solution Architecture and Design

• Astute requirements gathering for thorough system and process assessment

• Deep knowledge of architecture design

• Systematic approach of solution design and delivery to meet customer needs and

expectations

• Comprehensive implementation of Business Intelligence platforms

• Superior analysis skills

• Have led highly complex business enterprise-wide solutions from beginning to end

• Experienced in designing and delivering collaboration and portal solutions

• Broad knowledge base of enterprise-wide information technology, business analysis

i mplementation and t raining

• Diverse experience in many industries including Healthcare, Aviation, Finance,

M anufacturing and Energy segments

• Familiar with a broad range of software development methodologies

Project/Portfolio Management

• Highly knowledgeable about continuously improving lifecycle implementations within

t he customer’s enterprise

• Extensive knowledge of all phases and implications of Project, Program and Portfolio

M anagement

• Design action-oriented delivery and integration of strategic business objectives within

t actical project and program delivery

• Actively participates in communities of practice, including being a Microsoft MVP for

M icrosoft Project technologies

Training

• In-depth methodology writing and technical writing of t raining manuals

• Ability to accomplish deep knowledge transfer, blending technology and methodology

• Develop diverse curriculum and course materials

• Effective delivery of presentations to small and large groups

CERT IF ICAT IONS

1. Microsoft office expert in Excel 2003

2. Microsoft office specialist in PowerPoint 2003

3. Microsoft office specialist in Outlook 2003

4. Microsoft office specialist in Word 2003

5. Microsoft master instructor

6. Microsoft Certified Professional for planning, deploying and managing an Enterprise

P roject Management Solution.

7. Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist for Managing project using Microsoft Office

P roject 2007

8. Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist for Enterprise Project Management using

M icrosoft Project Server 2007

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