BRIJESH VIKAL

D.O.B. 26 May 1987 DEGREE / EXAM SCHOOL / COLLEGE YEAR GRADES

Contact +91-9849274029 PGDM (PGP) IIM Calcutta 2014 5.92 / 9.0
Gender Male, Single B. Tech (ECE) IIT (BHU) 2009 7.31 / 10.0
Languages English, Hindi H. S. C. DAV Public School 2004 81.4%
Email S. S. C. DAV Public School 2002 85.6%

Microsoft India (R&D) IT Program Manager 2 Enterprise Commerce IT

Pvt. Ltd. Ownership of end to end delivery and planning of OEM service lines non-quarterly Agile releases
Hyderabad, IND Worked on the prioritization of Product Backlog and aligning the delivery with continuous releases
June 2014 - Present Innovated on process improvements in the ITLC for monthly releases to absorb scope and stakeholders churn
Managed .NET web applications with Message Bus and SAP datacenters as middle tier and backend

Reduced Backlog from 235 in Jun14 to 10 (95.7%) by FY end and appreciated by leadership team for standards
Achievements &
Delivered business prioritized features and aligned short term projects to monthlies with dollar & time savings
Appreciation
Kicked off Weekly Releases workflow incorporating Agile framework and team practices for quicker delivery

Appreciated by the GM and Leads as the PM for the complex nature of MACH Global Newsletter
initiative working under constraints involving teams from India, Redmond, China and Ireland

Leadership Skills Stakeholders management involving business customers, Engineering, Service Ops and Release Management
Leadership in alignment of business and engineering priorities for the organizational goal of customer obsession
Collaborating with Engineering and SE teams towards the common goal of reduction of backlog to <20 by FY15
Conflict management and productive communication mechanisms to streamline discipline wise challenges
Facilitating Business (10+), Release (3), Build (5), Ops (15+) and Engineering (20+) teams playing a central role

Verizon Data Services Analyst - System Development National Common Ordering Gateways
India Pvt. Ltd.
Handled over 5 initiatives of the project with teams of 3-5 members working on the different applications
Hyderabad, IND Worked as a mentor for the new recruits in the team; Provided technical trainings relevant to the project
Aug 2009 - June 2012 Developed applications, Web tools & Dashboards for telecommunication services of Verizon Ordering Gateway
Automated auditing, logging, user tracking, performance monitoring and reporting in .NET Web Applications
Completed 3 migration projects (Java to .Net) and web tools for operations with role specific dynamic pages

Achievements Increased the efficiency by 280% and accuracy to 99.8% for order processing module with secured web-tools
Reduced 70% of processing time of orders using automated tools, scheduled jobs and reports architecture
Eliminated cost of maintaining servers, apps and teams by integrating external applications in an executable
Key contributor in most of the areas out of 50K hours of effort delivered from Gateways applications till 2011

Appreciation Appreciated by Director for developing real-time order flow Dashboards for 10 million transactions per day
Highest rating in a team of 22 and awarded with 10% hike on CTC after 6 months of service, 2010
Highest rating in a team of 28 with 20% hike on CTC and promoted to Analyst within 18 months, 2011
Received U Deserve certificate and Verizon-On the Spot Award twice for remarkable contribution, 2010-12

TECHNICAL SKILLS Certified Scrum Master certification; Trained by the CEO of GoodAgile, Pete Deemer, May 2015
Project Management tools: Agile Methodology (Scrum), MS VSTF, MS Sharepoint
Working Experience
Programing Languages: C#, .NET, Java, Adobe Flex and Perl
Data Tools: SQL, Power BI Cloud Implementation: Azure

BASICS Ltd. Management Intern World Bank Project - UPBSN

New Delhi and Lucknow Assigned on World Banks UPBSN project of sodic land reclamation with BASIX facilitating the FPOs formation
Mar 2012 - May 2012 Presented analysis to the CEO & MD on field visits, progress and recommendations and Reported to the VP
MIS design, Value Chain study, Market Linkage, community mobilization and registration process of FPOs
Worked with BDMs for field visits of 18 districts for community mobilization, support and market potential

