VINI CHOWDHARY
Project Manager
Bengaluru
Summary
Certified Scrum Master - innovative and solution focused IT professional with 13+ years of experience specialized in Business Intelligence, Project Management, Team Management, Business Requirement Analysis, Business Reporting, Software Development and Testing (SDLC) & Presales.
Overview
1
1
Certification
5
5
years of post-secondary education
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Associate
TheMathCompany
07.2018 - 03.2021
- Led strategic planning, project management, development and ongoing operational management of team.
- Gathered requirements from clients/business analysts and planned activities for t team to improve timelines of deliverables by 5%.
- Developed project scopes and objectives involving relevant stakeholders and ensured technical feasibility.
- Engage with stakeholders to consult around analytical project requirements, discuss methodologies and negotiate deliverables.
- Worked with different teams to ensure vulnerable systems are patched by articulating risk.
- Standardized reporting solutions that align metrics and drivers with associated financials that led to saving of 40 hours of manual efforts every month.
- Leveraged data to perform intensive analysis across all areas of business to drive product development and improve consumption of reports by 7%.
- Overseeing incoming and outgoing project documentation.
- Optimized and improved project management processes and overall approach where necessary.
- Measured project performance using tool and techniques based on cost, schedule, quality and value of business case.
- Conducted project review and created detailed reports for business review
- Mentoring team to take up ownership
- Planned and implemented promotional activities to create sales opportunities
- Developed junior team members and cultivated collaborative culture.
Pre-Sales Application Engineer
Altair Engineering
Bangalore
04.2017 - 03.2018
- Designed and conducted Q&A discussions with the customer's business intelligence and reporting community, OEMs and partners.
- Discussed potential expansion opportunities and performed technical analysis and qualification of potential customer projects.
- Maintained contact with prospects and customers to discuss current and new-release product features and uses.
- Engaged stakeholders to increase and optimize customer experiences, generate revenue and other business outcomes.
- Conducted requirement workshops and document high- and low-level requirements and acceptance criteria's.
- Proposed software support services to customers who need assistance to resolve challenging business analytics and reporting problems and build solutions of demanding complexity.
- Liaised between customers and development personnel to drive new feature requests into future product releases.
- Collaborated, created, implemented and documented efficient business processes, systematized and automated processes and developed tools to enable scaling.
Business Intelligence Consultant
Thorogood Associates
10.2015 - 03.2017
- Collated and transformed data from various sources and made it fit for purpose for customer and team for BI using MS SQL.
- Designed and implemented feature enhancements supporting business processes for core enterprise systems.
- Tested and debugged SQL queries within established testing protocols Maintained continuous alignment of program scope with strategic.
- Business objectives and made recommendations to modify program/s to enhance effectiveness toward business result.
- Liaised and supported business analyst team in requirements feasibility studies and discussions.
- Ensured that projects were delivered on time by liaising with project owners and stakeholders.
System Analyst lead
Dell
10.2007 - 10.2015
- Understand business requirements from client and translated them to functional specifications for developers and testers.
- Constructed technical specs for development team.
- Performed impact analysis, effort estimation for resources and provided inputs for billing.
- Prepared test strategy and test plan for testing "Autocheck" tool Maintained various environments (Dev, QA, UAT and Prod) for developers, testers and business to perform their respective activities.
- Developed and maintained business requirements and process design document with all requirements.
- Quality analysis of business requirements and functional requirements.
- Ensured risks and issues are managed and maintained in register.
- Worked with project manager to ensure resource workload is balanced across projects.
- Served as single point of contact for client, BA, development and testing team for all project requirements.
Education
Post Graduate Diploma -
IIMB
Bangalore 06.2014 - 06.2015
Bachelors -
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
Bangalore 09.2003 - 06.2007
Skills
Project Management
Project planning
Database Management
Work estimates
SQL
Tableau
SAS
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Senior Associate
TheMathCompany
07.2018 - 03.2021
Pre-Sales Application Engineer
Altair Engineering
04.2017 - 03.2018
Business Intelligence Consultant
Thorogood Associates
10.2015 - 03.2017
Post Graduate Diploma -
IIMB
06.2014 - 06.2015
System Analyst lead
Dell
10.2007 - 10.2015
Bachelors -
Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering
09.2003 - 06.2007