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Meghana Patole

Mumbai

Summary

8 years of PMO Lead experience, managing cross-functional teams, overseeing project budgets and timelines, and implementing process improvements. Strengths include robust project management expertise, strong analytical skills, and proven ability to drive project success. Previous work includes successful delivery of complex projects within scope and budget constraints while fostering team collaboration.

Results-driven individual with a solid track record of delivering quality work. Known for excellent communication and teamwork abilities, with a commitment to achieving company goals and delivering exceptional service. Passionate about continuous learning and professional development.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

PMO Lead

Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
Mumbai
03.2020 - Current
  • Managed operations across the Netherlands, Europe, and India, effectively supporting global businesses and driving revenue targets, while strategizing growth initiatives with global leadership teams.
  • Conducted global recruitment initiatives for India and the Netherlands by forecasting needs, planning strategically, and driving the recruitment process.
  • Oversaw global resourcing and deployment efforts, including demand-supply fulfillment, bench management, and skill mapping, to optimize resource allocation.
  • Developed and maintained various operations dashboards, providing insights on recruitment, resourcing, and revenue generation metrics.
  • Provided proposal and presales support by preparing and analyzing bid dashboards to evaluate won and lost business deals.
  • Collaborated with the Center of Excellence (COE) and Learning & Development teams to enhance competency building, and facilitate cross-skilling and upskilling of resources.
  • Led the development and enhancement of the first practice Project Management Office (PMO) tool to streamline processes and improve project oversight.
  • Project Finance: Monthly invoice scrutiny, Purchase Orders. Resolving the invoice disputes.
  • Prepare and maintain ISOWs and work orders for all the different projects in the Netherlands.
  • General administration during the ramp-up and ramp-down plans for governance projects.
  • Demand planning and execution planning as per the budget and project assignment.
  • Monthly forecast for finance, demands, FTEs, with respective projects, and reports generation for all regions (as per project codes).
  • Interacting with all levels of management, business leaders, and technology stakeholders for data collection, reporting, and collation, such as global delivery, forecasts, demands, ISOWs, timecard reconciliation, invoicing, etc.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to understand their needs and develop solutions accordingly.
  • Monitored progress of projects to ensure timely completion within budget constraints.
  • Assessed vendor performance and managed relationships with external partners providing services on behalf of the PMO.
  • Analyzed data from multiple sources to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
  • Prepared weekly, monthly, quarterly reports highlighting key achievements, areas of concern and recommended actions.
  • Provided coaching and mentoring support to junior PMO staff as required.
  • Identified potential risks and developed mitigation strategies to address them.
  • Tracked and communicated project status, issues, risks and decisions to senior management.
  • Submitted budget estimates, progress reports and cost tracking reports.

Data Specialist

HERE Technologies
Mumbai
08.2015 - 03.2020
  • Analyzing project scorecards, scope, and identifying resource requirements and people management for assigned projects.
  • Creating a monthly operations review report presented to the Operations management team.
  • Support all Project and Program Managers with the day-to-day running of project admin tasks (Microsoft Office Suite, MS, and Dashboard Customization). Create project efficiency and quality reports on a yearly basis, and review them with the production management team.
  • Creating and maintaining Project Readiness reports as per required timelines. Produce a weekly performance report and a monthly project status report, working with the reporting managers on project planning, scheduling, and on risk and mitigation.
  • Review, collate, maintain, and highlight changes to the project plan; develop and maintain all performance dashboards; and prepare reports submitted to the project team.
  • Create and maintain project documents like the Production Plan, Quality Control Plan, and Weekly Project Summary reports.
    Different reports can be customized by using the Business Intelligence and Info View report tool from Clarity.
  • Submit innovative ideas for different tools for improving efficiency, speed, and quality of the product. Requirement analysis, as per the management's demand.
  • Quality Management: Perform QA/QC to test the validity and accuracy of the map database.
  • Creating SOPs, QA/QC checklists to meet quality standards as per GIS specifications.
  • Assisting the quality team with project database audits and desktop audits.
  • Provide quality feedback to the coding team with respect to quality scores, error trends, and FT PR.

Education

Master of Mass Communications - Mass Communications

S.K. Somaiya College of Arts, Science And Commerce
Mumbai
06-2015

Bachelor of Mass Communications - Journalism And Mass Communication

Birla College of Arts, Commerce & Science
Mumbai
06-2013

Bachelor of Arts - English Literature

Birla College of Arts, Science And Commerce
Mumbai
06-2010

High School Diploma -

Sai English High School
Mumbai
06-2008

Skills

  • Scenario planning
  • Stakeholder management
  • Project management analysis
  • Project status reports
  • Business analysis
  • Workstream organization
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Office
  • Operations Management
  • Resource allocation and deployment
  • Data analysis and reporting
  • Strategic Planning and Execution
  • Project Management
  • Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Scope management
  • Budget analysis
  • Training and mentoring

Affiliations

  • Kaizen Program, Mumbai, June 2019 – June 2019: Attended Kaizen for Process Simplification, which eventually led to generating a new team to provide real-time data to customers
  • GRAB Holdings, Mumbai, October 2018 – February 2019, successfully delivered the GRAB Taxi Services project in South Asia within a month

Certification

  • Excel Masterclass
  • Power BI
  • Prince2 Foundation and Practitioner in progress
  • Agile

Accomplishments

  • Won the Capgemini Rockstar Award in 2023 and 2024

Timeline

PMO Lead

Capgemini Technology Services India Limited
03.2020 - Current

Data Specialist

HERE Technologies
08.2015 - 03.2020

Master of Mass Communications - Mass Communications

S.K. Somaiya College of Arts, Science And Commerce

Bachelor of Mass Communications - Journalism And Mass Communication

Birla College of Arts, Commerce & Science

Bachelor of Arts - English Literature

Birla College of Arts, Science And Commerce

High School Diploma -

Sai English High School

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