DIVYA KARMALI
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Cell - 647-***-**** Home 905-***-**** *****.*******@*****.***
Objective
To enrich my experience and skill set through constant learning and by performing to the best of my ability for a career that is both beneficial to the organization and mutually rewarding
Core Competencies
• Certified ITIL professional with experience in a variety of industry verticals
• 5+ years project coordination experience
• Experienced in working in AGILE and SDLC environments
• Richly experienced in creating and maintaining scorecards, dashboards and regular status reports for all levels of stakeholders
• Successfully coordinated processes like Risk Management, Performance Management and Change Management
• Proficient in using MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint
• Experienced in performing gap analysis and thereby identifying and implementing quick wins
• Ability to perform and deliver in constantly changing environment
Experience
Program Management Analyst - Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), Toronto
January 2012 – Present
• Liaison with members to renew membership, collation of financial information including credit cards, pre-authorised debits and cheques
• Verification and validation of all highly confidential client-sensitive digital, financial and qualitative data ensuring PCI compliance.
• Preparation and distribution of regular financial and KPI reports based on information analysed to various levels of senior management facilitating trend analysis of weekly sales
• Coordinated and facilitated regular status meetings, assigned action items and consistently followed up through successful completion.
ITIL PMO/ Business Analyst - Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore, India
May 2007 – December 2011
• Deputed to work in the UK for British Telecommunications (BT) and implemented cross-platform Performance Management. This involved the identification of appropriate performance measures, documenting their attributes in a Measures Catalogue and the designing and regular maintenance of Performance dashboards and scorecards. These dashboards projected the overall status of the platform’s performance and facilitated key senior management decisions.
• Solely responsible for designing and developing a reporting framework from scratch on client-site using advanced Excel. Inputs for these reports were collated through regular consistent meetings with all stakeholders and through analysis of raw data from systems used. The information was summarized and presented to senior management in appropriate format and with regular frequency.
• Compiled tools in MS Excel to monitor and compare budget actual vs. forecast. Additionally monitored monthly and yearly spend on full-time employees, contractors and facilities used. Also summarized the results through standard reports in PowerPoint.
• Was involved in various project management activities at BT that included Milestone tracking, Risk and Issue Management and the Co-ordination of Reporting Structures in accordance with the requirements of different stakeholders.
• Launched the Change Management service on-site. Executed activities which consisted of developing and consolidating RFCs (Request for Change documents), maintaining an up-to-date change log and issuing, on a regular basis, a Forward Schedule of Changes to all stakeholders.
• Conducted day-to-day management and reporting in Incident Management and Problem Management for ING. This included the development of dynamic tools to capture and project the performance of recommended measures. Documented self-help instructions for technical staff and managers for the usage of these tools. Also designed and created standard templates and forms to be used for escalations and communication within the Incident and Problem Management teams thus reducing resolution time resulting in quick system recovery.
• Have been the single-point-of-contact for all activities related to Communications at client site. These activities included sending out notifications of new services launched, developing presentations for all levels of management and regular Content management on SharePoint and Wiki.
Education
Symbiosis Center for Information Technology, Pune, India - June 2005 - April 2007
Degree Obtained - MBA in Software Development and Management
Symbiosis Institute for Computer Studies and Research, Pune, India - August 2002 – April 2005
Degree Obtained – Bachelor of Computer Applications
References available on request.