Vivian Charles, Project Manager

Vivian Charles

Project Manager

Nissan North America

Location
Canada
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
Experience
18 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months

Project Manager at Nissan North America
  • India - Chennai
  • My current job since December 2011

- Service Delivery Management, working in a Managed Service Model of Application Development and Maintenance.

- Incident Management, Change management, SLA Management & Client Management.

- Manage estimations for PWO / Enhancement / SOW / CR’s by requesting appropriate SO’s and fulfilling the resource capacity.

- SLA reviews and updates to the Engagement Level Meetings held on a weekly basis.

- Setting up of KRA’s for Individuals and reviewing them on quarterly basis.

- To mentor and provide the right information for my colleagues and new comers in the team.

- Monitoring & reporting on standards & performance targets.

- Arranging & chairing weekly team meetings, focusing on targets & achievements.

- Involved in Engagement level meetings to understand and plan for future growth opportunities within the Project.

- Implementing new initiatives.

- Involved in Staffing of new members to the account.

- Providing prompt and accurate information on individual performance.

Service Delivery Manager at Volkswagen
  • Germany
  • My current job since March 2015

Service Delivery for Engineering to Engineering Applications within VW. Service Level Reporting, SLA, Targets, maintenance of agreed terms within the contract.

Application Lead at Nissan North America
  • United States
  • September 2010 to December 2011

-Responsible for Application Support from an Onsite Perspective.

- One on one interaction with the business on a day to day basis understanding the needs on development and application support.

- Guiding the team at offshore for quality service delivery.

- Presentation to the business on solutions provided by the team to ensure more business.

- Working on estimations, understanding the business requirement and explaining the same to the clients and creating the requirement understanding documents.

- Driving DRE exercise from onsite.

- Responsible for the Incident SLA and action items.

- Responsible for SRT’s (Service Restoration Team) in case of any P1’s that may arise and doing the necessary RCA.

- Representative of TechM in the multi-vendor meetings held at the client site bringing out issues / concerns in coordination.

Team Lead - Application Support & Development at Nissan Nissan America
  • India - Chennai
  • November 2008 to September 2010

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Developing goals, procedures and policies.

- Identifying and designing most efficient and cost effective solution through research and evaluation of alternatives.

- Providing training and assistance on full range of technical issues to lower level staff on a project team.

- Responsible for the project management tools and code submission.

Software Developer - Onsite at Nissan North America
  • United States
  • February 2008 to November 2008

Roles and Responsibilities for Nissan North America:

- Supporting, maintaining and documenting software functionality.

- Responsible for performance tuning, improvement, balancing, usability, automation.

- Researched, designed and developed software systems to meet with clients requirements.

- Testing, debugging, and maintaining the systems after fully designing.

- Responsible to develop data and evaluate the performance and reliability of developed applications.

-Co-ordinate & advice the development team according to project specifications.

- To Provide complete testing and support for DRE and Upgrade activities at the back end.

Software Engineer at Nissan North America
  • India - Chennai
  • June 2007 to February 2008

- Research, evaluate and synthesize technical information and accordingly design the systems.

- Analyzing user’s needs, and then designing, testing, and developing software to meet those needs.

- Responsible for analysis of current programs including performance, diagnosis and troubleshooting of problem programs, and designing solutions to problematic programming.

- Responsible for software analysis, code analysis, requirements analysis, software review, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, software reliability analysis.

- Involved in Object-oriented Design and Analysis (OOA and OOD).

Software Specialist at Nissan North America
  • United States
  • March 2007 to June 2007

Main Roles and Responsibilities for Nissan North America:

- Responsible for collecting the user requirements and accordingly preparing documents.

- Translating the user requirements to the team at offshore.

- Plan, Organize and execute the presentations to the clients on suggested solutions in pipeline and its pros and cons.

Software Engineer at Nissan North America
  • India - Chennai
  • April 2006 to March 2007

- Research, evaluate and synthesize technical information and accordingly design the systems.

- Analyzing user’s needs, and then designing, testing, and developing software to meet those needs.

- Responsible for analysis of current programs including performance, diagnosis and troubleshooting of problem programs, and designing solutions to problematic programming.

- Responsible for software analysis, code analysis, requirements analysis, software review, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, software reliability analysis.

- Involved in Object-oriented Design and Analysis (OOA and OOD).

Software Engineer Trainee at Satyam Computer Services Ltd
  • India - Chennai
  • June 2005 to April 2006

Main Roles and Responsibilities:

- Responsible for collecting the user requirements and accordingly preparing documents.

- Developing logical and physical specifications based on the user requirements.

- Plan, design and coordinate the development, installation, integration and operation of computer-based systems.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Anna University
  • June 2005

B.E (Mechanical Engineering) from Anna University, Chennai

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Staff Planning
Quality Auditing
Client Handling
Service Delivery
CLIENT Handling
ENGINEER - Mechanical
Manager
OFFSHORE
PROBLEM SOLVING
PROJECT MANAGER
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
TEAM LEAD
Offshore Project Management
Great People Skills
People Management
Business Analysis
End User Support

Languages

Hindi
Beginner
French
Beginner
German
Beginner
Tamil
Expert

Training and Certifications

ITIL Expert Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
ITIL V3 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999
Certified Supply Chain Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2014
Valid Until:
January 9999