SUMMARY:

Passionate business and technology professional enabling technical transformation through delivery excellenceWell - developed empathy for business users and technical team through a unique career contour. Expertise in strategic execution on projects within the confines of budgets and resources. Excellent networker with an ability to form bonds and transcend organization hierarchies for getting the job done. Proficient communicator capable of articulating complex ideas to all layer of the organization from CXOs to developers. Experienced in managing project execution specifics- plans, budgets, staffing and vendors. Hands on with Agile. Recipient of multiple corporate awards and recognition.

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS:

Confidential, Schenectady, New York

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead cloud migration and infrastructure upgrade for 200+ applications serving as the common thread for planning, driving, measuring, and reporting across GE Power.
• Driving migration and technology programs in excess of $5MM along with vendor management.
• Developed cloud migration plan by analyzing and prioritizing current application landscape.
• Created detailed annual budget to secure executive leadership buy-in and corporate funding.
• Socialized the quarterly plan with all stakeholders - business owners, application teams, cloud architects & cloud build teams in accordance with the overall migration plan
• Ensured application owner commitment to migration through proactive engagement, facilitation, planning and establishment of business case for the move.
• Supported with vendor selection.
• Communicated timely and transparently program progress to stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Managed development life-cycle including requirement gathering, solution design, development, testing and launch

Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed development life-cycle including requirement gathering, solution design, development, testing and launch to deliver instinctive, appealing and easy to use application.
• Vetted vendors for hosting a GE On-Campus Employee Engagement Mobile Application
• Conducted focus groups, one-on-one SME interviews and JADs to gather requirements
• Documented requirements into use cases and wireframes to enable solution design
• Liaised between the vendor, delivery team and business stakeholders aiding application development and testing
• Executed a successful product launch with 10% adoption on day 1.
• Established on-going monitoring of Confidential through analytical tools.
• Provided strategic technical leadership for enterprise solution services.
• Conducted analysis on enterprise application portfolio to reduce infrastructure costs and provided recommendations on application simplification to business stakeholders
• Aided in development, enhancements & testing of management reports to optimize project cycle time
• Ensured system design conformity to standards and practices (aka Design Peer Review Running rules)
• Managing design, development, deployment, and production support of new and existing applications

Confidential, Albany, New York

Graduate Assistant - Information System Management

Responsibilities:

• Supported maintenance of existing information systems.
• Supported operational processes including inventory, cataloging, and distribution.
• Drove operational improvements and helped enable these future state operational processes.
• Initiated and lead Social Media Marketing effort to improve engagement level of the patrons.

Confidential

Engagement Manager

Responsibilities:

• Wrote over 20 competitively priced agreement & proposals spanning various business verticals resulting in operating profit of $6 million dollars in 6 months
• Built and nurtured relationship with Strategic Level Executives (CEO, CFO, VP-HR Purchase) and Senior Management of the clients for supporting continued business growth.
• Managed end to end project delivery - scope definition, budget, staffing, stakeholder management, communication, execution and closure.
• Facilitated Business Development with a geographically diverse clientele including Chinese, German, Finnish, US, UK, Turkish, Japanese, and UAE companies.
• Researched growth trends, investment trends and competitor activities to deliver strategic solution offerings for the client.
• Represented the organization on national conferences and summits.
• Published MIS for monthly reports
• Supported Greenfield delivery teams stay atop their targets.

Confidential

Associate Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Determining most appropriate research methodology and techniques
• Designing qualitative research plans for products in all stages of the Product Life Cycle inclusive of scheduling, staffing and budgeting
• Planning and executing fieldwork operations
• Facilitating focus group discussions
• Reporting periodic project status reporting to client executives including CXOs.
• Analyzing and summarizing project research findings and making actionable recommendations
• Selective accomplishments from research project executions, successful launch of National Television Channel “UTV Utsav” successful introduction and branding of various Godfrey Phillips India cigarette blends successful product placement of Godrej’s new product line