Utkarsh Chaudhari Email & Phone Number

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Responsibilities and Key Task Assignments Client engagement, relationship building and ensuring client delight.  Supervising for project delivery and practice improvement.  Monitoring the allocation of resources across projects  Ensuring compliance to standards (ISO, CMMi & Practice).  Tracking and controlling client and team metrics.  Analyze profitability, revenue, margins, and utilization across projects  Mentor and groom project/delivery teams Facilitate healthy working environment within cross-functional teams  Identify and resolve issues that help deliver positive and consistent customer experience Key Tasks/assignmentsOperations: Manage the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple projects. Work on the SOW’s/ RFP’s and budgets in consultation with the Sales team Make Project plans in MPP or Excel, if required Minimize exposure and risk across projects. Client engagement on regular basis on the status of the multiple projects. Ensure process improvement. Determine appropriate revenue recognition and ensure accurate invoicing. Review high-level deliverables across projects.

India

Consulting eLearning startups in India by understanding client requirements, mentoring delivery teams, defining development processes, training QA team and create exhaustive checklists for all functions based on project requirement, finding and recruiting the right resources/vendors, and helping with effort estimations.Also, managing troubled projects that need to be sorted by building efficiencies and achieving aggressive timelines.

Bengaluru Area, India

End-to-end portfolio management including, but not limited to, customer interaction, growth of the portfolio, and project profitability.

Pune Area, India

Supervise overall performance and functioning of the teamReport weekly development, effort consumption and project status to ManagementVendor and Stakeholder ManagementSPOC for delivery level escalationsProven experience in people management, risk and change managementIdentifying deviations and suggesting corrective actions to the leadershipScope out and prepare estimates for projects based on project inputs from the sales team, and monitor adherence to these budgets throughout the project lifecycle. Conduct high-level review of deliverables, wherever necessaryParticipate in daily stand-ups with Project Managers/Course Owners/CoordinatorsWork with business development team to finalize costing, and review and update proposalsParticipate in monthly business review meetingsSchedule training on project requirements to the teamConduct new hire interviews and team appraisals

Pune Area, India

Pune Area, India

This was a much thought-about sabbatical. Needed this break to look into and settle some urgent matters on the home front, and also to regain the lost energy while working uncompromisingly for 16 years.

Pune Area, India

Define and clarify project scopeDevelop the project planDevelop the project scheduleSetting up team direction and development processesCoordinating activities across different organizational functionsMotivating team membersChecking project progress toward meeting its objectives - Constantly monitor projects to check for variance during the production cycle of a projectDetermining the cause of deviations from the planEnsure that all the processes, methodologies and development cycles are followed without fail on all projects.Ensure all requisite sign offs from the clients happen at appropriate cycles of the project.Generate project related status reports and update all key stakeholders (clients as well as internal) on a regular basis

Pune Area, India

Partner with Production, Art Director & Art Leads to manage team schedules and artistsWork with production to identify risks that may impede art milestonesIncrease visibility in the organization of the Art status, milestones, and change request impactsOwn task estimation, and identify critical path impedimentsPrepare status reports for senior leadershipMonitor velocity and coordinating retrospectivesCoordinate timely feedback, approvals and deadlinesCoordinate and document art development meetingsWork with artists to identify workflow deficiencies, work with engineering or art to schedule resolution

Pune Area, India

Experience in client engagement role, project and people management, requirement analysis and media development (multimedia services)Extensive experience in identifying and analyzing requirements and creating solutions for stakeholdersScoping projects, estimating effort and timelines, multiple project planning, execution, setting up processes, people management, communication skills, motivate and lead diverse teams.

Pune Area, India

Successful completion of projects within time, budget and exceeding quality standards.Monitoring and reviewing the progress of a project.Communicate with client on project requirements and understanding.Create proposals and task orders.

Web Design Industry - Responsible for creating Layouts for websites, banners, intro animations, etc,.