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Akshay Halkude
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
Summary
Determined Project Manager/ Scrum Master with over 5 years of experience in optimizing productivity, efficiency and service quality across various environments. Highly dependable, ethical and reliable support specialist and leader that blends advanced organizational, technical and business acumen. Works effectively with cross-functional teams in ensuring operational and service excellence.
Overview
8
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
Mutual Mobile | A Grid Dynamics Company
Associate Project Manager
05.2020 - 04.2023
Job overview
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
- Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
- Delivered high level of service to clients to both maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
- Negotiated contracts and agreements with vendors for constructive supplier relations.
- Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies.
- Deployed predictive analytics models to forecast future trends.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Created data models to support decision-making processes.
- Created dashboards to monitor and track key performance indicators.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
- Generated business intelligence reports to inform strategic decision-making.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to identify business needs and data sources.
- Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
Alphalogic Techsys Ltd
Business Analyst
03.2019 - 04.2020
Job overview
- Implemented business intelligence solutions to increase operational efficiency.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
- Analyzed open orders, backlog, and sales data to provide sales team with insights.
- Assessed business requirements to forecast annual budgetary operational costs.
- Created dashboards to monitor and track key performance indicators.
- Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
- Gathered and documented requirements for projects.
- Used both qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques frequently.
Advanced Diesel Engineering Ltd
Project Manager Trainee
08.2018 - 10.2018
Job overview
- Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.
- Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.
- Sourced, vetted and managed vendors needed to accomplish project goals.
- Supported project managers in managing schedules and milestones.
- Worked with senior project managers to assist with day-to-day functions.
- Used MS-Project to create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
- Assisted project managers by tracking, organizing and analyzing project financial information.
Gauri Ltd
Assistant Project Manager Intern
08.2017 - 11.2017
Job overview
- Supported project managers in managing schedules and milestones.
- Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays.
- Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.
- Coordinated internal resources and third-party vendors for flawless execution of projects.
- Successfully contributing in issues in resource allocation during planning phase.
- Effectively analyzing capacity & working on sprint planning of development team by sprint burn down.
Balaji Enterprise
Production Engineer
07.2015 - 06.2016
Job overview
- Worked with suppliers, material management and cutting cost to 9%.
- Streamlined operations and prioritized tasks, allowing increase in production by 15%
- Determined root causes of failures and recommended changes in designs, tolerances or processing methods.
- Completed and submitted monthly and yearly reports to support executive decision making.
- Practiced lean principles, which led to improvements in workflow and quality and waste reduction.
- Supervised entire production process and prepared proper documentation for dispatch.
Education
Northumbria University Newcastle, England
Master of Science from Project Management With Advance Practice
08.2018
University Overview
- Dissertation: Conflict in Project Management
Solapur University Solapur, India
Bachelor of Science from Mechanical Engineering
08.2015
Skills
- Agile, Scrum, Kanban
- Jira, Confluence, MS-Project, Microsoft Office Suite
- Project Management
- Product Definition-Development
- SQL
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- SWOT Analysis
- User Story, Product Roadmap
- Business Process Mapping
- Acceptance Criteria
- Needs Assessment
- Negotiation
Accomplishments
- Helped improve the execution process to 81.48%. (Based on retro analytics)
- Won “ Star Analyst of the Year ” award for the Year 2019.
- Won “ Employee of the Quarter ” award for Third Quarter of 2019.
- Achieved effective tracking of a program by introducing Big Picture/ Roadmap for projects under the program.
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master
- Project Management Professional - PMP (In Progress)
Availability
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Timeline
Associate Project Manager
Mutual Mobile | A Grid Dynamics Company
05.2020 - 04.2023
Business Analyst
Alphalogic Techsys Ltd
03.2019 - 04.2020
Project Manager Trainee
Advanced Diesel Engineering Ltd
08.2018 - 10.2018
Assistant Project Manager Intern
Gauri Ltd
08.2017 - 11.2017
Production Engineer
Balaji Enterprise
07.2015 - 06.2016
Northumbria University
Master of Science from Project Management With Advance Practice
Solapur University
Bachelor of Science from Mechanical Engineering
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