SHIFALI SAINI
14508 Friendlywood Rd, Burtonsville MD 20866
(H) 240-280-1815 (Cell) 240-462-6222 email: shifalisaini@hotmail.com
EDUCATION:
Ryerson Polytechnic University September 1996 -
May 1999
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science
University of Toronto September
1992 - May 1996
Bachelor of Science Degree Major Human Biology, Minor Sociology
SKILLS:
Experience managing projects and large teams
Experience with project budget and resource allocation
Extensive knowledge of MS Windows 98/NT/2000/XP
Programming languages: Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, and
GPSS/H
Experience and knowledge using MS Project, SalesForce.com, Visio, Airport
Manager, ARENA, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Excellent communication skills and client etiquette
Experience developing websites.
Ability to speak French, Hindi, and Punjabi.
EXPERIENCE:
Project Manager
Feb 2008 Present
Vecna Technologies, College Park, MD
Project Manager of Northrop Grumman bioinformatics research project.
Responsible for coordination and management of the Science Team. Determine
monthly budget and appropriately dispense to team.
Project Manger of Maryland Hospital Association caching application
prototype. Speak with client to determine requirements of prototype and analysis
requested. Provide technical specifications to development. Develop project plan
to manage Development Team and monitor status. Provide client with feedback of
deliverables.
Project Manager of Maryland Department of Transportation mTrack project.
Responsible for reviewing enhancements with client for approval, documentation of
enhancements, development of project plan and maintaining daily status with
development team.
Report to Director of Implementation and Account manager regarding status and
issues of all projects.
Generated weekly and monthly reports with budget details for client review.
Ability to communicate effectively with development team and clients to
provide feedback and discuss any issues or concerns.
Corporate Business Systems Analyst II / Project Manager December 2006 - Feb
2008
ValueOptions, Inc., Reston, VA
Develop and control project plan and coordinate information technology (IT)
and testing resources to accomplish project objectives.
Responsible for managing the analysis, design and implementation of various
business and healthcare clinical applications.
Communicate directly with internal and external clients on all business
requests and emergencies. Liaison between clients and IT. Responsible for
tracking the progress of all requests and communicating updates to clients and
upper management.
Monitor project status and provide periodic status reports to all IT
Directors.
Evaluate requests for system enhancements with internal and external clients.
Responsible for developing and providing timetables for completion.
Coordinate and manage User Acceptance Testing with the end users for all
changes made to the applications through daily meetings. Communicate testing
issues to the Development team. Manage progress of each issue until resolved.
Project Manager for server upgrade to accommodate daylight savings time.
Responsible for determining milestones and scheduling the coordination of server
down time with minimal effect on operations.
Ability to communicate technical information in plain language to clients.
Attend daily meetings with and report to the Director.
Demonstrate experience with project management skills, including proficient
use of MS Project.
Effectively use oral and written communication skills on a daily basis.
Airport Analyst November 2004 August 2005
Arup Canada, Inc., Toronto, ON
Involved with the simulation of airport models for Pearson International
Airport, Durval International Airport, and JetBlue airlines.
Responsible for producing simulation models using ARENA software and MS
EXCEL.
Produced capacity demand analysis of passenger flow, baggage flow, and
aircraft gating within airport arrival and departure systems.
Accountable for provided analysis of simulation results using Airport
Manager.
Responsible for generating analysis reports for clients, and presenting
findings to upper management.
Group Leader/Team Leader/Senior Simulation Developer April 2001- October 2004
Atlantis Systems International, Brampton, ON
Group Leader, Team Leader
Assigned to a Acting Group Leader position to manage a team of 20 aerospace
engineers for the $30M F-18/A IMTS military simulation project.
Team Leader of six aerospace engineers for the communication, navigation and
multi-display systems.
Responsible for WBS (work breakdown structure) for all communication systems.
Accountable for dealing with clients from Boeing, Royal Australian Air Force,
and Canadian Air Force.
Appointed abroad to work with Agusta Westland client on the EH-101 simulator
military helicopter project that involved project management of project testing.
Provided status reports and projection details for project phases to senior
management and clients
Initiated and conducted meetings with entire group to explain new company
project methodologies.
Managed progress of entire group and project.
Supervised simulation model designs of all team members.
Ability to find design risk issues due to data deficiency or data
inconsistency from clients, and communicate the impact on projects to clients and
upper management.
Responsible for designing a marketing scheme to market new projects and the
latest company simulator technology to clients worldwide.
Responsible for providing status of team progress, scheduling of team on
assigned tasks, and supplying management with accurate estimates of task
completion.
Senior Simulation Developer
Applied in-depth research of aircraft systems functionality to model various
systems. Responsible for the simulation of the F-18/A: VOR/ILS System, Combined
Interrogator Transponder (CIT) System, Secure Speech System, Electronic Altimeter
System, and Photographic System.
Awarded for exemplary performance of duty, and for meeting tight deadlines by
President of Atlantis Systems International.
Produced and presented reports for all aircraft systems design phases:
functional, preliminary and critical design phases.
Responsible for coding all simulation using C Programming.
Responsible for developing test cases and testing all modules in each system,
including free-play activity.
Responsible for integrating the aircraft systems simulation with that of the
entire aircraft.
Information Systems Specialist January 2000 April 2001
Federal Government of Canada (Statistics Canada), Ottawa ON
Project management and development of Canadian large scale survey applications
using C.A.S.E.S. software on UNIX platform.
Responsible for meeting all design specifications.
Effectively and efficiently read, designed, and pointed out flaws to clients,
and provided design alternatives.
Responsible for demonstrating the completed product in front of all clients
and upper management.
Communicated effectively in French with French speaking clients.
Met all deadlines with high quality work.
Webmaster September 1999 January 2000
Multisoft Solutions Inc., Markham, ON
Developed front and back-end web pages for clients using JavaScript and HMTL.
Produced and edited graphics and animations for web pages using CorelDraw.
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