Aranik G. Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

VML, a WPP Agency (NYSE: WPP) is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

PROJECT AREA - Managed the analytical functionalities of Esri ArcGIS (SaaS) based Enterprise Business Intelligence and analytics platform ENVISION to help clients understand today’s dynamic retail marketplace based on over 40,000 variables including demographics, consumer behavior, lifestyles, and values, to make better marketing decisions and strategies.• Liaised with Business units and departments to gather and analyze their business needs, value propositions, requirements, and organizational processes within the platform, and develop solution recommendations for development teams.• Managed YOY development, integration, and shipping of over 35 behavioral, automotive, and financial data products into the SaaS platform by developing product roadmaps, project charter, WBS, set project schedules, and oversaw milestones while providing status updates to stakeholders. (PPM tools: Monday.com/Azure DevOps/MS Project)• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement the automation of data integration workflows, resulting in 55% faster processing, and 1.5x more partnership with data vendors/providers• Conceptualized and executed analytics dashboards/reports that provided real-time consumer insights, reducing decision-making time by 40%• Facilitated quarterly product increment planning sessions, prioritizing 100+ epics/user stories and significantly accelerating feature development• Implemented Agile methodologies and scrum ceremonies to ensure balanced participation by cross-functional teams like data analysts, software development, UI/UX designers and QA, focused on incorporating iterative releases.• Conducted Risk management and managed Project scope with change control processes by preventing scope creeps that would extend project time without compromising project quality and business needs• Participated in release planning sessions and backlog refinement with Product management to understand milestones and plan the project resources accordingly

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

PROJECT AREA - Responsible for supporting the customizations and configurations of Oracle NetSuite ERP solution in the organization with special focus on Human Capital Management (HCM), Finance, Campus solution modules resulting in a 30% increase in user satisfaction and engagement.• Elicited and gathered user and business requirements through open end discussions, surveys from key stakeholders and SMEs to define scope and functional requirements, built feature roadmaps for HCM and Finance modules in Seneca College’s cloud ERP ecosystem.• Translated business requirements into higher level conceptual workflows, ensuring the project met performance, usability, scalability, and functional requirements. Administered project repository – WBS, dashboards, risk/issues log, power user feedback using SharePoint and Smartsheet.• Collaborated with different functional groups to define project scope and executed detailed project plans, increasing on-time project delivery by 35%.• Served as a primary point-of-contact of projects to update senior executives. Liaised with key internal stakeholders, clients, vendors, and consultants utilizing effective communication and relationship building skills.• Conducted day to day Scrum meetings with internal stakeholders (Development and QA teams) to track the progress of the project, performed regular assessments on risks and resolve existing issues using JIRA and Smartsheet PPM tools. Dispatched periodic status reports and progress updates using PMO distribution lists.• Identified potential process improvements and streamlined existing Cost management, profit tracking, project accounting and HR payroll department processes by leading the creation of process mapping diagrams, user flows and workflow diagrams.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

PROJECT AREA - – Spearheaded a project to enhance and streamline the order management system of PepsiCo Partners e-commerce platform by analyzing the existing order management process in SAP commerce cloud, identify improvement opportunities, and understanding the unique requirements of the company regarding inventory management, order tracking, space management and payments.• Analyzed competitor trends, Market research, price analysis, resulting in identification of new Frito-Lay product lines to drive growth.• Influenced executive-level decisions by presenting actionable insights from performance data, assessment reports and ROI models, leading to a $250k cost saving initiative in product deployment strategies.• Designed and maintained 10+ interactive Tableau dashboards to monitor and report on KPIs, improving report generation efficiency.• Employed statistical analysis software to analyze survey data, identifying key factors influencing purchasing decisions, brand loyalty.• Assisted in Implementing UX optimizations to improve user journeys across the PepsiCo partners e-commerce platform, adopted JIRA project tracking to streamline operations. Created UI wireframes, UML Diagrams, and translated Business requirements into functional requirements.

India

PROJECT AREA - Managed Agile delivery of a migration project transitioning from on-premises legacy software to cloud-based Enterprise-wide people mobility application software (COSEC) resulting in increased user engagement and revenue growth.• Collaborated with End customers and Channel partners for requirement understanding, conducted requirement presentation using BRD and brainstorming sessions for functional and design decisions with internal stakeholders.• Performed User Acceptance Testing including analysis of impacts of new functionalities, overseeing functional and integrations testing for cross functional up and downstream impacts.• Implemented Agile Project Management methodologies such as scrum ceremonies to ensure timely delivery and successful completion of product features in modules like Job processing and costing, Time-Attendance management, Visitor and contract management, Employee self-service portal and Access control in the company’s cloud ERP platform.• Acted as a liaison among product, IT, and sales teams to understand customer demand for new features and new potential markets to move into.• Maintained Product backlog and communicated project updates/milestones to stakeholders through reports and dashboards.• Prepared documents like Software requirement specifications, UML diagrams and UI wireframes (MIRO, MS Visio) for development team.• Conducted training sessions for end users/power users to ensure they understood the usage of new system features effectively.

Post Graduate, Project Management - Information Technology

Post Graduate, Business Analytics

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Computer Engineering