SUMMARY:

• Results - driven, detail-oriented, business-minded consultant with 8+ years’ experience in management consulting, business analysis with a focus on data in agile and scrum environments.
• Expert at integrating technology platforms with a process oriented approach, presenting to the C-Suite, collaborating and winning client-stakeholder support across multiple sectors.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: Business Analysis. Financial Analysis. Project Management. Stakeholder Engagement. Strategy.

Values: Communication. Global mindset. Transparency. Learning. Pragmatic optimism.

Traits: Accountable. Collaborative. Efficient. Innovative. Positive. Results-driven.

Technical Skills: MS Office (advanced). MS Vizio. MS Project. C/C++. HTML. VB. Salesforce/Apex. SharePoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New Brunswick, NJ

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Won $300K grant by leading the RFP and developing a toolkit to transition from legacy systems for the cities of Hoboken, Newark, Woodbridge, Neptune, and Atlantic City and developed B2B partnership with NJIT & RPA.
• Influenced 100+ business-owners in the West Shore, Staten Island, NY to achieve social & non-financial objectives by designing social media-based app using metrics-based analysis of the market, political, social and cultural landscape.
• Driven pre-sales and business development activities in the North America region using Salesforce to document leads.
• Conducted vendor audits, gap analysis and internal audits to ensure compliance with industry regulations.
• Assessed large data-sets provided process improvements and improved operational efficiency for clients.
• Successfully groomed the team and product owner with agile scrum methodology, rituals and development of stories (requirements elucidations), acceptance criteria, notes and story acceptance
• Gathered requirements, conducted functional testing for clients collaborating with business users/subject matter experts.
• As a Project manager, involved in preparing the project plans, scope sheet, task lists required for the internal projects.
• Managed the team of 5 consultants on everyday basis, distributing work-load based on their skillset, tracking progress by scheduling daily stand up Scrum meetings, weekly core team meetings and reviewing status updates.

Environment: Defense Fund (EDF), City of Hoboken, NJ

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed SaaS-based microgrid benchmarking toolkit -  (confidential)
• Built the data models for integrating technology and improving stakeholder engagement strategy for City of Hoboken, NJ.
• Engaged and led stakeholder meetings with community leaders and presented scenarios for technology and platform selection.
• Conducted weekly meetings to discuss projects status and updates to product controllers to sandbox and integrate technology.
• Conducted impact and risk analysis using advanced MS Excel tools (Causation/Regression Analysis) and reported using Pivot/Vlookup tables as required for keeping stakeholders informed.
• Interviewed and published by Microgrid Knowledge, Greenbiz, American City & County and Environmental Defense Fund.

Confidential, New York, NY

Research Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Delivered Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and business-centric data trends and visualizations based on large datasets using MS Excel, SPSS, R, AcrGIS and presented to senior leadership to aide in decision making process.
• Delivered technical reports and documentation for federal and third-party agencies, using University demographic information.
• Gathered requirements for developing a new Learning Management System (LMS) and also performed user acceptance testing and end-user trainings (train-the-trainer sessions.)
• Led business and technical meetings at this client facing project, and saw through the data warehousing project from start to finish, leading project team through project kick-off, design, architecture iteration and daily stand-up Scrum meetings.
• Managed multiple projects, enhancement/change requests, supported UATs, completed data integration and data mapping.

Confidential, East Brunswick, NJ

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Customized dashboards on Google Analytics and provided Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to the marketing team.
• Integrated web analytics tools and set-up SEO strategies for monitoring online traffic and donors.
• Transformed stakeholder interviews into Business Requirements Documents (BRD), determined the scope, documented change management requests, assumptions and dependencies.
• Structured and analyzed online-fundraising goals with the corporate communications and marketing team.

Confidential

Research Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Improved reporting metrics for clients including Marks & Spencer and Tesco by implementing Energy Conservation Measures (ECMs), carrying out carbon accounting, monitoring water-use, improving EH&S and increasing community impact investing.

Confidential

Process Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Ensured on-time, under-budget project delivery using MS Project and advanced functions in MS Excel.
• Initiated value migration tool as part of product prototype development with vendors and suppliers across the globe.
• Standardized web-based data forms and tele-forms as part of BRD to accommodate all data and files for developing a customized online web portal for automating daily operations at Triburg.
• Developed an entire workflow system and exception handling system using Triburg Online (BIS)
• Gathered requirements by collaborating with internal stakeholders and provided standardized documentation and scripts.
• After rollout of the portal, interacted with users on troubleshooting errors in the data writing SQL and PLSQL scripts and stored procedures to maintain data integrity.
• Trained user groups to efficiently come on-board and use every possible feature for their best benefits and in the interest of the company, clients and vendors and suppliers.
• Provided all data and files as standardized documents for further improving the Triburg customized online web portal.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led the RFP response process to implement an executable tool, “Skill Matrix Algorithm” and presented it to the grant committee.
• Implemented Lean Six Sigma principles and improved SMV and SAM values of operation for several manufacturing facilities.
• Generated KPIs for senior leadership using data available from 70 sewing operators performing an operation on a day to day basis in order to track operations and manufacturing progress made by the sewing operatives.
• Assessed the manufacturing process, documented requisites of each department and collaborated with STAGE Enterprise Resourcing Planning (ERP) development team to create a customized tool for each manufacturing facility.
• Presented to the Board of Directors at each manufacturing facility an estimation of the automation, time and cost savings with ERP STAGE in order to seek approval for implementation.
• Gathered requirements using Customization Requirement Report (CRR), used by STAGE Enterprise resource Solutions (ERP) in order to customize ERP solutions for manufacturing facilities.
• Devised a user hierarchy based on the roles of people in the facility and provided access permissions based on user hierarchy by defining read-only and read-write permission sets.
• Ensured correct data-entry and created data-validation rules for the Management.
• Trained user groups in each department to seamlessly come on-board with ERP STAGE.
• Tracked defects in the tool by monitoring usage over a month with the user groups on-board and generated MIS reports for users.