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Project Manager Management

Location:
Cary, NC, 27519
Posted:
April 08, 2013

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Arun Paranjpe, PMP

Project Manager

*** ****** *****

Cary, NC 27519

Phone: 408-***-****

e-mail: ************@*****.***

Project Manager with excellent technical abilities, and experience managing small to complex

development projects. Experience of setting up PMO and IT Program Management. Expert in

requirements gathering, analysis and process improvement. Workflow Automation Consultant, Business

Analysis, working on all phases of SDLC.

SKILLS SUMMARY

Project and Program Management / Managing Global IT Projects in cross-functional teams

Business Analysis / Leadership / Excellent Communication Skills

Excellent Organizational Skills / Training, Teaching, Mentoring

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Expert in Oracle database, data modeling, SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX operating Systems, Shell scripting,

MS Office, SharePoint, Workflow Tools K2 and ShareVis, Perl Programming

CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Project and Program Management, University of California, Santa Cruz

Certificate in TV Production Technologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

American Type Culture Collection

Process Automation Consultant (Aug 2011 – present)

Provide design and technological consultancy in scientific process automation for Statistical

Tandem Repeats (STR) process. Analyzed existing manual live virus sample processing method

and automated it using workflow development tool, K2 and SharePoint

Cree Inc.

Program Manager (Feb 10 – July 11)

Program Manager for IT department. Studied existing methodology for project management,

proposed, documented, monitored new methodology by periodic review for effectiveness.

Created and documented guidelines and standards on project management methodology,

enforced adherence.

Project Manager for multiple parallel projects. Created project plans for the projects. Managed

vendors, set priorities and schedule deliverables consisting of bug fixes, feature requests and

enhancements.

Implement in-house project management and project tracking methods. Track and manage

issues, prioritize and manage escalations between customers and vendors, and between

customers and internal development team managers

Provide project status reports to CIO, for further reporting to company executives

Analyzed present process for Construction In Progress (CIP). Identified and documented Issues

in process. Proposed and managed project to convert existing inefficient paper based manual

process to automated workflow. New process saved company over $20000 per month also

making it fool proof

Managed implementation of new project for HR department for 360 reviews and performance

reviews.

Oracle USA

Principle Member of Technical Staff (Jan 03 – Nov 09)

Managed global development team to design and develop Patch Automation Tool to automate

customer patch build, test and delivery. Worked with development, QA teams for requirements

and design discussion, monitor QA plans, scheduling releases. Ensure documentation is

complete and accurate. Lead data architect for the tool. This was a major achievement for the

Infrastructure Systems Development team in the company, resulting in a 100% improved

turnaround time for customer patch requests.

Led Technical Support Team for technical support of Oracle Times Ten In-Memory Database,

analyzing customer issues, reproduce in-house, research and provide resolution.

Cisco Systems

Consultant Project Manager-Technical (Feb 02 – Dec 02)

Managed development of Web based Return on Investment Calculator. Performed feasibility

study, data gathering, analysis for various Cisco IP phones and other telephony products and

developed algorithm for performing ROI calculations.

Assigned tasks to developers, managed scope, prioritized tasks, monitored project status to

ensure project is delivered on-time

Adknowledge Inc

Software Development (March 99 – Apr 01)

Proposed, architected and managed development of new feature for on-line advertisement

campaign allowing company to expand in European market, resulting in 20% revenue increase

Led development of software to enter on-line advertising campaigns deployed on web portal

sites for on-line advertising campaigns. Worked with off-shore development company on

managing requirements and assign work

Cisco Systems

Consultant (Jan 97 – Dec 98)

Developed procedures to decrease turnaround times of opened support cases to achieve an SLA

of 99.999% availability of e-commerce tools, resulting in a 5-fold increase in customer

satisfaction.

Developed web based e-commerce tools, worked on Cisco configurator allowing user to

configure Cisco products prior to purchasing

Oracle USA

Consultant (Feb 95 – Nov 96)

Porting of Oracle RDBMS to Sun Sparc Solaris Operating System

Working on Oracle RDBMS bug fixes

TEACHING/TRAINING DELIVERY

National University

Member of Academic committee to formulate Masters course in Database Technologies, at

National University, San Jose, CA

TekEdge (now Xorient Inc.)

Conducted corporate training classes in Web development, Databases, and Unix

Evergreen Valley College

Ohlone College

Taught Unix Operating System, and Perl Programming Language

Pune University, India

Taught various computer science subjects such as Data Structures, Computer Graphics and

Design of Unix Operating System to undergraduate classes

Miscellaneous

Managed production of 26-episode TV Serial in San Jose Bay area, CA USA. Worked on

production floor and performed post-production editing.

EDUCATION

Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (PMI)

M.S. Computer Science & Systems Engineering, India

B.S. Electrical Engineering



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