Rahul Pradhan, MBA, PMP

Project Manager at OnStar

Greater Detroit Area

Current
  • Project Manager - Vehicle Data Services at OnStar
  • Project Manager at Accretive Solutions (formerly Dickson Allan)
Past

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Education
  • Wayne State University
  • Guru Jambeshwar University
Connections
133 connections
Industry
Telecommunications
Websites

Rahul Pradhan, MBA, PMP’s Summary

12+ years of technical and management experience in IT specializing in Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence & Telematics.

Rahul Pradhan, MBA, PMP’s Specialties:

Project Management, Analyst, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Telematics, HR, Finance, Automotive, Securities.

Rahul Pradhan, MBA, PMP’s Experience

  • Project Manager - Vehicle Data Services

    OnStar

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GM; Automotive industry)

    February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

    GM’s OnStar subsidiary is the industry leader in vehicle safety, security and information services. Vehicle Data Services leverages event based triggers in the OnStar hardware to read diagnostic, oil life, tire pressure and other information. The application handles over 5 million calls per month and supports more than 2 million active customers.
    Responsible for supporting & enhancing multiple applications under Vehicle Data Services.
    Manage OnStar's vendor/supplier relationships and engagement with EDS, Wipro, IBM etc. for OnStar's outsourced IT work using Agile delivery methodology:
    - Set and Control Scope
    - Manage Vendors
    - Deliver Early and Under-budget
    - Delight Customers

  • Project Manager

    Accretive Solutions (formerly Dickson Allan)

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)

    Engaged in client assignments at General Motors and OnStar while establishing and enhancing the business intelligence practice.

  • SAP BI Reporting Manager

    General Motors

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GM; Automotive industry)

    October 2007 — February 2008 (5 months)

    •Develop an overall reporting strategy for GFIMS program that addresses the approach and best practices for the entire lifecycle of SAP reports from the program perspective.
    •Provide guidance and direction on requirement gathering approach, requirement rationalization methods and report design approach for SAP ECC & BI reports.
    •Coordinate with EDS delivery managers, ensuring process conformance to GM standards and escalation of critical issues to the review boards and PMO.
    •Review and approve the deliverables of EDS delivery team and managers on behalf of General Motors.
    •Technologies: SAP Netweaver BI 7, BW 3.5, SAP ECC, Oracle 10g.

  • DW Systems Analyst/ Project Manager

    Ford Motor Company

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; F; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2004 — September 2007 (3 years 5 months)

    Managing the Pulse Survey DataMart & Reporting project from Inception to Production Support. Responsible for working with Program Manager and Sponsor to ensure on-time delivery within stipulated budget. Constantly involved in development and implementation of project management methodologies utilizing Unified (RUP) Solution Delivery Methodology. Developed Project Plans, Risk Management Plans, Use Cases, Service Level Agreements, Project Charter, Business Owner View, Business Glossary, System/ Application Architecture Documents. Maintained strict quality controls through regular technical inspections, ARB & PQA Reviews. Held weekly team meetings and prepared status reports, gate reviews; assisted team with issue resolution. Responsibilities also include ensuring appropriate application security and controls using Sarbanes-Oxley guidelines and ensuring compliance with Ford IT's standards for architecture, processes, tools & methodologies.

  • Field Consultant

    CMC Americas Inc

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1999 — 2004 (5 years)

    Various client consulting and contracting projects

  • Project Lead & Analyst

    AT&T

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Information Technology and Services industry)

    October 2001 — April 2004 (2 years 7 months)

    Requirement Gathering, User Interviews, Data Analysis, Designing Business Objects universes for canned reports and ad-hoc querying, Designing many complex reports, Security setup in Supervisor, Converting Sybase procedures to BO Reports, Defining mappings in Informatica PowerMart to generate and combine data from heterogeneous sources, Performance Tuning of reports and queries, Installation and configuration of WebIntelligence servers on Solaris, Configuration of Apache Web server, Weblogic and Tomcat App Servers, Migration of reports from Development to UAT to Production, Maintenance and Modification of Universes and Reports, Setting up users and groups in Supervisor for all environments, Customizing WebI using SDK and JSP.

  • Business Objects Architect

    JP Morgan Chase

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPM; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 2 months)

    Requirement Analysis, Designing Universes, Creating several complex reports, Installation and configuration of WebIntelligence and BCA in a Windows multi server cluster, Configuration of IIS Web Server, Performance Tuning of reports and queries, Maintenance and Modification of existing Universes and Reports, Writing VB scripts for certain process automation, Mentoring JPM Chase Staff in Business Objects related activities.

  • Project Lead

    General Motors

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GM; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2000 — July 2000 (5 months)

    Project Lead for a team of 4 BO developers. Requirement Gathering, Data Analysis, Universe Design, Report Creation, Security setup in Supervisor, Issue Busting, User Interaction, Writing Oracle functions to support the universe, Tuning SQL queries, Mentoring other report writers, User Training, Installation and configuration of BCA on Windows NT and Handover process to GM employees.

  • Business Objects Architect

    Mastercard International

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MA; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 1999 — February 2000 (7 months)

    Universe Design, Report Creation, Installation and Configuration of WebIntelligence and BCA server on Windows NT with fail-over capabilities, Setting up users in BO, User Training, Customizing WebI Interface, Writing and Associating VBA macros with BO reports, Writing Addins for BO full client.

  • Sr. Engineer

    CMC

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1996 — 1999 (3 years)

Rahul Pradhan, MBA, PMP’s Education

  • Wayne State University

    MBA , Finance , 2005 — 2007

    Activities and Societies:
    Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society

  • Guru Jambeshwar University

    BS , Computer Science , 1992 — 1996

    Activities and Societies:
    Honors Degree

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Rahul Pradhan, MBA, PMP’s Interests:

Technology, gadgets, reading, sports.

Rahul Pradhan, MBA, PMP’s Honors:

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
Six Sigma Green Belt certified in DMAIC process.
Recognition awards for outstanding performance from AT&T, Mastercard, Ford & CMC Americas.

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