Project Management

K BALACHANDAR

No: ** Y-Block Government Quarters Lawspet Pondicherry -8 C: 812-***-**** ***********.***@*****.*** OBJECTIVE

Seeking challenging career in areas of Management, Service sector, Administrative & personnel work to use my skills and experience effectively which leads to ultimate growth of organization and at the same time enhancing my knowledge

BACKGROUNG SUMMARY

Business Analyst with 4 years 6 months of IT, Logistics, Financial and utilities domain experience; expertise in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Business Rules, GAP Analysis and developing/creating business process

documents.

● SDLC: In depth strong working knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases such as Planning, Analysis/Design, Development, and Testing for the software/system development process

● Strong experience in preparing Business Requirements Document (BRD), Use Case Specifications, Functional Specifications.

● Well acquainted with Workflows and (UML) (Unified Modeling Language) diagrams such as, Use case diagrams, activity diagrams and Sequence diagrams.

● Actively used Joint Requirement Planning (JRP), Joint Application Development (JAD) and Rapid Application Development (RAD) sessions for requirements gathering and brainstorming ideas.

● Multi-Tasking and Organizational Aptitudes, with proven experience in Development and Implementation of Strategies.

● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of communicating with highly technical engineering teams. Exceptional mediator between external and internal customers, capable of interpreting their needs and positions to ensure the success of the projects.

● Very well versed in technical writing, documentation, presentation and delivery.

● Experienced in vendor management, training users / peers, building consensus. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Suite Business Modeling Tools MS Visio, Rational Rose, MS Office

Spiral Methodologies Waterfall, Agile, RUP, Scrum, UML,

Requirement Management Tools Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, Optimal Trace 5.1

Applications MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InfoPath, OneNote, Publisher, Outlook) MS Project 2000, PowerBuilder, Intuit QuickBooks, Business objects, Crystal Reports, ACT Sales

Database, (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Defect Tracking JIRA

Testing Skills Manual testing, UAT

Databases MS Access, MS SQL Server, MySQL

Languages UML 2.0, HTML

Operating Systems Windows XP/Vista, UNIX

EXPERIENCE

06/2017 to Current

Business Analyst

Tranistics Data Technologies – Salt Lake, Kolkata

Project Handling – NVSCS

Project Description – NVSCS is a web based application, which performs as 3PL process such as Rate analysis, Pricing and Rating towards customers Freight Bills

Performing research to assist in development of project scope, define requirements, proposal changes.

Creating Supportive Business Documents such as BRD, FRD, Use case, Test case, Prototypes, Architect Diagram and BPM etc.

Discovered transmission errors that, once resolved, will eliminate re-work, resulting in faster order processing.

Participated in JAD Sessions for gathering requirements from SME's and Stakeholders.

Documented Meeting Minutes from the JAD Session.

Defined and documented custom reports based on the business requirements, modified existing reports based on the GAP analysis between new requirements and existing reports.

Identified causes for frequent billing errors and worked with the vendors to resolve the issues.

Created Use Case Diagrams using MS VISIO in order to show the interaction between the Actors and Use Cases as well as showing the relationship between the Use Cases.

Maintained a Traceability Matrix to ensure that all Functional Requirements are addressed at the Use Case Level as well as the Test Case Level.

03/2014 to 05/2017

IT Business Analyst

Infom Atomicka – Muthialpet, Pondicherry

Project Handling – Advanced Financial & Insurance Solution Project Description –The project is aimed to provide end-to-end computerization of all the business processes across all the lines of their life and non-life insurance business.

Documented the AS-IS Business Workflow adhering to UML standards.

Participated in JAD Sessions for gathering requirements from SME's.

Documented Meeting Minutes from the JAD Session.

Defined and documented custom reports based on the business requirements, modified existing reports based on the GAP analysis between new requirements and existing reports.

Followed a structured approach to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential Business Processes, Business Rules, Functional and Non-Functional Requirements.

Created Use Case Diagrams using MS VISIO in order to show the interaction between the Actors and Use Cases as well as showing the relationship between the Use Cases.

Maintained a Traceability Matrix to ensure that all Functional Requirements are addressed at the Use Case Level as well as the Test Case Level.

Performing research to assist in development of project scope, define requirements, proposal changes.

Creating Supportive Business Documents such as BRD, FRD, Use case, Test case, Prototypes, Architect Diagram and BPM etc.

