Project Manager, Project Coordinator, Junior Project Manager, Business

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX 682-***-**** **********@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/dixit-makwana/ PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A multitasker, detail-oriented and organized aspiring Project Manager with proven and tested business development strategy, project management (PMBOK), agile process improvement, and marketing skills. EXPERIENCE

PROJECT MANAGER, AUGUST 2019 – PRESENT

KALACHANDJI’S (Retail Industry) ARLINGTON, TEXAS, UNITED STATES Summary: Primarily working on leading & coordinating daily operations carried out daily at University of Texas’ Food Services.

• Introduced Kaizen principles to cut short the time required in delivery the products to store, thus increased sales by 78% per day.

• Analyzed & forecasted the customer demand for the following week to schedule inventory & minimize the waste of resources.

• Inspected the food regulations & policies are maintained from receiving the contained food to packaging & delivery of products.

• To expand our market size, monitored our progress/market by setting testing centers monthly to communicate with customers. PROJECT MANAGER & ESTIMATOR INTERN, APRIL 2019 – AUGUST 2019 2M SOLUTIONS INC. (IT Industry) GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, UNITED STATES Summary: Collaborated with Senior Project manager and team to define scope, work objectives, budget, and project requirements.

• Bid 4 projects with budget more than $265,700 by extensively working with cross-functional team, contractors, and manufacturers.

• Strategized the CRM, Bidding, Estimation and PMO procedure to allow the company to increase the bids submitted each day.

• Established standardization in the bidding process & committed team on documentation to ease up traceability of all the decisions taken in consideration for each project when the project is in the Bidding phase of the project lifecycle.

• Coordinated weekly meetings with key stakeholders of the company on project’ progress & potential opportunities in market. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT INTERN, JAN 2018 – MAY 2018 CEAT LTD. (Manufacturing Industry) HALOL, GUJARAT, INDIA Summary: Worked under PMO Dept. to create a Value Stream Map for the company's Halol Factory which could help in reducing the Lead time of production and suggested improvements needed to improve efficiency (Lead time).

• Carried out assessment of operations by Work-time study to find the bottlenecks to refine the productivity.

• Engaged with Improvement team during SCRUM meetings to provide/ learn/ track on shortcomings of the targeted processes.

• Authored reports and presented findings in form of Excel reports and PowerPoint presentations to Senior Manager of Engineer Improvement and PM Cell.

EDUCATION

MASTER’S DEGREE, AUG 2018 – MAY 2020

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON, UNITED STATES

• Enrolled in Engineering Management Program. GPA 4.0 BACHELOR’S DEGREE, AUG 2014 - MAY 2018

NIRMA UNIVERSITY, INDIA

• Major B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. Minor Specialization in Marketing. First Class Scoring and GPA 3.2 CERTIFICATES:

• JIRA Advance Administration LEAN SIX SIGMA YELLOW BELT by GELRAD AGILE DEVELOPMENT DESGINER SKILLS

• TECHNICAL SKILLS: Expertise in Microsoft Suites (MS Project, Visio, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel, Outlook, and Word)

Qualtrics AutoCAD/ Inventor SolidWorks MATLAB C++ C language SQL Tableau SAP ERP WordPress.

• SOFT SKILLS: High Achiever Leadership Team player Project Management Product Management Operations Management Marketing Strategy Presentations Adaptable Strong Work ethic. PROJECTS CONDUCTED DURING GRADUATE COLLEGE

• Spirit Phone Proposal – Assigned as Program Deputy Director of the Project by the Professor, carried out Real-Life based proposal project for 4 months. Developed a Business Cash Flow Model for the project to solve real-life based problems.

• Developed a Marketing Strategy for the COPART’s division for motorcycles, GETCASHFORMYBIKE.

• Created a Real-world Project’s lifecycle using MS Project. Developed and integrated WBS with OBS. Progress on project was tracked using Ratios like CPI, SPI, TCPI, and Earned Value. DIXIT MAKWANA

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