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