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DHAVAL SOLANKI

DHAVAL SOLANKI

Project Manager
Surat

Summary

Resourceful Project Manager with 17+ years of expertise in organizing business operations, financial oversight and resource management to achieve smooth flow and project operations. Leads procurement of resources including equipment and supplies. Monitors projects by adhering to production schedule and budget, managing production team, identifying problems and providing targeted solutions. Knowledgeable in accounting principles, bookkeeping, budget, and financial management.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Project Manager

Treta Infotech PVT LTD
10.2023 - Current
  • Managed a team of 26 under my observation, with 1 PL and 2 TLs, where I oversaw 4 clients with 7-9 projects at a time.
  • Used different strategies on overrun projects and tried to bring them down to minimal time and resource consumption.
  • Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
  • Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
  • Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team''s ability to deliver results.
  • Collaborated closely with senior management to align project objectives with strategic company initiatives, ensuring that efforts contributed to overall business growth.
  • Delivered exceptional customer satisfaction by proactively addressing client concerns and meeting or exceeding expectations throughout the engagement process.
  • Fostered a culture of innovation and creativity within the project team, leading to improved problem-solving capabilities and enhanced outcomes.
  • Implemented continuous improvement initiatives to optimize project outcomes while maintaining costeffectiveness.
  • Led cross-functional teams to successful project completions, improving team cohesion and productivity with effective leadership strategies.
  • Facilitated smoother project transitions, ensuring thorough documentation and effective handovers.
  • Achieved significant improvements in project quality by establishing rigorous quality control processes.
  • Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays.

PROJECT MANAGER / SCRUM MASTER

Compsulting LLP
04.2021 - 10.2023
  • Developing and reviewing detailed project plans, and on that basis, only started to draft each and every required document.
  • Communicating project status to the project team, leaders (including the CEO and CTO) associated with the project's scope.
  • Acted as a liaison between IT engineers and senior business management to facilitate communication and achieve business goals.
  • Conducted feasibility studies and ran gap analysis reports to determine the best course of action.
  • Continuously sought and supported new approaches, practices, and processes to improve the efficiency of services offered.
  • Responsible for managing capability development projects through the agile SDLC process.
  • Implemented and configured Jira, and other supporting project management software.
  • Facilitating project issue resolution, change risk, and dependency management meetings.

ASSOCIATE PROJECT MANAGER

Aureate Labs Pvt Ltd
06.2021 - 02.2023
  • As I found a new opportunity in the same firm with a new designation and six superb developer team members, where I need to manage four projects initially. Where I have started to check and understand the projects and team strengths first.
  • Daily routine progress check, and also keeping the team on track with proper daily work updates, with the help of JIRA project management.
  • Handling client requirements and drafting good discussion MOMs, proposals, etc.
  • Scheduling daily tasks that I found from stakeholders: that’s in the JIRA board, in email, or in our discussion over a call in Slack.
  • Keeping an eye on our target to achieve billable hours with my delivery manager.
  • Managing DevOps-related routines for server management, office ISP, and other issues related to internet speed, suggesting new tools and techniques with escalation, etc.
  • The above responsibilities I am handling with my previous work, which included coordination with the team, all PMs, training schedules, resource planning, and most of the operational management flow that we have decided.

PROJECT Coordinator

Aureate Labs Pvt Ltd
06.2021 - 06.2022
  • Administrator:
  • Tools like JIRA, BITBUCKET, Time Doctor, Zoho Vault, Forum, Confluence, Slack etc.
  • Actively participate in Resource Planning and Management
  • Accountable for each projects’ Billable and Non Billable hours
  • Helping hand to all PMs’ for their every week review meeting
  • Prepare each stakeholders’ timesheet and share with them
  • Create, manage and enforce timelines for world-class execution of all requests
  • Project Monitoring:
  • Responsible for making sure every team member has enough knowledge regarding project requirements based on their role
  • Need to keep eye on each and every task over JIRA board
  • Help to any team member for their difficulties with JIRA or any other task related understanding
  • Make sure every team member follow mandatory process of JIRA MOM to prepare and share with client
  • Ask the PM to prepare CR requests for extra work and needs to share with the client for approval before starting work on it
  • Make sure every development work incidence logged by PM to improve the development process
  • Responsible to make sure retrospective meeting scheduled on project completion
  • From retrospective meeting, if the PM and Tech Lead found any complex task or topic which can be useful to other PM’s and Tech leads then share them with a story or how we can manage that easily or resolving steps in other projects
  • Need to discuss on impediments with PM or stakeholder who is solely responsible for project schedule delay
  • Training monitoring:
  • Training schedules and their assessment has to be fulfilled in sheet and share it with HR team
  • Worklog monitoring:
  • Keep eyes on burning hours and make sure each projects moving on as per their schedule
  • Daily monitoring of billable and non-billable hours
  • Prepare monthly feedback of billable and non-billable hours

