Project Software Engineer

Milind Wasaikar 862-***-****

acuc2m@r.postjobfree.com

A seasoned Business Analyst with 10 years of experience in business analysis, price optimization and analytics, business intelligence, deal pricing/planning, profitability & overall portfolio performance

Has proven track record of business architecture, successful modeling of complex business processes, solution definition and design of effective scalable, high performance-high availability business solutions for multiple large scale projects

Extensive experience in requirements elicitation, conducting SME/business user interviews, business consulting, solution conceptualization, business process transformation and workflows, quality review, conducting UATs and training

Key involvement in project scheduling, risk mitigation, financial planning, resource planning, issue management

Passionate about working directly with customers and maintaining successful relationships including working closely with client executives, steering committee, and stake holders to strategize and develop tactical solutions in key situations

Has extremely strong problem solving, written and verbal communication, conflict resolution, negotiation and interpersonal skills with self-motivated, perseverant and goal-oriented attitude

Has proven experience of leading a large team comprising of people with variety of skills and mixed levels of expertise Professional Experience

Sr. Business Analyst Vistaar Technologies July 2005 – Present

A driven individual, with proficiency in comprehension of complex and interdependent business processes with experience in handling key accounts independently whilst exceeding service expectations

Was continually recognized for outstanding performance by management and garnered multiple promotions throughout Sr. Business Analyst Vistaar Technologies June 2013 – Present

In addition to requirements elicitation, process modeling, business architecture, change management and scope definitions, was responsible for working with executive sponsors, stake holders and steering committee

Instrumental in developing client proposals, SOW for new projects, conceptualize and design a packaged SaaS solution, SLA, KPIs for IT process areas

Worked with engagement manager and architects for financial estimation, risk mitigation and key strategic decisions Sr. Business Analyst/Product Manager Glazers Jan 2016 - Present

Designed and conceptualized packaged SaaS solution for price planning and optimization for Beverage Alcohol Vertical

Responsible for creating and maintaining product road map and milestones and align product features and releases with cross platform teams

Instrumental in analyzing user feedback, deep dive workshops to identify key areas of improvement, ensuring proper communication between business, technical and product management groups throughout project life cycle Sr. Business Analyst Ford Feb 2013 – Dec 2015

Was single point of contact for delivery of a $100M+ ROI project for Material Cost Forecast planning and optimization

Conducted requirements elicitation and discovery of complex accounting and forecasting process using a combination of interviews, brainstorming & JAD to model a global, high performance-high availability solution

Liaised with business, executive sponsors and technical owners throughout elicitation, GAP assessment, requirements prioritization and finalization, Solution Design, UI reviews and UAT

Specifically managed stakeholder engagement, leadership alignment, communications and project margins

Led a team 30+ global resources (India + US) for designing, data analysis and delivery of the project Solution Architect Vistaar Technologies June 2011 – May 2013

Was responsible for engineering complex, large scale solutions and be responsible for the end-to-end project implementations (solution design, implementation, global rollouts and deployment)

Devised and owned the overall architecture vision and the business architecture for complex, large scale business solutions for multi – divisional business organizations

Was additionally responsible for modeling extraction, cleansing and transformation of client data which involved exhaustive understanding of the intricacies of business and data model of client across the enterprise Solution Architect/Sr. Business Analyst Suncor Sep 2011 – Jan 2013

Primary SME responsible for Requirements understating, generalization and productization of requirements and conceptualization of the packaged solution

Evaluated the best value for analytics by identifying the most meaningful analysis for the decision making processes

Understanding business process and key pain points to drive intuitive user experience and user interfaces

Led a team of 15-20 person size global team and was responsible for a successful major interim deliveries Solution Architect AMD June 2010 – May 2012

Responsible for functional design of the analytical model of a project module to support pricing analytics requirements and create functional specs including business workflows

Led a team of comprising of other architects, solution leads, application consultants and software engineers through optimal architecture, configurations, integrations and deployment

Created the end-user learning strategy and designed/developed the end-user learning program Business Analyst Vistaar Technologies June 2008 – May 2011

Instrumental in functional requirements analysis, GAP analysis, identifying process improvements driving functional design, documenting Business requirements, functional requirements and User Acceptance Test cases Business Analyst Ford May 2008 – May 2010

Conducted in-depth interviews with client’s employees to gather data for current state processes and create the As-Is assessment for the current processes

Captured functional and non-functional requirements and worked with lead architects for designing the system Solution Lead Stryker Oct 2007 – May 2008

Responsible for requirements Analysis, functional analysis, data analysis, UI metaphor design, business verification

Conducted a series of performance optimizations and tuning cycles to ensure the SLA’s were met

Managed and led a team of 5-7 persons in the execution of implementation and verification of the project Sr. Application Consultant Vistaar Technologies June 2007 – May 2008

Played a lead role in developing an analytics and profitability solution for Hitachi Data Systems

Responsible for delivering a module for an online consumer offer creation solution for Dell Application Consultant Vistaar Technologies June 2006 – May 2007

Responsible for creating business workflows in a resource pricing management and deal analytics solution for Accenture

Created a major sub-process in an aircraft engine deal pricing analytics solution for GE Software Engineer Vistaar Technologies July 2005 – May 2006

Developed user interface metaphors, reusable frameworks, data extraction and transformation routines, and conducted performance optimizations, tuning exercises

Software Engineer Intern Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd June 2004 – April 2005 Project ‘SMS as a Transport Layer’ - A tiered architecture was designed for communication between applications deployed on two distant mobile devices

Summary of Qualifications

Process Modeling Tools : MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, SharePoint

Techniques : Interviewing senior client personnel, JAD, Brainstorming, Requirements Prioritization, UML, User Stories, Agile Methodology, Flow Chart

Technical Competencies : Data Analysis, Multi-dimensional modeling, Business Workflows, Software Design

Technologies : SQL, Excel Macros, VBA, JS, HTML 5, XML

Business Competencies : Elicitation, Communication, Business Verification, UAT, Business Analysis Planning, Documentation

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science), Institute: K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai - University of Mumbai – 2005

Honors & Awards : 1st in the Web-Designing contest

: 2nd in the C Programming contest

Co-Curricular Activities : Secretary-cum-Treasurer, Indian Society of Technical Education, 2003-2004

: Event Head, Management Event ‘Case Studies’, ‘Abhiyantriki 2004’

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