Project Management Program

SUMMARY

• Project Management Professional (PMP®) with over 6 years of

experience in program management, process improvement & risk management.

• Led the Indo-Japanese project planning and contract teams for a project worth 34.3 million CAD with planned duration of 4 years.

• Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, who improved production by 33% by implementing a digital application and drawing critical insights from the connected visual dashboard.

• Experienced in continuous improvement, data-driven decision making, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders & mentoring teams.

• MBA & MTech graduate from prestigious world-renowned institutions – IIM Kozhikode, IIT Madras & NIT Calicut (BTech). VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Volunteer

PMI Ottawa Valley Outaouais Chapter

June 2024 - Present

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Program Management Consultant

Unilever (Resources Global Professionals)

Mar. 2022 – Dec. 2023

• Team Lead for a 4-member team of Unilever’s Africa Project Management Office (PMO), driving business objectives & key results.

• Led 30+ innovation & strategic projects of Global & Africa PMO, belonging to 7 business categories across 2 continents & 9 countries.

• Led the project teams of Africa PMO to improve delivery performance from 50% to 87% projects on track from Q1 to Q4 2022.

• Mitigated 720 days of project delays in 2022 by recommending fast-track measures within risk tolerances to project teams.

• Achieved improved stakeholder feedback for Africa PMO, receiving 4.8/5 (Q4 2022) vs. 4.1/5 (before my role in Q1 2022).

• Optimized operations of project teams by identifying bottlenecks

& recommending continual remedial measures to leadership team.

• Established standardized project schedules for 3 business categories, each with varying scenarios & complexity levels.

• Standardized PMO systems & processes - project governance, communication guides, templates & project progress reporting.

• Executed an agile methodology pilot program in 2 waterfall projects to identify key benefits, observations, challenges, & learnings.

• Translated vision & business requirements into actionable initiatives & projects by defining OKRs, deliverables & performance metrics. CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management Professional

Project Management Institute

Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma

KPMG

Supply Chain Lean Professional

Confederation of Indian Industry

International Business

SDA Bocconi, Italy

SKILLS

Technical skills

MS Project

Jira

Primavera P6

Python

MS PowerBI

Tableau

Agile & waterfall

methodologies

MS Office Suite

Google Suite

Power skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Critical thinking

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Attention to detail

Resilience

Communication

Dependability

Time management

EDUCATION

MBA - Business Leadership

Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

2021

Project: Integrated solutions for

health-tech firms

MTech - Building Technology &

Construction Management

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2016

Thesis: Product Development of a

Project Scheduling Software

Substitute

BTech - Civil Engineering

National Institute of Technology Calicut

2013

SAMUEL K MATHEW

https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-k-mathew

Ontario, Canada

Manager – Planning & Contracts

Larsen & Toubro

Aug. 2016 – Aug. 2020

Project Management and Process Improvement:

• Streamlined project cashflow by securing leadership team's approval for 2 yearly cashflow forecasts & budgets worth 30.3 million CAD.

• Designed & implemented a successful process improvement plan that saved 30 days/cycle (41 days to 11 days).

• As Digital Champion, drove project digitalization & process automation efforts, liaising with HQ & cross-functional teams.

• Developed a detailed project schedule with 3,905 activity IDs in MS Project, systematically updating delay impact & rolling schedules.

• Achieved client deliverables worth 1.1 million CAD – including 3 client offices & 60+ project documents, collaborating with 11 teams.

• Accelerated realization of client invoice payments worth 300,000 CAD by influencing & coordinating with key stakeholders & teams

• Saved 330,000 CAD & 3 months of project duration by identifying, researching & pursuing an opportunity to remove excess scope of work.

• Persuaded the leadership team to approve equipment & resource allocation, management, and disengagement, based on project plans.

• Spearheaded daily scrum sessions, project milestone & risk management meetings with 11 cross-functional teams. Stakeholder Management and Business Risk Management:

• Ensured timely project delivery, managing 10+ conflicts with client, partner firm & vendors via deliberations, contractual & legal remedy.

• Collaborated with management team, 12 internal teams & 8 external stakeholder groups to remove bottlenecks & streamline client approvals.

• Awarded with 6 favorable dispute outcomes, worth 7.7 million CAD

& 36 months extension, from an independent Dispute Adjudication Board by collaborating with 10+ internal teams, lawyers

& consultants.

• Enhanced margins and ensured cashflow by recovering the levied delay damages worth 2.1 million CAD, leading collaborations with key stakeholders viz. legal, contract & project teams.

• Mitigated project risks viz. liquidated damages, scope creep, cost overrun, negative cash-flow, delays in design, interface milestones, price escalation of materials, land acquisition, force majeure events, inter alia by drafting & submitting 500+ contractual letters.

• Achieved positive cashflow by negotiating with client to release payments on pro-rata basis in a milestone-based payment schedule.

• Ensured on-time & on-budget project delivery by drafting 4+ sub- contracts, manoeuvring through project risks.

Lean Management Intern

Godrej & Boyce

June 2015 – July 2015

• Improved progress rate by 11% via bottom-up approach, improving teamwork among interdependent vendors across streams.

• Recommended solutions in 6 streams upon identifying 15-35% Non- Value-Adding & 25-35% Non-Value-Adding but Necessary activities.

• Established benchmark thresholds for productivity by analyzing Daily Progress Reports of 10 vendors in 7 streams in 2 work locations.

• Streamlined workflow amongst multiple vendors by developing a visual, location-based work tracking and monitoring solution. PROJECT & THESIS

Integrated solutions for health-

tech firms (IIMK)

• Researched and identified

dissonance between the needs &

behavior of digital customers, &

the services offered by online

health apps.

• Formulated a marketing strategy

for an integrated solution with

insurance linkage, instant online

pharmacy & a new marketplace.

• Developed wireframes depicting

customers' & chemists' journey

maps on the app, proposing a

win-win solution for key partners.

Product Development of a Project

Scheduling Software Substitute

(IITM)

• Executed an end-to-end software

development lifecycle (SDLC) to

create an alternate product to

traditional project scheduling

software.

• Developed an integrated user-

friendly graphical dashboard

using VBA in MS Excel to plan &

track project progress.

• Analyzed earned value, worker

productivity & root cause analysis

using Pareto Chart, Fish-bone

diagram & forecasted completion

date

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