Project Manager Management

Lakshmi Rao

*** ******** ***** #* *********, NJ *8540

*******.**@*****.*** PH: 609-***-****

Career Goal: Business Analyst / Project Manager

Seeking a junior level position with a technology solution provider

BS graduate with specialization in Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM).

Pursuing Project Management certification at University of California, Berkeley Extension (UCB)

Understand management of project scopes, budgets, schedules and deliverables throughout all phases of the software development lifecycle.

Combine technical and analytical aptitudes with problem-solving strengths to drive projects to on-time, on-budget and high-quality completion.

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley –

(Project Management Certification) – Current

Training in Business Analyst course

May 2015

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) --Bangalore, India

BS in Industrial & Systems Engineering,

Engineering and Management subjects:

-Project Management

-Human Resource Management

-Production Planning

-Statistical Quality Control

-Manufacturing Processes

Project Management Certification

Course completed:

-Project Management

-Project Schedule and Risk Management

-(Scope and Quality Management)

Business Analyst Training

-SDLC knowledge

-Business process analysis and improvement

-Requirements gathering techniques

-Use Case diagrams

-Writing BRDs and FRDs

TOOLS

-Microsoft suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Outlook

-Design software : Auto CAD

-Software Language : SQL

EXPERIENCE

Rao Consultancy Services Inc., NJ USA JUN 10 – Dec 13

Founder, Manager.

Rao Consultancy Services is a structural design solution provider. Vendors with expertise in working with AISC 360-05, AISC 341-05 and AISC 358-05 standards for steel were chosen to provide steel structural design solution. We catered to clients like SEPTA (Race and Vine project) and WTC projects.

Requirements gathering at meetings, writing reports and giving presentations to clients.

Responsible for estimating material, construction, and labor costs, and project timescales with the help of SMEs.

Negotiating with vendors and getting the service at optimum cost.

Considering issues such as cost, safety and time constraints.

Communicating with customers and vendors to resolve design issues.

Working closely with civil engineers, architects, engineering technicians and IT staff to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.

Liaising with and monitoring third party contractors.

MicroAgility Inc., NJ, US - Aug 05 – Dec 05

A consulting company based in New Jersey that provides IT professional services for mid to large-sized organizations. It provides program, process, and project management services to its clients.

Worked as an intern recruiter. Job responsibilities included HR administration, scheduling and conducting HR interviews, and arranging technical interviews for prospective consultants

Acted as an interface between the clients and consultants and also between higher-ups and clients

Created job-posting and updating consultants’ resumes on job portals

Drafted job description and managed job postings as per client requirements

Performed formatting and rephrasing of consultants’ resumes to conform to client needs

COURSE PROJECT

Project 1

Overview:

APAC Networks Inc. is a pioneer in internet security solutions products. Our niche solution, MonitorIT is widely used in financial institutions and government agencies.

MonitorIT has been around for a while and its underlying technology has not changed in a while. As a result, our products are not cutting-edge and best-of-the-breed anymore and customer satisfaction is below par. This has resulted in competition making inroads into areas which were once our monopoly.

The project involves:

Development of new user interfaces with different look-and-feel.

Providing web services to expose business data to customers

Testing the usability and continuance of existing functionality

Collaborating with documentation and marketing teams to update user manuals and marketing material to reflect new user interface and services

Project 2

Overview: Risk Management Process in detail -Testing the usability and continuance of existing functionality has to be carried out and collaborating with documentation and marketing teams to update user manuals and marketing material to reflect new user interface and services.

‘AGILE’ methodology: - This is a risk management methodology which helps review risks and resolve at each iteration. It encourages rapid and flexible changes to the project.

Identify: For the new ‘user-interface, there would not raise a risk of total project failure, because the initial market survey shows that there is a potential demand for it. Project manager along with the product manager and the stakeholders brainstorm to identify potential threats.

Assess: APAC uses brainstorming and interviews as standards for assessing any given problem. Risk assessment is formally done by consulting experts in that area.

Respond: In this agile methodology, each iteration takes a fresh look at the user-interface that is upgraded. If obstacles can be avoided, transferred, accepted, or mitigated, plan is eventually implemented and monitored closely.

Review: A continuous feedback is given out by the developers and the QA team to the project manager and stakeholders. The marketing team is always actively participating in the discussions with all the people above mentioned.

Risks register will be reviewed by the scrum master weekly. Within the risk review meeting:

-Existing risk responses will be reviewed for status

-After each iteration, the product-developer identifies and adds any new risk that crop up to risk list. Scrum master will determine if the new risks will require further analysis.

-Stakeholders and product owners have respond for the risks that affects budget, schedule or scope.

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