Chinara Nayak

E-mail: chinaranayak@gmail.com                                                  Cell: +1 (612) 770 1329

 

Professional Summary:

·  8 years of experience in IT industry (2.7 years of onsite experience)

(1 year of portfolio and project management experience).

·  Knowledge of Demand Management, Portfolio Management, Project Management, Resource Management, Deployment/Change Management, Time Management in PPM tool and MSPS and RTC

 

Professional Skills:

·  Comprehensive problem solving abilities.

·  Anticipates and handles critical situations.

·  Willingness to learn.

 

Work experience:

 

1.         Accenture Services Pvt Ltd                  

Role: Project Manager/Project Co-ordinator                           June’ 15 – Till Date

·  Currently working as a project manager/project coordinator

·  Prepare Pipeline report/Issues & Risks Report and Overdue Deliverable report for different project

·  Work with multiple team to ensure that project is delivered on-time, within scope and budget

·  Work on resource availability and allocation for the project

·  Help Program Manager to evelop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress

·  Work on preparing estimates and forecast for different teams

·  Coordinate with multiple project team for delivery of the work

·  send out daily status email to multiple teams and client

·  Prepare status report

·  Maintain task updates on Microsoft Project

 

2.         Accenture Services India Pvt Ltd                  

Role: Project Co-ordinator                                                           July’ 12 – May’15

·  Worked as Release Manager and support all release activities

·  Work on preparing status deck for Leadership across the projects

·  Coordinate with different team on release timelines, code drop dates and testing activities report the same to Leadership team

·  Create and manage work plans in SMS and perform weekly maintenance to ensure that CPI and SPI are within the limits.

·  Project baseline/rebase line.

·  Raise and Implement approved CRs into work plans.

·  Prepare ETC forecast data and review with PMs and update the project schedule.

·  Raise and track project risks and issues.

·  Analyze finance metrics produced by Metrics Reporting team.

·  Track the project defects in the defect tracking tool (CQ) and follow up.

·  Coordinate with Onshore PM for project related activities and generate report as required.

·  Coordinate/attend weekly project status meetings.

·  Coordinate with different teams involved in the project, e.g. Testing/Support.

 

Role: Business Analyst/PMO                                                    March’ 11 – June’ 12   

·  Supported the project’s resources and handle end-end process in PPM and Mysource tool. 

·  Generated reports for all the capabilities.

·  Creted capability wise resource LCR report.

·  Managing resource in Staffing Profile and add hours to resources.

·  Prepare Score Cards and project watch list.

·  Helped in Demand management/Project Management - For every project plan to be created, demand (Work Request) has to be raised in PPM tool.

Accenture Technology Solutions, INC (Onshore Minneapolis)  Jan’ 09 – Feb’ 11 Role: Business Analyst/PMO

·  PPM 7.1 & 7.5 tool Enhancement - identify high-level customer requirements in tool enhancement and create/update design document and test all new release and enhancement of the tool before it goes to production environment.

·  Worked as POC for AMT (Accenture Methods and Tools) for any PPM tool enhancement questions and suggestions

·  Work with the project manager, architects and other team members to define the requirement in PPM tool

·  Mysource tool enhancement

·  Assist Direct Clients - in regard to module and port let creation in PPM tools.

·  Conduct and manage the office hours onshore for PPMC.

·  Provided training to the onshore project managers regarding the PPM 7.1 & 7.5 upgrade.                           

Role: PMO                                                                             May’ 07 – Dec’ 08

·  Developed Scripts/Queries that helped customize the tool according to the requirements of the client.

·  Resource Management - Timesheet Close, Timesheet Adjustments, Finance and HR Processes

·  Project Template creation, Project classification, new project set-up, project baseline, project close, Contract Management Processes,

 

 

 

Educational Qualifications:

MBA- Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology Deemed University, Chennai

BCom - Berhampur University

 

Personal Details:

Hobbies                  : Listening to music, reading novels

Strengths      : Achiever, Competitive, Analytical, Focused