PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 5 years of professional experience with 4 years of experience leading software development project teams and being responsible for overall project delivery including identifying stakeholder requirements, budgeting, project planning, tracking and monitoring, and stakeholder and vendor management.
• Hands - on experience in the entire software development lifecycle (waterfall and agile) of various projects and using MS Excel and MS Project for project planning, tracking, reporting, managing and other project activities.
• Demonstrated ability to grasp new concepts quickly by working on a wide range of projects, both client and internal.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• MS Project
• Project Planning and Reporting
• MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Vendor Management
• MS Visio
• Quality Assurance and Control
• Iron Python
• Budgeting
• SQL
• Information Management
• VBA
• Productivity Improvement
• C/C++
• People Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is a growing web-based travel application start-up that helps users create travelogues and leverage the knowledge in its traveler network to help users plan their best trips (https:// Confidential .com)
• Worked in the capacity of Project Manager to ensure that all the tasks are headed in the right direction and completed within the timeframe
• Helped the project team in gathering and prioritizing end-user requirements to make the application more intuitive and user friendly
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project creating detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and milestones
• Created work breakdown structures (WBS), assigned owners to tasks and checkpoint reviews to facilitate forward momentum of each phase of the project lifecycle
• Responsible for identification and mitigation of risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data
• Accountable for overseeing projects across all phases of development and monitor workflow and make timeline adjustments as needed
• Responsible to create weekly status reports and ran status meetings covering achievements and status on scope, schedule, costs and risks
• Helped negotiating agreements within project team members and ensuring that all are aligned and understand the project goals and expectations
• Experience in creating and managing training collaterals in the form of PowerPoint presentations, word docs and videos
• Assisted in hiring the right talent for the projects by defining job descriptions for resource needs and on-boarding hired professionals

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Project Coordinator - Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• With 22 offices around the world, ZS has worked with more than 1,200 companies in 70 countries across consumer products, energy, high-tech, insurance, medical products and services, pharmaceuticals and other industries
• Worked in the capacity of Project Coordinator - Project Lead for a team of ~15 associates while being responsible for the different phases of the business solutions and setting goals for project teams
• Handled projects of various budget sizes from USD 50K- USD 1M and of variable risk and complexity to create tools for the clients to better manage their salesforce and support information management
• Interacted with clients from Fortune 100 companies based out of US to understand their requirements
• Assisted senior management in creating project proposals by estimating project timelines, project pricing, effective resource allocation and managing expectations
• Engaged with senior management to create Statement of Work (SoW) to clearly reflect the client’s requirements, assumptions and agreed cost
• Assisted senior management in assessing to deliver a prototype or Proof of Concept (PoC) based on client needs and requirements
• Interfaced with solution architects, developers, testers, SMEs and other stakeholders to define processes best suited to each project to create detailed project plans, schedules, work breakdown structures (WBS), resource allocations and proactively identify potential risks and mitigation measures to ensure that the project is delivered on time and within budget without any issues
• Assisted senior project managers in creating Change Management plans to ensure control in budget, scope, schedule and resources
• Moved between Agile and Waterfall methodologies depending on project specifics and client goals ensuring delivery to scope, schedule, quality and cost
• Utilized standard project management best practices and budgeted cost using WBS, resource requirements and project schedules and milestones to measure and control project performance, sign-off and completion
• Managed risks, actions, issues, changes and dependencies including mitigation, mapping and escalation as required
• Prepared for and participated in project governance meetings ensuring that all mandatory deliverables on the critical path were completed in readiness for approval and next phase commencement
• Compiled and presented weekly reports on project progress and flag risks or conflicts identified within a project to senior management
• Facilitated daily checkpoint meetings to discuss the daily tasks and talk about any risks identified followed by sending out Minutes of Meeting (MOM) to the entire project team
• Organized, scheduled and participated in full test cycles and managed change submissions for system alterations
• Worked on a project that enabled the clients to reduce the time and effort required from weeks to hours thereby saving clients thousands of dollars
• Managed cross-functional teams based in India, USA/Europe to deliver the deployment of solution projects
• Produced project documentation at various levels of details to suit the requirements and change criteria of each customer or project
• Responsible for selecting and/or hiring team members based on the project needs and integrate new hires into teams and processes through trainings, orientations and mentorship
• Part of the ‘ZS New Hire Evangelist’ team to drive recruitments by assisting HR team in designing case studies, sponsorship programs and mentorship