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ANSHUMAN SAMAL

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A hard working, adaptable and articulate program manager/Analyst with vast

credible experience and demonstrated career progression. Possessing a track

record of proposing multiple potential solutions for complex or new

problems or processes and Adept at all phases of Program management from

Resource planning to Risk planning to Execution/Implementation to

Acceptance and Implementation. Able to work well with others and lead a

team, and not afraid to challenge the status quo where appropriate and

drive the decision making process.

Area of expertise:

. Business requirement gathering / Requirement Management

. Business Process analysis and improvement.

. Business requirement gathering / Requirement Management.

. Extensive experience with Planning documents and report writing.

. Managing clients

. Project Planning and Project Management

. Change Management

. Requirement and Functional Specification writing

. Agile Development and Driving User Acceptance Testing

. Cost Control

. SQL Development and SSRS/SSIS reporting

Summary:

> 8 years of Project/Program management and Analysis experience,

managing multiple projects using agile scrum methodology.

> Managed Partner Program and Competency feature for Microsoft Partner

Network (MPN) for various Partner Segments.

> Responsible for End-to-End Delivery Management to help Partner

collaboration for various Public Sector Solution Area and Industry

with ability to capture ROI on Partner contact resulting in

quantifying the Top Perspective partners.

> Managed team of analysts and data specialists to ensure provision of

consistent, relevant data insights to support the most important

business needs via accurate reporting, dashboards, analysis and custom

built tools as needed for Windows Phone Test Execution Service team.

> Experienced in managing offshore Globalized team in China and India.

> Expert in Business requirements gathering techniques, writing BRDs and

Functional Specifications.

> Familiarity with various technologies: Writing queries in SQL for

retrieving data for quality testing, SQL Server 2012 Database design.

Working with various MS tools such as MS Project, Visio for Process

diagrams, use cases and flowcharts, TFS for team project structure

management and managing Sprint cycles. Excel programing and Pivots for

Dashboards.

> Leadership - Adapt at leading/managing cross-functional programs,

motivating the diversified teams to strive for excellence together.

> Capable Experience in leading high performing teams under tough

deadlines, to meet expectations of multiple customers.

> Evaluating risks and developing strategies to overcome project

obstacles.

Education

> Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Institute of Business

Administration & Training, Bhubaneswar, India

> Bachelors of Computer Science & Eng., University of Mysore, India,

Certifications: Design & Implement DB W/MS SQL SERVER 2000 Enterprise (229)

Experience Summary:

Project Management: IT Project Lifecycle: Value-Added

Custom Software Leadership:

Development Requirements Analysis Cross-Functional

Database Design Supervision

(RDBMS) BRD and Functional Team Building &

Systems Engineering Specifications Mentoring

ROI Analysis Client Relations &

Scope and Presentations

Communication Business & IT

Management Planning

Project Scheduling Vendor Management

Testing/QA/Rollout/Su

pport

Bug Triage Management

Employment History

SR No. Company Name Date Of Employment

1 BeyondSoft Consulting Inc Nov 2010 - Till

http://beyondsoftconsulting.com/ Date

2 Congruent Software Feb 2008 - Oct 2010

http://www.congruentsoft.com/

3 Tata Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd. Apr-2003 to Feb

http://www.tcs.com/m/default.aspx 2008

4 Sriniinfotech Pvt. Ltd. Dec-2001 to

http://www.sriniinfotech.com/ Apr-2003

5 Adea Group May-2001 to Nov-

http://softwaresolutions.fibre2fashio 2001

n.com/company/adea-technologies/

6 Intelligroup Asia Pvt. Ltd. Jan-2000 to

http://americas.nttdata.com/ Apr-2001

7 Exponentia Info. System July-1998 to

Dec-1999

CAREER PROFILE

BeyondSoft Consulting Inc / Title: Business Analytics Manager

Period: Aug 14 - May 15 / Client: Windows Phone, Microsoft Corporation,

Redmond, WA

Project: In charge of Development and maintenance of several Internal BI

reports/tools that helps business stakeholders making fact based decision

making, ad hoc analysis and insight generation. Help the team being

proactive in identifying potential problems/risks and coordinate with

management across multiple groups to establish mitigation and action plans.

Responsibility:

. Managed team of analysts and data specialists to ensure provision of

consistent, relevant data insights to support the most important business

needs via accurate reporting, dashboards, analysis and custom built tools.

. Partnered with IT and took an active role in sourcing, organizing,

maintaining and ultimately democratizing data through the development of

innovative tools, dashboards and well-organized databases.

. Responsible for delivering self-service tools and training to maximize

organizational self-empowerment and self-sufficiency.

. Monitored industry trends and implement best practices to improve in-

house capabilities.

. Responsible for establishing and maintaining partnerships and synergies

with other information and analytics teams, including but not limited to

Finance and Corporate Research.

. Established a data stewardship methodology, documenting a repeatable

set of processes for determining, investigating and resolving data quality

issues and an on-going process for maintaining quality data, and define

data quality audit procedures.

