Consultant Resume Profile

SUMMARY

Experienced business/IT-strategy consultant with considerable technology/domain expertise and project management experience in financial services, pharma and telecom sectors.
MBA Finance, Marketing from NYU/Stern.
Management consulting and client-facing experience IT-Strategy, process transformation.
8 years of project management experience 15 years in system/software development/IT.
Cross-functional matrix team leadership SDLC, Waterfall, Agile methods Scrum framework.
PMP, CSM Scrum Master certifications.
B.Tech Engg. , Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. M.S., University of New Mexico.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Business Consultant, Business/Operations/Technology consulting division

Advised a tier-1 telecommunications firm in formulating their Cloud services strategy, allowing them to make their entry into the 2Bn Cloud Service Brokerage market.
Redesigned the OSP CAPEX-spend forecasting and accrual processes at a 6Bn network services provider improved budgeting accuracy and financial reporting by nearly 70 .
Coordinated the efforts to create and operate a system integration environment/lab for a key telecom firm as part of a cloud products collaboration.
Provided agile/scrum project management services to client efforts as needed. One key project involved development of mobile APIs for a tier-1 telecom client.

Confidential

Vice President, User Experience Group, Operations and Technology

Managed the conversion of the official Citi Diversity employee networks into a SharePoint-based collaboration platform. Led a global, cross-functional team for over a year and creatively repurposed existing in-house applications to achieve 80 cost-savings.
Oversaw the deployment of social-media initiatives related to Citi-200 and Citi's Olympics sponsorship, delivering them in time for maximum strategic firm publicity. Managed a team consisting of three external vendors globally US/Europe/Asia plus SMEs, stakeholders and IT.
Consulted on the user-experience design/improvement of a new-hire onboarding portal.
Led the integration of analytics into Citi's official blogs advised the Citi Alumni-Network project on technology directions/choices, security requirements, email-marketing efficiency.
Steered the above projects through critical security assessments and remediation.

Confidential

Principal Research Investigator

Directed the development/deployment of data-management/analysis solutions for early-stage drug-discovery research initiatives. Handled the required vendor/third-party relationships and collaborations. Managed global cross-functional teams SMEs, PMO, IT .
an image/LIMS data storage analysis solution for lead-identification screens.
specialized data-capture and analysis system for target identification screens delivered an operational solution at 60 of the best external vendor quote.
Assisted in the collaboration with European Bioinformatics Institute EBI , resulting in customization and adoption of EBI tools for in-house use, saving on license fees/support costs.
Hands-on architect/developer role in earlier projects.

Confidential

Consultant, Information Solutions Practice

Developed data visualization and analysis solutions for micro-array/gene-expression data.
Architected/developed a pipeline to integrate screening data/LIMS info into Rosetta Resolver.

Confidential

Software Engineer, Logistics Products

Developed data-visualization components for logistics optimization products.

Confidential

Software Engineer, Quality/Tools

Designed a framework for automating validation protocols and code quality metrics collection.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project schedule, resource, collaboration and issue tracking: MS Project, Excel, Word, Visio, SharePoint, Documentum eRoom, Collab.Net, Bugzilla, Rally, Serena suite Mind Manager mind/workflow-mapping Project and Program Management PMO, PMBOK, PMI.

Application design and development: business analysis, object-oriented analysis and design OOA/OOD design patterns software development life cycle SDLC . Waterfall, Agile methods, Scrum framework n-tier application design, development, deployment familiar with SOA.

Data-modeling and DBMS: ERWin, Embarcadero ER-Studio, MS Visio, TOAD Oracle, MySQL.

Programming, scripting, query, markup languages, environments, tools: Java, JavaScript, C , C, Perl, MATLAB, PL/SQL, HTML/DHTML. Eclipse, NetBeans, JBuilder Ant, Make CVS, SourceSafe.

Other technologies and tools used: Java SE, J2EE, Servlets, JDBC, RMI, JNI, JSP, Swing, XML, JDOM, SOAP, Apache Axis, Web Services, Service oriented Architectures SOA , TopLink, POI, SVG, Apache/ Tomcat servers Affymetrix LIMS API, GEML, MAGE-ML Cellomics-Store.