Project Handling – Advanced Financial & Insurance Solution Project Description – AIMS is a comprehensive Institute management solution for Schools and Colleges. It is an education governance system that takes care of administration, infrastructure & logistic system of an educational organization whether it is a School, College or University. It allows users to store almost all of their information of students, teaching staff, admin staff, etc. Most importantly, this information can be easily shared with authorized users and records can be easily searched. Reports pertaining to the records can be easily generated.

Worked closely with Project Sponsor and Stakeholders to complete Project Charter outlining scope, goals, deliverables and timing.

Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.

Develop and deliver progress reports on requirements, prepare requirements documentation, and presentations.

Create and maintain project schedules by estimating time requirements, establishing deadlines, monitoring milestone completion, tracking all phases of the requirements lifecycle, providing timely reporting of issues that impact requirement progress, coordinating actions, and resolving conflicts. This includes documenting, prioritizing and tracking requests (changes, and enhancements).

Worked closely with IT and business partners to identify and improve functionality of the application.

Consult with IT staff (subject matter experts and development leads) to determine business, functional and technical requirements.

Review the high level user stories and other technical documents with IT staff to ensure business requirements are adequately reflected in technical planning documents.

Involved in writing user stories which was served as a prerequisite for development and testing.

Worked with IT Application Development/Support team to conduct testing to meet project timelines.

Ensured that all Tests are conducted and documented according the standards agreed upon by the business unit and IT Department.

Created the Test cases to verify the results and performed bug tracking using Clear Quest.

Writing basic SQL queries for data validation.

Ensured that all items follow the change management process and are entered and tracked through the change management software.

Project Handling – Electronic Health care (EHR)

Project Description – EHR is a certified product used for storing Patient demographics, medications, allergies, prescriptions and information can be shared across multiple agencies. It is used for creating new appointments for patients and keeps on tracking the patient status with the corresponding schedule. A patient can access their details and view their medical history from anywhere in the world

Worked closely with Project Sponsor and Stakeholders to complete scope, goals, deliverables and timing.

Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.

Develop and deliver progress reports on requirements, prepare requirements documentation, and presentations.

Create and maintain project schedules by estimating time requirements, establishing deadlines, monitoring milestone completion, tracking all phases of the requirements lifecycle, providing timely reporting of issues that impact requirement progress, coordinating actions, and resolving conflicts. This includes documenting, prioritizing and tracking requests (changes, and enhancements).

Worked closely with IT and business partners to identify and improve functionality of the application.

Consult with IT staff (subject matter experts and development leads) to determine business, functional and technical requirements.

Review the high level user stories and other technical documents with IT staff to ensure business requirements are adequately reflected in technical planning documents.

Coordinated with review board to get approval/sign off on BRD and Technical Specification Document.

Worked with IT Application Development/Support team to conduct testing to meet project timelines.

Ensured that all Tests are conducted and documented according the standards agreed upon by the business unit and IT Department.

Created the Test cases to verify the results and performed bug tracking using Clear Quest.

Writing basic SQL queries for data validation.

Ensured that all items follow the change management process and are entered and tracked through the change management software.

Project Handling – Mums, Singapore

Project Description – Mums is Online Baby Store in Singapore offers Clothes, Gift items, Toys items and baby products for working mum and new ways to support all the mothers out there. Those products from a wide range of International brands, local distributors and Mumprenuers. MUMS sources offer its members many new exciting ways to shop online. This includes a platform for mums to buy and sell their own products online for both new and pre-loved goods. Each day MUMS holds sale events on a wide range of products and services. Multilevel marketing is one of the Mums goals for members to sharing products to love once and earning mum cash. Mums offer to private market sellers and indie sellers for sale the baby products through the mum’s site.

Interacted with the Client to felicitate the requirement for developing the Ecommerce portal.

Conducted meetings with the client and presented mockups in order to visualize the portal.

Involved in preparation of Functional Specification Document to consolidate all the requirements which was served as a prerequisite for development and testing.

Identified the risks involved in the project, communicated to project management team and proposed solutions to mitigate the risks.

Supported in UAT at end of the project

EDUCATION

2013 Bachelor of Engineering: Computer Science Engineering University of Pondicherry: Regency Institute of Technology Secured CGPA: 7.93 out of 10

Top 5% in Class

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