Project Manager

SHUBHANGI RATHI

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Strong leader who consistently managed complex projects and ensured successful on-time, on-budget delivery. Proven ability to effectively align business and technology goals through continuous improvement, collaboration and transparency resulting in the delivery of high business value products and services. A diligent, responsible and an enthusiastic individual. Areas of expertise include:

§ Project Management § Leadership § Business Analysis

§ MS Office Suite § Team Management § SDLC Methodologies

§ MS Project § Strategic Planning § Requirement Gathering

§ Project Planning § Marketing § Business Process Redesign PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VIACOM, New York, NY Feb. 2016 - Present

Project Management Office (PMO)/ Multiplatform Coordinator

§ Working with 50+ managers across the organization to gather, consolidate and analyze raw data by using Advanced Excel and SQL to create meaningful reports and presentations used by the Leadership for making strategic decisions.

§ Consistently delivering monthly resource allocation, budget and trends report to the senior management.

§ Tracking milestones, priority and percentage complete for 160+ projects for entire Media Technology Services group.

§ Assisting the Vendor Management Office in planning total budget and resource count for offshore resources.

§ Build runbooks, frameworks, templates, surveys, documentation and Onboarding guide in PMO Knowledge repository.

§ Collaborating with Project managers and Product managers to create reporting, metrics and track KPISs.

§ Frequent interaction with internal and external partners, executives, group leads and project managers.

§ Working closely with the VP of PMO on Quality Dashboard reporting in Workfront management tool.

§ Kicked-off the Project Management Council whose goal is to form a network of project and process experts. COACH, INC., New York, NY Oct. 2015 – Feb. 2016

Project Management Coordinator, Product Development

§ Built and implemented the 2015-2017 Project plan and Product Development Timeline (PDT) for Women’s Bags & Apparels for all seasons at Coach NY – Set up feasible deadlines, defined project scope and budget.

§ Managed productive Corporate PDT meeting charters, set tangible milestones and agendas.

§ Extensively used MS Project to build the PDT, review deliverables, dependencies, maintain timelines and milestone objectives for Design, Logistics, Procurement, Merchandising, Leather Management, Materials and Product Development team. (Decreased the lag time by 9%)

§ Monitored and controlled project progress, risks, issues, solutions for the Coach Operating Group.

§ Built strong partnerships between project stakeholders and product development team by effectively coordinating and setting up realistic goals, giving high attention to details and help meeting expectations.

§ Appointed as the Team Coordinator to manage team-building activities, coordinate & manage vendors, worked with Merchandising for costing and with marketing team to promote a consistent global image for Coach. NYU INCUBATORS, New York, NY Sept. 2014 – May 2015 Project Manager/ Business Analyst

§ Analyzed, identified, and documented the key business requirements in the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Requirement Document (FRD) for the launch of a new product, ‘Mortgage Labs’.

§ Translated complex technical messages into customer friendly offerings by reducing the CAC from $4.00 to $2.66.

§ Created and presented weekly analysis reports which helped in developing strategies for identifying the sales targets within the mortgage and financial industry.

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§ Worked closely with 15 startups as a part of management team to drive weekly metric meetings, strategy development, conversion tracking and enhancing social media presence. (Average ROI increase – 35%)

§ Consistently interacted with clients to manage project expectations, timelines within allocated budget and risks. FANNIE MAE, Washington, D.C. June 2014 – Aug. 2014 Project Manager Associate

§ Managed change requests from design and development team by providing efficient solutions for systems-impacted as a member of the performance testing team.

§ Assisted project managers on project planning and managing timelines to deliver results.

§ Held strategic meetings with senior management to discuss how to accelerate project timelines.

§ Involved extensively in all the phases of SDLC using Agile (SCRUM) method including identification of business needs and constraints, collecting requirements working closely with developers and testers. NYU INCUBATORS, New York, NY Sept. 2013 – May 2014 Business Analyst

§ Identified prospects, managed campaigns and helped in automating existing business process by acting as a liaison with multi-functional teams including business owner, stakeholders, managers, architect, developers and testers.

§ Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD), brainstorming and interview sessions among the development team, business stakeholders and users to establish Business Requirements.

§ Created the AS-IS and TO-BE business process that resulted in 58% increase in sign ups for the clean energy projects.

§ Designed and developed Use cases, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams, using MS VISIO. ACCENTURE, Pune, India Oct. 2011 – Dec. 2012

Business Analyst

§ Collaborated in the development, maintenance, implementation, and testing of an existing web application for client Telecom Italia in order to streamline their Telecommunication services for phone and data.

§ Assisted in QA testing for formulating test plans, managed change request documents & created project status reports.

§ Hosted and managed the “Communication, Media and Technology Fest 2012” attended by 500 people and clients. TECHNICAL SKILLS

§ Tools: MS Project, Workfront, Jira, Basecamp, Confluence, MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access, Outlook), MS Visio, MS SharePoint, Salesforce.com

§ Methodologies: SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, RUP, UML (Class, Sequence, Activity Diagrams)

§ Programming: Java, HTML and MySQL

EDUCATION & TRAINING

New York University, NY (2013 - 2015) GPA 3.5

Master of Science, Technology Management

University of Pune, India (2007 - 2011) GPA 3.6

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication LEADERSHIP/ AFFILIATIONS

§ Operations Director - NYU Entrepreneurs Festival 2015

§ Organizing committee commissioner - Graduate Student Council at NYU 2015

§ Graduate Orientation Leader, NYU 2014

§ Board member of Entrepreneurship & Innovation Club 2013

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