Project Manager Management

Kalpesh Shah

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Objective: BPM certified telecom professional seeking full-time position in

management consulting or procurement.

EDUCATION

The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business Columbus,

Master of Business Administration. Strategy, Finance & Ohio

Supply Chain (GPA=3.80) June 2010

. Scholarships: Graduate Programs award, 2009 OLM & COE award and Fisher

Scholar for Class of 2010.

. Teaching Assistant, Data Analysis & Operations Management in core MBA

curriculum (2009-10)

. Global Sourcing Trek, China (2008) ten day trek to manufacturing/research

facilities in Shanghai/Hangzhou

. Participated in MIT Sloan Operations Competition (OpsSimCom '09) with 107

global business school teams.

. Clubs: Fisher Professional Services, Net Impact, Fisher Serves, IMBA,

Operations & Logistics Association

University of Mumbai Mumbai,

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering India May

2005

. Ranked in Top 2% of the Computer Engineering department at the

University.

EXPERIENCE

Fisher Professional Services

Project Manager and Consultant

Columbus, Ohio

October 2008 - Present

Lead a banking client project with two consultants on process

improvement, documentation and technology transition.

Conducted market research and industry analysis, compiled

survey/interview results, and worked with the management team at Jerome

Schottenstein Center to develop an organization level strategic plan.

Worked with a start-up apparel firm through OSU T&L to formulate a

business plan. Responsible for operations design and developing future

management structure for the client resulting in improved business

processes.

Huntington Bancshares Incorporated

Summer Intern, Enterprise Information Management

Columbus, Ohio

June 2009 - September 2009

Developed Activity Based Costing cubes for Enterprise Performance

Management using the Oracle Essbase system. This full cost allocation

project achieved 100% cost/resource allocation across Huntington Bank.

Created & presented the strategic plan to transform Huntington's

financial reporting system to the CFO team. Conducted impact analysis &

recommended strategies that improve compliance & data accuracy.

Received training on the structure of over 140 Hyperion Essbase cubes

including outlines, loads, and calculation scripts used in the Cost

Strategic Planning project to develop the bank's new financial reporting

system.

Designed the performance tracking system to monitor planned vs. actual

profitability of all business segments. The results are regularly

presented to the CEO to monitor strategic projects across the bank.

Created comprehensive documents and presentations for the knowledge

repository and for employee training.

Pepsi Co.

Sustainability project for Logistics department.

Columbus, Ohio

January 2009 - April 2009

. Worked in four person team to create a best practices study for carbon

footprint measurement for LTL carriers.

. Conducted research, focus group surveys to help reduce emissions during

freight transport on LTL systems.

Wipro Technologies Pune, India

Project Engineer (Telecom Engineering Solutions) October 2005 - July

2008

. Managed a two member team that created software applications,

comprehensive test plans, VOIP training programs & technical

documentation for over 500 global customers of Avaya's Enterprise

Telephony division in the US.

. Led strategy analysis & design of complex security enhancements for Avaya

IP phone products. Provided recommendations to cross-functional teams and

developed solutions to reduce security breach by 50% in enterprise

telecom products.

. Designed an automated tool for performance testing of Avaya IP phones.

This improved regression testing by 70% & identified four defects.

Developed a secure repository to manage critical deliverables for three

client projects.

. Received "Feather in My Cap" award for quality of deliverables, domain

knowledge in telecom and team work.

. R&D: Collaborated with a two member team to develop a fully functional

telephony system using open source products. This reduced the hardware

costs to setup a communication system by nearly 45% for three SME

customers.

. Market research: Prepared a study of VOIP products of key telecom

players. Developed a comparative analysis & involved in pre-sales

activities as a telecom domain expert resulting in increase in revenue

for 100,000 USD.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

. Community work: Junior Achievement volunteer, organized blood drive,

Fisher5K, Poverty Summit & Service day at Fisher.

. Leadership activities: V.P. Professional Outreach - IMBA, Executive Board

- Fisher Serves.

. Language skills: Completed Level-2 certification in German.

. Certifications: Preparing for APICS CPIM certification. Completed BPM

certification at Fisher.

. Research: Published a research paper on Scorecards & Dashboards in

services industry at the Center for BPM.

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