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Vishal Gurusami

Vishal Gurusami

Project Manager
Chennai

Summary

Motivated Project Manager with 3.5 years of experience controlling all stages of projects from Requirements stage through Sprints planning and User Acceptance Testing, exceeding expectations of being on time and on budget. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand. Experienced working with teams to accomplish short- and long-term project goals. Managed budgets and monitored project costs. Considerable client-facing project experience has driven commitment to customer satisfaction. Applying creative and analytical approach for continuous process improvement. Skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing solutions. Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Project Manager

Cube Simple
Chennai
10.2021 - 03.2022
  • Analyze business requirements and planning project sprints along with technical team consisting of 9 members
  • Gathered and analyzed high level requirements before signing the project
  • Ensured all the dependencies were removed
  • Worked on the Project proposal and SOW
  • Worked on analytical tools like Microsoft Excel, MS-SQL and Tableau
  • Developed a product backlog using the requirements provided by the client
  • Creations of BRDs, FRDs and Project Status reports
  • Lead Client review meetings and did sprint retrospective after every sprint
  • Coordinated daily stand ups for requirements walkthrough and clarifications
  • Worked alongside the team in making sure the sprints were deployed at the right time without any major obstacles
  • Enhanced my soft skills on areas like Client meetings, drafting a proposal, SOW, etcetera.

Managing Partner

Binge Pop
Chennai
11.2020 - 09.2021


  • Managed the partnership firm throughout, donning multiple caps
  • Founded and incorporated Binge Pop, a national level popcorn brand
  • Ensured the business complies with relevant laws and regulations
  • Worked with Amazon, Swiggy and Zomato to get our brand on the platforms
  • Took care of day-to-day operations ranging from inventory planning, staff planning, production planning and logistics
  • Handled a wide range of suppliers, both small and huge companies
  • Did Digital marketing campaigns on Facebook and Instagram.

Business Development Associate – Assistant Manager

Aspire Systems
Chennai
05.2020 - 10.2020
  • Handled Insurance domain for UK region
  • Studied about the insurance industry in UK during the Covid times
  • Generated leads by studying about the Insurance companies in the UK
  • Deep prospected each and every company and the right stakeholders to target, to initiate a conversation
  • Identified key influencers to approach while pitching the value of service offerings
  • Successfully onboarded a new client in a span of 5 months.

Project Manager

Radiant Integrity Techno Solutions Pvt.Ltd.,
Chennai
06.2015 - 05.2018
  • Analyze business requirements and manage a team of 12 members
  • Develop a Product backlog alongside the client
  • Creation of BRDs, FRDs and Project Status reports
  • Planned sprints and transferred requirements accordingly into the Sprint backlog
  • Held various stakeholder meetings and stand-ups whenever required
  • Initiated sprint review and sprint retrospective to improve quality of the upcoming sprints
  • Product management tool: Trello
  • Worked on analytical tools like Microsoft Excel and MS-SQL
  • Worked using Tableau and MS PowerPoint to generate presentations for various stakeholder meetings
  • Coordinated and facilitated the scrum team for the completion of each sprint to deliver the project on time to the customers.

Education

MBA - Marketing

Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli
Trichy
06.2018 - 02.2020

B.E - Electrical And Electronics

SRM Easwari Engineering College
Chennai
09.2011 - 05.2015

XII - Computer Science

DAV Higher Secondary School
Chennai
05.2009 - 04.2011

X -

DAV Senior Secondary School
Chennai
06.2007 - 04.2009

Skills

    Excel

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Certification

Microsoft Office Specialist Excel 2016” certified by Microsoft in 2018.

Timeline

Project Manager

Cube Simple
10.2021 - 03.2022

Managing Partner

Binge Pop
11.2020 - 09.2021

Business Development Associate – Assistant Manager

Aspire Systems
05.2020 - 10.2020

MBA - Marketing

Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli
06.2018 - 02.2020

Project Manager

Radiant Integrity Techno Solutions Pvt.Ltd.,
06.2015 - 05.2018

B.E - Electrical And Electronics

SRM Easwari Engineering College
09.2011 - 05.2015

XII - Computer Science

DAV Higher Secondary School
05.2009 - 04.2011

X -

DAV Senior Secondary School
06.2007 - 04.2009
Vishal GurusamiProject Manager