Project Manager Management

VISHAL BAKSHI

Cambridge, MA ***** • Cell: * (***) 718–8913

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SUMMARY

IT consulting professional with seven years of international experience in implementing and managing IT projects. Consistent track record in IT Project Management, System Integration, Strategy planning, Organizational restructuring and Cost optimization. Designed and implemented business process improvements, cost reduction strategies and developed business proposals for financial service and high tech industry with focus on growth and profitability.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA), August 2012

HULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL, Boston, MA

• Current GPA: 3.7 (Dean’s List Awardee, 2012)

• VP of Business Development for Hult Consulting Club

Master of Computer Application (MCA), June 2005

UTTAR PRADESH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Noida, India

• Graduated in Honors

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES AMERICA, Stamford, CT 2007-2011

Multinational IT consulting firm employing over 214,000 people worldwide.

Project Manager

Executed multiple projects for TCS - GE Capital Energy Financial Services relationship. Responsible for design and development of business plan for business process reengineering, cost reduction, and productivity enhancement of in-house systems holding assets worth approximately $20 billion.

• Contributed to company's growth by means of business development, client retention and securing strategic partnerships that helped it win 100% share of contract worth $2 million.

• Institutionalized best in class change management practices that allowed GE Capital to become Sarbanes-Oxley compliant.

• Developed an innovative Facebook-like approval application for CFO office, which resulted in reduction of approval and deal closing time from weeks to few hours.

• Managed the entire mission critical leasing application for 15 subsidiary businesses under GE Capital to achieve significant cost and control benefits; a multi-million dollar engagement.

• Responsible for status reporting, client communication and coordinating with the project management team for timely completion and quality maintenance of projects.

• Facilitated in formulation best practices for CIO office by collaborating with IT offices of various business units under GE Capital.

• Conducted training for clients and taskforces for effective use of automated tools.

• Developed logical data model, business rules and process improvement metrics based on business requirements e.g. Data Flow Diagram, Entity Relationship Models.

• Conducted client interview to uncover inefficiencies and pain areas in current financial processes and systems, analyzed responses and presented recommendations for process simplifications.

o Implemented automated Anti-Money Laundering (AML) within Energy Financial Services (EFS)’s cash tracking application, which ensured 90% of transactions are automatically checked for fraud in real time.

o Saved or avoided costs of more than $75K by leading the compliance, risk and quality assurance initiative unearthing numerous data security and access related gaps.

Business Analyst 2006-2007

Maintained enterprise wide intranet reporting application for top management decision support of GE Commercial Finance, called e-global reporting. Prepared project schedule, managed cost, estimates for projects resources and performance for geographically (USA, China, India and Mexico) diverse teams.

• Documented existed financial processes into by conducting information-gathering sessions with client management team, analyzing the information and prioritizing the requirements to gain understanding of the business needs.

• Interfaced with senior management, Third-Party solution providers, sourcing leaders, and users for Business Recovery/Continuity Planning; conducted periodic Disaster Recovery tests.

• Increased revenue and saving for TATA in GE relationship by successful implementation of onsite-offshore delivery model and participation in developing RFP response.

• Accelerated the approval, underwriting and closing processes by 40% by designing and leading implementation of interactive reporting application to help monitor the exposure, performance and health of the GE Real Estate portfolio.

• Developed reports with ability to perform sensitivity/shock analysis on various input metrics, which provided increased forecasting ability and risk analysis.

UBICS INC., New Delhi, India 2004-2005

Software Engineer

Explored and developed new technologies to improve business processes and existing IT programs at National Informatics Center, Govt. of India. Worked on defining system requirements, testing and coordinating training for a new product release.

• Developed training programs and assisted in post-upgrade production support to capture and rectify new problem areas being discovered to ensure efficient functioning of the system after upgrade.

• Developed and maintained enterprise intranet applications and web services for seamless data flow between internal systems.

• Designed testing requirement, developed test cases and also defect reports.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Affiliations/Certifications:

• Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) in 9i/10g database.

• TCS-GE Six Sigma Green Belt Certified.

• TCS L1 Performance Engineering Certified.

Technologies: Project Management, Six Sigma DMAIC methodology, MS Office, MS Project, Strategy Planning, Cost Budget Analysis, Web Technologies, ASP.Net, SQL Server 2000/5, Oracle database, Business Intelligence.

Process Areas: Change Management, Quality Management, Defect Management, Requirements Management, Risk Management, Issue Management, Business Continuity processes, Strategic Planning, Customer Relationship Management, IT governance and leadership.

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