Objective
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 10 years experience in Maritime ERP solutions - AMOS. Results focused, customer service oriented, well-organized individual with proven results in project management, process analysis and improvement, team leadership and client support. Strong mentoring skills, capable of leading and motivating individuals to maximize productivity while fostering cohesive teams in a virtual environment. Exceptional communicator focused on building strong relationships with peers and clients.
Experience
SpecTec Middle East, UAE (www.spectec.net)Jan’2011 – Till Date
Project Manager
Project Manager, responsible for planning, executing and evaluating projects according to predetermine scope, schedule and budgets. Building and managing project teams, reporting to project Sponsor and ensuring quality control throughout project life cycle are central to this position.
Responsibilities:
• Managing project from initiation to closure
• Ensures that projects meet customer requirements and completed on time and within budget
• Work with project sponsor and stakeholders to complete project charter outlining scope, goals, deliverable, required resources, budget and schedule
• Complete work breakdown structure to estimate effort required for each activity
• Develop and manage project plans and task assignments for all team resources
• Develop the strategies for acceptance, training and communication
• Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning
• Supervise all activities and associated deliverable ensuring appropriate control and execution
• Manage stake holder expectations
• Follow up QA Plan
• Resolve any issues and solve problems throughout project life cycle
• Effectively manage project scope by ensuring any changes to scope are documented and approved with project change request forms
• Plan and manage resources requirements in order to ensure appropriate resources are available when needed
• Providing regular and structured reports on performance to the Stake holders
• Lead, coach and motivate project team members on a proactive basis
• Performs team assessments and evaluations
• Determine metrics and key success factors and complete post-project evaluation
• Collect and document Lessons learned upon completion of the project
• Constantly improve project management methodology by improving and developing tools and implementing best practices
SpecTec Middle East, UAE (www.spectec.net) Dec’2006 – Dec’2010
Technical Consultant/Business Analyst
Technical Consultant, responsible for delivering value and building strong relationship with customers by advising on most appropriate use of AMOS line of products and use of information technology to meet their business objectives and overcome problems.
Responsibilities:
• Business Analysis of customers’ requirements and conversion of manual to IT process
• Innovating solutions to ensure customers’ requirements are completely delivered
• Involved in analysis, design, configuration & support of AMOS ERP System to meet the business needs
• Managing all pre-sales technical requirements and delivering advanced product demonstrations
• Developing product functional & technical documentations
• Implementing Project Management methodology
• Perform initial testing of problem fixes, change request, enhancements, and new functionality.
• Work with support desk to facilitate problem resolution
• Involved in onsite implementation, user training & user acceptance test
• Support implementations by sharing best practice configuration skills
• Work closely with customer to deliver, maintain and troubleshoot and enhance AMOS ERP System functionality
Orient Ship Services Ltd, India Dec’2002 – Nov’2006
Implementation Engineer
Responsibilities
• Involved in full project implementation cycle which include requirement study, system configuration, system testing and project go live handover
• Configure systems based on agreed business requirement study and delivering project documentation such as user requirement documents, process workflow documents, customization specifications
• Involved in user training for ship and office staff on AMOS ERP Software
• Provide system consultation and system supports to clients
• Involved in Ship Planned Maintenance Database development
• Developing custom made user training documentation
Carried out Implementation to clients below:
? Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. Japan
? Malaysian International Shipping Bhd. Malaysia
? NGSCO, Abu Dhabi
? Shipping Corporation of India , India
? Great Eastern Shipping Company, India
Involved PMS Database construction to clients below:
? Varun Shipping, Singapore
? Malaysian International Shipping Bhd, FPSO
? Shipping Corporation of India , India
? Great Eastern Shipping Company, India
Education
B.E (Mechanical): Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering, University of Madras, India
PMP: Project Management Professional Certification, License no: 1600869
AMOS/AMOS2: Familiar with function and capability of various AMOS Products
RDBMS: Proficient with SQL and knowledge of Sybase and SQL SERVER database management systems
Certification
Skils
Areas of Expertise:
• Project Management
• Asset Management
• Project Tracking/Oversight
• Planned Maintenance
• Requirement Analysis
• Procurement Cycle
• Data/GAP Analysis
• Maritime – Quality & Safety Management
• Process Analysis & Improvement
• Maritime – Crew Management
• Customer Relationship
• Documentation