Project Manager

Gurjeet Kaur

***** *** ***** **** *****: 512-***-****

Austin, Texas 78750 Email:

abhe97@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

. Eight years experience in Business Analysis, Planning, Project and

Program Management,.

. Skilled in using MS office applications for day to day activity,

iGrafx FloCharter and MS Visio for drawing flow diagrams and MS

Project and SharePoint for prioritizing and managing individual tasks

and projects.

. Experienced in Publisher, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, PowerPoint,

Mind Mapper, ArcGIS, and mainframe.

. Experienced in using UML to create Procedure level activities,

Activity diagrams, Sequence diagrams, and Use case diagrams.

. Demonstrated leadership ability to conduct Joint Application

Development (JAD) sessions, resolve issues, drive projects, and meet

deadlines.

. Proven ability to handle multiple projects due to multi tasking and

project management skills.

. Team player with strong leadership qualities and an independent

thinker

. Expert in gathering, managing, and validating user requirements by

coordinating with different business and end user groups.

. Comprehensive knowledge in writing/reviewing documentations including

Statement of Work, Business plan, Requirement Specification, Use Case

Narrative, Feasibility Analysis, Risk Analysis, Test Plans and Quality

Assurance documents.

. Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical skills and

presentation skills with ability to deliver Video Teleconferences.

. Familiarity with PMBOK concepts of Project Management and Pursuing PMI

certification.

CAREER HISTORY

2010 - onwards- Confidential Austin, Texas

Manager/Sales Executive

Major responsibilities:

. Office management of the organization.

. Recruit resources for our direct clients WIPRO, CTS, PATNI and

Intelligroup.

. Negotiate contracts, salary, and vendor bill rates to maximize

company profit.

. Work in a very fast paced work environment and meet deadlines.

. Execute Statement of Work, Purchase Orders, and other visa related

papers.

. Any other job assigned by the upper management.

2010 - Austin Community College (ACC) Austin, Texas

Geographic Information System (GIS) adjunct Instructor

Major responsibilities:

. Taught a GIS course to undergraduate students at Austin Community

College.

. Demonstrated various ways to represent analyze and model spatial data

and map their results using GIS.

2008 - 2009 - JSB Systems LLC Springdale, Maryland

Senior Business Analyst/Project Coordinator

Major responsibilities:

. Worked on preparing project plans and also managed changes to the

scope of the project.

. Created reviewed, and validated business requirements and functional

specifications. Developed business requirement documents as well as

high-level project plan.

. Designed the business requirement collection approach based on the

statement of work and performed extensive requirement analysis

including data analysis and gap analysis.

. Developed business process models to document existing and future

business processes.

. Interacted with key business users to collect requirement and business

process information.

. Compiled and performed route analysis using ArcGIS based on the

present customer location data and offered business plan based on

these findings.

. Worked on developing strategic partnerships with the business unit to

build a sound knowledge base of the business line, including the

business plan, and process and revenue streams.

. Tracked project progress using MS Project.

2006 - 2008 - Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Austin, Texas

Branch Manager, District Data Collection and Support Branch

Major responsibilities:

. Directed activities supporting the annual Highway Performance

Monitoring System (HPMS) data submittal to Federal Highway

Administration (FHWA) including data collection, analysis, compilation

and validation. Performed quality check before final submittal.

. Directed a project of highway database migration from mainframe

platform to GIS platform (a customer friendly application).

. Provided reports, recommendations and leadership for current and

future projects under strict deadlines and short turnaround times.

. Delivered finished projects within budgets and very stringent

deadlines.

. Prepared hiring packets, conducted interviews, made hiring

recommendations, assessed staff training needs, and conducted

performance evaluations and disciplinary actions for the branch

personnel. Provided direction and monitored the progress of job

assignments. Set branch goals and objectives, prepared branch

operating budgets and cost estimates for budget expenditures.

. Suggested measures and recommendations to improve the current

application performance with the aid of SCR's (Small Change Requests).

. Recruited and managed ten information analysts working on collection,

organization and analysis of Highway data.

. Submitted timely reports to local, state and federal governments.

