Dilip Guna, Project Collaborator

Dilip Guna

Project Collaborator

World Economic Forum

Location
India - Mumbai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
Experience
16 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months

Project Collaborator at World Economic Forum
  • Switzerland
  • My current job since June 2017
Principal Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • India - Mumbai
  • My current job since March 2013

• Worked with key stakeholders in overall delivery process improvement, managing and tracking project deployments across business units across for the client.
• Leveraged cross skill set relationships within the firm to assist the client with supporting functions, including Operations, Technology, Finance, HR, and Legal & Compliance to resolve issues ensuring seamless transition.
• Responsible for planning and monitoring of Information & Communication Technology related initiatives for the client.
• Established project management tools and processes for each transition, including setting up and chairing the appropriate project governance meetings.
• Designed status dashboards to track and report progress of each transition under management, to plan appropriately whilst ensuring risks and issues are identified, escalated and resolved.
• Provided project management support for the entire lifecycle of a transition, ensured that all required documentation and other project related deliverables are met, and also track progress.
• Participate in key discussion forums to understand impact on project pipeline and communicate it to all stakeholders including senior management on key decision points.
• Prepared technical proposals for implementation of improved solutions having key considerations, risk identification and mitigation followed by implementation roadmap with timelines.
• Calculate and project effort estimates for delivery by analyzing scope of work and help clients devise their release strategy.

Team Lead at J.P. Morgan
  • India - Mumbai
  • August 2010 to February 2013

• Have domain experience in Portfolio Management and Trading applications of a web based broker workstation.
• Drafted business requirement documents in collaboration with the Product Development team.
• Identified, investigated, and analyzed business processes for gaps / inefficiencies in legacy applications and prioritizing scope for development.
• Supported business through investigative requirements gathering and proposing solutions to applications particularly more in Portfolio Management.
• Led a vendor team of resources for the project, ensuring that deliverables are to the required standard of quality within the constraints of time and cost as defined in the Project Plan.
• Managed project in line with program communication, quality, risk and issues management plans
• Responsible for overall utilization and mobilization of project resources, and initiation of corrective action where required. Assisted in recruitment of new resources for scheduled projects in pipeline.
• Responsible for project administration including regular maintenance of project documentation and project outlines.
• Provided leadership to the project resources and was a interfacing point between the onshore and offshore teams.
• Managed, tracked and reported on the progress of projects using project delivery/tracking tools
• Ensured all engagement mechanisms, such as Daily Progress Reports/Dashboard was tightly managed and any rectification issues are addressed in a timely manner.
• Managed communications between product and solution teams through weekly review meetings and triaging of issues.

Business Analyst / Software Engineer at Accenture
  • India - Mumbai
  • August 2007 to August 2010

• Eliciting and analyzing client requirements and creating documents like Business Requirement document, Test plans and User manuals for an insurance product dealing with claims processing.
• Communicate with clients to identify business requirements and evaluate business solutions.
• Worked closely with stakeholders, developers, architects and a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction.
• Supported business through investigative requirements gathering and proposing solutions to applications particularly from a usability standpoint.
• Conducted formal walkthrough sessions of developed requirements documents.
• Liaising with the product team to provide operational support and responsive issue resolution when tickets are opened.
• Creating, adopting and implementing work plans, which ensure acceptable quality and integrity of the system documentation.
• Co-ordinate with UX team to conceptualize mock-ups and frameworks.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College
  • August 2007

Have secured First class in all my semesters.

High school or equivalent, Computer Science
  • at The Indian High School
  • July 2003

Was ranked 3rd in my high school board exam.

Specialties & Skills

Business Analysis
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Gathering
Testing
Requirements Writing
Quality Assurance
Business Analysis
IT Consulting
Project Management
IT Consulting

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Native Speaker
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

Project Management Institute
  • Mumbai Chapter
  • November 2015

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2016