Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Pradeep Shinde

PRADEEPSHINDE +1 952.564.0184

OBJECTIVE

To succeed in an environment of growth and excellence and to make sound position in the corporate world, by seeking challenging work assignments & responsibility and by utilizing flairs of hard work, research, skills and preference to achieve organizational as well as personal goals.

SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL

An dedicated & talented Project Manager with efficient hands on experience in Web Based Enterprise products, PLM and ERP applications, with strong process knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle industry – with paramount smart soft skills. Worked as a Development Manager for QA & Development Team.

PROFESSIONAL TRACK RECORD

o Working as Project Manager for CognizantTechnologies–Revenue generation associated over $7.35 Billion per annual.
o Worked as Team Leader/Technical Lead for various European and USA PLM projects
o Team Leaderfor Customer Support – dealing with Customer complaints, providing solution, responsible for Customer satisfaction and coordinating with offshore team.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PROJECT MANAGER, COGNIZANT OCT 2007" TILL DATE
Cognizant is a global leader in business consulting and technology solutions. As a proven partner focused on building tomorrow’s enterprise, Cognizant enables clients in more than 30 countries to outperform the competition and stay ahead of the innovation curve. Cognizant creates value for its clients by helping them surmount current challenges and see into the future of their business
Company URL - http://www.cognizant.com


--> Managing PLM service providers accounts at Cognizant.
--> Customers handled are
o Thermo King-Ingersoll Rand– Thermo King leads the world in the innovation of high performance heating and cooling units for a variety of mobile applications, including trailers, truck bodies, buses, shipboard containers and rail cars.
o Schindler  Gmbh – is one of the leading global manufacturers of elevators, escalators and moving walks
o Hyundai Kia Automotive Group - South Korea's largest automobile manufacturer, the second largest automaker in Asia.
o BMW – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG - German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company
o Owens-Illinois, Inc - world’s largest glass container manufacturer and preferred partner for many of the world’s leading food and beverage brands
o T-Systems – T-Systems is business customer brand of Deutsche Telekom
o Schaltbau Gmbh - develops and manufactures electromechanical components for railway equipment and industry manufacturing in accordance with the high safety standards as required for traffic engineering also makes us a reliable source of developing products for many other lines of industry


Responsibilities handles are as below –

o Working as Client SideManager at Minneapolis, MN, USA
o Managing client expectations
o Escalations handling
o QA Opportunities identification
o Pre-Sales activities – RFP response, Client presentations
o Process definition, documentation, roll-out and deployment
o SLA definition and adherence
o Resource Management – resource allocation, resource planning.
o Release Management
o Capacity Planning and utilization
o Process initiatives
o Risk Management – risk identification, Mitigation & Contingency Planning
o Tracking and Monitoring Day-to-Day project execution activities
o Budget and Revenue forecasting
o Invoicing (T&M, FP and Cap T&M Projects)
o Performance Evaluation & management
o Team competencies development



PARAMETRIC TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION JAN2005 " OCT 2007


PTC helps manufacturing leaders address the biggest business challenges they face today. Our solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Computer Aided Design (CAD), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Company URL - http://www.ptc.com/


Worked as Customization Engineer II - Windchill6/7/8/9/10

Responsibilities handles are as below –

o Worked in capacity of Customization Engineer handling releases from QA side -
o Windchill 7.0, 8.0 (X-05), 9.0 (X-10) and starting of X-20 – All solutions PDMLink, Project Link and bundled PDM-PJL.
o Design Review discussions with Product Definition, Product Management & Development Team
o Functional Test Planning for Major, MOR and Incremental releases
o Test Execution, Defect Management, Status reporting
o Customer Temp Patch testing – TMC (Japan), Volks-Wagon, Ferrari, RIFA, Piggio, WABCO
o Test summary reporting
o Customer Data set preparation for Upload tool
o Conducting release readiness meeting and demo with all release specific stakeholders
o CFT (Cross Functional Team) Representations
o Change, Configuration, Workflow Testing
o Numerous Performance Excellence awards and Recognitions


CYBAGE SOFTWARE PVT LTD JUN 2004 "JAN 2005

Cybage is a product engineering and IT services company providing services such as outsourced software product development, application development Company URL - http://www.cybage.com

Worked as Engineer - Product DART, DoubleClick online advertising software

Responsibilities handles are as below –

o Worked in capacity of Engineer handling releases
o Functional Test Planning for Major, MOR and Incremental releases
o Test Execution, Defect Management, Status reporting
o Maintenance and administration of UNIX systems hosting DART, double-click servers
o Customer Data set preparation for Upload tool
o Conducting release readiness meeting and demo with all release specific stakeholders


ACADEMIC DETAILS

o Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Pune University, India " Year 2003.
o Diploma in Computer Science, Y.B. College of Engineering, Pune, India - Year 2000.

CERTIFICATIONS

o Sun Certified Java Professional
o PTC Certified Windchill Professional
o Cognizant Certified Professional

PERSONAL DETAILS

o Contact No.: +1 952 564 0184
o E-mail : PradeepShindeBE@gmail.com
o Address: 8901 Aldrich Avenue South, Apt# 301, Minneapolis, Bloomington MN 55420