Information Technology Project Manager

Kahani V. Parekh

***-**, *** ******, ***** Park, NY 11416 ******@***.*** +1(201) 920 - 1985 LinkedIn SUMMARY

Accomplished Business Analyst with 3.5 years of Analysis, liasoning, solution designing, consulting and delivery experience of both startup large scale enterprises with exposure in Mobility, telecom & financial services domains with Core Competencies: Requirement Gathering & Elicitation Solution Designing Data Analysis UAT/Quality Analysis Gap Analysis Business Process Modeling & Analysis Strategic Planning Management Documentation/Reporting Client Relations EDUCATION

New York University, M.S. in Management of Technology (GPA 3.6) Aug 2015-May 2017 Stern Business School, NYU, Course in Decision Modeling & Business Analytics Aug 2016-Dec 2016 Gujarat Technological University, B.E. in Information Technology (GPA 3.8) Jun 2010-May 2014 SKILLS

Analytics & Visualization tools: R, SPSS, Crystal Ball, Google Analytics, Flurry, Tableau, SAP Lumira, QlikView

UI/UX & Prototyping Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Sketch3, InDesign, Invision, Flinto, Balsamiq, Axure

Database & Programming: SQL, Crystal Reports, Java, C, C++, CSS, HTML 5, WordPress, Drupal 8

BPM Tools: MS Project, MS SharePoint, Xmind, MS Dynamics, JIRA, MS Visio, RF Flow, BPM Online, Modelio

Process & Methodologies: ITIL, Agile-Scrum, Six Sigma,, Sensitivity analysis, SOX Control

Communication: Certification in corporate client training & client relations PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

o Kinbow (Mobile App Startup), New York, USA

Business Analysis Intern Jan 2016 - (Present)

Managed technical offshore team of 9 throughout implementation & served as liaison between IT and business teams

Responsible for requirement elicitation, strategic planning, market research & competitor’s analysis of Mobile Apps

Drove 28% increase in annual ROI by generating Insights and implementing changes in Kinbow products, based on analysis & visualization of customer interaction trends & patterns using A/B Testing, Tableau, Google Analytics, R, Flurry.

Provided consulting for launch, growth & retention strategies that improved app store rankings(SEO)

Responsible for mining and analysis of large datasets, usability testing & reporting status (JASPER Reports) directly to CEO.

Established brand awareness by social media marketing & Email Campaigns that drove 79% more average installs o Captacar Inc, Outdoor Advertising, New York, USA Associate Consultant - Business Development and Analysis Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

Led pricing model, market penetration strategy, sales analysis, product-usage forecasts & total cost-of-ownership models.

Created and delivered business development plans and Pitched for Investment (Raised $1M seed round investment)

Designed strategic solution and information flow of Captacar Mobile App and managed Web portal’s content.

Responsible for cost, time, effort estimation and Task/Issue tracking on Confluence and JIRA o Elite Core Technologies (Now Sterlite Tech), Ahmedabad, India Business Analyst Jun 2013 - Jun 2015

Defined user requirements specifications, personas, storyboards, scenarios, information flow architecture, UML Diagrams

Performed requirement elicitation and high level solution designing using estimations, Business process modeling, mapping & integration, functional Requirement Documents, Requirement Traceability Matrices and test cases.

Designed wireframes using Sketch, Axure, HTML5 and live app prototypes in Invision and Flinto.

Responsible for User Acceptance Testing, Client interaction, analysis of 100+ RFPs (Request for proposal), Gap Analysis, planning, designing and implementing various Telecom software solutions across the globe. Projects: Accomplished multifaceted role of Business Analyst, Solution Design architect, Project Management, Quality Assurance Analyst & Client Trainer in various live projects like: WIPRO-Frontier Communications(US), Smartnet (Libya), H3I and BIZNET (Jakarta), GLO Telecom & BOFINET (South Africa) ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Business and data analytics project on “Credit risk modeling score card” of loan applicants using data aggregation, mining, predictive modeling, regression and optimization techniques in R and Tableau

Decision Modeling Study on scheduling of Amazon Prime - delivery with Drones case at Stern Business School, NYU

Research on “Social Media Marketing & Analytics - Critical for Mobile Apps” (Published in NYU Resources - 2016)

Global Innovation research on “Evolution of Business Intelligence & Analytics - An Innovation that drives Innovation”

Analysis of sustainability efforts, LEAN operations and operational management activities of General Electric

Ethnographic study of New York’s Green Market

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