Parth Shah
Profile
Energetic outgoing professional Project Coordinator, Certified Associate Project Manager – (CAPM) and Business Analyst, with 9+ years of proven results. Strong team builder, mentor, facilitator and motivator. Superb communication skills and experienced in software, web and applications development.
Professional Experience
Reference # 3
Zealistic Software Solutions, Vadodara, India
Oct 2014 – Dec 2018
Project Coordinator
Designed meeting agendas and take minutes at Technical core team meetings and publish meeting results
Improved the integration of project information and accessibility by taking notes from Outlook meetings, then putting them into tasks, follow-ups, and reminders, and catalog meeting minutes in MS OneNote.
Handled costs and schedules, and associated documents and managed change documentation.
Assisted project managers in performing variance analysis, conducting assessments, integrating project forecasting and budgeting process, managing change and producing management reports.
Analyzed development of project plans, project schedule, Work Breakdown Structure-WBS, project budget, work hours, expenditures, and estimated packages during the different phases of a project.
Proactively standardized Team Documentation and Best Practices on Support/Issue Resolution
Regularly interacted with the project stakeholders - staff, managers, business operation team, clients.
Gained experience in working and managing remote teams.
Environment: Agile, PMP Methodologies, JIRA, Confluence, Scrum Task Board, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, Behavior-Driven Design (BDD), User Stories, MS Project, Trello, Slack, Google Suite, GitHub, SOW, WBS, Project Charter, Risk Assessment, PMI Principles, AWS
Reference # 2
Sophos - IT security company, Ahmedabad, India
July 2012 – Oct 2014
Business Analyst
Developed and documented statements of requirements for considered alternatives.
Performed business analyses of functional requirements to identify information, procedures, and decision flows.
Evaluated existing procedures and methods, identified and documented items such as database content, structure and application subsystems.
Developed data dictionary.
Defined and documented interfaces of manual to automated operations within application subsystems, to external systems, and between new and existing systems.
Identified candidate business processes for re-design, prototype potential solutions, provided trade-off information and suggested a recommended course of action. Identified the modifications to the automated processes.
Established acceptance test criteria with client.
Supported and used the selected departmental methodologies.
Environment: Agile, PMP Methodologies, JIRA, Confluence, Google Suite, MS Project, MS Office, Tableau, MS Visio, HubSpot, Jenkins.
Reference # 1
Rishabh Software, Vadodara, India
July 2011 – July 2012
Software Engineer
Successfully designed from scratch and implemented a server-side application with Python and Django to manage users, interactions, and transactions with multiple currencies, creating a customer's own financial system.
Pioneered in the creation of a one of a kind connected system that generates, measures and stores energy generated by riding a stationary bike, transforming it into a currency that is deposited in an exclusive user account.
Developed a RESTful API (Django RESTful framework) to be used by other developers.
Deployed servers using containerized and virtualized environments with a local copy and load balancers.
Created an API that allows communication between more than 500 devices including PCs, Raspberry Pi, sensors, RTOS hardware, and POS.
Developed multi-thread customer-facing Java applications.
Synchronized the state of GPIOs of a Raspberry Pi cluster using Bluetooth.
Deployed and managed code pipelines using Jenkins and Maven for web applications, mobile, and embedded.
Developed multiple multi-thread applications to interact with the server using Java and Python.
Developed a reporting dashboard using React.js.
Created various Real-Time Apps for Arduino on C to acquire data from sensors and to control devices using relays.
Connected Real-Time Apps, End-Point Apps, and Server-Side application using Serial Communication, Bluetooth, and REST.
Led and mentored a team of developers programming in Java that was assembled for the project.
Inspired and unified multiple teams to work overtime to deliver the project on time.
Environment: Agile, PMP Methodologies, JIRA, Confluence, PHP, jQuery, Laravel, VOIP API, Stripe API, MySQL, Angular 1.4, React, MobX, Electron, C#, Azure (Table Storage, Application Insights, App Services), Python, Selenium, CSS, SASS, HTML, JSON and XML
Educational Background
Management Studies Certificate
(Project Management)
Algonquin College- Ottawa, Ontario
Key Courses:
Project Cost Management and Finance, Project Communication Management, Project Management Fundamentals, Project Scope Management, Project Time Management and Technology, International Project Management, Project Human Resources and Stakeholder Management, Project Quality Management, Project Risk Management, Project Procurement Management, Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Bachelor of Science Degree –
(Computer Engineering)
Gujarat University – Gujarat, India
Skills and Attributes
Networking and Telecommunications Expertise
Experience with the following technologies: ATM, IEEE 802.11b WLAN, Ethernet, UMTS, SONET/SDH, APS, IP, 10/100 BT Ethernet, ADSL, SDSL, HDSL, 2B1Q DSL, NMS, TCP/IP, SERDES, T1/E1, DS3/E3, Cell Relay, ISDN PRI, ADPCM voice compression, and RS-232/X.21/V.35, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), TCP/IP, OSI, Cisco CCNA
Project Management Professional
Certified Associate Project Manager – Project Management Institute (CAPM-PMI)
Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC) – Scrumstudy.org
Software Applications Knowledge
C#, C/C++, SQL PHP, Adobe Acrobat, Dreamweaver, HTML, XHTML, CSS, MySql, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office, JIRA, Confluence, Slack, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Adobe Acrobat, Trello, Salesforce, Smartsheet, SAP
Office Tools
MSOffice, MS Excel, MSWord, MS PowerPoint, MSExchange, MSOutlook, Netscape, Internet Explorer, MS Project, Access, FoxPro, Visio
Language Skills
English
Volunteer Work
Project Coordinator – DevOps Summit Canada 2020 (Ottawa)
Project Manager – TEDx Ottawa
Secretariat – Project Management Institute, Ottawa
Memberships and Associations
Project Management Institute – PMI Member
DevOps Canada
TiE Ottawa
Awards and Recognition
Best Project Manager Award (2019-2020) – Project Management Institute, Ottawa
Leadership Award – Zealistic Software Solutions
Team player Award- Zealistic Software Solutions
Business Innovator Award - SOPHOS