NIDHI DESAI
** **** ******, *** * Jersey City, NJ 07306 201-***-**** ***********@*****.***
Education: Master of Business Administration, June 2009 New York, NY
Concentration in Information Systems and Marketing
Honors Program, Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business
Awards: Honors Academic Scholarship, Graduate Assistantship
Vice-President of IGSA Council for 2008-2009
Bachelor of Technology, May 2003 Mumbai, India
Concentration in Computer Science (S.N.D.T University)
First Class (Top 5%)
Experience: City University of New York, Aug 08 – Present New York, USA
Role: PeopleSoft Functional Consultant
Implementing PeopleSoft for the City University of New York
Hexaware Technologies Ltd., Jun 08 – Jul 08 New York, USA
Role: Marketing Intern
Researched and analyzed the need for a B2B lead management system
Carried out project planning and estimating activities
Implemented Eloqua to efficiently create, score, manage, and nurture leads
Worked with campaigns, brochures, forms and created a training manual
Hexaware Technologies Ltd., Jul 03 – Jul 07 Australia, US, India
Role: Team Lead, System Analyst, PeopleSoft Certified Consultant
KPMG (Watford, UK)
System Analysis, Interface analysis and Design
Developed interfaces for KPMG HR system, performed testing and support
Getronics (Texas, USA)
Current System Analysis and Design
Modified the existing interfaces for performance enhancement with respect to database trips
and CPU utilization, performed testing and support
Ernst & Young (New Jersey, USA)
Led a team of 5 resources, involved in client management, team building, resource
development and training, review cases and product delivery.
Business process analysis of the client’s system for General Ledger, Accounts Payables
and Receivables and Project Costing
Data conversion and global rollouts of financial system (For 80 countries)
SAI Global (Sydney, Australia)
Business Process analysis for Inventory, Inventory Costing, Purchasing, Order
Management and system testing at client site
Developed system interface processes
Hackensack University Medical Center (New Jersey, USA)
Business process analysis of HUMC’s business model for Accounts Payables
Fit/gap documentation and preparation of training guides
Undergraduate Internships:
Additional:
Developed a personal organiser for a SIMPUTER for B.A.R.C, Bombay, India
Developed an accounting system for Prism Software Solutions, Mumbai, India
Positions of Responsibility:
Chairperson: Program Committee, eNable 2002, CSI-Mumbai Chapter, Mumbai
Event Chair, Torque 2002, first inter-university technical festival, UMIT, Mumbai
Chairperson, CSI’s UMIT Student branch, 2001-2002. College was awarded the ‘Best Student
Activity Center’ during my tenure
Organizer for eSense and Arcane-I, 2001, UMIT, Mumbai
Computer Skills:
Eloqua Express, PeopleSoft Financials/HRMS, Reporting Tools, Microsoft Office
Interests:
Event Management, Traveling, Theatre, Painting
Language Skills: English, Hindi, Gujarati