2005 - 2006 - TxDOT Austin, Texas

Senior business analyst/Planner II

Major responsibilities:

. Developed a methodology based of various aspects of demographic data

analysis to allocate and track $2.5 million among the planning

regions.

. Reviewed, executed and managed contracts with 24 planning regions

statewide.

. Conducted sessions with management, SME (Subject Matter Expert),

vendors, users and other stakeholders for open and pending issues of

public transportation.

. Reviewed and made recommendations on the Public Transportation

Strategic Business Plan submitted by outside vendors and contractors.

. Reviewed and approved deliverables and tracked budget for 24

contracts.

. Member of Review Committee to award Federal grants for Job Access and

Reverse Commute (JARC), New Freedom and Section 5310 (public

transportation program for Elderly and Disabled population) program.

. Managed TxDOT sponsored Research Project as the implementation

director, project director, and as the project advisor.

. Coordinator of Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) for the

Planning and Support Section of PTN.

. Safety Point of Contact for the Public Transportation Division

2002 - 2005 - TxDOT Austin, Texas

Project Manager

Major responsibilities:

. Developed and oversaw the Statewide Analysis Model (SAM) project using

TransCAD (transportation package of GIS) and written specifications

for a client server application of a statewide model.

. Regular use of Microsoft Project, Excel, and Access to complete

project reports and analyses.

. Performed manual front-end testing by running the model, analyzed data

results, verified its data against the real-time data and check all

functionalities of different modules of the model.

. Prepared and tracked state and federal project budget and monitored

and updated State Planning and Research Funds (SPR) and Biennial

Operating Plan (BOP).

. Provided comprehensive financial information to Technology Services

Division (TSD), Legislative Budget Board (LBB) and Information

Resource Council (IRC).

. Provided technical and end-user support to the consultants using the

model.

. Authored executive summaries, progress and completion reports for the

project management on a weekly basis and monthly basis.

. Developed strategies with Quality Assurance group. Developed and

executed various data sharing agreements to ensure data

confidentiality.

. Maintained constant communication with the vendors, conducted JAD

sessions, SAM Review Panel meetings and resolved issues between the

consultants and the panel members.

. Reviewed deliverables, and any other technical information pertaining

to the statewide planning or statewide modeling. Tested all interfaces

before signing off to ensure they meet the model specifications.

. Prepared deliverables and project documents comprised of Technical

Architecture, Technical Implementation Plan, Service Contract and

Access criteria for SAM.

. Prepared marketing/advertising material during model implementation to

be distributed during the 2005 planning conference.

. Presented SAM at various conferences and technical groups as well as

conducted video teleconferences during the model implementation.

. Involved in the TxDOT sponsored research program acting as the Project

Advisor for four research projects and the Project Director for two.

2001 - 2002 - TxDOT Austin, Texas

Traffic Analyst

Major responsibilities:

. Analyzed, updated and maintained traffic data from various sources

in a database for the Traffic section of TxDOT.

1999 - 2001 - First American Flood Data Services Austin, Texas

Map Analyst

Major responsibilities:

. Analyzed flood data using ArcGIS to make flood determination.

. Worked closely with FEMA and the Auditor's office.

. Trained new employees on map analysis.

. Provided excellent customer service.

EDUCATION/TRAININGS

Master of Science Panjab University, India

Bachelor of Arts Punjabi University, India

Fundamentals of GIS Austin Community college

Plus advanced Microsoft classes in excel and access, Technical writing,

How to deliver Video Tele conference and Communication skills.

COMMUNITY / VOLUNTEER

Secretary of Singh Sabha Gurdwara Executive Board 2008 - present

President of Singh Sabha Gurdwara Executive Board 2006 - 2008

Coordinator of Singh Sabha Gurdwara Executive Board 2004 - 2006

Saheli's VISTA Project Advisor

Austin Area Interfaith Ministries

Principal organizer of Singh Sabha Gurdwara classes for youth

Volunteer (Punjabi) teacher of Singh Sabha Gurdwara classes for youth

Principal events planner for Singh Sabha Gurdwara for youth

Joined Red Cross to help in Galveston during IKE relief operations in

2008

Organized hot meals in collaboration with the United Sikhs organization

for the IKE evacuees in 2008

REFERENCES

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