ASHISH JASWAL
Toronto,ON
Summary
Autodidactic Project Manager with 5+ years' experience crafting strategic solutions in banking, entertainment, media, and e-commerce industries. Proficient in project management and building client relationships, skilled in analyzing client practices, formulating improvement strategies and provide automated reporting solutions using Power BI.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager, Data Analytics
Bank Of Nova Scotia
02.2018 - Current
- Oversaw projects valued at over $18 million, orchestrating program management, business analysis, scoping, prototyping, risk management, resource hiring, training, and senior management engagement.
- Managed a workload of 3 to 5 concurrent projects, guiding each through its entire lifecycle from initiation to successful completion.
- Implemented a strategic roadmap to consolidate data from 7 distinct sources over the past 5 years for 3500+ contractors, resulting in an outstanding 82% reduction in the overall onboarding process.
- Designed and implemented QA intake in ServiceNow, enabling the QA team to forecast capacity requirements accurately, which led to cost savings of CAD 15 million by efficiently onboarding QA resources through third-party providers
- Collaborated with engineering and product teams to analyze large datasets, and translated insights into impactful visualizations and actionable narratives.
- Participated in PMO activities, including demand and project portfolio management, facilitated prioritization workshops and communicated with senior management and stake holders.
- Developed and implemented a number of processes to improve quality and increase productivity in the areas of data quality, code maintainability and customer service.
- Developed training schedules and comprehensive documentation for end-users, covering various systems including CMS (Ariba), Coupa (Smartbuy, Icertis, CRA), Vista, eSignature module, CAPPM (Clarity), and fieldglass.
Manager - Project Analysis
Zee Digital Convergence Limited
11.2016 - 07.2017
- Analyzed and strategically managed the $1M Software Contract Planning project, achieving 16% cost savings while enhancing software functionality
- Analyzed and successfully renegotiated contracts, resulting in annual savings of $500,000 (46% of the budget).
Strategy and Execution
SHOPX
05.2016 - 11.2016
- Develop inventory volume reporting and analytics for senior management with a focus on period over period trending
- Collaborated with multiple internal groups, including Presale, Pricing, Legal, Order Entry, Accounts Receivable, Audit
- Development Teams, and Sales, to ensure contract, pricing, and reporting compliance.
Senior Analyst
Housing.Com
01.2015 - 03.2016
- Utilized data-driven insights to strategically create a centralized and integrated Supply Chain Management (SCM) process, meeting current and future company needs while optimizing costs and formalizing the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process organization-wide.
Product Strategy Consultant
Shopyourworld.com
02.2013 - 12.2014
- Spearheaded the procurement and merchandising business operations and victoriously raised profit margins by 36% Year on Year basis by procuring from strategic vendors
- Successfully introduced new products for tech, electronics and gadgets category which led to increment in the catalog from000 to 4,00,000 SKUs in a brief span of 8 months
- Successfully increased the availability of new launches on the website and aided marketing team in the repositioning of the brand which led an increase in organic search traffic by 250% year over year.
Supervisor of Operations
Walmart – ASDA
10.2010 - 01.2013
- Efficiently oversaw the establishment and launch of Walmart Asda's Small-Sized Supermarket locations across West and
- South London
- Additionally, assumed a supervisory role for their inaugural small-sized store, boasting an annual revenue of around £6.1 million, spanning 7,000 square feet, and managing a team of 70.
Education
Masters - International Business And Project Management
Brunel University
United KingdomBBA - Management and Econometrics
Mumbai University
IndiaSkills
- Power BI
- Google Analytics Suite
- RAID Logs
- Time Tracking - Clarity (CAPPM)
- ERPs - Coupa, NetSuite, Ariba, Fieldglass
- App Development - Zoho
- Service Now
- Financial - Smartstream
- Excel (VBA, Macros) & MS Access
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master
- Data Analysis using Power Bi, Excel and MS Access
- Pursuing PMP
Accomplishments
- Streamlined data visualization processes at Scotiabank with Power BI, reducing report generation time by 50% while enhancing data accessibility across departments. This initiative also led to a 30% increase in data visibility, empowering decision-makers with actionable insights.
- Utilized Power Bi for data analysis and visualization across 300+ active projects, resulting in a remarkable 70% increase in project capitalization within the CAD 1 Billion portfolio, which was reviewed weekly by SVPs and the CTO
- Negotiated contracts with global suppliers, including Google, Microsoft, Tata, and others, for multimillion-dollar contracts, skillfully renegotiating critical aspects such as financial, legal, and inter country arrangements
- Gathered requirements and implemented NetSuite for which my effort was appreciated by the CEO of the company as I completed the implementation in 30 days against the industry standard of 6 months
- Self-developed web and mobile apps using Zoho Creator for Vendor and Asset Management in Housing.com and Warehouse Data management in ShopX to optimize warehouse operations and streamlining vendor-related processes.
Timeline
Project Manager, Data Analytics
Bank Of Nova Scotia
02.2018 - Current
Manager - Project Analysis
Zee Digital Convergence Limited
11.2016 - 07.2017
Strategy and Execution
SHOPX
05.2016 - 11.2016
Senior Analyst
Housing.Com
01.2015 - 03.2016
Product Strategy Consultant
Shopyourworld.com
02.2013 - 12.2014
Supervisor of Operations
Walmart – ASDA
10.2010 - 01.2013
Masters - International Business And Project Management
Brunel University
BBA - Management and Econometrics
Mumbai University
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