BACKGROUND
With more than * years of professional experience in Information Technology and Project Management. I have excellent verbal and written communication skills and I use these skills to communicate directly with the client and gather detailed requirements. I have contributed a lot in converting the requirements into effective business designs. Successfully managed expectations of project timing and delivery with all key team members. With a professional and analytical attitude to manage projects independently, I am pro-active in process improvement which results in reduced expenditures.
EXPERIENCE
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
PMI North East Ohio Chapter (01/11/2010 to Present)
Working with the PMI Northeast Ohio Chapter Managing the Job Bank on the PMI website- interacting with Human Resource department of various Companies, getting their job opportunities posted on the PMI website and Job Bank web page management.
IBM PVT. LTD. – (01/28/2008 to 07/31/2010)
Client – Vodafone Essar Ltd Industry- Information Technology
Project Role- Associate Project Manager
Achievements -
• In this position, I was involved in various business operations and have helped the organization to achieve cost-effective production with increased quality, efficiency and customer satisfaction. Due to my wide knowledge in business analysis, I have successfully identified chances for the improvement of productivity, integration, and cost reduction.
• Received IBM’s WOW award for Client satisfaction in the year 2008.
• Great client interfacing skills and client orientation.
As an Associate Project Manager with the PMO, I was responsible for:
• Collecting and analyzing the project’s business requirements and transferring the same knowledge to development team.
• Developing project plans, retrieving data from various sources, preparing data, building conceptual models, and working with large data sets in order to answer business questions.
• Develop test plans and test cases along with performing test execution for the project.
• Preparing accurate and detailed requirement specifications documents, user interface guides, and functional specification documents.
• Conducting statistical analysis for project research by applying knowledge of customers, systems, product & process to solve problems.
• Creating and analyzing trending reports, service delivery metrics and SLAs using SAS for the client and internal IBM teams.
• Design user interfaces for information gathering and report generation per business requirements.
• Researching, planning, and recommending administrative system and software choices to satisfy the organization’s business requirements.
• Documenting the acquired results of analysis and workflows as well as obtaining sign-off from the appropriate client.
• Developing design considerations, cost analysis, and execution time-lines.
• Interfacing with vendors on the client behalf, while working on requirement fulfillments.
• Compose and maintain procedural documentation for methodical business practices to generate project cost effectiveness
IBM PVT. LTD. – (04/24/2006 to 01/25/2008)
Client – Lenovo Industry- Integrated Technology Services
Project Role- Sr. Technical Analyst
Achievements -
• Received BRAVO award for good performance from IBM in the year 2007.
• Received WOW award for customer satisfaction from IBM in the year 2006.
• Expertise with analytical reporting using Advanced Excel features like v-look-up, pivot tables, charts, graphing and macros.
• Expertise in documentation and training using Word and PowerPoint.
Role and Responsibilities
• Worked in after sales service department of Lenovo Laptops. Resolved customer escalation quickly to ensure customer satisfaction, with regards to service and technical problems.
• Worked with business partners and senior management to analyze needs for information and converts them into action items, requests or projects
• Gathered requirements and developed specifications for business analysis needs.
• Developed spreadsheets and tools for management use.
• Compiled and prepared reports, graphs and charts to forecast and analyze trends.
• Conducted training programs and mentored team-members for an observed increase in performance.
• Ability to improve and automate the report generating processes.
NON- IBM EXPERIENCE
Worked as a Trainer - Basic Electronics and Networking in Jetking Computer Hardware and Networking Institute – (09/2005 to 03/2006)
EDUCATION
• MBA in Finance and Marketing in 2009, from Sikkim Manipal University, India
• Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in 2005, in Electronics and Telecommunication University of Mumbai, India.