Project Manager Sales

Jyoti Ananth

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Experience

Bowne and Company, NY, NY 10/09 to present

Independent Consultant (Business Analyst)

• Understand and create data requirements for new web based product roll out. The new product to provide an integrated framework for automating document creation, printing, e-distribution and fulfillment.

• Conduct interviews internally with various business units to understand requirements and current challenges

• Create detailed Use cases as part of the requirements creation process

• Create business requirements for the product redesign based on interviews and product understanding

• Create detailed QA scripts to be used through the various phases of development and testing

• Manage document release and revision cycles

• Work closely with technology team to assist in phased product release

• Create demo and reference guide for the entire sales team to use while showcasing the new product to potential clients

• Act as liaison between technology and business units

Taproot Foundation, NY, NY 03/08 to 01/2009

Volunteer (Business Analyst)

• Understand client requirements and conduct interviews for a website redesign project with focus on donation and event management capabilities

• Liaison between client and development team

• Create and maintain business requirements document

• Work with different departments within the company and client through the entire software development life cycle

• Perform QA and verify developed website meets client needs and demands

• Assist in site release to production

• Train client to support and maintain site

Huntington Learning Centers 11/06 to 06/07

Independent Consultant (Business Analyst/Project Manager)

• Facilitate communication between departments for requirements gathering

• Create requirements specifications, provide recommendation and analysis documentation

• Conduct product research and analysis to fit company’s unique and complex requirements to integrate varied departments

• Present research findings and recommendations to senior management and department leads

• Facilitate select vendor demos at client site to a focus group within the company

• Work with different department leads to assist with product selection

Bowne and Company, NY, NY 05/01 to 10/06

Lead Business Analyst/Project Manager

• Lead analyst on the Client Implementation for technology group for one of the company’s largest and most high profile web based products for the financial services industry. Clients include a number of mid to large size financial institutions

• Liaison between the core development team, the client and business units

• Work with business units to align product with business strategy and changing business needs

• Gather and collate requirements and present as functional requirements for development team

• Manage changing requirements and client expectations

• Oversee all day-to-day operations and workflow on various the client projects and delegate to members of team as needed

• Manage outsourcing teams positioned in 2 different countries and integrate deliverables and tasks with on site teams

• Involved in the entire project life cycle from Pre-Sales to Production releases and maintenance & support

• Manage and maintain multiple clients through these various project lifecycles

• Prioritize tasks and deliverables of development, QA and analyst members on the team such as deployment schedules, testing cycles and resource management

• Create standards and processes for the team and interacting business units

• Create QA strategy and scripts and work with QA group with scripting for various supported clients and their releases

• Validate and evaluate client requested enhancements to the product and schedule these in release cycles

• Report various project statuses and timelines to management and work with them to change team priorities as and when required

• Expertise and success achieved on the above product now being used for various other products supported by the technology. Assist in the rollout of these best practices with other development groups within the organization

Inventa Corporation, New Brunswick, NJ 11/99 to 05/01

Technical Business Analyst/Consultant

• Created the strategy and feasibility study for the migration of an existing web site to an upgraded version of the Application server. Worked on the design of the project.

• Selected by the senior leadership team as a part of a niche group to research and develop a wireless practice for the company. Studied and researched specific topics within the wireless arena and made presentations on existing wireless technologies to Senior Management. Worked on a white paper on wireless trends and resulting new business opportunities.

• Maintained client interactions and owned the requirements and specifications documents for the online portal development of a very large financial client. Interacted regularly with the information architects and checked for consistency of architecture and documentation in both the business and technical areas. Created the front-end pages, including the logic behind them.

• Was part of the project winning team that did the feasibility analysis for the creation of an online exchange for fixed income securities. Developed the functionality specifications - both business and technical. Helped create the client deliverable that won the project.

• Headed the testing team, and wrote and executed thorough test scripts.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York, NY 03/99 - 11/99

ERP Consultant

• Produced a deliverable for a large European automotive client. The deliverable included extensive research and evaluation of various Sales Configurators in the market. This was accomplished using the Internet, Intranet and direct contact with various vendors on specific tools.

• Part of the Quote to Cash Integration Test team for the release in a major Fortune 500 telecommunications company. The primary emphasis was the SAP Sales and Distribution module. Modules also dealt with were Materials Management and Production Planning. The test involved mainly item category and schedule line checks for all materials from quote to cash, ensuring all valid materials were copied over at each stage and reacted as predicted. Significant knowledge was gained in the testing process, Sales and Distribution module and client interaction.

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

• M.S. - Computer Science, May 99

Bangalore University, Bangalore, India

• B.S. - Instrumentation and Electronics, August 95

PriceWaterhouseCoopers Global Training Center

• SAP certified. Completed the SAP / R3 training program, administered by PriceWaterhouseCoopers Global Training Center in Philadelphia.

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