. During development of new website features, worked closely with the

developers, analysts, and report writers to ensure the right data is

captured and reported accurately.

BeyondSoft Consulting Inc

Congruent Software

Title Public Sector Program Manager / Period: Sep 08 - July 14

Client Public Sector Corp HQ, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA.

Project: Microsoft Worldwide Public Sector Partner Solution marketplace is

an interactive tool created to connect Public Sector customers with

Microsoft certified partners capable of delivering industry relevant

products and solutions on the Microsoft platform around the world.

Responsibility:

. Developed communications plan and stakeholder engagement rhythm that

supported the Public Sector Partner Solution marketplace release cycle.

. Created a recurring newsletter that provides audience relevant

communications around the Public Sector Partner Marketplace

. Created vision and scope documents and developed a comprehensive business

plan that clearly described the business case, defined priorities, and

provided cost-benefit and net-present-value analysis;

. Documented user support requirements and system materials for user

support and training purposes to support customer, partner, and field

users.

. Worked with the field and stakeholders to document user support

requirements and system materials for user support and training purposes to

support customer, partner, and field users.

. Created T-SQL queries to help generate Ad hoc reports for Business

Leadership team.

. Identifying gaps in data and recommended resolution plan

. Established course of action for data accuracy issue resolution, partner

recruitment to increase quality/quantity of solutions, and field

escalations where applicable

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Congruent Software

Title Partner COE - C2P2P / Period: Apr 07 - Sep 08 / Position: Program

Manager

Client Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA.

Project:

C2P2P: The Customer - to - Partner - to - Partner initiative is a component

of the Microsoft Partner Program (MSPP) designed to offer specific

Microsoft partners an opportunity sell their expertise and create

opportunity for other Microsoft Partners. The functionality is also

extendable for Public domain thus increasing the revenue of MS partners.

Responsibility:

. Helped the Business in writing Business Requirement Documentation

providing facts on IT Capabilities, relevance and dependencies across

systems.

. Prepared the Functional Specification document and underlined various

use-cases and process flows of the proposed system.

. Communicated and collaborated with the Offshore SQA and Dev team in

daily basis.

. Lead the Bug Triage and the Scrum team for the agile SDLC

implementation.

. Managed the Project time line delivery and created the project plan.

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES / Title SMS&P - SSA / Period: Apr 06 - Mar 07

Position Functional Analyst/PM / Client: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond,

WA, USA.

Project: The Security Software Advisor (SSA) initiative is a component of

the Microsoft Partner Program (MSPP) designed to offer specific Microsoft

partners an opportunity to be compensated for providing their expertise in

advising customers on the selection and deployment of security products

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES / Title SMIT - MRSS / Period: July 2005 - Mar 06

/ Position: Development Lead / Client Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA,

USA.

Project: MRSS (Market Research Survey System) is about conducting market

surveys for the technological products launched across the globe. This

project intended to streamline the preparation, approval, translation and

deployment of Survey questionnaires on field. Questionnaires are created in

the English language through a third party tool and translated into

different languages.

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES /

Title Incentive Compensation(IC) / Period: May 2004 - June 2005

Position Development Lead / Client: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA,

USA.

Project: WWIC Reporting or "WWICR" delivers smart reporting for IC data.

This internally developed web-based user interface utilizes Office Web

Components, and provides predefined, customizable views for the everyday

consumers of IC data. Each valid IC user will have the ability to set user

preferences for geography, currency, and default report to create a

personalized environment.

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Title Services Information Repository (SIR)/ Period: August 2003 - May 04

Project: Services Information Repository (SIR) is a Data Warehousing

based Reporting database, taking its data in-flow from Change point, Feed

Store and RPM (currently in development) databases. The MS Insight based

User interface generates various reports for the FS Reporting Team

worldwide.

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Title Licensing information repository (LIR) / Period: May 2003 - July 2003

Project: LIR is a Licensing information repository which maintains all

the information of issues related to Volume licensing that is pulled from

MSE which is a Microsoft Services Enterprise call tracking system which

holds the complete data of Microsoft products for the internal as well as

external customers of Microsoft.

Sriniinfotech Pvt.Ltd Hyderabad / Title: MDXplore portal / Period: May

2002 - April 2003

Project: MDXplore Portal, MDXplore is a next generation healthcare

technology company offering innovative administrative and clinical Internet

applications.

Adea Group, Dallas, USA / Period: May 2001 - November 2001 / Position:

Programmer Analyst

Project: The existing web sites giving links for various newspapers in

the Internet do not cover all the Papers in the World. Further those sites

do not differentiate language wise, area wise and news wise (Politics;

Sports column; entertainment; weather, finance; health etc.).

Intelligroup Asia Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad, India / Title: Space WEB / Dealer

WEB

Period: January 2000 - May 2001 / Position: Software Engineer

Project: The idea is to create an interactive portal gathering

distributed and unorganized data, logically organizing it and linking it to

database or processes already active in the business.

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