Project Manager Engineer

MAKESH NAYAR

** ********* ****** • Buffalo, NY 14214 • 716-***-**** • ***********@*****.***

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO,

THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Master of Business Administration, May 2012

Finance & Consulting KANNUR UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, July 2003

LeaderCORE™ (Certification of Readiness and Excellence), UB School of Management MBA program

• Selective program to enhance core leadership competencies, with expected certification in spring 2012

EXPERIENCE

INDEPENDENT HEALTH, Buffalo, NY

Project Manager/Analyst, 06/11 – 12/11

• Managed 10 concurrent projects across different business units as part of major master implementation plan of $2 million for a health insurance company

• Devised & recommended project implementation strategies as part of steering team discussions, recognizing challenges associated with competing claim system and data base change initiatives

• Coordinated and facilitated meetings with business owners, system architects, business analysts, and project leads, ensuring project objectives and targeted deadlines were consistently met

• Calculated and monitored budget for the projects and provided reports to the supervisor

• Retained for extended internship term as a result of project coordination success, strong work ethic, interpersonal skills and relationship management abilities

FAMILY AGRIBUSINESS, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Manager, 09/08 – 07/10

• Analyzed financial statements and sales forecast

• Implemented information technology in inventory control and sales to reduce cost by 10%

• Enhanced business growth by 20% with a revenue of $15,000

UST GLOBAL (WellPoint, USA), Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Senior Software Engineer, 02/06 – 08/08

• Analyzed and administered automation of all the internal processes of the company; reduced operational cost by 30%

• Communicated with CIO and client to gather and draft the Mainframe project requirements

• Coordinated a team of 20 resources in the areas of requirement management, software development, process compliance and work flow management

• Created requirement document by using use-case, and test plan for UAT

TATA INFOTECH LTD (National City Corporation, USA), Pune, Maharashtra, India

Systems Engineer, 01/04 – 12/05

• Analyzed and consolidated business requirement for developing mainframe software programs

• Administered and organized team meetings and business knowledge sharing sessions, enhancing project performance, and maintained process compliance of SDLC of project

COMPUTER SKILLS & ACADEMICS

• Microsoft Excel, Project, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, mainframes, fixed income securities, derivatives, mergers & acquisition, management accounting, financial statement analysis

ACTIVITIES

Verney Case Competition

• Won second place for devising turnaround strategy by analyzing 10-k & business model, for Multi Media Inc.

Vice President, Supply Chain and Operations Management of SUNY, Buffalo (Apr 2011- Present)

APICS, Buffalo Chapter Liaison, University at Buffalo (Apr 2011-Present)

MBA Ambassador for prospective MBA students and new admits (Sep 2010 – Present)

Finance Management Association, Member (Sep 2010 – Present)

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