Project Management

VIKRANT NISHANDAR

Phone: 630-***-****. Email: *******.*********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

Obtain a challenging leadership position where expertise in project

management and problem solving skills can be exercised to meet

business objectives, develop excellent client relationships and

demonstrate success in cost savings.

Education and training

. Master of Business Administration (General Administration) -

University of Bridgeport

. Certificate for Finance Concentration - University of

Bridgeport

. Bachelors of Information Technology - Mumbai University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

. Sr. Business Analyst/Process Modeler, National Institute of

Health Dec 09 - Present

- Conduct interviews with key business users to collect

requirement and business process information.

- Provided business consulting, knowledge expertise in strategic

performance management methodologies

(BSC, dashboards etc), process assessment work, and the

application of technologies to business.

- Conduct detailed and comprehensive Business and Process Analysis

for new and existing processes/systems.

- Develop Project Management Plans and Work Plans to meet the

requirements for the various project requests

for the Enterprise Architecture Program (EAP).

- Coach and mentor project team members; mentors other Project

Managers/ Business Analysts around Project Management / Software

Development methodologies; determines project scope.

- Maintain good staff relations through effective communication,

leadership, discipline and motivation.

- Planed and applied new policies for the Enterprise Architecture

team.

- Generate Business Process Models that includes modeling of all

the activities for the business divisions

from the conceptual to procedural level using Business Genetics

methodology (BML) and BPMN.

- Define Standard operating principle (SOP), Modeling standards

for the Enterprise Architecture

Program (EAP).

- Resolve issues by conducting GAP and Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)

for the various survival critical

processes and provide accurate solutions based on the results.

- Procure functional requirements from business end-users and

prepared business requirement documents

(BRD, FRD) to supply the code-making divisions with the scope of

work for the prototyping of applications.

- Conduct research on various COTs products that would help CBI in

their IT related efforts.

- Direct the coordination of all implementation tasks involving

third party vendors as well as provide consultation

to clients on system implementation.

. Sr. Business Analyst/Manager, Hartford Life Insurance

Aug 08 - Nov 09

- Assisted the business customer in articulating the vision for

the project; both current and future needs

- Facilitated the definition of project scope through the use of

Scoping deliverables

and ensure trace ability of all future deliverables back to

Scoping.

- Ensured the deliverables submitted by the application business

analysts met the deadline and required

business/IT standards by managing their work.

- Assisted Senior Stakeholders in BCP (Business Contingency plan)

classification for all GBD applications.

- Identified needs, expectations and hidden assumptions by

interviewing, asking questions, probing at

potential gaps in the requirements

- Created Requirements Survey, detailed BRD, RTM, Impact Analysis,

Business Glossary

and AAQ (Application Architecture Questionnaire) through various

JAD sessions and interviews with

the Application Owners, DCM core team and Senior Management.

- Ensure appropriate change control processes are followed once

deliverables are base lined.

- Reviewed user training materials and procedures for accuracy and

completeness to ensure they

reflect the solution functionality as designed.

- Responsible for creating and presenting Lessons Learned after

each move to share with the

DCM core team and Senior Management for future waves.

- Assisted in Business Checkouts after the move to ensure that

there are no defects.

- Assisted in creating Test cases / Scenarios with the Test lead.

- Extensively used SQL for data extraction and migration for data

analysis from the databases for all GBD applications.

VIKRANT NISHANDAR

Phone: 630-***-****. Email: *******.*********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

. Lead Business / KYC ( Know your Client) Analyst, UBS Investment

Bank Oct 06 - July 08

- Gathered Business Requirements and use case models using UML to

depict functionality in accordance

with Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology.

- Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to

communicate their perspectives with each

other, resolve any issues and come to an agreement quickly.

- Managed a team of 4 -5 KYC/AML analysts and was responsible for

managing their work and

provide team status report to the senior management.

- Performed extensive AML (Anti Money Laundering) reviews for High

and Medium risk clients.

- Coached, mentored and lead KYC analysts within the KYC Team.

- Planed and applied new policies to adhere with the Patriot and

the Foreign Secrecy Act for team.

- Train and mentor the Team members on the latest KYC process

improvements / tools.

- Interviewed and hired new analysts for the KYC/AML team.

- Created documents like the Business Glossary and Data Dictionary

to facilitate the other teams in

understanding client business.

- Co-ordinate extensive reviews for Foreign Bank Certification.

- Developed ETL for Data Extraction, Data Mapping and Data

Conversion using SQL, PL/SQL and

various Shell scripts.

- Conducted Code review sessions with the developers.

- Wrote and tested the specifications for loading of data by ETL

from various sources to the ODS.

- Developed Test plans and Test cases using Mercury Quality

Center.

- Performed manual functional tests by executing Test Cases prior

to Automation.

- Conducted regression testing on various builds of the

application.

- Performed in-depth Gap analysis with different business groups

to ensure that the system/process initiatives are met.

- Logged Defects and enhancements using Clear Quest.

- Managed Project Change Requests (PCR).

- Used Microsoft Project to manage schedules, deadlines, resources

and collaborate on the project.

. Business Analyst, Joyful Plastics Pvt LTD, India

May 2003 - Nov 2004

- Conducted detailed and comprehensive Business Analysis by

working with the business user and the IT staff.

- Assisted Project Managers with managing and creating project

management documents.

- Proactively managed systems development, implementation and risk

via the use of SDLC.

- Create Requirements Survey, detailed BRD, RTM, Impact Analysis,

Business Glossary through

various JAD sessions.

- Responsible for creating Business Process Flows using Microsoft

Visio.

- Performed manual functional tests by executing Test Cases prior

to Automation.

- Developed Test plans and Test cases using HP Quality Center.

TECHNICAL Qualification

. Process/Model tools : MS Visio, Rational Unified Process

(RUP), Rational Rose, RequisitePro, CMAP,

Business Genetics, Doors, Clear Case

and MS Office.

. Test Tools : Test director / HP Quality

Center, Win Runner, Load Runner, Clear Quest

. Operating System : Windows95/NT/2000/XP

. Project Management : MS Project (PERT, Gantt charts), Excel

spread sheets

. RDBMS : MS Access, MS SQL Server 2000,

Oracle 9i, TOAD, DB Visualizer

. Web Tools : Front Page, Photoshop

. Languages : SQL, Java, C/C++

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