PROJECT MANAGER

MacyMind
04.2018 - 05.2021
  • Managed all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for dozens of custom solutions.
  • I have solid experience with JIRA or Trello project management tools, from which I usually distribute the tasks and also get updates on the tasks that stakeholders can check to monitor the progress of the work.
  • Handling client requirements and drafting good discussion MOMs, proposals, etc.
  • Prepare a clear understanding of the actual job scenario, and if the client asks for some revisions or tracks new small tasks during development, which actually take our time to implement. Always be on the same page with the stakeholder or client about the timeline, and increase the specific time to learn or implement any feature or function.
  • Proper job and task management enriches the timeline with the client's expectations.
  • Coordinating on complex job requirements with stakeholders and the team, on the basis of client needs, I keep in mind to update the team about the perfect time estimation and include our buffer time. I always try to complete the job as per the timeline decided with the client.
  • Bidding cum handling on Upwork, PPH, Freelancers and Guru Clients and there keep track record of acknowledgements and give time to time updates.
  • Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
  • Drove team success through shared vision and recognition of quality performance.

ACCOUNT MANAGER

Knack Technologies
07.2015 - 03.2018
  • Resolving Complex JOB requirement whenever stakeholder/Team needed Usually update Team knowledge with new and updates via regular forum Having knowledge of Slack, GITHUB, Define, plan, coordinate and obtain information requirements to support and launch New Web and Mobile App releases.
  • Coordinate with multiple resources efficiently and effectively throughout the development life-cycle so as to ensure that the projects are completed on time, meet requirements, are implemented accurately and the full impact is understood by the business owner.
  • Interface with internal business users as well as various IT development groups so the needs can be clearly understood, expectations managed and change initiated.
  • Act as the point of contact between the business units and IT.
  • Perform analysis for business applications.
  • Develop and implement plans to suite business plans and objectives.
  • Increased IT productivity, efficiency, agility and responsiveness, leading team of 6 to design VMware high-availability solution.
  • Led and assisted technical upgrade projects for clients by working and coordinating with consultants and developers for integrations.
  • Analyzed architecture design, scoping, implementation, testing and deployment needs to define project requirements.
  • Monitored contracts and service level agreements to identify potential risks and implement mitigation actions to protect development process from unforeseen delays and costs.
  • Developed project plans identifying key issues, approaches and performance metrics.

Business Analyst to Project Manager

Potenza Global Solutions pvt ltd
08.2008 - 06.2015
  • Team player.
  • Actively involved in routine client interaction.
  • Also acted as a team coordinator in my recent projects.
  • Acting as a mentor in a team as and when required.
  • Partner with the business and IT groups to find solutions for projects and operational issues.
  • Define project business requirements as well as in defining the IT solutions.
  • Application Enhancement to provide permanent solution for recurrent issues
  • Maintenance/Production support activities– Query Scripting, Data Correction, Research

Education

MBA - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

PUNE University
PUNE, Maharashtra
01.2006

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER APPLICATION - Computer Applications Development

VNSGU
Surat, Gujarat
01.2003

Skills

Project planning and development

Certification

PMP - Project Management Professional

Timeline

PMP - Project Management Professional

02-2025

Project Manager

Treta Infotech PVT LTD
10.2023 - Current

ASSOCIATE PROJECT MANAGER

Aureate Labs Pvt Ltd
06.2021 - 02.2023

PROJECT Coordinator

Aureate Labs Pvt Ltd
06.2021 - 06.2022

PROJECT MANAGER / SCRUM MASTER

Compsulting LLP
04.2021 - 10.2023

PROJECT MANAGER

MacyMind
04.2018 - 05.2021

ACCOUNT MANAGER

Knack Technologies
07.2015 - 03.2018

Business Analyst to Project Manager

Potenza Global Solutions pvt ltd
08.2008 - 06.2015

MBA - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

PUNE University

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER APPLICATION - Computer Applications Development

VNSGU

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