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Karan Sardana

Karan Sardana

Agile Project Manager
Jaipur

Summary

Agile Project Manager with 10 years of expertise in organizing business operations, financial oversight and resource management to achieve smooth flow and project operations. Monitors projects by adhering to production schedule and budget, managing production team, identifying problems and providing targeted solutions.

Adept at planning, directing and maintaining continuous operations in cross-functional departments. Applying creative and analytical approach to operations for continuous process improvement. Skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing solutions. Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance.

Work History

IT Accounts-Project Manager

Archetype
  • Accelerated PR interactions for my clients like DGCA , Microsoft , IBM through print media and Press Releases
  • Forged close relationships with 3rd party via media connect as part of my KRA to distil high-level business needs.
  • Established and curated strategic partnerships with top journalists from the best media houses in the country in order to increase client's visibility
  • Managed the DGCA's digital marketing on the firm's side by using processes like 'How to control negative PR'.
  • Facilitated communication between internal personnel, contractors and vendors for project cohesion.
  • Made decisions independently and collaboratively on Project-related challenges.
  • Maintained clear communication with precise technical writing to document and inform critical processes.
  • Maintained compliance with regulatory parameters in complex projects with overlapping policies.

Area Manager

Shree Eduserve Private Ltd
Jaipur


  • Successfully managed towards sign-of 10 MOUs from various franchises(stakeholders) and Rajasthan Goverment
  • Managed setting -up interactions of less-privileged students of interiors of pan-Rajasthan with faculty for lectures every week
  • Streamlined the daily data-collection process from various sources like student data, inquiry data and franchise data
  • Coordinated with various local and civic bodies both at state and district levels for press releases , workshops and seminars.
  • Developed sales strategy based on research of consumer buying trends and market conditions.
  • Increased overall sales by 82% through capitalizing on new potential opportunities and developing and maintaining partnerships with 8 new companies and shareholders.
  • Supervised 12 location managers and managed company-owned and franchisee assets, maintaining contractual, compliance and reporting requirements for all areas and assets.

Senior Project Manager

An IIT -Kanpur Project- Project 103.
Mumbai
  • Led a heterogeneous team of 40 people from the production division , camera division , sound division to successfully complete the project
  • Successfully managed towards sign-of various MOUs for mutual benefit of the project
  • Managed the whole digital marketing of the project , including the social media marketing and off-line marketing
  • Established and forged important professional relationships with best -in-class media houses of both global and Indian repute BBC and CNN to name a few.
  • Directed changes to project scope and cost and implemented appropriate change management processes to keep project on track.
  • Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance.
  • Managed 6 project teams in Agile environment, realizing success through application of Agile methodologies and exceptional leadership skills.
  • Developed and led multi-disciplinary team to redefine problems and reach solutions based on different perspectives.
  • Maintained strict budgetary control on Ad-hoc projects ranging from $10M to $1M and working with project teams to track costs and control expenditures without sacrificing quality.

Regional Project Manager

Rajasthan, Reliance BIGAIMS
Jaipur
  • As a novelty , introduced the concept of Agile Project Management-Kanban and Scrum in the academia -industry projects
  • Successfully initiated the Reliance Big Aims Animation Academia projects in more than 20 districts of Rajasthan
  • Planned and helped the company sign private and public MOUs for brand-building of the company
  • Charted the Student Workshop and Stakeholder-Workshop methodologies with successfully conducting various types of offline workshops, seminars guest- lectures,and industry - interactions.
  • Obtained needed resources by strategically negotiating with stakeholders and outside suppliers.
  • Built successful project plans covering objectives, resources and staffing to meet schedules.
  • Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.
  • Saved $6M by implementing cost-saving initiatives that addressed long-standing problems.

Consulting Head

MusiLint Solutions
Jaipur
  • Implementing business , technical, and strategic hand-holding for clients of various pockets size and Continuing do to so.
  • Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.
  • Controlled costs and optimized spending via restructuring of budgets for labor, capital assets, inventory purchasing and technology upgrades.
  • Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
  • Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
  • Made decisions independently and collaboratively on Project-related challenges.

Education

Project Management - Disruptive Innovation

IIT- Roorkee

Post Graduate Diploma - Public Relations & Corporate Communications

Harvard Business School HBX

Bachelor of Engineering -

University of Pune

Cloud Technologies

AWS

Certified Scrum Master® (CSM)

Scrum Alliance

Skills

Python AWS Tensorflowundefined

Software

JIRA

AWS

Tensorflow

Google Sheets

MS-Exel

Tableau

SQL

SAP/4HANA

Google Colab

Jupyter Notebook

Timeline

IT Accounts-Project Manager

Archetype

Area Manager

Shree Eduserve Private Ltd

Senior Project Manager

An IIT -Kanpur Project- Project 103.

Regional Project Manager

Rajasthan, Reliance BIGAIMS

Consulting Head

MusiLint Solutions

Project Management - Disruptive Innovation

IIT- Roorkee

Post Graduate Diploma - Public Relations & Corporate Communications

Harvard Business School HBX

Bachelor of Engineering -

University of Pune

Cloud Technologies

AWS

Certified Scrum Master® (CSM)

Scrum Alliance

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