An MBA qualified Project Manager/Consultant with twelve years of international experience in business and technology consultancy delivering strategic business solutions and who possesses excellent stakeholder and Portfolio management, communication and commercial awareness. I have extensive experience in streamlining business processes and delivering large programmes in a PMO / Consulting environment within pre agreed budgets and timelines. I have played critical role in engaging with customers and ensuring that the solution deployed are to clients’ expectation regardless of whether the implementation services are delivered using in-house capabilities or by a third party vendor. As a Consultant, I have excellent track record in providing and delivering successful solutions that helped transform business environment and enabled system and business efficiencies on large programmes and organisations. As a Project Manager, I have ensured successful delivery of projects in accordance with the chosen project management methodology and through efficient management of onshore and offshore vendors and resources. While internally reporting to the Operations Director of the company and handling key accounts of projects, I gained excellent experience in working with top-level government authorities and senior management of leading companies in the geographies of UK, Ireland and India.
Management Skills
Account Management, Programme Management, Project Management, Business Portfolio Management, Vendor Management, RAID Analysis, Technical Consulting, Business Need Analysis, Commercial Planning (Conceptualisation, Development and Implementation), Quality Management, Third Party Management, Business Process Re-engineering, Risk Management, Change Management, Cost Management, Proposal Design and Improvement and Solution Documentation, CRM Implementation, COTS System Implementation.
Testimonials of Projects I have delivered
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Senior ICT Technical Project Manager @ From April 2014 to Present (1 year 9 months) London, United KingdomManaging Director @ Helping AABSyS IT Pvt. Ltd. explore market capitalisation opportunities by leveraging their extensive experience and experience in IT systems management and service delivery in the Utility sector. Actively engage in articulating AABSyS IT Pvt. Ltd.’ technology and service portfolios while positioning them to existing customer base and potential clients. Working as onshore liaison among AABSyS IT Pvt. Ltd.’ clients and stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements in order to help identify business problems and propose solutions. I, with a team of onshore/offshore technical consultants design solutions that will resolve customer business issues, whilst evoking confidence in their services and solutions. From June 2013 to April 2014 (11 months) London, United KingdomPresales Consultant @ Responsibilities and Tasks
Collaborated with the Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM Cloud (SaaS) Sales Team to understand client’s issues that are impetus for them to look at Critigen’s solutions and coordinate with the P6 technical experts to produce solution options and create LOE.
Worked with the Sales team and the technical on-site team to investigate customer requirements to effect opportunity capitalisation by proposing alternate solutions and produced LOE and proposals for a number of projects for London Tideway Tunnels programme under the framework agreement.
Built and maintained client relationship acting as a trusted advisor to the Tideway Tunnels team capitalising on the deep understanding of the programme systems environment.
Developed and maintained awareness of key projects and issues within Tideway Tunnels programme environment, and documented this information within the account plan to communicate with sales leadership.
Supported the sales teams as the key product subject matter expert leveraging previous engagement with Tideway Tunnels as IT Project Manager to determine how Microsoft SharePoint be integrated into the client’s overall technology solution.
Collaborated with Delivery Leads and Solution Architects to ensure delivery capability matches the proposed solution. From January 2013 to May 2013 (5 months) London, United KingdomIT Consultant @ Responsibilities and Tasks:
Investigate customer requirements, design business case and produce LOE, proposals and bid support information.
Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to ensure identification of new and alternative approaches to performing delivery specific activities.
Analysis of business processes, including recognition of the potential for automation of the processes, assessment of the costs and potential benefits of the new approaches considered and, where appropriate, management of change and variances, and assistance with implementation.
Carillion UKC – two phase Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM (Enterprise Project Portfolio Management) project.
Worked with Carillion team to develop a bespoke training package based on P6 version 7 and provided basic P6 training to bring all planners up to a basic standard competency as part of the first phase.
