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Kaustav Ganguly

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Summary

Dear Hiring Manager

Re: Project Management Roles

I want to share my 10+ years experience of successfully managing programs and projects with your team. Here’s how I meet the Project Manager role requirements and why I’d be a good fit for your team:

➔ I have 11 years of professional Program and Project Management experience; Professional with MBA degree; experience in different domains and frameworks

➔ I am able to link the strategy to tactical delivery, and manage change and communication to stakeholders from strategic to delivery level

➔ I work with and deliver through teams. I invest in developing and growing the teams I work with

➔ I work cross-functionally, knowing that truly successful projects requires inputs and deliverables from multiple functions

➔ I am a firm supporter of Lean and Agile ways of working

➔ My references have said this about me: “actively involved in driving and contributing to delivery”; “extremely technically competent and learns new technologies quickly”; “capable, thorough and well organized”; “fresh style of thinking and honesty”

I look forward to an opportunity to meet and discuss my suitability for the role in more detail.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Lead

Philips Healthcare
08.2017 - Current

Philips is a leading global health technology provider. I work within the Services and Solutions Delivery organization.

  • Senior project manager leading the large scale digital transformation projects with high business impact and strategic value
  • Managed the end-to-end delivery on 3 digital transformation programs through a team of project managers and global virtual project teams
  • Collaborated with Senior Business stakeholders along with Customer to asses Customer and Business requirements, pain points
  • Design and implemented project governance and delivery structure across 7 product and program teams to ensure efficient delivery, communication and decision making
  • Independently led Lean and problem solving workshops to support the delivery of the Project(s).
  • Created SOP and improved on process efficiencies in Requirements Management and delivery; and UAT with tester groups of circa 700 and 15-20 Markets simultaneously

Product Owner

GE
04.2016 - 06.2017

Business Intelligence CoE for GE global research center,

  • Identified competitive business opportunity for managing software and hardware assets across its useful lifecycle, designed and validated market need with SMEs
  • Developed intelligence-sharing dashboards providing company wide access to collected data on fixed assets
  • Analyzed range of BI tools against business and user needs from technical, cost and product vision standpoints, including proof of concept exercises
  • Designed customized data collection models & dashboards for specific visualization tasks

Software Engineer

Accenture
01.2013 - 06.2015

Client : Educational Testing Services (ETS)

  • Responsible for functional requirements gathering and implementation of Single sign on for all customer facing applications of Education Testing services (ETS), world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization
  • Co-developed the PRAXIS, GRE and TOEFL test modules for students, educator preparation programs & state agencies
  • Led the team in reducing issues and incident throughput times via automation
  • Continuously evaluated the architectural enablers and non functional requirements to maintain compliance as per software quality controls, Responsible for the unit and integration testing

Education

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Indian Institute of Management Mumbai
Mumbai, India
04-2017

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering

Heritage Institute of Technology
Kolkata, India
05-2012

References

“he has consistently delivered value to our team”, “comfortable in managing multiple cross-disciplinary work streams at any one given time including those that span more than one functional area” - Andre Ellery, VP, Philips Enterprise IT

Timeline

Project Lead

Philips Healthcare
08.2017 - Current

Product Owner

GE
04.2016 - 06.2017

Software Engineer

Accenture
01.2013 - 06.2015

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Indian Institute of Management Mumbai

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering

Heritage Institute of Technology
Kaustav Ganguly