Management Manager

NIPA A. AVLANI Address: **** E Williams Blvd, Apt 13301, Tucson, AZ 85711

Full-time MBA, General Management (GM) E-mail: **********@*****.*******.***

The University of Arizona, Tucson Phone: 520-***-****

EDUCATION

Degree Major Graduation GPA University/College

Masters in Business Administration (MBA) GM May 2013 3.6/4.0 The University of Arizona, Tucson

Masters in Management Studies (MMS) HR May 2008 3.9/4.0 University of Mumbai, India

Bachelors in Engineering (BE) IT May 2006 3.5/4.0 University of Mumbai, India

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Microsoft Corporations, Redmond, Washington

Team Leader – Consulting Field Project January 2012 – May 2012

• Created an intellectual property paper for Microsoft to be used to work with CIOs on social media strategies

• Developed models based on research of social media scenario and the big data generated from various social media platforms to help CIO play a bigger role in the company’s social media strategy development and implementation

Reliance Communications Ltd., Mumbai, India

Assistant HR Manager May 2008 – November 2009

Technology Management – Corporate office

• Implemented corporate wide HR initiative for migration from manual to SAP automated HR system by managing cross-functional teams during development and implementation stages to ensure full system integration

• Conducted organization wide audit of personnel records and took actions based on severity of reported inconsistencies

• Maintained a performance database for regional offices and prepared corporate quarterly reports for the Head HR

• Assisted regional HR in managing regional SAP operations to maintain database and report generation uniformity

Talent Management and Development – Regional office

• Reduced the division’s employee termination settlement process time from 3 months to 5 days thus drastically decreasing final compensation expenses incurred by the company towards the same

• Analyzed and benchmarked salaries of 250 employees against current market trends to suggest new remuneration plans to avoid attrition of performers which resulted in reduced training costs for new hires and continued business from customers

• Developed and executed periodic employee engagement activities, teambuilding celebrations at festivals for the division employees by managing third party vendors and managers resulting in increased employee morale and motivation levels

• Set up a new employee orientation program for new hires within 3 weeks of their employment, speeding up their proficiency and immersion into divisional work processes

• Cataloged frequent employee queries to identify a lack of knowledge about HR systems and processes, and resolved learning issues by conducting a training program to increase system and process proficiency

HDFC Bank Ltd., Mumbai, India

Summer Intern February 2007 – July 2007

• Acted as a consultant for third party vendor to prepare a competency framework for roles in Branch Banking sub-division

• Recommended retention strategies based on organization wide attrition analysis results

• Pioneered a new HR initiative – “Ek Mulakat” – to distinguish company high performers

ADDITIONAL

• President of Eller Graduate Consulting Association

• Winner of Eller Orientation Case Study Competition

• Recipient of Nam Kook Jo Scholarship Award from Eller College of Management

• Adept in SAP-HR Module, Lotus Notes, MS Visio/Project/PowerPoint/Word/Excel including Pivot tables and Macros

• Certified yoga instructor by The Yoga Institute, Mumbai

• Fluent in English, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati

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