Project Management

Ramesh Kumar Deshamouni

Ph: 610-***-****

E-mail: ***************@*****.***

Objective:

Seeking a challenging position in the field of Business Applications

Management and IT management, where I can make best use of my knowledge,

analytical skills and expertise for added value to the Corporation.

Summary of Qualifications:

. Excellent verbal and communication skills and demonstrated ability to

work in a fast paced environment

. Good understanding of front office Business Process, ERP applications,

database applications and Process Re-engineering concepts including

knowledge in quality assurance strategies, policies, procedures and

specifications

. Involved in business process design, Business Strategies, Process

Reengineering, workflow management, Business process mapping,

Financial Management, Marketing operations, Change management,

standard operating procedures (SOP) and project management in

different sectors

. Demonstrated ability to Interface with senior leadership to establish

policies, strategic plans and performance objectives for all business

processes

. Extensive experience in understanding the business strategies,

business goals and processes for delivering the solutions, Strategic

system analysis, requirements analysis, document management and case

matter management

. Involved in identifying the solutions and validating that the

solutions achieve the desired business results by Interviews and mock-

ups

. Excellent project management skills, strong interpersonal skills and

ability to analyze complex administrative processes and computer

systems

. Supported business and IT groups as needed when issues or requests for

action arise, including operational issues

. Involved in Risk factors and recommended courses of actions on key

initiatives to achieve the targets

. Ability to drive strategy based on industry/internal intelligence and

ambiguous requirements to help make important business decisions on

behalf of the customer experience

. Demonstrated ability to work with Application team and evaluate the

requirement management plans and deliverables

. Strong experience in working with all phases of SDLC throughout the

project life cycle. Mature understanding of Quality Assurance

Methodology relative to SDLC. Also worked towards Sarbanes Oxley

Compliance (SOX)

. Quick learner and able to work in a fast paced environment. Able to

design business architecture and lead the work flows using Visio in

support of requirements identification

. Involved in corporate meetings and assessed the internal effectiveness

and coordinated the efforts of cross-departmental teams to get the

products delivered on-time

. Experience in providing the presentations to the senior management

. Ability to work with a wide spectrum of Business stakeholders to

benchmark best practices, identify gaps, and develop tactical and

strategic plans to support implementation of initiatives

. Proficient in authoring Business Requirement Documents (BRD), System

Requirement Specifications (SRS) and identifying interfaces and

business process specifications

. Worked with Internal and External auditors and prepared documents

required for the auditing purpose.

. Worked closely with various business units in planning the development

schemas, best strategies and formulating them to deliver expected

results

. Ability to build the rapport between among the team and work

effectively with team members

. Developed Requirement traceability matrices and Use Case diagrams

according to the Functionality of the business requirements and

verified the critical linkage to the business processes

. Worked on numerous cross platform applications and organized Joint

Application Developments (JAD) and Joint Requirement Planning sessions

(JRP), Interviews and Workshops, Rapid Application Development (RAD)

sessions with End-User/clients/stake holders and the IT group.

Involved in team meetings for Gap Analysis and Risk Analysis.

. Demonstrated ability to lead the team and ensure the project solutions

are delivered in timely manner and performed cost-benefit analysis for

various applications

. Development of office applications such as developing Employee

database using Oracle applications

Education:

. Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA), University of

Findlay, Ohio (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Engineering, S.R.T.I.S.T Engg

College, INDIA (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

Relevant Skills:

. Performed Graduate fundamental study on network concepts, programming

and basic principles of Operating systems.

. Performed study on data warehouse tools and database management

. Performed analysis on retail oil business process, financial

and staffing firms

. Developed business requirements documents Electronic machine

production units and monitored manufacturing process

. Completed an Under Graduate project on "International Data

Encryption Algorithm (IDEA)",an application for ECIL

. I have good academic record and G.P.A is 4.0.

Computer Skills:

Applications CRM, ERP PeopleSoft applications, Front office, Order

management applications and E-Commerce applications

Development Application Designer, People Code, Application

Tools Engine, Workflow

Reporting Tools SQR 4.x/6.1, PS Query.

Testing Tools HP Quality center 9.2

Administration PS Security, People Tools utilities and Upgrade

Tools Assistant.

Integration Component Interface, Business Interlink, EDI Manager,

Tools Application Messaging, Control-M jobs

Operating Windows XP, 2000server edition, Unix

Systems

Tools SQLServer, PL/SQL, SQR, Ab-Initio,Crystal Info,

Requisite Pro, Use Case, Knowledge in RUP and SQL

RDBMS Oracle 7.x/8.x, MS SQL Server 6.0/7.0

Software Visual Basic 6.0 and MS Office (Word, Outlook, Excel,

Access, Power point, Project, Visio), Process

knowledge in Agile/Scrum methodology

Operating systems:

MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP and Macintosh

Career Highlights (Work Experience):

Sr.Business Analyst

Apollo Group, AZ (May 2010 - Present)

