KIRAN GHODGAONKAR
5521 Barnsley Terr
      Glen Allen VA 23059
 (804) 360- 8660
kiran_seekar@yahoo.com
Marketing Research ~ Project Management ~ Competitive Analysis

Objective:
Obtain a position as a team-player in a people-oriented organization where I can maximize my experience in a challenging environment to achieve the corporate goals

Highlights Qualification:
·	Over 4 + years of Marketing experience preparing various marketing activities, and project management coordinating multiple projects involving may different teams.
·	Developed and handled marketing campaigns and schedule for a variety of business initiatives across multiple groups.
·	Ability to organize, prioritize and work under pressure, heavy work load and strict deadlines.
·	Problem analysis, use of judgment and ability to solve problem efficiently.
·	Excellent interpersonal skills and relationship management experience
·	Masters in Business Administration (HR and Marketing) 
·	Excellent interpersonal skills and relationship management experience

Professional Experience
Capital One Richmond VA                                             05/2010 – 10/2010
Project Coordinator 
Coordinated and tracked execution of activity tasks, deadlines, milestones and schedules for multiple campaign projects. Generated timely campaign performance and activity reports, and provided recommendations for process improvement. Interfaced effectively with program management, campaign development teams, technical support teams to communicate campaign schedules and status.
Role: 
·	Managed and maintained content , structure of documentation and data for document repository
·	Organized, consolidated and managed documents, content and data from multiple sources to build uniform and compliant format documents.
·	Assisted in meetings via preparation (Agenda, Setup, Coordination, Presentations, etc), participation and follow-up
·	Coordinate and publish scheduling /tasking details for current and projected efforts.
·	Served as POC for central depository of information and situational awareness on all campaign projects.
·	Managed day to day operations for marketing campaigns division .Coordinating between Business, IT and Operations team on Schedule, build and execution of credit card promotional campaigns
·	Served as Unica campaign application security admin for all users.
Igenesis Software Services							12/1999-12/2003
Assistant Division Manager. As Division manager, managed marketing & advertising initiatives for the department.
•	Performed competitive analysis to ascertain intelligence on competitive offering, which resulted in stronger Corporate Sales strategy.
•	Helped the company to achieve better customer understanding by managing several quantitative marketing research projects using mail, telephone, and personal interview research techniques.
•	Actively participated in advertising initiatives involving direct mail, newspaper, out-of-home advertising, and alternate media to increase the market share.
•	Organized trade shows which generated $100,000(Rs.5 million) in incremental sales.

Software Technology Group International				6/1999-12/1999
Marketing Support Clerk
•	Developed communication skills through conducting telephone interviews.
•	Design and executed a customer appreciation survey, collect responses to serve them better in future.

Education:
University Of Madras (India)					7/2002-5/2004
MBA (Specialization in Marketing & Human Resource Management)
•	Courses included Marketing Research, Consumer Behavior and Service Marketing.
•	Academic Project: Employee Performance Appraisal.
The project involved design, development and implementing a performance evaluation procedure to appraise each individual employee with respect to his current job profile. This appraisal was used in future for the employee’s recognition.

Training  
•	Business Analyst(Methodology and Business System definition including requirement, Use Cases and rules definition.UML Rational Unified Process, Business and system modeling)
•	Quality Testing(Testing Life Cycle, Testing best practices, building test plan, test cases, bug/defect tracking, effective defect reporting)

References provided on request.