Management Project

Kunal Patel

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Experience

**** – 2015 ACCENTURE CONSULTANT

Provided Consulting services for various Fortune 500 clients in the communications and high tech industry (Cisco, TELUS, ComEd, ATT, etc.) Consulted in various roles and functions:

Business Analysis & Project Management

• Engaged client stakeholders to gather requirements for business process and software design changes for a large scale financial forecasting and resource management application

• Analyzed requirements to design possible solutions and approaches to deliver business needs; worked with Technical and Data Architects to estimate the cost of building and delivering the solution

• Designed Application/Reporting Solution to improve analytics, security and integration; created design and test specifications and functional design documents

• Managed a team of Developers, Testers, and Operations to ensure fulfillment of business requirements through Analyze, Plan, Design, Build, Test and Deploy phases of the SDLC

Project Management and Estimation Support

• Implemented Accenture methodologies, project management and software estimation tools to improve client’s project delivery and effort/financial estimation capability

• Gathered requirements to modify an existing software estimation tool written in Visual Basic; planned, analyzed, designed, developed

(programmed), tested to meet client requirements.

• Mapped work breakdown structure to resemble client work plan and implemented the work plan changes to the software estimation tool

• Developed training strategy, materials and conducted training for power and end users. Performance Engineering QA

• Managed a Test and Development team dedicated to performance enhancements for a financial forecasting application

• Developed test cases and created test scripts for testers to follow.

• Responsible for reporting performance metrics through automated load testing, manual testing and remote (latency) testing to leadership

• Identified and prioritized performance hot spots; Investigated and diagnosed production performance issues reported by users

• Administered MS SQL Server and Windows Server 2008; SQL, ETL, Profiling for performance issues 2008 – 2010 IIT – TECH PARK ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING RESEARCH ASSISTANT

• Programmed microcontrollers (Arduino, SoftBaugh) to manipulate desired signals based on inputs/outputs

• Created PCB layouts and designed circuits for a mixed signal medical device

• Tested and Troubleshot printed circuit boards / logic boards for QA 2007 – 2008 ZERO ENERGY LAB – IIT RESEARCH ASSISTANT

• Studied Power Generation/Storage Planning for buildings to rehabilitate an old building into an off-the-grid, energy efficient building

• Explored Low Energy Products and Energy Saving Architectural Design Techniques to create a sustainable workspace Education

Bachelors of Science in Electrical/Computer Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 2005-2009

Functional Skills

Test Management, Project/Product Management, Estimation, Training, Scope Management Technical Skills

Cloud, Performance Testing, Java, C, Python, SQL, QA, MS SQL Admin, Visual Basic, OOP, iOS, Swift, MS Office, Windows/Mac/Linux, Circuit Design

& Analysis, PSPice, PCB Design/Layout

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