. Involving in system analysis for the existing systems and other

related changes in the business applications

. Analyzing process flow for business applications and develop

functional and non-functional requirements

. Gather the required information from multiple sources through

workshops and business meetings

. Performing requirements analysis, identify, assess and document

business requirements and priorities

. Perform the cost-benefit analysis and prioritize the required tasks

and research whether the solutions for the current requirements exist

within or outside the system, If not work towards the feasible

solutions

. Analyze the impact of the proposed solution and develop use cases to

demonstrate the business specifications and other technical

information to IT team through JAD sessions

. Communicating the functional and technical information to the

technical team and business team

. Involving in the complete development life cycle (planning,

designing, developing, testing) of applications

. Assist the QA team and ensure that proper test plans execution has

been completed and results are verified

. Participating in System management and performing UAT with business

users

. Validating the business processes as per the requirements and train

the end users through demos and other sessions

. Analyzing the application reports with the business team and debugging

the defects

Sr.Business Analyst/ Project Lead

Cravath Swaine & Moore, NY (Feb 2010 - April 2010)

. Acted as liaison between Legal team (Customers) and technical team and

analyzed the functional process in HR business applications (ERP

applications)

. Involved in developing functional and non-functional documents by

gathering information from Legal team.

. Verified the process flow in recruiting activity and developed the use

cases as per the business process

. Gathered requirements from multiple sources and demonstrated the

business specifications to the technical team

. Designed the security, workflow impact analysis documents based on

customer specifications

. Worked as a business analyst and documented customer problem

information and recommendations

. Involved in execution of ERP Recruiting process and demonstrated the

application process through Demos

. Involved in debugging and resolving security issues in people code.

. Maintained the implementation of security policies and procedures.

. Created data mover scripts for data migrations from/to multiple

existing environments.

Sr.Business Analyst/ Project Lead

Kelly Services, MI (July 2007 - Jan 2010)

* Worked as Senior business analyst for the implementation of Kelly

front office applications, ERP packages and CRM

* Participated in Full life cycle implementation (Planning, Design,

Analysis, and Testing) of Front office applications and other

packages

* Interviewed business area experts, asking detailed questions and

carefully recording the requirements in a format that can be reviewed

and understood by both business people and technical people.

* Analyzed the water fall model for the project life cycle SDLC and

Involved in developing business architecture and scenarios

presentation with the customers and project team

* Created and maintained Narrative Business Use Cases and Data Flow

Diagrams of the business process

* Worked closely with the internal customers to obtain a full

understanding of their business requirements and facilitated JAR/JAD

sessions with functional, development and management teams to identify

the feasible solutions

* Captured core business process information, business rules, business

entities and other relevant information, involved in designing User

Interfaces for developing prototypes and Coordinated in distributing

the workflow details to appropriate resources.

* Involved in People tools upgrade process and reviewed the AS-IS, TO-BE

models of the business process

* Played major role in Project Management including deployment,

documenting, and implementation throughout the development lifecycle

and performed Fit-Gap analysis for the front office business

applications and recommended diverse methodologies for Process

Reengineering

* Tracked and communicated project tasks progress against deadlines and

provided measurable results to management

Business Analyst

Wells Fargo, CA (Dec 2006 - June 2007)

* The Major Objective of the project was to collect the business

requirements and validate the specifications of business process and

testing the functionality of credit card systems including credit card

orders and check orders

* Gathered End user requirements and created Business Use Cases and Data

Flow Diagrams using MS Visio.

* Developed test scenarios and test plans in accordance with the

business requirements using Quality center and involved in complete

project development (SDLC).

* Facilitated JAD sessions with customers, functional, development and

management teams to identify the feasible solutions

* Involved in various meetings with the customers and gathered the

business inputs of the system

* Prepared Logical Data Models that contains set of diagrams containing

the essential business elements, detailed definitions, and

descriptions of the relationships between the data elements to analyze

credit card and other jobs order processing system.

* Acted as a liaison between the business processes (Customers) and the

IT solutions and derived the system actions

* Involved in project team meetings, reviewed the Risk factors in the

project progress and worked toward the resolution

* Demonstrated ability in achieving business goals, performing critical

path analysis, and identifying opportunities for business process

improvement

* Involved in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and resolved

customer issues in timely fashion

* Interacted and communicated clearly with development, testing and

production teams concerning release management policies and

procedures.

* Involved in end user training program and demonstrated the

functionality of the applications

Lab Operations Assistant (Information Technology)

University of Findlay, Ohio (June 2005 - Aug 2006)

. Provided Assistance the users working with MS-Office &

Internet problems

. Created System access to the users

. Preformed systems maintenance and troubleshooting the technical

problems

. Administered daily activities in the university computer labs

Marketing Manager (Retail Oil business)/ E-Commerce Applications

Jaya Ratna Filling Station, INDIA (April 2002 - July 2004)

. Manage day-to-day business operations in Retails Oil sales and

marketing divisions

. Coordinate and implement retailing activities

. Team player and Supervise the employees' job duties

. Perform financial tasks of the business operations

. Prepare the sales orders and achieve the sales targets

. Communicate the information of the retails oil products and

develop the business

. Analyze the regular sales metrics and Generate the reports

. Communicate the reports to the management in timely manner

Application Analyst

ECIL, India (Jan 2002 - March 2002)

. Performed business analysis on the production of the

Electronics units

. Developed business requirements documents for the business

application

. Worked for a project on "International Data Encryption

Algorithm (IDEA)",an application for ECIL

References:

Transcripts can be made available on request

Contact this candidate