Project Manager Engineer

SUMMARY

Hands-on senior project management professional, with over ten years of

experience leading teams with up to 20 members. Natural problem-solver

adept at developing enterprise-wide technology strategies, building

business case, and gaining management buy-in. Strong business acumen with

proven capabilities in project management, team building, and cross-

organization collaboration; Solid experience in delivering web and mobile-

based portal solutions with MBA from top-tier business school; Track record

of delivering exceptional results and driving growth.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PERFICIENT INC., St. Louis, MO

Managed multiple projects in portfolio across several clients; negotiated

with multiple stakeholders with differing priorities to manage customer

expectations; created detailed project plans, defined deliverables, tracked

milestones, provided cost estimates, generated resource plans, supported

business analyses, and established best practices.

Architect, Solutions 2009 - 2010

. Evaluated processes at global pharmaceutical firm to determine technology-

driven solutions for reducing drug-to-market costs; presented business

case for management review, clinching a $6.4M engagement contract.

. Assessed the competitive landscape in technology consulting services to

identify differentiation strategies and determine opportunities in

unexplored market segments; spearheaded product planning initiative to

develop generic out-of-box features for price sensitive customers,

generating $3.1M in revenues in the first year.

. Established technology distribution processes at auto insurance company,

dramatically improving client productivity by reducing response times

from 3 hours to 15 minutes.

Project Manager 2005 - 2007

. Directed turnaround of unsuccessful project for a strategic client by

identifying key issues and designing an innovative solution to resolve

them, saving $450K for the client and generating $2.3M in new revenues.

. Increased revenue of project portfolio from $2M to $7.5M in 2 years by

cross-selling services and technology, as well as penetrating customers'

multiple lines of business.

. Managed team of 15 associates to re-engineer e-commerce platform for

large commercial insurer; designed and executed project worth $5 Million;

delivered project on aggressive schedule and 17% under budget.

APPLIED MATERIALS INC., Santa Clara, CA 2009

MBA Consultant

. Benchmarked return of investment in emerging technologies in solar energy

to determine market inflection points; researched market to identify

growth drivers, formulating guidelines for Applied's solar strategy.

MBA INTERNSHIPS, various locations, US 2008

Product Manager

. Collaborated across a matrix-organized team to build alignment among

cross-functional units, resulting in creation of product launch plans for

line extension of $30M product.

. Modeled impact of e-marketing campaigns to assess channel effectiveness;

prioritized critical success factors to position $1.5Bn product against

market leader; presented recommendations for management review.

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD., various locations, India and US

Led several projects based on the offshoring model for clients across

Europe, US, and India, leading teams of up to 20 members based both

offshore and client-side; achieved highest rating (top 5%) for 4

consecutive bi-annual performance evaluations, leading to 3 promotions and

becoming the first among 223 peers to lead a team.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Cont'd)

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Cont'd)

Project Manager 2003 - 2005

. Led a 20-member pre-sales team for large healthcare benefits company

while competing against top technology consulting firms, winning $3.5M

contract to build insurance rate quoting system.

. Persuaded key management personnel at a state-owned insurance agency to

re-prioritize business requirements and incorporate critical changes,

resulting in 33% reduction in processing times and savings of $120K per

month.

. Motivated disheartened 14-member team to exceed the management

expectations by promoting task ownership among members; awarded

certificate of appreciation by divisional manager for exceptional

leadership.

. Tailored organization wide software practices to obtain CMMI Level 5

certification.

Lead Business Analyst 2002 - 2003

. Supervised eight business analysts to develop complex scheduling module;

coordinated impact analysis of ambiguous business requirements across

multiple project teams.

. Founded quality control initiative to detect, measure, and prevent

defects early on in a large scale project for a telecom giant, resulting

in 27% reduction in defects in 3 months.

Sr. Software Engineer/ Software Engineer 1999 - 2002

. Designed and engineered an e-procurement solution for a Finnish telecom

company to meet stringent timelines, achieving first on-time completion

among 8 similar projects.

EDUCATION

. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, Ann Arbor, MI 2007 -

2009

Master in Business Administration, 2009

< Selected: Career Counselor, Office of Career Development at Ross.

< Finalist: McKinsey Marketing Scholar finalist (top 3% of class).

< Elected: V.P Technology, High-Tech Club; Co-Director, Healthcare

Forum 2008.

. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (IIT) MADRAS, India 1995 - 1999

Bachelor of Technology, Civil Engineering(major), Operations

Management (minor)

< Ranked among the top 1% of 120,000 students competing for admission

to the program.

TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE SUMMARY

Distributed Computing J2EE, Object Oriented Design and Analysis

Technologies

Development Methodologies Agile, Iterative, and Waterfall

Languages and Scripting Java, XML, Web 2.0 tools (incl. AJAX, JSON,

RestAPI)

Frameworks Spring, Struts, MVC

Tools Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio,

Application and Portal IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6.1, IBM WebSphere

Servers Application Server

Databases Oracle 11g, IBM DB2 9.x, Microsoft SQL Server,

Microsoft Access

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