PMC-Sierra India Summer Intern VLSI - Automation & Verification

Pvt. Ltd. Automated manual process of timing analysis of circuit designs eliminating manual and syntactical errors
Bangalore Reduced Delivery time from 2 weeks to 3 days with 95% accuracy; Eliminated need of a dedicated resource
May 2008 - Jul 2008 Highest grade and received letter of appreciation for exceeding expectations in deadlines and work quality
 DISTINCTION
Industry Offers Only candidatefrom IIMC selected for Program Manager role in Microsoft IT, 2014;Tier-1 Lateral Placement
One of the 12 candidates selected for final placement in Verizon out of 116 students in IIT (BHU), 2009
Among 2 out of 54 students in Electronics to be offered Summer Internship from PMC-Sierra, 2008

Diploma in French 2 year Diploma in French from Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Arts, BHU, 2006-08

5th National IT Merit Certificate in NITAT by NIIT covering Verbal, Reasoning, Numerical, Team work and Problem solving
Aptitude Test Among Top 3% (97 percentile) nationally and secured 2111 rank out of 73122 candidates, 2009

FREELANCING & INDUSTRY PROJECTS

Last Forest Enterprises - Worked with the CEO on the business plan and market potential for Last Forest Enterprises as a Freelancer
Keystone Foundation - Data analytics for BI and Market Intelligence to plan the product lines in organic and fair trade
Kotagiri - Financial assessment on operational costs, market potential, investment and profitability

P&G CEO Challenge - Campus Winner out of 47 teams at IIM Calcutta qualifying through multiple case based rounds, 2012
Mumbai - Represented Institute in the National inter-IIM round at Mumbai and presented the analysis to the CEO

IGS, BASIX - Social Enterprise project: analyzed the business model of FPOs & recommended with intensive field study
Social Impact, Kolkata - Designed Impact Assessment tools for evaluating market linkages & shift in bargaining capacity of farmers

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Secondary Data research, Store observations, In-depth Interviews, Incept & Telephonic surveys.
Market Research (Milk Additives) - Evaluated Indian market using Research Design, different survey techniques and analysis using SPSS tool. Conducted

Developed the model based on Neural Networks using Clementine tool for identifying target customers.
Data Mining (Neural Network) - Analyzed an insurance company dataset for profit maximization problem using prototype classification model.

& development, Advertising & Revenue modeling and Operations.

E-Commerce Business Plan (Food Planner Website) - A breakthrough Intermediary model using food theme. Incorporated competitor analysis, design

B. Tech Projects (Electronics Hardware) - Highest grade (10/10) in B.Tech project for presenting LCD based microcontroller hardware model.
Built Data Acquisition System and Error Log System (not available in normal market IC Testers).

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Placement Representative - IIT (BHU) Art - 1st prize in Crafts & Clay Modeling in Cultural Fest, IIT (BHU)

Technical Interviewer - Verizon India Offices - 2nd in Graffiti and designed Open-air stage backdrop, IIMC

Core Committee Member - Youth Fest, BHU Technical - 1st runner up in Model Exhibition in TechFest, IIT (BHU)

President-Adventure Club - IIM Calcutta - 1st prize in Electronic Design event in TechFest, IIT (BHU)

- Materialized Sponsorship from Freecharge.in & TSAF Social & - Member, SPICE-Community Empowerment group, Verizon
- Pushed the club from 13th to 1st Rank out of 25 clubs Environment - Part of the Verizon-Green Earth Initiative

Coordinator-Workshops - Cultural Fest, IIM Calcutta Trekking & - Scaled Dzongri Top in a 60Kms 9-day Trek, IIMC

Events Head - Fine Arts Club - IIM Calcutta Expeditions - 2-day Outdoor Leadership Camp of TSAF, 2013

Secretary-Audio Club - IIT (BHU) Sports and - Hostel Volley Ball team member, IIT (BHU)

Senior Member-Technical Activity Centre - IIT (BHU) Fitness - Scored 94% in Physical Education, 96.67% in Athletics, XII

Specialties Computer Knowledge Hobbies

Systems & MIS Microsoft Azure Market Research Photography
Program Management MS VSTF, .NET & SQL Business Management Weight Training
Certified Scrum Master MS Office & Sharepoint Data Mining & Analytics Traveling & Adventure

Brijesh Vikal Place: Hyderabad Date: 02/09/2015