Project Management

Lalith Vedavyas

+1-857-***-**** ** C, Smith Street, Boston, MA 02120 **************@*****.***

SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master and 3+ years of project management experience as a project coordinator

Experience in managing software development projects, IT alignment projects, web development projects, financial industry projects and training projects

Recognized as a motivated self-starter with experience in managing teams and multiple projects

CORE COMPETENCIES

Project Scheduling

MS Office Suite- Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

MS Project

Scrum Master Certified

Project Management tools- JIRA and Confluence

Google Analytics

Performance measurement and risk analysis

Database – MySQL, Tableau

EXPERIENCE

Monster Worldwide May 2017- August 2017

Role: Project Management Intern

Assisted project managers in various tasks of software project management and worked closely with cross functional agile teams to deliver the project deliverables.

Assisted in coordination of projects across various initiatives

Developed MS Project templates for Agile projects with capacity calculating formulae and syntax

Responsible for Overseeing organization of document repository in SharePoint & Confluence libraries and maintaining Jira backlogs

Assisted in automating sprint retrospectives and velocity reports using Confluence

Assisted in implementing new process improvement initiatives and maintaining ERP applications

Worked with project managers to provide a comprehensive set of metrics and measurements for management stakeholders

Developed feedback surveys that can be used for driving process improvement initiatives

Created template spaces in Confluence tool that can be used as central repository for all the project related information

Iquisitive Edu and Consulting Research, Hyderabad, India July 2013 to Dec 2015

Role: Project Coordinator

Successfully managed and delivered projects such as launching the development of a training curriculum on information security for non-technical employees, crime and criminal tracking network systems project and capacity building projects for the employees of the police department.

Interacted extensively with cross functional project teams to provide the required support

Prepared project plans and the project documents by prioritizing the tasks in alignment with the project resources

Responsible for forecasting and providing the health reports to the top management

Developed and maintained project schedules using MS project tool

Defined the process flows and interdependencies in the project tasks

Gathered the requirements from the stakeholders and developed BRD

Built, managed internal and external communication plans

Led weekly teleconference meetings with the clients for status updates and scope management

Responsible for overseeing the project health reports and for the resource management

Analyzed project documents to determine the project performance metrics which included Earned value, Schedule variance, Budget for each phase, etc.

Assisted the program managers in gathering and defining the requirements and developing the business requirements documents

Responsible for overseeing the Quality Assurance and the Quality Control activities

Performed daily reviews and updated the status documentation on a regular basis

Guided the team on resource requirements, methodologies, tasks, dependencies, deliverables, risks, and other issues through the life of the project

Conducted project kick-off meetings, defined project objectives and scope, tracked risks, assumptions, and managed detailed project schedules using Microsoft Project

Assisted the HR department in procurement management and in recruiting the support executives

Assisted the project managers in changes in the project which included resource allocation, scope management, schedule planning, budget changes, etc.

Assisted the project managers in the stakeholder analysis and stakeholder management

Responsible for the risk registers and overseeing the implementation of the risk mitigation strategies

Played an integral part in vendor management by organizing and assisting the vendor audits

Coordinated with the support executives of 25 zones to schedule the quality assurance processes

Responsible for requirements gathering, designing process workflow and testing the applications

Assisted managers in delegating tasks and maintaining content on project management platforms

EDUCATION

Northeastern University Boston, MA

Master of Science in Project Management GPA: 3.82

Played an advisory role for the project management student leader group

Mentored students by guiding them to appropriate university resources and assisted in course selection

Volunteered and organized project management student networking events and Agile workshops

Completed academic projects on Scope Management, Risk Management, Quality management, Scheduling and Cost Planning

Anna University India

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

Initiated and organized national level symposiums in the university

Worked with NGO teams to plan and organize social service events and blood donation camps

GROUPS

Project Management Institute (PMI)

PMI Round Table Meetings

Worked with managers to manage the meetings

Consolidated the data received and generated the performance reports

Consolidated the feedback reports to come up with metrics on the meetings

Mentor Collective NEU (mentorcollective.org) – Volunteer (Student Mentoring)

Mentored and coached mentees by helping them in course registration and planning

Assisted the students in finding the right resources for course load management and career planning

Provided support to the mentees in getting accustomed to the university culture

Played an advisory role for the student driven initiatives

Supported the students in career building by guiding them to networking events and capacity building events

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