Project Management

VAISHALI NANDANIKAR

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

> A seasoned professional, certified PMP, with 12+ years of rich

experience in Project Management, Requirements Analysis, Software

development, Implementation & Global Delivery.

> Adept at project planning, scoping, tracking, and ensuring

implementation of project plans within pre-set budgets and deadlines.

Planning, scheduling and handling (Onsite/ Offshore) Delivery

Management for deliverables of concurrent projects.

> Managing a team of 15+. Building relations with project stakeholders /

project sponsors and liaising with various in-country teams and

product owners for proper execution of these projects.

> Successfully managed Core Java, PHP, Enterprise Applications projects

> Hands on domain knowledge on Pharmaceutical Field Force management

system, and Billing Systems.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Project Management - Customer Expectation Management -Conflict

Management

CERTIFICATIONS

. Introduction to Scrum - online course in Jan 2014

. Project Management Professional (PMP) in 2011

. Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) certification in October 2007

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

. Post Graduate Diploma in Software Technology (P.G.D.S.T.) from N.C.S.T.

in 1998 - 59.70%

. Diploma in Electronic Engineering from V.J.T.I., Mumbai, Aug'1992 - 74 %

. S.S.C. (Bombay) - Mar' 1988 Aggregate - 86.71 %

. Middle school and High school scholarships holder

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE

SATERI SOFTWARE SERVICES PVT. LTD., Pune

(Jun'04 - Present)

www.saterisystems.com

Project Manager

Key Responsibilities:

. Project Management including Project Planning, Scope Management, Project

Monitoring & Control, Risk Management, Project Quality Management,

Conflicts Resolution and Client Interface

. Involved in the pre-sales activities to prepare RFP responses,

proposals, contract conditions, POCs etc.

. Contribute to proposals alongside technical leads, PMO leads, and

practice leads by preparing the project scope, execution plans and cost

for services components; assist in proposal reviews. Participate in

prime contract negotiations including user deliverables and schedules

for delivery

. Reporting to senior management on the status and progress of the

projects, periodically.

. Involvement in design, prototyping, demo activities, SLA preparation,

support ticket management etc

. Managing Offshore Development Center (Team Size 10), working on 2-3

projects concurrently.

. Managed projects in Pharmaceutical, Telecom and Utility Billing, Payment

Gateway Application, CRM, (Technologies - Core Java - Multithreading,

J2EE, PHP - Open source- Magento, Drupal, Joomla, openEMR)

Projects Details:

Client: Tribespring, US, Project: Tribespring application development

(iPhone, Android, PHP), Duration: 9 months

. To create social media networking application for PHP, iPhone and

Android systems.

Key Responsibilities -

> Database design

> APIs development for Web application and mobile apps to have

integration between Apps and server

> Offline mode support for iPhone, Androd apps

> Scope management

> Data flow diagrams

> Team mentoring - guide team to perform the complex data

synchronization with server logic. Import contacts feature,

performance was improved by reducing unnecessary database queries

and adding indexes, avoiding loops etc.

Client: Abbott Healthcare, India, Project: Sales Force Automation System

(J2EE), Dration: 2.5 years

. Empower is a Web based Business Analytics Reporting and Monitoring

system for Healthcare sale force enabling representatives to plan and

visit customers; monitor field administrators and track field workings

and execution processes.

Key Responsibilities -

> Get the pharma domain knowledge

> Act as a single point of contact for different stake holders

-development team, Management and client

> Estimation approvals, issues management and overall communication for

all tasks.

> Settled the account with effective communication and involved in SLA

finalization process, provided inputs to management on various

aspects of it.

Client: Goalacity, US, Project: goalacity.com website (PHP-Joomla),

Duration - 6 months

. Goalacity is joomla based web application. This application allows

players and coaches to interact with each other, players can search for

coach near their area and can book their sessions.