Worked with migration team to provide guidance on migration from stand-alone working to an enterprise system and provide intermediate and customised training to select planners. From June 2012 to December 2012 (7 months) London, United KingdomProject Manager @ HS2 Limited Jan’ 2012 - Jun’ 2012
A £33 billion High Speed 2 rail project (HS2) linking London and Birmingham, later extending to Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Critigen was contracted to deliver interim PMIS system as part of the mobilisation phase.
Managed the delivery of interim PMIS system as part of the mobilisation phase. The systems implemented were MS SharePoint 2010 as an interim solution to document management and as project portal, Executive dashboard, Geospatial environment and EPPM cloud based Primavera v6 (P6) solution for project scheduling. From July 2009 to June 2012 (3 years) Project Manager @ London Tideway Tunnels Programme - Jul’ 2008-Dec’ 2011
A £3.5 billion underground tunnelling project scheduled to complete in 2020.
Worked as Project Manager and Business Process Consultant in LTT Programme with prime responsibility of delivering, identifying, improving business critical systems and bridging the needs of the project through collaboration of various IT systems. While working with IM Manager, my key responsibilities included strategic engagement with the various business disciplines, and provide guidance and solution as a step to bring efficiency through systems integration and process optimisation. I ensured that the solutions proposed and implemented are in alignment with the IM strategy and within the governance protocols of the programme. I managed and worked with key internal and external suppliers and vendors across the programme to ensure effective operation and delivery of IT services.
KEY DELIVERABLES:
Cost Management System: Successful implementation of ECOSYS (enterprise planning and cost controls software) in Project Controls.
Change Control Application
PRF System
PMIS System: Design and deliver Programme Management Information System.
IM Strategy: Key member in the development and implementation of the IM (Information Management) strategy on the Programme working alongside IM Manager, Standards Manager, and Engineering Systems Lead.
Document Collaboration Process: Designed and delivered in alignment with the BS1192 standards.
Project Dashboard: Worked with IM Manager to deliver a framework to integrate key Project Controls systems and establish Dashboards in a SharePoint web based environment.
Stakeholder Communication Application: a custom CRM solution, which integrated internal and external management of information.
SharePoint Restructure: Defined, designed and delivered to align with the IM Strategy
SharePoint 2007: Managed migration from the then SharePoint WSS 3.0 to MS SharePoint 2007 collaboration environment. From June 2008 to June 2012 (4 years 1 month) London, United KingdomMBA @ From September 2006 to August 2007 (1 year) Business Analysis Consultant @ Performed in-depth analysis of client business operations, systems, and objectives to develop detailed coherent integrated solutions for international government and corporate clientele spread over the geographies of UK, Ireland and India. The role demanded active provision of inputs in business transformation, gap analysis, change management, commercial planning, onshore-offshore liaison.
Key Deliverables:
Provided On-Site Consulting to Property Registration Authority, Ireland for “Land Registry Digital Mapping” E-Commerce Project (worth £5 million). I was the lead change agent assigned to coordinate multiple tasks and teams concurrently for lifecycle software development and project management. Successfully provided the client with customised solution, a system that was implemented in phases for smooth transition from old paper-based system to new Geospatial system. Assisted the management to implement change to new system and work practices through training of the employees and understanding user’s viewpoints.
Led a direct opportunity capitalisation of the digital mapping project with PRA, Ireland by proposing and subsequently designing and delivering, a cloud based red-lining tool. This resulted in additional revenue of £375K.
Conceptualised and designed a bespoke Workflow Management System, which improved efficiency through automation of various processes. This system helped the Senior Management to monitor and track project status (efforts and costs), team performance, work accountability and hardware resource management.
Provided a cost effective and complete IT integrated solution to the Lavasa Township Development, through integration of GIS interface with Hummingbird enterprise solution for their utilities and urban infrastructure datasets.
