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Wellington, Nz

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Managed large multi-scale projects, right from requirement gathering, documentation and resource planning to deployment.• Extensive experience in delivering projects using Agile scrum methodology.• Maintain project documentation via established project management tools (such as JIRA,• and TFS).• Delivered $18 Mill in incremental rev thorough the testing program for APJ in FY11.• Manage the review and approval of requirements with project team members and stakeholders.• Control, analyze, and communicate approved changes to requirements through the software development life cycle. Communicate effectively with IT and business teams.• Work directly with other Business Users, System Engineers, Program Managers, developers, Testers & Customers to define features & Technical User Stories.• Manage activities pertaining to evaluation, analysis, documentation of requirements, and translation into proper solution specifications.• Responsible for designing, delivering, and managing effective change Management Programs for PAG (Performance & Analytics) level changes impacting 60+ PAG Members.• Single Point of contact for Exec Communication for (PAG)Performance & Analytics Projects & initiatives across Sales, Operations & Supply chain domains along with tracking and publishing KPI Exec dashboard across different domains to Monitor Team Performance.• Work in the architecture, definition, facilitation, and implementation of quality processes and standards in alignment with business objectives by adopting best practices from industry standards/models.

• Evaluated as-is organizational structures and conducted workload assessment to identify duplicate services and functions; eliminated redundant process functions and services realizing 2M in savings for the organization.• Document business requirements across business units and validate the requirements with the project team. Translate approved business requirements into functional & technical design solutions.• Gain a good understanding of the ITIL framework and engage with teams to promote best practices and processes.• Set the standards for the foundational data that drive consistency and data quality across the different functions of the finance business segment.• Align data and business processes in-order to maintain a single source of truth.• Handling various escalations from the customer onsite and offshore and providing timely resolution to all the queries.• Attended client meetings with Operations Team and provide expert advice during various prospective client pursuits for business development.VENDOR MANAGEMENT• Measuring, monitoring, and reporting on customer satisfaction and vendor performance and implementing continuous improvement strategies• Monitor and report on the performance of vendors to ensure delivery in line with contractual obligations and performance metrics.• Plan and conducts regular performance reviews with each major third-party provider along with relevant technology stakeholders.• Coordinate all vendor management tasks inclusive of working with external vendors and internal employees.

• Conducted Business Requirement gathering sessions with the end-users, subject matter experts (SME), and the developers.• Analyzed and documented the business requirements, meeting minutes and got the• approval of the documents from the client in the form of sign off.• Lead and manage process improvement initiatives in the analysis process.• Spearheaded turnaround management initiatives like deals merchandising• improvements, RTB framework, etc.• Responsible for the execution, control, and delivery operations and Ensuring the service• delivery always continues as per the SLAs.• Creating and sharing regular dashboards that show the SLAs and quality standards.• Strong Knowledge in SDLC.• Suggesting process changes for a reduction in cycle me and effectiveness. Setting up• metrics for measuring the quality of performance.