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VIJAI PRABHUDASS

The Woodlands,USA

Summary

Results-oriented Information Technology professional with a robust background in Project Management, Business Analysis, and Software Development. Recognized as a proactive leader and team player with a successful track record in delivering complex projects across diverse industries. Fully capable of utilizing both traditional and Agile frameworks to define and deliver project scope within schedule, and budget. Proficient in aligning IT strategies with organizational objectives to solve complex issues, define solutions, drive innovation, enhance productivity, optimize business processes, and yield measurable bottom-line results. Ability to rapidly adapt to new technologies and environments while applying extensive experience and hands-on skills to achieve successful outcomes, contributing to organizational success through strategic IT initiatives.

Overview

20
20

Years of professional experience

5
5

Certifications

Work History

Product Owner

Indigo Beam
Remote
01.2023 - 01.2024
  • Engaged in leadership role within Agile (Scrum) environment focused on owning and delivering business requirements for build of key modules within Clean Harbors Industrial Services Platform (ISP)
  • Played a pivotal role in successfully launching initial release of ISP platform, which transitioned Industrial Services unit to cutting-edge software that is user friendly, accurate, well integrated and mobile compatible
  • Net result achieved was almost 80-90% reduction in data entry duplication across business units, enhanced mobile usage and overall business process efficiency
  • Key activities included eliciting requirements, crafting business processes, feature prioritization, sprint planning, generating user stories, backlog management, UI design, QA and user acceptance testing (UAT)

Senior Business Analyst/PM

Indigo Beam
Hybrid/Houston
08.2021 - 01.2023
  • Engaged in extensive coordination and collaboration with client business leaders, industry experts, and internal and external teams to drive development and delivery of NOV MAX Completions platform
  • Role was crucial in shaping and implementing this cutting-edge platform, which stands out for its advanced dashboard for well completions and fracking data visualization within oil and gas sector
  • Platform proved instrumental in enabling NOV to significantly expand and retain its customer base by providing comprehensive end-to-end solution encompassing hardware and real-time software monitoring
  • Key activities included project and sprint planning, strategic planning, feature prioritization, workload scheduling, requirements gathering, business process analysis, business process development, backlog management, user story creation, leading team meetings, defect triaging and quality assurance

IT Project Manager

Cicero Consulting
Houston
01.2015 - 06.2021
  • Provided comprehensive oversight and management of initial stages of IT program and projects, gaining approval on execution strategy, governance, management, resource plans and budget for final investment decision (FID) on Jordan Cove LNG/pipeline project for Pembina Pipeline Corporation
  • Execution of projects in this capacity required effective coordination and collaboration with internal teams, subject matter experts, suppliers, senior management, and external consultants across diverse business areas and geographic locations
  • Increased remote field worker health and safety processes by 75% with management and rollout of Blackline Safety solution
  • Further engaged communities in Oregon project sites by managing procurement and implementation of cloud-based grant management software solution
  • Slashed contract administration time with procurement and implementation of AVEVA ProCon,
  • Improved internal document control processes with Microsoft SharePoint implementation and training
  • Enhanced project team readiness and connectivity with technology infrastructure setup at multiple offices in Texas and Oregon
  • Key activities included strategic planning, governance planning, business analysis, project/program scoping, scheduling, budgeting, procurement, vendor management, change management, risk management, scope verification, and orderly conclusion of all projects and activities.

Senior Technical Business Analyst

Inspectorate - Bureau Veritas
Houston
02.2014 - 11.2014
  • Consulting services involving analysis of inspection systems to improve existing business processes, complex calculation algorithms which resulted in design and delivery of data automation, calculation, and integration components
  • This effort significantly reduced time for customer data conversion, availability and sharing for analysis and processing by 50%

Business Analyst

Evergreen North America Industrial Services
09.2013 - 10.2013
  • Provided business analysis and software development expertise to design integration components to improve data flow between key business systems
  • This greatly reduced need for duplication of data across ERP systems resulting in increases in operational and administration productivity.

