Aswathy Sasi Kumar
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904-***-**** ****************@*****.***
PROFILE
A motivated and self-driven professional who has over 4 years of experience in project management and technical writer roles.
In depth understanding and experience in requirements elicitation, scope management, creating BRDs, quality assurance, user training and support.
Experience in interacting with business users to analyze the business process and requirements as well as transforming the requirements in to technical terms, documenting and rolling out the deliverables.
Experience in creating knowledge based articles, reviewing deliverables for accuracy, usability and language to ensure it meets desired formatting and quality standards
Team player with excellent communication, analytical, problem solving, client coordination, offshore onshore coordination and team leader skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills with result oriented dedication towards goals.
EDUCATION
University of California Santa Cruz, CA
Post Graduate Professional Certificate in Project and Program Management August 2016
Anna University Chennai, India
Master of Engineering, VLSI Design 2011 – 2013
Mahatma Gandhi University Kerala, India
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering 2006 – 2010
SKILLS
Applications - Netsuite
Project Management – Project Planning, Process Analysis, Risk/Contingency Management, Quality Assurance
Agile Project Management, Scrum, Lean Agile Project Management, Waterfall Project Management
Programming Skills – C, VHDL, Verilog
Business Analysis – Requirement Gathering, SDLC, BRD, Test cases document
Software – Microsoft Project, Office, Visio
EXPERIENCE
A&N Infomart Pvt Ltd Kerala, India
Project Coordinator Jan 2013 – Sept 2015
Directed all phases of software projects, from Planning, Analysis, Design and UAT
Working knowledge on Order to Cash, Procure to Pay and Accounting business processes
Configure and support Netsuite implementation, process improvements, creating custom roles and reports and general system maintenance
Organized and facilitated sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, daily stand-up meetings other Scrum-related meetings
Experience in core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the delivery
Developed executive presentations and reports to facilitate project evaluation and process improvement
Gathered, analyzed and summarized data and other information for project portfolio reporting
Develop project plans and implementation timelines to meet goals and deadlines
Assess project development risks and resource requirements
Track all the project related metrics in terms of schedule, budget, risk identification and mitigation
Ensure completion or resolution of all project deliverables at the end of the project
Create meeting agendas and minutes; follows up with team members on action items
Conducted change management review meeting and assessing impact on the applications for upcoming changes
Initiated and managed Client meetings to understand the problem domain
Analyzed business processes and identify opportunities for improvement
Communicates program progress with all parties at regular intervals (PM, Engineering, Quality, Purchasing)
Train others on team or in group and develops job procedures and job aids
IBS Technologies Pvt Ltd Kerala, India
Project Coordinator (Technical Writer) Aug 2010 – July 2012
Managed and track status of work plans and deliverables
Review deliverables from remote team for accuracy, usability and language to ensure it meets desired formatting and quality standards
Ensure that project schedules are met, monitored and tracked the progress and performance against plan
Gathered and prioritize requirements by working with the business users
Created knowledge based articles to publish in support page
Worked with project manager to track progress, review issues and implement solutions.
Ensure effective project team performance
Addressed and resolved customer product queries making sure the customer satisfaction goals were consistently met
Participate in 24*7 on-call rotation and work with global teams
Produce project meeting and status report communication and project presentations
Analyzed project requirements and provide direction to remote team through email, teleconferencing and web conferencing within multiple time zones as necessary
Received Best Performer Award for Project Coordination
INTERNSHIPS
OEN India Ltd Kerala, India
Intern (Unpaid) Jan 2010 – April 2010
Designed and developed ‘Dynamic cleaning’ system to clean the metal dust in relays to improve quality and performance using C Programming language.
Assisted Product Engineer in calibration of stepper motor and acquire data from AT89C51 microcontroller
NeST Technologies Corp. Kerala, India
Intern (Unpaid) Sept 2013 – Dec 2013
Researched and designed FPGA based on LUT-level power gating technique to reduce standby power using VHDL.
Assisted back end Engineer in preparing reports, design and development