Aparna Chugh

Aparna Kataria Chugh Delhi, India (-- Aparna Kataria Chugh PMP Certified Brief Professional Snapshot  Management Post Graduate with more than 12 years of industry experience.  Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) awarded by PMI.  Strong Project Management and leadership skills.  Exposure to all functions of Project Management right from Project charting to delivery. Successfully managed a number of product releases.  Hands on experience in stakeholder expectations management, having worked with a variety of cross functional teams to attain business results within stipulated time constraints.  Experience in working with geographically diverse teams in a typical Rightsourcing model  Experience in working with and managing teams of varying sizes, cultures and mindset, having worked in both Public and Private sector organizations  Ability to rise to any challenges and meet expectations set by employers. Skills Good working knowledge in productivity tools including MS Project and MS Office Achievements  Received best appraisal in the current organization for delivering high quality products in defined timelines.  Successfully Received Gold Medal as University topper throughout in graduation examinations.  Received Certificates from Aptech Computer Education for outstanding performance in 2nd year and 3rd year.  Won Inter-Center Quiz Competition. Project Management  Mapping requirements and providing them best solutions involving evaluation and definition of scope of project and finalization of project requirements.  Managing multiple projects from conceptualization to final execution of projects.  Leadership, Distance Collaboration, Facilitation, Planning and Scheduling.  Managing and leading team members; allocating resources among team members; recruiting & guiding team members during the project till final delivery.  Holding review meetings to monitor progress of the project as per schedule and ensuring timely completion and delivery of the project to the client; extending production support of multiple applications. Aparna Kataria Chugh Delhi, India (-- Professional Qualification  Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) awarded by PMI  Two-year full time Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from Centre for Management Development, Modinagar (U.P). - Batch) With 76% Marks.  B.C.A. from C.C.S University, Meerut in the year 1999 with 80% Marks  Four Years Advanced Diploma In Software Engineering from Aptech Computer Education, Meerut -). With 80% Marks. Educational Qualification   Intermediate from Meerut Public School, Meerut in the year 1996 with 78% Marks. High School from Meerut Public School, Meerut in the year 1994 with 76% Marks. Employment History Organization ITpreneurs India Pvt. Ltd AON Hewitt Associates India Pvt. Ltd. Hewitt Associates India Pvt. Ltd. Quark Media House India Pvt Ltd OKS Span Tech Pvt. Ltd From Apr ‘11 Mar ‘06 May’ 05 Mar’04 Oct ‘02 To Till Date Apr’11 Jan ‘06 May ‘05 Mar ‘04 Projects Handled ITPreneurs India Pvt. Ltd. (Apr’11 – Till Date) As a Project Manager, I am involved in managing multiple projects at various stages of development. The projects include technical projects like iPad /HTML5 version of content. Also, I have been involved in developing new content development projects both for classroom and eLearning.  Partner with product teams to define strategy and requirements.  Create functional specs, project / release plans, and roadmaps  Influence people across the organization, build consensus and drive swift decision making in a fast paced environment  Own and execute multiple programs simultaneously  Ensure adoption of agile or lean best practices to increase product quality as per the requirements.  Align all stakeholders to ensure right prioritization, visibility and tracking of each aspect and effort.  Manage complex projects that touch multiple geographic locations, time zones, cultures, and management hierarchies.  Analyse the project and task inter-dependencies on an ongoing basis to ensure correct order of execution to minimize risk and cost.  Collaborate with and manage cross functional stakeholders including business lines, senior level Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Instructional Designers, Graphics and Media Designers, Quality Controllers, sales, marketing and operations for development of IT learning products. Aparna Kataria Chugh Delhi, India (--  Analysis of customer feedback and inclusion of requirements in the new designs specification documents.  Proactive analysis of existing portfolio to upgrade same to the new market and organization standards.  Leading innovation workshops with team for identification of new learning design and better techniques for IT trainings. AON Hewitt Associates India Pvt. Ltd (May'05 – Jan ’06, Mar’06- Apr’ 11) CSProAs Senior Software engineer, I was given the responsibilities of managing the project where I  Executed projects as per the plan. Revisited the plan with manager if any deviations from actuals were there Proposed Project schedules and obtained buy-in from all stakeholders for the same.  Obtained sign off from stakeholders for Milestones and accordingly sent out certification mails.  Provided project status in formal status reviews with Senior management  Managed Change Requests- including collecting relevant data for them and putting them up for approval, communicating to stakeholders once change is approved.  Coordinated the reviews of technical documentation  Acting as the point of contact for all aspects of the project including; planning, tracking, implementing and executing. Quark Media House India Pvt Ltd.(India) (Sept’05 –Apr’04) As Software engineer, my work profile included –  Responsible for handling Design and Development of 4 Critical Modules of the Project.  Performing responsibility of functional lead for 6 team members by allocating work (based on skill set), supporting and tracking their work to meet and exceed defined SLA (timeliness, Quality, defect statistics, resource utilization and etc) parameter for team.  Responsible for managing client relationships (expectations, communication, escalation, feedback, etc.) to ensure client satisfaction  Involved in developing high-level implementation plans, time schedules, and gap analysis  Responsibilities also include monitoring Project milestones, estimating and re-estimating on a regular basis on work deliverables for team members and me .Reassigning priorities in order to maintain and accomplish the project schedule. Miscellaneous Languages : Proficient in Hindi, English and Punjabi