Urja Bhansali

Experience

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  George Mason University

  Aug 2006 - Aug 2007

  - Conducting research for the Department of parks and recreation for the state of Virginia.- Contacting the residents of the state to collect their perception on the present conditions.- Generating reports based on gathered information.- Presenting it to the department head at the Social Science Department in George Mason University. - Conducting Labs for Microsoft Office application (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Visio, MS Project, and MS Access) for undergraduate students. - Teaching HTML/XHTML, web site creation concepts and SSH Transfer.- Preparing curriculum and examination material for students

  • Marketing Analyst

    May 2007 - Aug 2007

  • Teaching Assistant

    Aug 2006 - Aug 2007
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  SAP

  Jan 2008 - Aug 2008

  Quality Management Intern

  - Participating in acceptance, integration, accessibility and user tests. Working on QTP. - Managing requirements and traceability. - Conduct Peer to peer reviews for documentation approvals. - Co-ordinate the meetings, creating presentations and handling of meeting minutes and follow on documents. - Creating project/ test reports, quality plans and monitoring test cases. - Creating project timeline.- Creating diagrams in Microsoft Visio and PowerPoint.- Assist with test organization and analyze ways to improve test efficiency and decision making. - Working with requirements gathering and Software Requirements Specification (SRS) documents.- Worked closely with developers in terms of design documents. - Worked extensively on Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Project Professional. Show less

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  ICF International

  Apr 2010 - Nov 2013

  Business Analyst

  Planned and coordinated activities of multiple projects simultaneously, including defining projects’ scope, objectives, staffing, resources, and deliverables. Devised and implemented process improvement initiatives that considerably enhanced operational efficiency, process optimization and helped achieve business objectives.United Stated Postal Service (USPS) – Informed Visibility (IV) – (Aug-Nov 2013)• Helped improve upon old legacy systems and introduce new methods to meet the cutting-edge requirements and provide visibility across the network and reporting capabilities. • Working as the Team Lead created detailed requirements and use cases for the IV System by conducting stakeholder interviews.• Envisaged and provided supportive wireframes for the dashboard design of a business intelligence application.• Created the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) that linked requirements throughout the validation process for migration to HP ALM. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) – Rural Utilities Service (RUS), Broadband Initiatives Program (Apr 2010-Sep 2013)• Working as Reporting Analyst provided high quality comparative and statistical data analysis to create reporting deliverables about application processing and post-award monitoring for $1.7 Billion as a part of ARRA Funds.• Built and upheld a backend database to produce automated dashboards for post-award monitoring system and generating quarterly dashboards while providing progress reports on the ARRA funds advanced to the White House. USDA – Rural Development (RD), Eligibility Website Improvements (Apr 2010-Sep 2013)• Working as Reporting Analyst developed reports on incentive payments for Satellite awardees, and created a dashboard to report progress to the OSTP outside the White House.• Performed internal user testing to validate the requirements and keep a traceability matrix. Show less

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  MindPetal Software Solutions, Inc

  Oct 2013 - May 2016

  Wrote project proposals, guided the senior management on new business development, and conducted a market search on products relating to forms management and automation to assist in Digital Transformation for multiple US government entities. Department of Interior (DOI), National Park Service, Enterprise Forms System Support (Oct 2015-Apr 2016)• Using the HTML5 elements automated the Bureau’s 500+ legacy forms into 350 concise forms, reducing the time to completion for the Bureau’s staff by about 35%.• Organized and participated in weekly status meetings with the client to report project progress, and the daily scrum meeting with the project team. • Led and managed the forms development process while analyzing and reporting functions and business process proficiency.Department of Labor (DOL), OSHA.gov Stabilization Project (Aug 2015-Apr 2016) • The project aimed to reconfigure current environment to approximate last known working architecture with supported software and hardware. • Working as Documentation Lead and Testing Support created a complete documentation set from the ground up to capture comprehensive critical system knowledge.• Developed and submitted various project documents, including the project charter, system documentation, quality assurance plan, and weekly status reports. Show less Wrote project proposals, guided the senior management on new business development, and conducted a market search on products relating to forms management and automation to assist with Digital Transformation for multiple US government entities.US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Communication Template Management Project for CDER (Nov 2013-Apr 2016) • Working Team Lead implemented a COTS product and integrated it within the FDA software suite for stress-free maintenance of its 800+ templates. o Templates minimized to about 400 smart templates, saving time to completion for staff by about 45%.• Led and managed a team of six professionals to convert and test the current CDER templates. • Developed and submitted project management documents, such as project plan, requirements document, traceability matrix, quality assurance plan, and weekly status reports. • Scheduled client training and created training materials, as required. • Kept up-to-date the client SharePoint site for the project documents, and also maintained and updated the solution in AWS GovCloud. Show less

  • Sr. Business Consultant

    Oct 2015 - May 2016

  • Senior Business Analyst

    Oct 2013 - Sept 2015
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  C2 Solutions

  May 2016 - Jun 2017

  Project Manager

  Worked for the company’s government client, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and contributed to multiple projects by managing all aspects of the planning activities, including determining needs, mobilizing resources, and achieving results.• Led and managed multiple projects within MCC. • Focused teams on objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were accomplished on time, on budget and with the desired results.• Developed innovative business models for “as-is” analysis, and provided relevant documentation to supplement the process and assist in creating “to be” scenarios. • Organized semi-monthly meetings with the client to appraise project progress. • Created domain models and provided solutions to address gaps, as necessary. • Bridged between the business and IT technical teams to determine needs, and to develop system strategies, and convert business requirements into logical data models. Show less

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  Dubai Airports

  Jul 2018 - Apr 2020

  PMO

  Governance and Control- Implement governance standards across the portfolio, including tracking, monitoring andupdating the status of programme deliverables- Manage the programme level risks and issues registerPlanning, Reporting and Control- Develop the IT Project Standards guide, seeking contributions from Project Managers, QA Team, Development Team and Service Implementation Lead to ensure that the Standards meet best practice- Organize workshops to identify areas of improvement for projects, documentingrecommendations and presenting them to the Director of Investment Management- Build up a repository of project templates both technical and management to support theProject Managers- Implement project standards across all projects in the portfolio- Update and administer the programme plan as required using reports from Project Managersand the outcomes of project and board level meetings and workshops- Prepare consolidated material from project reports for monthly reviewProject management- Support implementation of the quality strategy, including any processes and templates, acrossall projects- Implement the change control process across all projects and portfolios. - Providing effective management support to project teams on small to medium sized projects, orassisting Project Managers on streams of other large projects- Co-ordination of publication, review and sign-off of major Project Management deliverables- Ensuring project plans are created and maintained, deliverables tracked against time and cost,and resource utilization is monitored Show less

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  International SOS

  Feb 2021 - now

  • Director of Enterprise Applications

    Jul 2023 - now

  • Head of Applications

    Feb 2021 - now