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Executive Summary

Project Coordinator who takes pride in providing management and leadership to on-site/offshore teams and creating a seamless structure. Always focused on delivering projects on time and within budget. Strong management skills with demonstrated success in driving cross-functional teams to effectively complete project activities and resolve issues to meet project plans, business objectives, schedule and budget commitments. Have been able to maintain strong relationships with existing clients and mentor and train new comers.

Areas of Expertise

• Project Coordination

• Strategic Planning

• Client Management

• Leadership, Team Building, Problem Solving and coaching

  
  

  Job Experience Summary:

Atlas Software Technologies ('06- '10) - Is an IT company & Microsoft Partner, in Rolling Meadows, Illinois with it's Delivery division in Kolkata, India, that works primarily with small/medium clients for web development, e-commerce development, database maintenance and strategic consulting primarily in open source and Microsoft technologies.

Brief outline of jobs and profiles worked on :

Accounts Manager (06-09):

Initiated as part of the core business team, with the primarily being in requirement gathering, analysis of the scope, scope documentation and final delivery. Recognition for team management, innovation and client retention. Awarded Employee of the month for Feb 2008.

As the Marketing TL, was responsible for selecting new members and training and mentoring over 5 people helping them acclimatize to a new environment as well as learn their responsibilities in the Business team. "..She is hardworking and her over the years experience in the SDLC process make her invaluable to the team. She will voluntarily go the extra mile and her commitment to her work makes her a dependable and consistent team player. "

Project Coordinator (09-10):

For 2 years during the on-site stay in USA, worked as the coordinator for projects on both Web Development in Open Source environment as well as emerging trends and research in Social Media. "Sanchita was able to work beyond a single project dimension. She worked in SEO, Social Media Marketing, Non-Profit Websites, e-Commerce and Social Networking projects over the last two years under my supervision. Her self-starter, entrepreneurial attitude made her an invaluable asset."

The Social Media (SM) projects involved both profit and non profit sector and involved:

• Data analytics , research gathering, through 3rd party vendor
• Finding technical innovation and methods
• Regular monitoring of live data
• Stake-holder communication including session meetings n generating monthly plans report

Worked as part of the Project Management team in tracking and monitoring the deliverables. Worked with a globally multi-functional team of 6 ncluding designers, developers, business and SEO analysts and Quality Analysts.

Working with teams across the globe was challenging as well as inspiring. Got a better opportunity to be more closely associated with the Project Manager and the PM team, hence always keeping up the learning curve. "..It was easy to recognize she has an ability to learn, and a desire to advance and grow. Sanchita quickly learned and applied the standards or our Web QA, and demonstrated the leadership to raise the bar for user interface designers."

Roles include but are not limited to:

• Coordinate and lead projects with team (onsite and offshore)

• Years of experience in managing offshore team and deliverable.

• 95% success rate in meeting targets, completing projects on time, on budget and within scope

• Client handling, communication throughout the project.

• Documenting processes, requirement gathering, understanding scope and giving proper Knowledge Transfer to the Team involved.

• Performed Manual Testing of fixes for Critical issues identified from Production

• Responsible for maintenance of client relationship

• As the Lead was resp for creating all documentations throughout the SDLC

• As a Project Coordinator, was responsible for tracking and generating invoices with the Accounts Team for clients

• Excellent command over strategic communication which led to retaining clients, adding new clients, upgrading client accounts and maintaining satisfied customers that resulted in recurring work.

• Also involved during brain storming and innovation sessions internally within the company for growth and outreach purposes.

• Highly motivated, focused team player with independent thinking capabilities.

Sample of few projects worked on:

Retail Campaign – Handpicked by management to lead the strategic communication campaign that targets outdoor retail group and integrates search engine optimization (SEO) and social media to increase their customer reach.

• Led the project team of 5 in planning, market research, analysis of available data and finding strategies for the project.
• Responsible for management of stakeholder, communication and implementation of strategies.
• Created templates and guidelines for use in benchmarking similar projects in future.
• Responsible for monthly report generation, e-commerce integration with social media tools and constant monitoring of live data.
• Led to starting a new department and generating revenue for the company

E-Commerce Site Implementation- An e-commerce site that sold a unique product. As the project manager and the sole interface between the Client and the India team was successfully able to meet with the project requirement, perfect delivery, build a strong bond with the client and ensure complete satisfaction, which lead to adding Search Engine Optimization and further additions to the original project scope. Was also able to get the first Video Testimonial for the company as a reference.

Social Networking site with sub-domains, multiple logins and features similar to facebook -Worked directly with the Project Manager to analyze, create functional flows and create documentation, to enable effective resource management and project delivery.

• Responsible for client interactions, meetings and scope analysis

• Tracking delivery against project scope

• Worked in a hostile client environment taking up the challenge of delivering perfection and succeeding in the same

Simple Informational based site- Worked as the Project Lead for a US client looking for expanding his profession and target audience. The initial project was a basic HTML site including the entire design. However, through targeted conversations and educating the client, was able to convert the site from static to dynamic enabling a CMS. The satisfaction led to giving us more references and work including SEO.

LOOKING FORWARD TO: I am currently looking forward to solely be an active member in the Project Management Team, as a Project Coordinator I also wish to sincerely learn everything related to PM, working closely with the Project Manager and learning different tools/software that are needed by an independent Project Manager.

Education:

Masters of Science, M.Sc

Ballygunge Science College, (University of Calcutta)

Bachelors of Science, B.Sc

Bethune College, (University of Calcutta )

Contact:

Maple Shade NJ 08052

Email: sanchistays@gmail.com

Twitter:@sanchisayshi

Reference:

Available on request.