Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Affiliations
Compliance
Technical and Soft Skills
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Mitul Patel

Odessa,FL

Summary

With over 25 years of diverse experience in management, business and data analysis, and project management, I have honed my skills in effectively communicating and collaborating with leaders at all levels. My expertise lies in fostering a culture of teamwork and cooperation within organizations. Throughout my career, I have consistently delivered successful IT and business solutions for a wide range of projects.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Tax Senior Manager

Verizon
09.2024 - Current
  • Assess tax treatment for products and services to ensure core billing system compliance.
  • Conducted monthly tax SOX audits mapping customer profiles to business rules for compliance.
  • Coordinated deliverables through Scrum Agile and Waterfall methods.
  • Developed and executed SQL queries against diverse datasets to obtain customer and reporting information required for customer analysis.

Senior Manager Emerging Commercial Platforms

Verizon
07.2022 - 09.2024

Responsible for 6 Agile Core Teams with combined business case funding of over $8M covering 3 product domains

  • Collaborate with Product Owners and development teams on roadmaps, requirements, timelines, and prioritizing work for program deliveries
  • Facilitate joint team/partner meetings to remove impediments and resolve open issues
  • Deliverable Management through curated JIRA Dashboards, JQL Issue Filters, and various reports
  • Sprint Oversight of prioritization, deployments validation, and program health
  • Resource Manage a blended team of 60+ employees and vendor contractors, validate participation and contributions to business programs
  • Optimization Studies performed to measure team utilization with each sprint
  • Financial Planning & Analysis management of program capital and operational budgeting and expenditures
  • Vendor Management of 50+ resources, working with contracting firms on budgeting, resourcing, and onboarding.
  • Team Empowerment through team and individual interactive sessions, to further career goals and objectives.

Manager Product Catalog Fios and Wireline

Verizon
07.2017 - 07.2022

Team lead for product catalog and reference data in support of ordering, billing, formatting, and provisioning systems

  • Oversight for 3 User Interfaces (UIs) used to manage, maintain, and deploy product and reference data covering over 200+ product-reference tables and 4+ million rows of data
  • Resource Mange a blended staff of employees and contractors, both domestic and international
  • Collaborate, and Partner with cross functional teams to build and deploy product and reference data in support of business objectives, compliance, and regulatory mandates
  • Lead, drive, and guide team through successful execution of strategic programs and deliverables
  • Reference documentation, business rules, and related business processes authoring
  • Production Support and non-production issues via At-Your-Service and JIRA.

Senior Member Techinical Services - System Engineering

Verizon
04.2013 - 07.2017

Requirements, Architecture, and Design (RAD) Team Lead

  • Requirements gathering, High Level and Detail design creations, manage implementations, and support testing
  • Collaborate and Partner with cross functional teams to build and deploy products and reference data in support of business objectives, compliance, and regulatory mandates
  • Manage and Implement product and reference data changes for 18 Ordering, Billing, and Reporting applications
  • Authoring of reference documentation, business rules, and related business processes
  • Project Management of various projects from design to implementation
  • Interface Consultation between partner teams and clients
  • Production support of all catalog areas, problem triage and resolution with root cause analysis and preventative actions
  • Prepare Executive Presentations and Metrics/Analytics for strategic programs

Education

MBA - Business Management

University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Bachelor of Science - Finance

University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Bachelor of Science - Management

University of South Florida
Tampa, FL

Skills

  • Agile/Project Management
  • Service Delivery Life Cycle
  • Business Administration
  • Verbal and Written Communication
  • Team Leadership
  • Resource Allocation and Budgeting
  • Financial Oversight
  • Resource Allocation
  • Data Analytics
  • Cross-Functional Communication
  • Business Process Documentation
  • Workforce Management

Accomplishments

    Strategic Program Lead over the following programs:

  • Revenue Reconciliation resulting in net positive $10M
  • Strategic Asset migrations
  • Enterprise Bill Format Re-engineering

Affiliations

  • Project Management Institute

Compliance

  • Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Audit Control Performer and Evaluator for eight audit Controls, with no findings over the last 3+ years.
  • Engage with Enterprise Risk Management on compliance rules and requirements.
  • Engage with Ernst & Young (E&Y) for control audit reviews, process reviews, and findings.
  • Privacy Impact Assessments analyzing and categorizing application data elements.

Technical and Soft Skills

  • Alteryx Core Developer Certified
  • Proficient in MS Office and Google Suite products including Excel, Sheets, and Looker Studio
  • Experience and working knowledge of SDLC and DevOps/Agile tools - JIRA, Confluence, Kanban and other dashboards.
  • Experience with or working knowledge of SQL Server, Oracle SQL Developer, Advanced Query Tool, DBeaver, and Mainframe DB2
  • Slack Champion and contributor to Help Slack channel

Timeline

Tax Senior Manager

Verizon
09.2024 - Current

Senior Manager Emerging Commercial Platforms

Verizon
07.2022 - 09.2024

Manager Product Catalog Fios and Wireline

Verizon
07.2017 - 07.2022

Senior Member Techinical Services - System Engineering

Verizon
04.2013 - 07.2017

MBA - Business Management

University of South Florida

Bachelor of Science - Finance

University of South Florida

Bachelor of Science - Management

University of South Florida
Mitul Patel