Project Manager Supply Chain
Resume:
SASHIREKHA SHANMUGAVELU
Bloomington, MN 55437
Mobile: 612-***-****
E-mail: *****@***.***.***
CAREER OBJECTIVE
Desire for a position on a team that looks to make quantum leaps in
performance that encourages growth and leadership opportunities, while
utilizing technical expertise, innovative abilities, and interpersonal
skills. This team must make the Customer the center of all activities
performed.
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
An information and technology strategist with over 5 years of business and
IT experience. Most recently, I've been a consultant for the Professional
Services Group at HighJump Software. The Professional Services Group is
focused on providing highly adaptable, best-of-breed supply chain execution
solutions; on maximizing customer and partner loyalty; increasing HighJump
Software revenue and profitability growth; and improving virtual teaming
across multiple organizations within HighJump Software. A proven ability
to align business requirements with technology and technology with business
requirements. A quick learner and critical thinker with excellent research
ability, self-motivation and an entrepreneurial mindset. An enthusiastic
team player that can produce results under tight time and budget
constraints.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance Consultant
June 2006 - Present
Technology & Strategy Management Consultant
Responsibilities and Accomplishments
Responsible for the development of an international technology plan, which
included identification, design and implementation of technology solutions
and professional services to support the needs for each location and
function worldwide. Responsibilities included development of
implementation plans; creating cost projections in order to compare
technology solutions; coached and mentored project teams in software
development process; delivered overall project architecture; assessed
overall quality of tests and coached team in unit and integration test
development; evaluated small and large teams in the context of an overall
organizational shift towards agile software methods; development of risk
identification and mitigation strategies; technical management/solution
creation across all international organizations; development of global
development and hosting centers; staffing Professional Services
organization and Customer Engagement Centers in strategic locations around
the world.
HighJump Software, Minnesota October 2005 - May 2006
Business Consultant, Professional Services Group
Responsibilities and Accomplishments
As a Consultant for the Professional Services Group, it was my
responsibility to do Business process analysis and design of Supply Chain
Execution solutions of client-specific configurations to the HighJump
Supply Chain application suite.
Accomplishments include:
. Executed the full life cycle implementation of supply chain solutions
from presale through design, architecture development, implementation,
and service delivery and engagement closure, while ensuring the greatest
level of customer satisfaction.
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. Clarified client requirements, business needs and project objective, via
feedback sessions and client meetings, in collaboration with all
stakeholders.
. Conducted business analysis, project assessment and feasibility
determination.
. Strategized project scoping and specifications documents, to clearly
communicate the project roadmap.
. Provided product-consulting, transfer of knowledge to client/partner
team. Also resolved customer's key issues during implementation.
. Relentless communication and project/engagement status reports to key
contacts within the customer.
. Mentored the customer's project teams in HighJump frameworks and best
practices.
Carlson Venture Enterprise, Carlson School of Management MN
August 2003 - August 2004
Business Associate, IT Advisory Group, The Center for Entrepreneurial Study
Responsibilities and Accomplishments
As an associate, it was my responsibility to perform market analysis;
evaluation of technology, market requirements of the new IT business plans
that were in their incubation stages at the Carlson Venture Enterprise.
During the due diligence phase, it was my responsibility to lead a group of
associates in the modeling, evaluating and market line development to
determine the profitability of the assets.
Goldman Sachs & Co., New York
June 2002 - September 2003
Business & Technology Analyst, Firmwide Technology Group
Responsibilities and Accomplishments
As a Business and Technology Analyst for Goldman's Firmwide Group, it was
my responsibility to identify appropriate technology solutions across the
firms businesses, recommending architectural strategies and introducing new
technologies through both proof of concepts and real world development
scenarios.
As an associate in the Operations Technology Group within Firmwide, it was
my responsibility to develop trade transaction applications for trade
processing, settlements, clearance, and position keeping across all product
lines; managing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of daily cash
movements; providing asset servicing and satisfying the necessary tax
requirements for Goldman's clients as well as maintaining massive
repositories of products and entity information that is used throughout the
firm for trading, funding, risk evaluation, compliance and many other
business critical functions.
Accomplishments include:
. Designed and implemented the prototype of the Securities Position Ledger
(SPL) in a distributed framework from the existing mainframe trade
transaction systems.
. Planned and integrated (in conjunction with Investment Banking, Fixed
Income, Currency & Commodities (FICC), Equities, Global Investment and
the Global Compliance Groups) strategic and tactical use of Goldman
technologies and applications.
. Acted as a liaison, resource broker, and advocate for the Customer by
providing key personal links to Goldman product groups as well as
executive sponsors and technologists.
. Performed ongoing reviews of needs assessment/diagnosis and relate that
to Goldman technologies, directions, and initiatives.
. Prioritized, initiated and monitored strategic projects associated with
the Customer's Strategic Technology Plans.
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Powerquest Corporation, Utah Salt Lake City June 2000 -
August 2001
Business Analyst, Storage Product Development Group
Accomplishments include:
. Determined user/business/functional requirements. Created vision, scope,
and use case documents; business process models, use case diagrams,
activity diagrams, and state chart diagrams.
. Validated technical designs against functional specifications.
. Fixed bugs in the released software.
. Coordinated work plans between project manager and client using MS
Project.
. Coordinated the technical details with the clients for the Globalization
of the product.
EDUCATION
School of Engineering, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA
Master of Science, Software Management
Fall 2006 - Present
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Certification in Nonprofit Management Spring 2009 - Present
Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Master of Science, Computer Engineering, 2005
University of Madras, India
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, 2000
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
. Codewarp: Submitted with a group of 3 members Codewarp Business Plan
at the Gopher's Business Plan Competition organized by the Carlson
School of Management, Minneapolis Spring 2002. Codewarp is a Software
Engineering Company supplying products that build cost-effective
custom enterprise software solutions. Codewarp was awarded the second
prize at the competition.
. Lucent Technologies Fellowship for Graduate Study at University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2001-2002
. Young Engineer's Fellowship 1999 from the Indian Institute of Science
(IISc), Bangalore, India
. Indian National Merit Scholarship, 1994 - 1998
. J.N Tata Scholarship for graduate studies, awarded by J.N Tata
Endowment for Higher Education
. President, Society of Women Engineers (SWE) UMN, 2001 - 2003
. President, Entrepreneurial Center, University of Madras, India, 1999 -
2000
. Member, 85 Broads Women's network
. Published Technology Articles, poetry and short classic stories in
Indian National Newspapers and in the University of Minnesota's
Newsletters
. Organized groups of 50 people or more on adventure sport trips, Member
of the U Skydiving Club
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