Project Manager Sales
Resume:
Kulwinder Dol
**** ****** ***, ******** ** *****
US Permanent Resident
*****@*******.***
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Summary
Strong management and leadership skills with expertise in IT strategic
planning, infrastructure and software development projects.
. 13 years of management experience at Fortune 500 companies including
Cisco, Sybase, Avaya and Lucent Technologies
. 6 years in client facing consulting roles, analyzing business
processes and recommending IT solutions
. Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams including sales,
marketing, engineering and IT in software development projects
Professional Experience
Pandorabots, Inc. Oakland, CA. March 2009 -
Present
Program Manager
. Worked with clients to identify business requirements for Artificial
Intelligence (AI) chat bots to develop AI bot solutions
. Managed client engagements, coordinating client technical and design
teams, and Pandorabots technical teams from concept design to solution
delivery
. Developed strategy for AI bot utilization in emerging marketing,
including advertising, customer support and virtual gaming
MicroMenders. San Francisco, CA. 2006 - March 2009
Senior Consultant, Infrastructure Solution Sales
. Managed solution implementations at client sites, working with sales
and engineering teams; third party vendors and service providers to
meet proposal requirements
. Conducted planning workshops with client teams to develop custom IT
solutions and wrote project proposals totaling over $32 million
. Recommended investment in infrastructure virtualization solutions
based on proposal data analysis and client feedback that became a core
business component
. Specialized in the following solution areas: Business Continuity;
Datacenter Virtualization based on VMware, EqualLogic and Compellent
Storage Area Networks; Cisco Voice over IP; Microsoft Unified
Communications including Exchange, Office Communications Server and
SharePoint
Cisco Systems. San Jose, CA. 2005 -
2006
Project Manager, IT Audit, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
. Managed a team of six project managers for SOX User Change Control,
Product Change Control and Segregation of Duties & Restricted Access
compliance projects
. Developed and defined SOX controls with executive management, internal
auditors Ernest & Young, external auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers
(PwC) and finance teams
. Led project management team engaged in SOX testing with Cisco IT &
Business units for quarterly and annual SOX audits
Blackstone Technology Group. San Francisco, CA. 2003 -
2005
Consultant, Unified Messaging Solutions
. Assessed client needs to develop proposals with engineering and sales
teams addressing client's technical and business requirements
. Validated technical approach and solution design proposed by
collaborating with solution architects, project managers, and client
technical staff
Kulwinder Dol
1387 Hearst Ave, Berkeley CA 94702
US Permanent Resident
*****@*******.***
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Sybase Inc. Dublin, CA. 2002 -
2003
Project Manager, Windows Infrastructure & Manage Anywhere Studio
. Managed project team of thirty to deploy Windows 2000 Active Directory
across Sybase's locations in North America, South America, Europe and
Asia
. Developed Manage Anywhere Studio product strategy with senior
management, marketing and engineering. Managed pilot deployments with
engineering & marketing to incorporate customer product feedback into
product development
Avaya Inc. (formally Lucent Technologies) Milpitas, CA. 1996-2002
Project Manager, Unified Messaging Solutions (1999-2002)
Avaya's Unified Messenger (UM)
. Managed 16,000 seat UM deployment across North America with IBM global
services
. Presented product demonstrations to executive management
. Consulted on-site at Microsoft's 22,000 seat Unified Messenger
deployment
Lucent's Definity Anywhere
. Managed product alpha deployment at Lucent pilot site working with
engineering on product development
IT Architect, Octel Messaging Division (1997 - 1999)
. Developed UM, Exchange and Windows Architectures for deployment
internally at Avaya and customer sites, including Lucent Venture
Partners, Boeing and Microsoft
Systems Analyst, Unified Messaging (Octel Communications 1996 - 1997)
National Westminster Bank. UK. 1994-1996
Systems Analyst, Group IT
. Designed, developed and maintained a Paradox database course booking
system for the IT Training department as part of the graduate IT
Training program
. Installed, configured and maintained the IT Training classroom
hardware and software
Professional Development
. Leadership Training: Organizational Understanding, Organizational
Restructuring, Team Building and Evaluating, Negotiating Skills,
Business Alignment
. Product Certifications: VMware Sales Professional, Vonexus /
Interactive Intelligence VoIP, Cisco VoIP Specialist, EqualLogic SAN,
Compellent SAN, and Citrix certified
Presentations
. Delivered product presentations to client executive management
including James Irvine Foundation, Gruma Mission Foods, Barclays
Global, 3Par, City of San Rafael, City & County of San Francisco
. Lead product briefings and technical demonstrations at customer-
briefing centers
. Presented product strategies to corporate executive teams including
Sybase's Manage Anywhere Studio, Avaya's Unified Messenger and
Lucent's Voice Director
Education
BS (Honors) Computing Information Systems Birmingham University,
UK
Concentration: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems; Structured
Systems Analysis and Design Method (SSADM), university was a government
research center for SSADM.
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