Key Responsibilities -

> There was complex code with Ajax and JQery, developed by other vendor;

No documents were provided to us. I did reverse engineering and

successfully performed required changes at appropriate places in

joomla framework within given timelines.

> The Authorize.net CIM (customer information manager) authorized

payment gateway integration was done. Ajax Jquery calendar

implementation done for setting availability of resources and booking.

Client: Vital Plan, US, Project: vitalplan.com website (PHP-Drupal),

Duration - 5 months

. Vitalplan is Drupal based application; it is shopping cart for medical

products.

Key Responsibilities -

> Requirements Analysis, manage scope

> Provide inputs for preparing proposal, estimation, and prepare project

plan, technical guidance to team.

> Shipping company provider was changed and in shipping module necessary

API changes were to be implemented. SOAP API client was developed,

WSDL2PHP generator was used to generate necessary classes for SOAP XML

object formation.

> Drupal to Magento data migration task was also performed, created

queries to get data from tables, save it in excel and then import in

magento.

Client: Dubai Municipality, Product - Revenue Management System (J2EE):

Dration: 1 year

. SASIN RMS is a revenue management system developed for utility systems

billing and payment collection needs. This is CRM application.

Project Highlights - Dubai Municipality (DM) required implementing a

fully automated revenue management system for collection and management

of funds through various payment channels achieving a Zero Visit

initiative. As part of solution, SASINrms provided customer flexible

payment options performing multiple payments and partial payments.

Included cashier's ability to generate end-of-day revenue collection

reports and automatically generated bank deposit slips and synchronized

Revenue Collection Portal.

Key Responsibilities -

> Worked on the product requirements

> Reuse concepts from earlier existing product for different industry

and generalized it as utility billing

> Database design, concepts development for customer account, searching

for records, offline mode etc.

> Actively participated in Gap Analysis Study. Documentation for RFP,

design documents, POCs.

Internal - Bombilfryday Portal:

. Create a hindi movie web portal based on PHP framework

Key Responsibilities - Requirements gathering, design documentation, PHP

APIs development that would be fetched from web application, Android and

iPhone applications.

Internal - ZAGMAG Portal, Ticketing portal:

. Create a marathi movie eCommerce web portal based on Joomla CMS.

Ticketing application (J2EE) is also developed for selling event tickets

Key Responsibilities -

> Requirements gathering, Technology decision (Joomla), communication

with various stake holders involved and conflict management,

> Shopping cart and payment gateway integration.

> Integrate the event ticket selling application to zagmag

Client:Tony Ojeda, Project:Finavigation (J2EE, Oracle), Duration (6 months)

. Finavigation is an online Personal Finance Management tool providing

ability to realize ones current financial situation and ways to pay off

debts and manage expenses and bills. Debt Manager forecast show how debt

balance shall decline using payment strategies based on "debt snowball"

method and Expense Manager details Budgeted versus Actual expense graph

calculating monthly,quarterly and annual averages.

Key Responsibilities: Project initiation, Planning, estimates,

monitoring - Daily, weekly meetings, to code the complex routine for

debt calculation. Payment gateway subscription ARB API study and

implementation.

Client: Subex Azure Ltd., Project: ICMS to Ranger- a Point to Point

Interface (Core Java), Duration (3 months)

. The Ranger V5.4 is the Fraud Management system (FMS) product from Subex

Azure Ltd which provides provision for fraud detection for Bahamas

Telecom subscribers. This was a fixed prize project, build core java

application that would provide text file as input to another application

Key Responsibilities - Stored procedure coding was very complex. Stored

procedure coding was completed before time so as to manage fixed cost

project. This way guided database person effectively to complete the

task in given deadline. The gray areas which could have affected the

deadlines were clarified with the client in the initial communication,

so it was easier to manage the activity.

Client: GTA, Fiji, Product: SASINbp (Java, J2EE), Duration: 8-9 months

. SASINbp is the core product of the company and has a robust framework.