Acted as an interface between the clients, project joint-venture partners and the in-house project team to programme and manage the deliverables, maintain risk registers, and attend project board meetings. From September 2004 to August 2006 (2 years) Noida Area, IndiaProject Manager @ Project Management of all the clients current and future Joint Venture projects and working on new business opportunities with our Joint Venture partners LIG (Landmark Information Group) based in UK.
Responsible for strategic evaluation of new bids and tenders in terms of feasibility and technical requirements.
Responsible for capacity utilisation, operational performance and variances in financial forecasts for all JV projects undertaken. My other major responsibilities involved attending on-site pre tender meetings and direct liaison with clients for all JV on/offshore projects.
Responsible for preparing monthly/bi annual reports including financial forecasts. Was also responsible for team member reviews, mentoring and professional development.
KEY DELIVERABLES:
Successful Completion of English Nature (Currently Natural England) On-Line Project - Implementation and conceptualisation of data capture system to facilitate capturing of designated wildlife sites. A team of 80 people was directly reporting to me.
Successful Completion of DARD-NIIACS (Northern Ireland Integrated Agriculture Control System) Project - Implementation and conceptualisation of data capture system with a 120 member team (including 4 Project Managers), which directly reported to me.
Managed delivery of datasets for “Land Registry Digital Mapping” Project (worth £5 million) leading a team of 5 onsite and handling of up to 150 off site data technicians
Successful in building strong relations with Natural England and making RMSI, the preferred supplier of data in all future projects. Won the bid for another project of English Nature in England.
Finished Natural England Second Project within 50% of the estimated project time and achieving upto 70% savings in the total project cost
Achieved 20% more savings in the NIIACS project
Crisis Management of PITO (Police Information Technology Project, UK) Project (in the absence of its designated Project Manager) From September 2001 to August 2004 (3 years) Noida Area, IndiaBusiness Analyst @ Transforming strategic analysis into creative solutions; High Level Requirement Gathering; Functional Scoping and Prioritisation; Transforming Creative Solutions into Business Case; Design, Development and Implementation.
Identify, Capture and Document business process requirements using structured methods such as UML, design High level diagrams, Use Case Models. Undertake Change Impact Analysis, Gap Analysis and support the technical team during the transition from project process design to development and implementation phases. Evaluate the throughput time of the deliverables thereby understanding the project feasibility and targeted time based profitability while in the process of evaluation of bids and tenders.
Designed and helped develop several smart process automation applications, including Work Allocation System (WAS) and a Workflow Management System (WMS) to generate manageable work units and closely manage the project, and algorithmic Quality Assurance (QA) programs to enable rigorous checking and deliver consistent output quality. This resulted in increased project efficiencies by 50% leading to reduction in project cost by around 30%. From September 2000 to August 2001 (1 year) Noida Area, IndiaManaging Director @ Managing Director of self start-up company launched post graduation that specialised in data capturing. Established complete office set-up, recruited skilled resources to accomplish the first project of the formation of database from paper based survey results. The project was outsourced to us by Infrastructure Professionals Enterprise (IPE), who was awarded the project termed as “Property Tax Reforms – Mapping of properties through GIS for Revenue Enhancement” by Nagar Nigam (Govt. Body) of Ghaziabad, India. The project was of 3 months duration worth INR 0.6 million and earned the company a profit of 50% of the project cost. From May 2000 to September 2000 (5 months) New Delhi Area, India
MBA, Strategy, Finance @ NIMBAS, Bradford - Graduate School of Management (GB) From 2006 to 2007 MBA, Strategic Management and Finance @ University of Bradford From 2006 to 2007 Bachelor in Planning, Urban Planning @ School of Planning and Architecture From 1995 to 2000 Wilsonia College From 1978 to 1992 Mayank Gupta B.Planning MBA Prince2 ITILv3 is skilled in: Project Management, Project Planning, Program Management, SharePoint, Change Management, Business Process, Management, MS Project, Requirements Analysis, Software Project Management, Business Analysis, Vendor Management, Project Delivery, Integration, Visio
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