IT Manager

ECOnergy AS
06.2010 - 03.2012
  • Part-time consulting engagement to manage initial stages of a start-up idea to reduce paper usage in sales and marketing by delivering web and mobile solution to push ad campaigns based on location
  • Achievements included guiding concept to project realization, outsourcing strategy to reduce project cost and design approval.

Senior Systems Consultant

Teletopia AS
11.2007 - 06.2010
  • M ulti-faceted role which included solutions architecture, project management, and software development to stabilize existing telecom platforms and design a new redundant platform
  • Duties in this role resulted in a 75% reduction in support requests and downtime by working with technical team to re-engineer and optimize telephony products and platform
  • Additionally, work on new platform involved project planning and budgeting, technology recommendations, hardware procurement, platform software design and resource recruitment.

Senior Consultant

Capgemini
04.2006 - 11.2007
  • Outsourced from Capgemini to provide technical consulting to Schlumberger on intranet projects, MyPaper and Portfolio
  • Work on these projects improved management's view of technical submission data through improved reporting facilities in MyPaper
  • Support requests were greatly reduced by increased uptime through numerous bug fixes to existing MyPaper platform
  • Security of Portfolio portal was strengthened with re-design and development of a new security model.

Team Leader and Senior Consultant

PBS Technology Group
05.1998 - 01.2006
  • Manage e-business consulting department, overseeing clients, projects, and teams, ensuring successful delivery of all projects
  • Involved in sales and architecture of products and solutions tailored to meet customer needs
  • Key accomplishments include: Pioneered first online income tax filing website for Ministry of Finance of Trinidad and Tobago, improved branding, visibility, and customer guidance for Massy Motors though a CMS solution, transformed shipping logistics for Dominica Banana Marketing Corporation by implementing automated bar code scanning and data collection systems, transformed existing shipping and logistics processes to streamline global procurement with custom-built shipping and logistics system for British American Tobacco, significantly reduced application processing time for citizen certificates and documents for Supreme Court of Barbados through digitization and intelligent search systems, improved share management for Massy Group of Companies with a custom-built solution.

Systems Engineer

Carib-Link Limited
07.1996 - 04.1998
  • Web development and technical support for companies' clients.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering

University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad And Tobago
06.1996

Skills

  • Program & Project Planning Management
  • Project Estimation, Budgeting & Scheduling
  • Business Process Analysis & Improvements
  • Traditional SDLC and Agile Frameworks
  • IT Governance & Strategic Planning
  • Procurement and Contract Negotiation
  • Risk and Change Management
  • Team Leadership & Management
  • Systems Architecture, Integration, and Implementation

Certification

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) (PMI)
  • Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) (PMI)
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) (Scrum Alliance)
  • Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) (Microsoft)
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) (Microsoft)

Work Availability

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Affiliations

  • West Indies Sport Organization of Houston
  • Oslo Aliens Cricket Club

Software

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Office

Jira

Microsoft DevOps

SQL Server

Oracle

Visual Studio

MySQL

Visio

Interests

Music

Sports

Guitar

Songwriting

Timeline

Product Owner - Indigo Beam
01.2023 - 01.2024
Senior Business Analyst/PM - Indigo Beam
08.2021 - 01.2023
IT Project Manager - Cicero Consulting
01.2015 - 06.2021
Senior Technical Business Analyst - Inspectorate - Bureau Veritas
02.2014 - 11.2014
Business Analyst - Evergreen North America Industrial Services
09.2013 - 10.2013
IT Manager - ECOnergy AS
06.2010 - 03.2012
Senior Systems Consultant - Teletopia AS
11.2007 - 06.2010
Senior Consultant - Capgemini
04.2006 - 11.2007
Team Leader and Senior Consultant - PBS Technology Group
05.1998 - 01.2006
Systems Engineer - Carib-Link Limited
07.1996 - 04.1998
University of The West Indies - Bachelor of Science, Electrical And Computer Engineering
VIJAI PRABHUDASS