Nitika Kariwala
Taught Area: Coaching Skills, Communications Skills, Comprehensive Leadership, Developing HR Manual, Emotional Intelligence, Management, Marketing, Leadership, Personal Development, Project Management, Project Management for IT, Project Management for TQM, Proposal Writing, Supply Chain Management, Stress Management
Samarthya, Mumbai Current
Samarthya is an organization that aims at child development so that they are able to discover the champion within themselves. It will also enable them to be more prepared with emotional intelligence for the future.
My involvement with Samarthya is from the conception stage and now managing the organization.
Infinity LMRC, Mumbai Current
Infinity is a learning, management and research company focused on corporate training.
My involvement is as follows:
1. Heading the Research, and Content Team.
2. Delivering modules to corporate client employees.
3. Behavioral training
Centre for Personal & Professional Excellence, Mumbai Oct 2007 – Sept 2008
Associate Consultant
CPPE is a corporate training company dealing in development and delivery of training programs. My involvements were:
1. Conducting the research and training need analysis for the clients.
2. Content development for the programs.
3. Managing the operations for the various projects.
4. Working in the Business Development team and making Pitch Calls.
5. Delivering trainings.
Infosys Technologies Ltd. April 2005 – Sept 2007
Software Engineer, Infrastructure Management Services
Apart from the technical assistance, the following are the managerial tasks
1 Leading the team of 5 for the VOIP Installation.
2 Knowledge management activity based on the learning of the project
3 Client communication (describing and helping in resolving the Bugs reported)
4 Mentoring of the new joiners in the team for the modules on which I had an understanding of.
5 Knowledge Dissemination (maintained a repository) across the team, this knowledge is the knowledge gained from previous experiences and estimates for the future.
6 Anchoring the Defect Prevention team so as to minimize the occurrence of defects.
Projects worked on:
1. July 2005-September 2005: worked on the analysis stage for a critical project with UBS, a major client of Infosys at Hyderabad.
2. October 2005 – November 2006: Engaged in a migration project with Bank of America.
Migration involves hardware/software refresh of all the branches across the US. Bank of America is migrating from OS/2 server to WIN2K3 servers and changing the hardware At Bangalore.
3. December 2006 – Feb 2007 : Worked on building solutions for the Bindview
Compliance suite in Pune.
4. March 2007 – Aug 2007: Managing the Documentum application for Pfizer.
Documentum is a content management tool. Worked on applications such as
Insight and GDMS.
Prachar Communications, Mumbai October 2004 - March 2005
Creative Copywriter
Worked as a Copy Writer and did write ups for Advertisements.
EDUCATION
D.J. Sanghvi college of Engineering, Mumbai University June 2004
Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology)
Bombay Institute of Technology June 2001.
Diploma in Computer Technology
Certifications
Certifications:
• ITIL foundation Certified August 2005.
• Certificate course in Announcing, Broadcasting, Compering, Dubbing and E-book Narration from Xaviers Institute of Communication, Mumbai. 2008
• Enrolled with ISTD – Indian Society for Training and Development.
HONORS and ACTIVITIES
• Awarded the Gurukul Scholarship for a month to learn Tibetan Culture at HH Dalai Lama's Ashram through SPICMACAY and Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH Dalai Lama in June 2008.
• Conducted Emotional development Workshop for Primary Students at the Tibetan Children's Village, Dharamsala.
• Conducted Career Counseling and Time management workshop for High school students at Tibetan, Children's Village, Dharamsala.
• A core member of team Khushi which semi adopts underprivileged children for their education.
• Participated and represented India in international folk dance festival in Tournai, Belgium through Rang Puhar in 2000
• Completed the Gold medal Exam in Latin American Dancing under Mrs. Salome Roy Kapoor.
• Learnt Ballroom dancing from the Cinderella school of dancing under Ms. Ewa Maria cherrukuru.
• Learnt to play Hindustani classical music on the Bamboo flute under Shri Naresh Kumta.
• Sponsorship Head of the dPROTOCOL 2002 (Computer society of India - Technical festival at D.J.Sanghvi Coll. Of Engg, Mumbai)
• Established chapters for SPIC MACAY in colleges and schools in Mumbai. SPIC-MACAY is one of the foremost organizations working for the promotions of Indian classical music and culture amongst youth.
Labels: Communications Skills, HR, Leadership, Project Management
