Umashankara M
Project Manager
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven Project Manager and Business Operations Leader with over 8 years of experience orchestrating complex, cross-functional programs in technology, finance, and government sectors. Expertise in delivering scalable solutions, optimizing processes, and fostering strong stakeholder relationships to drive project success. Proficient in Agile methodologies and skilled in leveraging cloud-based tools and enterprise systems such as SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft 365, and Bizsuite/JIRA to achieve impactful results. Recognized for exceptional communication skills and a proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, innovation-driven environments with industry leaders including HP and DXC Technology.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
Language
Work History
Project Manager
Techkshtra Info Solutions Pvt Ltd
08.2023 - Current
- As a one among responsible person in management, handling multiple projects in company.
- Implement Governance Standards: Including Tracking, Monitoring, follow ups with different team members and stack holders, updating the status of project deliverables.
- Project Tracking: Track priority projects & follow up on action closure.
- KPI Reports: Understand current process Define KPI using Smart techniques for performance evaluation, Report weekly/ monthly reports dashboards to functional heads with SLA’s.
- Resource Utilization: Mange Functional level resources utilization using competency analysis.
- Project Estimation: Project Size Estimation is the most important parameter based on which all other estimations like cost, duration and effort are made.
- Scheduling: After the completion of the estimation of all the project parameters, scheduling for manpower and other resources.
- Staffing: Team structure and staffing plans are made.
- Risk Management: Identify the unanticipated risks that may occur during project development risk, analyze the damage that might cause these risks, and take a risk reduction plan to cope with these risks.
- Miscellaneous plans: Making several other plans such as quality assurance plans, configuration management plans, etc.
- Lead the team: Makes a team of different members of various skills and can complete their individual tasks.
- Motivate the team-member: Encourage team members to work properly for the successful completion of the project.
- Liaison: Analys the customer requirements and convey it to the development team and keep telling the progress of the project to the customer. Checks whether the project is fulfilling the customer’s requirements or not.
- Monitoring and reviewing: Project monitoring is a continuous process that lasts the whole time a product is being developed, during which compares actual progress and cost reports with anticipated reports as soon as possible.
- Documenting project report: Prepares the documentation of the project for future purposes. The reports contain detailed features of the product and various techniques. These reports help to maintain and enhance the quality of the project in the future.
- Preparation of Proposal and Quotation: Prepared the proposal and quotation of projects on basis of requirements from Clients and closure of deals.
- Development of Partnership and Collaboration: completed the procedure and get OEM partnership with TCIL, CDAC, ITPL, HP, Lenovo, ASUS, DEL, Prama India, Hikvision etc.
- Projects:
- Kangavalu Project: Implementation of AI based attendance monitoring system to Village accountants.
- CLT: completed the end-to-end online examination test project for employees.
- Citizen connect Raichur: Successfully completed and delivered the Geofencing technology-based web application to Raichur municipal.
- IMS: success fully delivered the Information Management System web application to department of physically challenged people at Vijayanagara.
- FMCG ERP: working on the implementation of FMCG ERP at KSDL Bangaluru head office and production unit.
Team Leader
Coders & Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
12.2022 - 04.2023
- Providing freight broking services to North America and Canada Clients.
- Make cold call and send the mail to clients with details of freight Broking Company.
- As brokers connected carriers to shippers to provide transportation facility.
- Negotiate price with carrier and shipper to satisfy both with fare price & book the loads and collected the documents.
- Provide training & allocate the work to team members.
- Team building and management activities.
- Take care of archive targets in time.
- Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly KPI report and submit to management.
- Skills / IT Skills
- Business Management, People Management, Team Development, Microsoft word, Outlook, Team, Excel (H lookup, V lookup, Pivot table), PPT
Fundraising Manager
Chaitanya Rural Development Society
12.2020 - 07.2022
- Developing and executing fundraising strategies.
- Fostering ongoing relationships with donors.
- Providing updates or checking in with regular or recurring supporters.
- Establish positive relationships with clients in every sector, including government representatives and members of the media
- Prepare press releases to submit to the local newspaper and ensure the release always goes up on the company website and social media accounts
- Assign duties to every member of the fundraising staff and periodically review those duties to make sure they are all progressing accordingly
- Pursue efforts to keep the non-profit’s public image positive, which can entail promoting events regularly
- Evaluate the effectiveness of specific events and advertising campaigns to determine which ones work well and which ones should be abandoned
- Attend special events put on by the non-profit, which can include parties or charity events, and speak with guests about the advantages of the organization
- Prepare budgets every quarter to determine what the fundraising department’s needs are going to be
- Formulate policies with the board of directors and sit in on meetings to help decide the overall direction of the non-profit
- Submit a Project tender form on E Procurement Portal of Karnataka govt.
