Project Product Development

ABHYUDAI DIXIT (AD), MBA, BTech

********.*****@*****.*** 647-***-**** #805, 380 Assiniboine Road, Toronto M3J1L4

PROFILE

Consultant with 4+ years experience in IT, telecom and media industries in business analysis, consulting and

ith nalysis,

software product development roles

A year of consulting experience in various projects ranging from diagnosing business issues to identifying

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market opportunities and launching new products

3+ years in full lifecycle product development (Agile and traditional models) including requirement analysis,

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design, documentation, development, testing, launch and support

Academic training in corporate finance with a focus on valuations, financial reporting and M&A transactions

STRENGTHS

Strong analytical skills and a detail oriented approach to problem solving

Project management with superior client relationship experience in a global delivery model

Focus on understanding and addressing both external and internal stakeholder needs

Focus

Track record of successfully liaising with cross-functional teams to deliver quality products

functional

Proficient in MS Office suite, MS Project and MS Visio

suite,

Extensive Excel modeling for financial statement forecasts and budgeting

Strong exposure to complex data sets, databases, data warehousing, data modeling and SQL

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Experience in building business cases, business models and strategic road maps to achieve goals

Abreast with latest technological trends and leading practices and their application on business models

Abreast

Experience in enterprise-level application development working in Agile product development methodology

level

Proficient in creating Use Cases, extracting business process flows, interfacing with stakeholders, and

Proficient

facilitating successful JAD sessions with clients, businesses, subject matter experts and the IT department

WORK EXPERIENCE

Jan 11 Apr 12

Consultant

Toronto, ON

York Consulting Group

Excerpt: York Consulting Group is the student-run management consulting arm of Schulich School of Business.

run

Faculty members with over 30 years of consulting experience supervise the projects. Clients typically range from

Faculty

start-ups to small or medium level businesses. Worked as a part time consultant for 1 year and as a full time

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consultant for 4 months

Accomplishments:

Developed business proposal and 5-year financial projections for a customer loyalty program.

year

Recommended by the client in an article published in the Globe & Mail after obtaining financing for the

Recommended

$15M venture

Diagnosed dwindling revenues of a media client by carrying out a strategic assessment of the firm and

evenues

performing industry and competitor analysis. Analyzed the benefit of cloud storage for digital content and

provided the client with a two-stage implementation plan to spur growth and boost profits by 8%

stage

Analyzed market positioning for a client in retail industry, used comparative ratio analysis to analyze its

client

business strategies against those of competitors and performed valuation as part of evaluating exit strategy

Performed market sizing, cost/benefit analysis and developed business proposal for Ontario wide launch of a

cost/benefit

new medical device product

Led an initiative to improve the Alumni network of the organization with an aim to leverage its 40-year

history. Arranged for mentoring and networking opportunities for the YCG consultants with Alumni

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Jun 11 Aug 11

Business Process & Technology Consultant (Summer Intern)

Toronto, ON

MCIS Language Services

Excerpt: MCIS Language Services is a not-for-profit organization that connects various public institution clients

to the free-lancing interpreters. Worked as a summer intern for 3 months

Accomplishments:

Conducted independent analysis of call center operations of the organization, analyzed incoming call

volumes, identified bottlenecks and tweaked the scheduling of resources to improve the efficiency by 30%

Assessed technologies and vendors such as MS SharePoint and Trixbox call-center solutions for automating

outbound dialing process

Tools & Technologies Used: MS Project, MS SharePoint, Trixbox call center solutions

Jul 07 Aug 10

Software Analyst (Product Development)

Bangalore, INDIA

OnMobile Global Ltd

Excerpt: OnMobile Global Limited develops end-to-end products and value added services (VAS) for various

telecom and media clients. The company has developed its own proprietary platform for telephony network,

which supports the various products and services of the company. I worked in the mobile commerce and voice

products unit but the role and responsibilities changed a bit as the company went public in 2008 and made some

acquisitions and integrated them with my team in 2009.

Accomplishments:

Voice-search products

Developed use-case analysis, analyzed product usage trends and initiated a new strategy with the Business

Intelligence team that resulted in an increase of 50% in the product usage for telecom giant Vodafone

Innovated requirement gathering and defining product scope stage by developing prototypes for client-usage

in absence of clear functional requirements by the client

Awarded Employee of the Month twice for leading critical modules of company s pilot project on voice

search; which increased annual revenues by 7%

Led enterprise technology migration that helped the company save 15% in licensing fee annually. Liaised

with different product and cross-functional teams to plan and implement the transition

Created web-based front end for the products using Java, Servlets/JSP, Struts, Hibernate, HTML and XML

M-Commerce products

Standardized logging system using LDAP authentication and finalized the audit requirements to be used by

nearly 1M transactions-per-week of different m-Commerce products of the company

Assisted in risk analysis and project scope definition for a highly successful product for a leading media

house which had more than 100,000 users

Led overhaul of legacy processes for data storage by automating the conversion of large data files triggered

by shell scripts

Other products

Formulated key strategic proposals for products for European markets working with a team based in France.

Analyzed Telecom product usage trends and developed prototypes for testing new ideas

Used IDE features of Eclipse to develop plug-ins that would open user utterance files and break them into

phonemes. Trained the user-experience team to use this tool for analyzing and improving voice recognition

for different languages

Technologies Used: Java, C, Hibernate, Struts, Web services, DB2, Servlet/ JSP, AJAX, Linux shell scripts,

Eclipse IDE, proprietary voice recognition API

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EDUCATION

Sep 10 Apr 12

Master of Business Administration (Finance & Business Consulting)

Toronto, ON

Schulich School of Business, York University

International Fellowship entry-level award for academic record and GMAT score (710)

Involved in university-wide policy decision making as a Schulich Senator in the York University Senate

Elected as the Case competition representative in the Graduate Business Council

Academic projects involving in-depth analysis of LBO, Private equity, M&A transactions

Jul 03 May 07

Bachelor of Technology (Information Technology)

Allahabad, INDIA

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology

Majored in Information Technology, graduating in top 10% of the class

In-depth knowledge attained in development languages, operating systems, algorithms, networks, and

databases

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACHIEVEMENTS

Won bronze medal in Dodgeball and Inter-tube water polo events at MBA Games 2012 at Edmonton, CA

Won Ishikawa Award for Excellence at 1st International Convention on Students Quality Control Circles

Won Volleyball championship and finished runners-up in Softball league at Easter Seals 24-hour relay 11

ADDITIONAL

Volunteered in Teach India Program (2007-1010). Taught slum-dwelling children of Bangalore and helped

integrate them into the mainstream society. Managed funds planning, recruiting and training volunteers

Interest: Soccer and Running. Raced in Easter Seals 24-hour relay (Toronto) and Terry Fox Run (Toronto)

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