Project Manager Sales
Resume:
ANAND KANABAR
New York, NY, 10009
************@*****.***
EXPERIENCE
Business Analyst/Project Manager
SMARTSIMPLE SOFTWARE INC. July 2013– Present
New York, NY
Provided technical assistance to Sales team and presented SmartSimple’s white-label web-based grant
systems to potential clients
Engaged with clients to document business requirements and construct a Statement of Work (SOW)
Used the SmartSimple SaaS admin interface as well as advanced metadata to create client solutions
Worked as a Project Lead and implemented client solutions using SDLC methodology
Responsible for data migration from clients’ legacy systems to SmartSimple platform
Provided product training to clients in person and through web-ex
Maintained a new feature backlog based on feedback from across all of our companies clients
Assisted with QA, and UAT of new versions of the software, and supported clients through the process
Conducted daily scrum meetings, planning and retrospective meetings
Reported directly to the President and Director of Operations
Co-Founder – Project Management & QA
EMBARK LLC (embark.org) March 2012– Present
Contributed to product requirements and acted as a scrum master
Executed blackbox and whitebox functional testing in test environments
Provided data-level testing by running queries in MySQL and providing assistance in automated tests
Provided sound judgment in GO/NO GO decisions for sprint releases
Acted as a release manager where I participated in deploys and executed smoketests
Switched between technical and non-technical roles (e.g. social media, marketing, advertising) as
business needs require
Engineering Program Manager
QUADLOGIC CONTROLS CORPORATION January 2011– July 2013
New York, NY
Developed a web portal to provide self-service access to electricity meters:
- Proposed software product that exposed watt-hour usage via the internet
- Convinced management that this solution would provide our company with an advantage over
Quadlogic’s competition
- Evaluated multiple software vendors and negotiated the contractual agreement
- Acted as a project manager to ensure that requirements were documented and shared with the
software vendor, and ensured that the product was developed to our specification
- Played role of QA engineer to ensure the software was tested thoroughly and all bugs were fixed
before the software release
- Managed project using an online tracking tool that was later implemented companywide to
streamline projects and help management gain visibility and clarity into team workloads and
capacity
- Incorporated customer feedback to improve the product using an agile development methodology
- Managed highly dynamic schedules, resources and responsibilities, and finally executed the on-
time delivery of the product while increasing sales by 10% due to the release of the product
Responsible for the development of products that were specific to the regional laws and regulations:
- Worked with sales team to evaluate which regions would have the most growth opportunity
- Managed and gained product type approval specific to California, Mexico, and Canada by working
with the following agencies: Measurement Canada, California Weights & Measure, and Comisión
Federal de Electricidad (Mexico)
- Managed and gained type approval of a Quadlogic product for a New York City Energy Reduction
Incentive Program that increased sales by 20%
Hardware Engineer
SENSIS CORPORATION June 2007– August 2010
Syracuse, NY
Led a team of component engineers to find and replace over a 100 obsolete parts without having to go
through a redesign process, this allowed Sensis to reduce costs by 5%
Worked closely with program managers to propose and present a redesign of a Sensis product taking into
account customer, sales, and engineering feedback
Prototyped and released a test tool that was used by field engineers that aided in the installation of a Sensis
product and reduced the number of field failures by 50%
Negotiated contractual terms with a hardware manufacturer and created a mini circuit board that was
later installed on a Sensis circuit board to replace an obsolete part
Created connection and schematic diagrams based on overall system diagrams used by field engineers that
facilitated in the installation of Sensis products
Regularly attended hardware team meetings and design reviews to ensure all hardware processes were
executed correctly
EDUCATION
LEMOYNE COLLEGE Syracuse, NY
Master of Business Administration December 2010
Final Project: Analyzing and developing strategies for a failing business
- Analyzed the business to identify deficiencies
- Provided advice that included new marketing initiatives and employee initiatives
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Syracuse, NY
Bachelor of Science: Major in Electrical Engineering June 2007
Senior Design Project: The design and development of LED Headlamps
- Formulated idea to replace halogen light bulbs with LED light bulbs before it was an industry
standard to be used in headlamp technology
- Was responsible for developing the pulse width modulator that was used in the prototype
- Prototype was installed into Volkswagen Jetta, and calculated to double the life of the original
headlight while also delivering 300 additional lumens of light
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Languages: Fluent in Gujarati (Indian language)
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