- Handling social media accounts to show the activities and existence of organization to society.
- Prepare weekly and monthly KPI reports of project process.
- Prepare and present the PPT to training staff and submit a presentation to top management.
- Skills / IT Skills
- Business Management, People Management, Team Development, Microsoft word, Outlook, Team, Excel (H lookup, V lookup, Pivot table), PPT
Sr. Associate
DXC Technology
07.2016 - 10.2020
- A WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) Element is a cost objective in SAP that collects expenses and revenues related to sponsored projects.
- Creation and amendment of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) on the basis on provided supporting document (Contracts, change orders, purchase orders) for clients of US, Canada & Great Britain on SAP C1.
- Validating the Contracts, change orders, purchase orders to make sure data submitted doesn’t contain any obsolete or wrong data with respect to specified date range. Because WBS is base to create general & ledger account to track the income and expenses.
- Collaborate with other team members to complete the task within the TAT.
- Resolve requesters queries raised through ticketing system and generic email box.
- Schedule the meetings and trainings to team members.
- Prepare KPI’s on monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
- Prepare presentations to submit the updates to top management and clients.
- Skills / IT Skills
- Operation Management, People Management, Team Development, SAP C1, Sales force, Microsoft word, Outlook, Team, Excel (H lookup, V lookup, Pivot table), PPT.
Data Analyst
Hewlett-Packard (HPI & HPE)
10.2013 - 04.2016
- Worked as Data analyst and SME of Channel Data Management, Data Governance and Channel Sales Investigation for Mexico, Brazil and other Latin American countries.
- Channel Data Management:
- Collecting the sales inventory files of Printing & Personal Systems group from partners. Identify & report the partners who have not submitted the sales reports using Business Object by SAP.
- Validating the sales report to make sure data submitted doesn't contain any obsolete or unwanted data with respect to specified date range.
- Validating the data accuracy for duplication of product & invoice number and notify the partner if discrepancies are found.
- Check the dollar, sales and product inventory trend by comparing the current data with the previous quarter data and seek justification from the partner if there are any discrepancies found in the file which can save huge amount of unnecessary compensation to be paid by the company.
- Partner's on boarding and off boarding to production environment whenever required and publish the updates to on-shore team crew, partners and CEO.
- Preparing back out reports of sales and product inventory and calculating the dollar impact comparing the final approved report with previously submitted files with discrepancies in terms of misappropriation of data on a weekly basis. These reports are used to penalize the partner for any violation of business norms.
- Data Governance:
- Preparing the report of mandatory data which are missing in the submitted sales and product inventory files by partners which are highly required by the financial claims team for the settlement of partner compensation.
- Prepare top ranked partners to report on the basis of sales performance and analyze the improvement which helps to rate the partners and come up with an action plan to improve the performance even further.
- Preparing the timeliness and accuracy report of the partners on the basis of their adherence to submit sales and inventory reports within specified date range with expecting 100% accuracy on a weekly basis, eventually which helps to keep up the partner and our end-to-end operations team efficiency.
- Channels Sales Investigation:
- Troubleshooting the issues reported by downstream teams and investigating the missing sales reports. Provide the missing sales reports to the respective teams by extracting it from SAP Trident or seek a 'No Sales' confirmation from the partner.
- Handling the daily workflow and managing resolve partners queries raised through ticketing system and generic email box.
- Addressing quickly any escalations rose.
- Partner Database Application worked on:
- SAP Trident
- SAP Business Objects
Education
Bachelor in Business Management (BBM) - undefined
Kuvempu University
Skills
Project & Program Management
Marital status
Divorced
Personal Details
- Eligible to work in: India
- Industry: Project Management, Administrative Assistance, Business Operations, Financial services, Product Manufacturing, Industry Associations.
Timeline
Project Manager
Techkshtra Info Solutions Pvt Ltd
08.2023 - Current
Team Leader
Coders & Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
12.2022 - 04.2023
Fundraising Manager
Chaitanya Rural Development Society
12.2020 - 07.2022
Sr. Associate
DXC Technology
07.2016 - 10.2020
Data Analyst
Hewlett-Packard (HPI & HPE)
10.2013 - 04.2016
Bachelor in Business Management (BBM) - undefined
Kuvempu University