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Objective
In the past 6 years I’ve successfully worked in start-ups in the following capacities; Business Analyst, Program Manager, Project
Manager and most recently as an entrepreneur. Keenly looking for a challenging opportunity.
T echnical Skills
Article I.
Databases Methodologies Software/Platform/Language
Article III.
Article II. UN IX, L I N UX, C++,C, MS Visio, H T M L,
MS-
W indows NT Server/Workstation, 9x, 2000/XP, Java
SQL Server 2000/ Software
P rogramming, Eclipse, NetBeans, WinRunner, XML,
2005, MS Access, Development Life
.net, Quick Test Professional (QTP), Wireshark,
O DBC, JDBC, and Cycle, Data
M odeling, Agile, R ational Rose, Windows 2000 Server, XP Professional,
A DO database
Waterfall, SCRUM N T, 9x, Android, Aptana studio, Adobe Photoshop, MS
connectivity and
and RUP. O ffice, OpenOffice, JavaScript, CSS,SQL, Crystal
l ibrary, DTS.
R eports, Sharepoint.
ATOMYZER I nc – Founder
Sept 2013 – Present .
I nvented the world’s fi rst iPhone case that atomizes liquid primarily fragrances & Hand Sanitizers.
• Started a company to execute on a long standing idea.
• Achieved financial backing through crowd funding.
• Set up operations, and you began a production process.
C.A.T, I nc. (Berkeley, California) – BA/PM
J uly 2010 – March 2013
• Managed product life cycle from beginning to an end and supported product
development by researching cur rent and future demands for product.
• Created internal & external process standards that helped bring an idea to reality and
m anaged all aspects of product planning, development, operations & marketing.
• Managed relationships between internal and external customers.
• Created, strategized and designed enterprise related solutions software for Android
b ased internet device by CAT, I nc.
• Designed and managed wi reframes, mock-ups and technical designs for Android based
a pplications with enhanced functionality and U I. Created fundamentally infrastructure
for C.A.T,Inc.’s Android device architecture.
• Planned, conducted and supervised geographically distributed software development
t eam. Maintained and monitored project management life cycle using Endeavour agile
p roject management software.
• M anaged test cases through User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Validated applications created by I T developers against functional specifications.
• Researched, determined and recommended prices for new products based on goals,
forecasting and product profitability – Presented marketing budgets that could
guarantee success and prepared monthly revenue forecasts, keeping t rack of the output.
• Managed production processes, packaging and total output of the product by
communicating with operators, designers and third party vendors.
• Designed and implemented business intelligence metrics, data warehouse.
• Created technical, operational and user manuals for stakeholders and business
members.
Environment: SQL, Android, MS Project, MS Office, MS Sharepoint, Pencil Drawing, Java, HTM L,
U M L, QTP, Agile, SCRUM, MySQL, Crystal Reports,Endeavour.
Article IV.
Article V. C.A.T, I nc. (Berkeley, California) – Business Analyst
September 2009 – June 2010
• Liaised with business and functional owner during r isk engineering and high-level
r eview sessions to derive and execute action plans, meeting deadlines and standards.
• Analyzed organization's strategic business needs, i nterpreted b usiness r ules and
gathered requirements to create sound technical systems and applications.
• Provided Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) and created Data Flow Diagrams,
F unctional Diagram for the application framework on C.A.T, I nc’s Android device and
assisted the software team.
• P rioritized and managed key deliverables and milestones.
• Created and maintained database schema using MySQL and p rovided detailed technical
r eports and systems performance.
• Responsible for planning, conducting and supervising software development team of 13
situated in I ndia and USA using agile development strategy.
• T racked and maintained projects using project-t racking tool.
SRG AMER ICA (Santa Clara, California) – Business Analyst
M arch 2008 – April 2009
• Created business requirements and technical specification documents for company’s
R esource Management System (RMS).
• Assisted in modeling and documenting the end-user’s AS-IS workflow and TO-BE
b usiness processes.
• Conducted requirements gathering session with cross functional teams .
• Contributed technical content to built PRD’s and involved in documenting various
p hases of product life cycle.
• Assisted in process modeling; conducted and participated in JAD sessions with system
users; helped with design walkthroughs with business members.
• Developed use cases and created U M L diagrams such as activity diagrams, use case
d iagrams and sequence diagrams.
• Designed requirements traceability mat rix to t race and manage business requirements.
• Wrote and maintained SQL stored procedures, views, t r iggers, scheduled tasks and DDL
scripts using MS SQL Server. Investigated, analyzed and documented reported defects.
• Created, documented and implemented unit-test plans, scripts and test-harness using
Q uick Test Professional (QTP).
Environment: SQL, Oracle, MySQL, QTP, MS Visio, MS Office, Crystal Reports.
I nfinite I T Solutions (Mumbai, I ndia) – Business Analyst
December 2006 – January 2008
• I nitiated business development activities and build relationships with potential clients
for the company’s Inventory Management Software ( I MS).
• Worked as an I nterface between the users and the different teams involved with
a pplication development to enhance and improve business and I T processes.
• Gathered requirements from clients and w rote RFP’s, Functional Requirements (FS)
a nd User Required Specifications (URS) and worked closely with the development team
t o fulfill clients request for the Inventory Management Software.
• Created technical reports by analyzing and summarizing development roadmap.
• Defined project requirements by identifying project milestones and key deliverables.
• Coordinated work plans between project manager and client using MS Project.
• Helped integrating payment gateway systems as per client requirements.
• Worked with QA team to design test plan, test cases, and assisted in User Acceptance
T esting (UAT).
Environment: MS Office, Java, HTML, UM L, QTP, Ubuntu, MS Visio, PHP, CSS.
Education
• Master of Science in Computer Sciences - North Western Polytechnic University,
F remont, CA. GPA – 3.47 (2009)
• Bachelors of I nformation Technology - University of Mumbai, Mumbai, I ndia. GPA – 3.5
(2007)