Dhruv Mehta Msc, Bcom, Pgdpm Email & Phone Number

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

• Review and process official plan amendments, zoning by-law amendments, draft plans of subdivision, and draft plans of condominium applications, ensuring compliance with local, regional, and provincial planning policies.
• Manage multiple development applications simultaneously, coordinating with internal departments (engineering, transportation, legal) and external stakeholders (developers, consultants, and the public) to ensure smooth.
• Draft comprehensive planning reports addressing technical studies, policy conformity, public input, and staff recommendations, and present findings and recommendations at planning committee meetings.
• Lead pre-consultation meetings with developers and consultants, providing feedback on proposals and ensuring alignment with planning requirements, zoning by-laws, and urban design guidelines.
• Assist and guide residents by providing information on zoning by-laws, land-use designations, site-specific policies, and development processes, helping them navigate planning matters and resolve concerns.
• Participate in zoning committee policy reviews, contributing to the evaluation and update of zoning by-laws and policies to address development trends, community needs, and environmental considerations.

Dryden, Ontario, Canada

• Reviewed land use and development proposals, preparing planning reports for Zoning By-law Amendments, Consent, and Minor Variance applications.
• Processed planning applications within specified timeframes, including comment circulation, analysis, research, report preparation, and drafting of notices and decisions.
• Presented recommendation reports for Zoning By-law Amendments, Consents, and Minor Variances to the Committee of Adjustment, staff, and City Council.
• Acted as Secretary Treasurer to the Committee of Adjustment, coordinating meetings, preparing agendas, researching and compiling land use information, and drafting meeting minutes and notices.
• Conducted pre-consultation meetings and providing written and verbal responses to inquiries from landowners, solicitors, consultants, staff, and the public.
• Issued zoning compliance certificates, ensuring compliance with the Zoning By-law and providing property-specific information.

Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada

Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada

• Processed and reviewed development permit applications, planning applications, and business licenses for compliance with the Municipal Act, Official Community Plan, Zoning Bylaws, Heritage Management, Design.
• Provided comprehensive support to the Planning Manager and Planning Officer in establishing approval processes. Conducted in-depth research and prepared recommendations for reports, memos, and decision-making.
• Conducted site inspections to verify compliance with development permit conditions, legislation, bylaws, and policies. Actively participated in monthly site inspection programs, preparing field packages and ensuring.
• Assisted in the administration of the Heritage Advisory Committee and the Board of Variance. Responsibilities included developing and circulating agendas, providing support in bylaw and policy interpretation.
• Provided prompt and respectful customer service at the front counter, including processing payments for planning and development permits and licenses. Responded to customer inquiries via telephone, email, and.

• Full-time Planning student at The University of Guelph focused on the following areas:
• Land Use Planning Law: Gained knowledge of the legal tools used to regulate and review policies related to land use, zoning by-laws, subdivision controls, development control, land banking, expropriation, planning.
• Project Development, Administration and Planning: Learned about principles, procedures, and methods in developing and managing a project (Project Management Institute PMI – Standards). Examining a project cycle that.
• Regional Planning, Canadian Context: Distinguished between different areas in Canada. Using analyzing tools like Shift Share Analysis, Economic Base Analysis, Location Quotient and Demographic Analysis to finalize a.
• Canadian Local Government and Policies: Focused on current policies and practices for urban and rural planning by the Government of Canada. Development challenges through rural land use planning guidelines impact small.
• Research Methods, Theory and Practice: Learned how Quantitative and Qualitative methods help gather critical data for development. Used tools like interviews, surveys, meetings, community interaction, existing.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Vancouver, Canada Area

Global Project and Process Management for a BPO firm. Some of the responsibilities are outlined below:IT Implementation Projects: Work with Implementations team for global set-up of IT Infrastructure including:- Jira setup- Slack setup- Smartsheet integration- Hardware and Software requirement gathering and setup- Voice Operation Management (Coordinating.

Winnipeg, Canada Area

- Transfer potential opportunity leads into Revenue Generating Units- Help customers get value added services- Manage and tracking personal sales- Help new agents ease into the role by being a live support- Engage with customers to maximize value on subscribed services- Process temporary suspensions - Give a thorough understanding of latest technology.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Lead and work with a team of Recruitment Associates / Contract Managers to:- Accept and screen potential couriers- Facilitate courier on-boarding- Provide support to couriers via phone, chat and email- Train and mentor new team members on various tasks- Manage courier incident reports- Maintain a database of courier reviews

Winnipeg, Canada Area

PACE - Project Management

Winnipeg, Canada Area

A member of the sales team at JWR, focused on promotion of Canadian Tire Financial Services products. Working part-time, to gain knowledge on Canadian markets and to learn about the consumer behavior in a diverse country like Canada.Responsibilities:- Generate revenue through promotion of the credit cards- Promote new services for existing customers- Share.

Mumbai Area, India

• Project Planning: Worked with the Change team, India, to plan various projects (strategic, mandatory and functional Projects) to be taken up. Other project activities included milestone tracking and maintaining.
• ESG, PIB and PCC set up: Prepared presentations and managed meetings for all three meeting groups of a particular project (Executive Steering Group, Project Implementation Board and Project Co-ordination Committee).
• Vendor Governance: Liaisoned with various external vendors for some of the projects, for the development of various applications, testing the software, etc.
• Daily Run-book-Flight Check Updates: Maintained a report containing list of various activities pending related to different projects and send a report to the senior management India and regional change team on a daily.
• Business Management: Worked with the business management team on activities like invoice processing, records management, etc.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Project Planning: Planned new projects and group them in accordance to phases, across GMRT (Global Market Research and Technology) functions and prepare final reports for the higher management for decision making.
• Database Management: Managed and analyze databases through extracting data from different sources to prepare headcount reports, milestone and project life cycle reports
• Process Management: Prepared process maps for new and existing processes and creating the final SOPs
• Business Management: Performed various business management activities such as SOW’s creation, raising laptop requests, system requests, meeting management etc
• Vendor Management: Worked closely with vendors who provide support to the team by either supplying resources or software, and tracking their commitment through Statement of Work and timelines of their agreement.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Process Initiation and Setup: Played a major role in setting up new processes across different functions off-shored to India, by performing headcount analysis, preparing and tracking milestone reports, etc.
• Process/ Tasks Lifecycle: Maintained task trackers for measuring the process lifecycle, such as process inventory, BCP (Business Contingency Plans), etc.
• Project Task Trackers: Creating and maintaining task trackers, with team’s details, IT systems used/required, POM (Physical Operating Model) structure, and other process and functional wise view of the progress.
• Performance Monitoring: Designed and maintained the SLA’s (Service level Agreements) for all processes and functions, where each team members' performance is rated on the basis of accuracy, timeliness, productivity.
• Process Documentation/Meeting Management: Created and maintained process documents like SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures), and responsible for meeting management.
• SharePoint Setup and Maintenance: Created and maintained SharePoint for different functions within Investment Banking Operations. Tasks included uploading documents, designing forms and filters, etc.

Hyderabad Area, India

The role at Markettools included client service, project management, survey programming, report preparation, process mapping and training to incumbents.

Bengaluru Area, India

The role at Dell included RAD analysis, Business Analysis, Secondary Market Research, Database management, Sales Presentation etc. (Dell India Pvt Ltd. is a firm selling computer hardware to Indian customers)

Master Of Science - Msc, Planning And Development, A

Management Certificate, Business Administration And Management, General, A

Pgd-Pm, Project Management, A

B.Com, Commerce And Advertising, Distinction (A Grade)

Bachelors in Commerce (Specialization in Advertising and Sales Promotion)