Project Manager

Akanksha Parashar, PMP

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PROJECT MANAGER

process improvement ( kpi monitoring ( system integration

. Project Manager with 6 years of experience working closely with Project

Managers and other technical team members; PMP, Six Sigma Green Belt

credentials; Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science; and three years of

experience in defining and improving business processes.

. Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Able to

manage project teams and known for high-quality deliverables that meet or

exceed timeline and budgetary targets.

. Tracking & Monitoring Projects; adept at tracking and monitoring project

schedules and budgets, creating and managing status reports, and ensuring

deliverable deadlines are met.

. Defining Quality Standards; responsible for designing and rolling out

business processes across Organization by utilizing CMMI, ISO and ISMS

approaches to achieve improved service quality for the customer

Skills Summary

Project Management: IT Project Value-Added Leadership:

Scrum/SDLC Project Lifecycle: Cross-Functional

Management Requirements Supervision

Risk Management Analysis Team Building & Monitoring

Change Management ROI Analysis

Project reporting and Costing & Budgeting Client Relations &

analysis Project Scheduling Presentations

Quality assurance and Testing/QA/Rollout/S Defining & roll-out

control upport business process

Appraisal team member

(CMMI)

Career Progression

Mando Sofftech India (India), Project Manager, 2012 to 2015

Tavant Technologies (India), Senior process analyst, 2012 to 2012

Nagarro Software (India), software quality analyst, 2009 to 2011

Drove the high-quality completion of systems engineering, process

development and enterprise wide implementation projects for F500 clients

including:

Hyundai Motors Lufthansa

Volvo United Aluminum

Renault Estee Lauder

Achievement Highlights:

. Managed teams across different geographies and various functions. Focused

teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project

milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired

results.

. Mitigated risk factors & resolve problems through CAR, DAR and

statistical analysis of data. Anticipated and managed change effectively

in rapidly evolving global business environments.

. Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Moved between

agile and waterfall approaches depending on project specifics and client

goals, creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work

breakdown structures.

. Defined processes to improve product quality that was adapted by various

clients/counterparts

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Representative Projects

. Pedestrian Detection: PD (Pedestrian Detection) detects pedestrian. This

is a camera-based solution where a front facing camera is mounted on the

windshield of the car and it to capture the video. This video is then

processed by using Pedestrian Detection algorithm to detect the presence

of pedestrians. Since, it was R&D project, prototype lifecycle has been

used.

Result: Project was completed well within time i.e. 2.5 yrs and

successfully demonstrated to the client, potential to be taken into

manufacturing.

. eMIDAS: A Scrum project, which was primarily targeted to support ECU

development and testing. The various ECU testing tools are developed as

part of one application package, which supports multiple ECU interfaces.

Result: This tool replaces the existing licensed tool within the

organization, and further adapted by other projects due to customization

flexibility. Overall reducing down the manual testing effort, resulting

in lowering the overall project costs.

. Ldrive: An iterative project where the system comprises of core module

named optimizer, which optimizes the transport process keeping in view

certain Business Rules and Constraints. It allocates resources namely

Drivers and Vehicles as well as equipment's like trailers to transfer

Orders between various locations. Orders are transported from a 'Source'

to 'Destination' according to the defined SLA and the priority. Drivers

use a handheld device running application on compact framework to send

the loading/unloading instructions to the backend through web-services.

Roles & Responsibilities

. Mando Sofftech India, 2012 to 2015

. Managed projects w.r.t. scope, risk, effort and dependencies.

. Responsible for defining and executing detailed project plan.

. Manage project risks, issues/problems, and activity progress to

ensure project goals (e.g., deadline, scope and quality) are

achieved. Assists with problem resolution or risk mitigation as

needed.

. Communicate status of project to management, project team and to

other technical managers on a project.

. Accountable for project delivery including meeting time, effort,

quality standards and customer expectations.

. Identifying & resolving discrepancies in planned costs versus

actual incurred.

. Facilitates meetings, handling multiple tasks, set priorities, and

manage time effectively

. Collecting metrics, analyzing and developing metrics framework.

. Tavant Technologies India, 2012 to 2012

. Handling SEPG activities in Noida operations independently.

. Responsible for designing and implementing business processes

utilizing CMMI approach to achieve improved service quality for the

customer

. Understanding the requirements of client through calls,

questionnaires and surveys and defining the process as per need

. Providing training to project teams.

. Rolling out a new process within the organization.

. Implementing CMMI ML5, updating Process documents as required

. Developing & maintaining QMS, Process Asset Library and Risk

Database.

. Reviewing the plans (Project Plan, Test plan, Configuration Plan

and RSKM Plan).

. Undertaking SQA Reviews, Internal Audits and coordinating External

Audits.

. Nagarro Software India, 2009 to 2011

. Conducting internal audit and offline reviews on a periodic basis

as per the SQA plan.

. Maintaining audit reports and providing feedback.

. Being part of Metrics Council; responsible for collecting &

analyzing metrics from projects, drawing conclusion from metrics &

drive improvement/containment

. Preparing, analyzing and presenting PPBs; PPMs for CMMI APPRAISAL

ver1.3 Level 4 & 5

. Representing the organization for appraisal as FAR group member

(CMMI L4 and L5)

. Providing support to implement processes effectively.

. Participating in Weekly/ Monthly meetings of the project

. Independently reporting the status of the projects to Senior

Management.

Trainings & Certifications

PMI-Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), 2015

Six Sigma Green Belt, 2011

Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA), 2012

Certified Assessment Team Member (ATM), 2013

QMS ISO 9001:2008 Internal Auditor

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science, 2009

Personnel Details

Date of Birth 25th April, 1988

Sex Female

Marital Status Married

Nationality Indian

US Work Permit Yes, starting 17th April, 2015

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