Project Manager Management

DEEPINDER SINGH, M.B.A.

EXECUTIVE-LEVEL LEADERSHIP • FINANCIAL PLANNING & ANALYSIS • LARGE-SCALE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

**** ******* ***** • Somerset, NJ 08873 • 914-***-**** • ******************@*****.***

Performance-focused leader eager to offer cross-functional experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Project Management, Consulting, and Team Building toward maximizing an employer’s bottom-line results.

PROFILE OF QUALIFICATIONS

FINANCIAL ANALYSIS • CLIENT / VENDOR MANAGEMENT • SOURCING / PROCUREMENT • COST-REDUCTION INITIATIVES

PROJECT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT • STRATEGIC ANALYSIS / PLANNING • BEST PRACTICE METHODOLOGIES • SIX SIGMA

TEAM BUILDING • WORKFLOW PRIORITIZATION • GAP / SWOT / COST BENEFIT / ROI ANALYSES • FORECASTS / BUDGETS

PROJECT CHARTERS • SOW • RFP • RFQ • CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS • EXECUTIVE ADVISEMENT • KEY RISK MITIGATION

• Integral leader who offers proven experience in large-scale business optimization, including designing, developing, and implementing solutions-driven programs, policies, and processes to achieve continued key profitability and productivity.

• Six Sigma Green Belt-Certified professional who coordinates and implements forward-thinking growth projects, along with effectively managing multimillion-dollar project teams working with Fortune 500 companies to boost core success.

• Ambitious self-starter who skillfully interfaces among C-level executives, vendors, and global business teams, along with successfully planning, prioritizing, and managing individual and team tasks within fast-paced, high-pressure situations.

RECENT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Led a ConvaTec initiative to track, implement, and report a plan to reduce direct and indirect procurement expenses by up to $10 million for 2012, including negotiating and redesigning policies and procedures while building vendor relations.

• Designed reporting methodologies for corporate expense tracking and raised compliance on travel, meetings, hotels, and car fleet spent to achieve savings totaling $1 million through 2012, and worked with IBM change management teams to additionally implement long-term processes that will ultimately generate $10 million in savings over the next five years.

• Spearheaded the design of a tool to track procurement of software / hardware and renewal of contracts as per expiry dates to ensure compliance and avoid penalties, and renegotiated $9+ million in renewals to save $750,000+ in 2012.

• Saved millions in prospective penalties to vendors from delayed payments by designing forecasting and budget models.

• Reduced ConvaTec’s annual tax 10% by restructuring cost allocation models to distribute expenses to 49 operating countries.

• Ensured 100% on-time and budgeted delivery of varied projects by defining integral scope, timeline, and quality metrics.

• Saved $200,000+ in consulting costs from vendors such as KPMG and EquaTerra via contractual amendment tracking.

PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS

CONVATEC, SKILLMAN, NJ 2009 – PRESENT

Senior Financial Analyst

• Utilize broad scope of industry knowledge and dynamic business acumen toward directing multiple efforts encompassing governance, project management, vendor management, financial forecasting, budgeting, cost allocation, variance analysis, and process improvement, as well as key reporting, compliance metrics definition, communication, and C-level advisement.

• Demonstrate strong communication talents toward resolving conflicts between vendor, parent corporation, ConvaTec Financial, and IT directors to result in sound acceptance and implementation of new financial and contractual processes.

• Develop key communications, project work plans, requirements, and relations with outsourced IT vendors (e.g. HP, IBM, ADP, CompuCom, EMC), and organize and lead weekly business office review meetings to track all operations.

U.S. TECHNOLOGIES GLOBAL, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA 2007 – 2008

On-Site Project Manager / Delivery Manager

Client – DHL

• Strategically steered advisement for consolidation of redundant applications as a result of client’s acquisitions of feasibility analysis, gap analysis, and requirement analysis documents which allowed the company to optimize re-use of resources.

• Established company’s first office in Malaysia and conducted technical interviews to expand the team from five to 25.

• Delivered management and technology consulting services – DHL SLA / Incident Management & Resource Allocation.

• Analyzed functional / non-functional requirements and communicated initiatives to offshore technical development team.

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PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS (CONTINUED)

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., PUNE, INDIA 2004 – 2007

Technical Business Analyst

Client – ABN AMRO

• Drove operations growth and productivity enhancement by designing business requirements for an internal resolution process (Incident Management) and successfully implemented the initiative while leading the top-notch technical team.

• Implemented requirements phases by interviewing various stakeholders, including producing functional, non-functional, and domain requirement documents as deliverables, as well as defining project metrics and tracking quality of services.

Client – Cathay Pacific

• Contributed sharp analytical abilities toward gathering business requirements for translation into functional and non-functional requirements, including representing requirements using Use Cases, as well as detailed descriptive documents.

• Conducted defect analysis as Quality Assurance Lead for Cathay Pacific project, including producing the first-of-its-kind, high-quality business portal that resulted in immediate client sign off and future mutually beneficial business relationships.

• Developed test scripts while building valuable relations with development teams to ensure a defect-free, optimal product.

• Coordinated the dynamic oversight of web content by designing visual content using Content Management Application.

Client – DHL (Software Developer)

• Participated in the upgrade of 40+ modules across a 140-module application to ultimately track shipments at the piece level.

• Led targeted decision-making in the initiation of requirements processes using UML techniques, including developing risk mitigation plans, as well as high- and low-level design documents reporting modules for a 140-module SCL application.

• Coded critical reporting modules in Informix 4GL, Informix database and C / C++ languages, and effectively identified areas for performance improvement beyond the scope of the project to provide additional value to the high-profile client.

AIRTEL TELECOM, NEW DELHI, INDIA 2000 – 2001

Network Information Management Intern – Software Development

• Expertly recorded telecom network quality using TEMS equipment and recommended upgraded site plans, including creating code to simulate network switching capabilities and help plan frequency distribution among base transceiver stations within one of the largest Asian telecom networks, as well as collaborating with vendors to upgrade existing billing applications.

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

BALL CORPORATION, WILLIAMSBURG, VA 2009 – 2010

Six Sigma Process Improvement Consultant – Green Belt Certification

• Identified five critical areas of process improvement by collecting manufacturing data logs, analyzing data, and designing client’s operations process flow, along with recommending improvements to reduce waste and save dollars among scrap.

• Forecasted a 20% reduction in raw material waste per delivered recommendations to improve client end user satisfaction.

VISA, WASHINGTON, D.C. 2009 – 2010

Project Manager – W&M Consulting

• Exhibited solid multitasking skills toward analyzing existing usage statistics and research opportunities for a purchase card program contract awarded to VISA by state government, agencies, and localities within the Commonwealth of Virginia.

• Played a vital role in developing a more focused market growth strategy for VISA by conducting market segmentation and creating future growth recommendations, including interviewing state and local government executives, as well as controlling project budgets and resource use among an eight-member team to meet goals while saving thousands of dollars.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (Consulting & Corporate Finance Emphasis, 3.5 GPA)

THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science Emphasis, 3.74 GPA)

VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (INDIA)

Extensive Technical Proficiencies Provided Upon Request

Excellent Professional References Provided Upon Request

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