SASINbp is a complete Bill Presentation solution for Telecom Industries

which provide abilities for telecommunication companies to present bill

statements in all formats (Paper Bill,SMS,PDF,Email,Fax). It is the

complete Bill Presentation Solution for Telecom Industry.

Project Highlights - An ICMS (Integrated Customer Management System) is

an iSeries based ERP System for Telecom companies. The BLSTNF data file

contains customer details and calls information and stored in the

billing database. The parse Print server accepts Flat File (BLSTNF)

inputs from ICMS at the end of each bill cycle and stores it in

database, which is read by print server to generate PDF bill statements

for customers. The Event/Message Server delivers event information to

user through selected communication channel on schedules. The end-user

has a web-based interface to create schedules.

Key Responsibilities -

> Coding for complex parts

> Prepare Requirement & Functional specification documents

> Create Project plan

> Database design

> Implementation and Training

> Research for open source reporting tools: BIRT and driving such

research activities

> Automation server module (Core java application). Multithreading

concepts were used. Distributed communication queue program (socket

programming) developed for communication between servers.

NEXTENDERS INDIA PVT. LTD., Mumbai

(Jan'02 - May'04)

Company engaged into Product development

Team Lead

Key Responsibilities:

Design, development of e-Tendering Management System (Product

Development).

Notable Contributions: Played an instrumental role in the core

components development for e-Tendering workflow system, got a pat on

back for it.

Projects Details:

Client: MP Govt. and other governments, Product: e-Tendering system(VB,

ASP), Duration: 2 years

. e-Tendering system architecture is data driven and relies on highly

enginized workflow, tracking and alert components. Put together these

components have resulted in a more or less generic e-Tendering system

that is comparable to generic ERP solutions in other domains.

Key Responsibilities -

> Requirement Analysis

> Design specifications

> Complex coding for workflow and tracker component

PLANETSAFFRON, Mumbai

(Apr'00 - Dec'01)

Company engaged into Alternate Medical Therapy portal Management

Software Developer

Key Responsibilities:

Software development in VB & ASP, for saffronsoul.com portal dedicated to

Alternate Medical Therapy

SUPRATECH VENTURES PVT.LTD., Mumbai

(Feb'00 - Mar'00)

Aayurvedwebline.com (B2B model) portal providing authentic content about

Ayurveda

Entrepreneur

Key Responsibilities:

As a cofounder of the company took all efforts spearheading the entire

activities including portal management and coordinating with domain experts

(Ayurvedic doctors)

DESOF SYSTEMS, Mumbai

(Dec'98 - Jan'00)

Startup Company engaged in product development.

Software Programmer

Key Responsibilities:

Taxmizer - VB application development.

TELECOM TERMINUS, Mumbai

(Jan'95 - Nov'97)

Authorized service franchisee of TATAFONES (A div. of Tata Telecom Ltd).

Proprietress

Key Responsibilities:

o Played pivotal role in establishment of the set up of TATA FONE

authorized service centre.

o Trouble shooting of microprocessor based telecom end terminal

equipments viz. cordless phones & corded phones.

SUPERTECH COMPUTER CORPORATION, Mumbai

(Jan'93 - Sep'94)

Distributors of Telecom End terminal equipments.

Customer Support Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

o In charge of In-house service centre for repairs of TATAFONE

range of products.

o Trouble shooting of microprocessor based telecom end terminal

equipments.

Jan'92-Jul'92 with Siemens Ltd., Nasik as Trainee Engineer;

In plant training: Worked on microcontroller based programming in Basic

Language.

Jul'90-Jan'91 with Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Mumbai as Trainee Engineer;

In plant training: Gained exposure to the Testing of Thermal relays.

PERSONAL PROFILE

Date of Birth : February 10, 1973

Contact No. : M +919********* R +912*********

Email :

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Skype id : vaishali_mn

Address : B1/15,

Gajanan "B" CHS, 14th Lane, Vivekanand

Road, Paramahans Nagar, Paud Road, Kothrud, Pune 411038.

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