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Work History
Education
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Hobbies and Interests
Affiliations
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Kushal Chandrashekar

Bengaluru

Summary

Dynamic Senior Project Manager with a proven track record at IKS Health, excelling in multi-project management and team coordination. Adept at driving project success through effective communication and risk management, achieving high customer satisfaction and significant revenue growth. Passionate about enhancing operational efficiency and delivering impactful solutions in the healthcare sector.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Project Manager

IKS health (formerly Aquity Solutions)
Bengaluru
06.2024 - Current
  • As a Senior Project Manager in the healthcare industry, I play a crucial role in overseeing projects that enhance patient care, streamline operations, and ensure compliance with healthcare regulations.
  • My main responsibilities were planning, executing, and finalizing projects within scope, on time, and within budget.
  • Alongside coordinating with the cross-functional teams, managing resources, and serving as the primary point of contact for stakeholders.
  • Project Planning and Execution: Develop comprehensive project plans, define project scope, set objectives, and ensure successful execution.
  • Team Coordination: Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams, including clinical staff, IT professionals, and administrative personnel.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Serve as the primary liaison between stakeholders, providing regular updates, and managing expectations.
  • Risk Management: Identify potential risks, and develop mitigation strategies to ensure project success.
  • Budget Management: Oversee project budgets, ensuring financial resources are allocated appropriately, and expenditures are controlled.
  • Monitored progress of projects against established timelines and budgets.
  • Assessed project risks and devised mitigation strategies to avoid potential roadblocks.
  • Evaluated performance metrics for ongoing projects in order to assess progress towards goals.
  • Outlined work plans, assessed resources and determined timelines for projects.
  • Ensured compliance with relevant regulations during all stages of a project's lifecycle.
  • Coordinated resources across multiple departments and teams to ensure successful completion of projects.
  • Oversaw budgets for project, tracked expenses, and timelines and communicated with key stakeholders on milestones.
  • Developed comprehensive project plans to be shared with stakeholders.
  • Spearheaded key projects, resulting in high customer satisfaction and increased business revenues.
  • Successfully managed relationships with all stakeholders.

Project Manager

AQuity Solutions
Bengaluru
07.2021 - 06.2024
  • Handled around 35 customers, with successful completion of over 80 projects in FFT, FFP, Qtranscribe, and Medico Legal.
  • Coordinating with cross-discipline team members to ensure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
  • Meeting with project team members to identify and resolve issues.
  • Submitting project deliverables and ensuring that they adhere to quality standards.
  • Preparing status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information.
  • Establishing effective project communication plans, and ensuring their execution.
  • Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
  • Coordinating the development of user manuals, training materials, and other documents as needed to enable successful implementation and turnover of the process or system to the clients.
  • Identifying and developing new opportunities with clients.
  • Obtaining customer acceptance of project deliverables.
  • Managing customer satisfaction within the project transition period.
  • Conducting post-project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.

Senior Project Co-Ordinator

AQuity Solutions
Bengaluru
07.2019 - 05.2021
  • Coordinate project management activities, resources, equipment, and information
  • Break projects into doable actions and set timeframes
  • Liaise with clients to identify and define requirements, scope, and objectives
  • Assign tasks to internal teams and assist with schedule management
  • Make sure that clients' needs are met as projects evolve
  • Help prepare budgets
  • Analyze risks and opportunities
  • Oversee project procurement management
  • Monitor project progress and handle any issues that arise
  • Act as the point of contact and communicate project status to all participants
  • Work with the Project Manager to eliminate blockers
  • Use tools to monitor working hours, plans and expenditures
  • Reviewing the projects which are executed by team before it reaches clients
  • Software knowledge: Workfront, Excel, service desk (JIRA), FFTM (Fluency for Transcription Manager), SAP (quote creations), Lotus notes (Client Database access) and Great Plains (Billing/Invoicing)
  • Run internal reports daily to track down the utilization of the team and other external reports to guide the PM, CRM, and RVP so that the project flows are smooth
  • Managing the team's attendance, team SLAs, project assignments to the appropriate resources, timesheets reporting and reconciling the attendance, leave report and SmartConnect data which is sent for the payroll team

Project Co-Ordinator

Life Inside
Bengaluru
03.2015 - 07.2019
  • Managed the financial services for our clients or projects
  • Project monitoring and data collection to determine if a project is progressing according to budget
  • Conducted project audits, managed project scheduling and approval of project expenditure
  • Served as a liaison between management and clients or between the financial department and project managers

Off cycle Intern

JP Morgan Chase
London
09.2011 - 11.2011
  • Developing Risk Management Process for the company and report the same
  • Identifying, describing, and estimating risks affecting the company
  • Carrying out process like Purchasing Insurances, implementing health and safety measures, conducting Audits, and providing training to the employees to create risk awareness within the organization

Summer Intern

Price Water Cooper, PWC
London
05.2011 - 07.2011
  • Screening and short-listing candidates for employers to interview
  • Building good relationships with the employers and jobseekers and negotiating fees
  • Conducting Training and Development curriculum of new recruits

Front of House

Meera, Bar
Queensbury
07.2010 - 12.2010
  • Staff (Host) -, Interacting with customers as the first point of contact
  • Responsibilities involved being courteous, informative, and presentable to guests and build a positive impression of the restaurant

Booking Manager and Sales Executive

Sri Vinayaka Tours and Travels
Bengaluru
05.2008 - 03.2010
  • Responsible for revenue generation by booking tickets through creating awareness in market and Building Customer Relationship

Education

MBA - General

University of Gloucestershire
UK
04.2013

BBA - business administration

Xavier's International University
Goa
06.2008

Skills

  • Enthusiastic people, person
  • Great organizational skills
  • Inclined toward learning new and creative things
  • Problem Solver
  • Project management
  • Team coordination
  • Customer service
  • Conflict resolution
  • Effective communication
  • Time management
  • Problem solving
  • Client relations
  • Multi-project management
  • KPI tracking
  • Project framework engineering

Hobbies and Interests

Organizing Events, Public Speaking, Snooker, Volleyball, Represented Karnataka in All India Snooker Championship and retained the top position for almost 5 years in a row., Selected for few National events, played across India in all the major events and managed to back few titles., Represented India in the world master and world championship in the United Kingdom in English Pool., Represented Karnataka in Volleyball and won Gold & Silver medals for the state.

Affiliations

  • Photography
  • Travelling
  • Learning new language
  • Music
  • Public speaking
  • Organizing events
  • Reading
  • Snooker & Pool
  • Networking

Accomplishments

  • Won state snooker and pool title multiple times in a row.
  • Representing INDIA in Pool across the Globe.
  • Best Host and team captain

Languages

English
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Kannada
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Telugu
Advanced (C1)
C1
Tamil
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
French
Elementary (A2)
A2

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Senior Project Manager

IKS health (formerly Aquity Solutions)
06.2024 - Current

Project Manager

AQuity Solutions
07.2021 - 06.2024

Senior Project Co-Ordinator

AQuity Solutions
07.2019 - 05.2021

Project Co-Ordinator

Life Inside
03.2015 - 07.2019

Off cycle Intern

JP Morgan Chase
09.2011 - 11.2011

Summer Intern

Price Water Cooper, PWC
05.2011 - 07.2011

Front of House

Meera, Bar
07.2010 - 12.2010

Booking Manager and Sales Executive

Sri Vinayaka Tours and Travels
05.2008 - 03.2010

MBA - General

University of Gloucestershire

BBA - business administration

Xavier's International University

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