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Project Manager

Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Posted:
August 03, 2014

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Resume:

SUMMARY

V * years of Technical Project management and Technical Analysis experience

V Client requirements gathering, project planning, forecasting, scheduling,

resource allocations and resource utilization monitoring, Scope decisions

V Information technology domain experience in SDLC, RAD, JAD, SCRUM

V Project Management, Resource Management and allocation

RELEVANT SKILLS

Microsoft Office: Office 2003 & 2007 with expertise in

Excel, Access, Project and Visio, VBA Macros

Database Systems: MySQL, Microsoft Access, Oracle 11g

Web Technologies: XML, HTML

Operating Systems: Windows 98, XP, 2000, Vista

Cloud Computing: QlikView, IBM Cognos, MS SharePoint

Project Management concepts: CPM, PERT, SDLC, MS Project tool, PMBOK

framework, SOW, UML, Budget analysis, SDLC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA: Sr. Systems Analyst (April 2013 to Present)

. End to end BI Project Management

. Lead and manage various SDLC phases of Engineering Business

Intelligence report design projects

. Act as liaison between IT and Engineering teams

. requirements gathering, Documentation, Resource decisions, Define

scope, set expectations with customers

. Design Metrics prototype

. Follow SCRUM methodology in product development

. Assign and monitor development tasks

. Define data architecture, ETL, and data warehousing standards to

support diversity of data sets provided to Qualcomm

. Coordinate activities with existing UI, data warehouse, ETL and

reporting solutions

. Unit test and regression test solution with customer team

. Manage production issues

. Support the project through all phases of software development life

cycle

. Communicate results and status to all team members over time

. Present data to customers in a meaningful, understandable format

geared towards repeatability

. Technical Skills: Oracle, MySQL, RDBMS concepts, Composite, Cognos,

Qlikview

. Other skills: Strong analytical, problem-solving, verbal, listening

and interpersonal skills

Life Technologies, Carlsbad CA: Sr. Project Management Specialist

(February 2012 - April 2013)

. Lead and manage various process standardization projects.

. Initiate and lead process streamlining projects related to data

consolidation in all regions globally. Act as a liaison between

Customer Care and IT. Project coordinator for global roles mainly

focused on data centralization.

. Update Process and requirement documents as and when needed.

. Data extraction and design from Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One, SAP

Business objects and IBM Cognos

. Use various systems globally like AVAYA CMS, Oracle SQL, and MS Access

to extract and analyze data.

. Create high level reports/dashboards including trends, communicate

with colleagues in various continents and co-ordinate reporting

standardization,

. Gather requirements, Design and maintain all reporting dashboards for

the global Customer Care department.

. Work with EMEA, APAC and China on various projects.

. Work with Voice of Customer (VoC) team, administrator for Vovici, a

VoC tool. Setup, manage and troubleshoot VoC surveys and metrics. User

management, documenting processes and providing technical support.

. Work effectively in a matrix reporting environment communicating with

various levels of management

Aspen Marketing Services, San Diego, CA: Business/Technical Analyst

(August 2011- Feb 2012)

. Business Analysis - Interface with management to analyze & gather

requirements, review and produce specifications for any new and

existing applications, create workflows.

. Lead and manage various SDLC phases of Engineering Business

Intelligence report design projects

. requirements gathering, Documentation, Resource decisions, Define

scope, set expectations with customers

. Design Metrics prototype

. Follow SCRUM methodology in product development

. Work with business users, account team and SMEs to define

requirements, run SQL queries as part of the project mapping and hand

off results to the Product managers.

. Help to manage strategic initiatives and to identify process

efficiencies as it relates to data and reporting.

. Proactively identify and drive process re-engineering

. Lead various data and report development project initiatives.

Qualcomm Inc. San Diego, CA: Business Data Analyst (July 2010-July 2011)

. Weekly resource allocation, time estimation and Forecasting resource

utilization

. Monitor variations in forecasted utilization and create reports for

executives

. Schedule, Manage and monitor resources (people and machine)

. Create metrics for Quality control on various processes in operations

department.

. Business process improvement by developing and modifying existing

metrics and reporting solutions.

. Participate in various complex projects and work on database design as

needed.

. Gather and document business requirements

. Design technical specifications based on business requirements

. Conduct design reviews and presentations

. Serve as the primary data analyst to provide both detailed and top-level

reporting on product performance

. Create and generate reports from diverse sources like QlikView,

Business Objects, MS SharePoint and MS Access

. Develop new Metrics with MS tools (Excel, Access and Visio) and SQL

database

. Improved reporting process with QlikView dashboards: structured and

better visualization of organizational data.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Life Technologies, Carlsbad CA: (SDSU Spring 2011 semester: Jan 2011 to May

2011): Consulting Project

Project objective: resolution of 2 major issues: Diversity management and

Staffing Agency usage in APJ (Asia Pacific and Japan) As a Project Manager

of the team I was responsible for all the project communications as well as

scheduling and tracking the progress of the project.

. Followed agile approach to complete various stages of the project.

Performed GAP Analysis on the company data.

. Used Project management techniques like resource management, resource

tracking, schedule tracking to monitor progress of the project, used

PMBOK framework as a guideline.

Benefits to the company:

V reduce hiring expenses by 2%

V improve agency to direct hire ratio in APJ

V Suggestions to handle compliance issues

V channelize diversity management expenses

Life Technologies was satisfied with our findings, immediate steps were

taken to implement suggestions in APJ region.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration San Diego State University, San Diego

GPA: 3.56 Graduation: May 2011

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology Mumbai University,

Mumbai India GPA: 3.7 Graduation: June 2006

521 Via Del Caballo

San Marcos CA 92078



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