Jharna Das

Project: Circle Line Integrated Train Testing Centre (ITTC), Customer: Land Transport Authority (LTA), Singapore

• Successfully lead a large cross functional team across APAC and EU and manage fast-paced project operations ensuring customer satisfaction and achievement of business objectives
• Interact with customers on daily basis to quickly alleviate issues, provide project updates or solutions
• Understand customer requirements and supervise the project and product teams by providing key ideas to carry out the proper analysis and bring feasible solutions that meet customer needs
• Optimized materials and workload costs, managed risks and improved the gross margin of the project by 16% through efficient project management and resource planning
• Ensure on time delivery of the project with quality of service within budget and contractual obligation
• Foresee risks and opportunities based on market trends, customer feedback, and economic indicators
• Encourage strategic thinking and problem solving skills within the team to meet project deadlines and business objectives
• Focus on early identification of potential delays and associated risks to strategize mitigation plans
• Track progress and submit clear and concise status reports to customer and senior management
• Conduct Return-of-Experience session every month to capture new improvements, good practices in the project and share with other projects to capitalize project deployment efforts.

Project: Circle Line 6 - Integrated Train Testing Centre (ITTC); Customer: Land Transport Authority (LTA)

• Spearheaded the bid technical management of a supplement service agreement of this project worth S$36 million engaging cross-functional international teams from Singapore, France, Italy, Hong Kong, and India
• Developed technical proposal associated with the bid and presented it to the customer and addressed their queries until proposal finalization
• Technically supported the local commercial team in negotiating with the customer and eliminated constraining requirements from the contract, saving S$4M
• Developed suggestions for technical process improvements to optimize resources during the bid
• Won the bid and led the technical team
• Engaged with external stakeholders to bring the project operational and interface design to fruition
• Made key technical decisions through a strong engineering process management, quality, cost, and delivery approach and safety commitment
• Mentored and developed two resources to emerge as future technical leaders.

Project: Circle Line Integrated Train Testing Centre (ITTC); Customer: Land Transport Authority (LTA)

• Built credibility, established rapport with 12 interfacing stakeholders to ensure exchange of information is done before cut-off date
• Developed interface specs worth S$13.2 million, got them approved by customer within key dates
• Communicated clearly with employees, suppliers and stakeholders located in different geographies to keep everyone on same page and working toward established project goals.

Project: HK South Island Line, Singapore Thomson Line, Sydney Metro Northwest, Guadalajara Metro

• Led a team of 6 employees in system design, system database and scheme plan to deliver the signalling solution that went live in December 2017
• Significantly contributed in Design Review meetings and resolved conflicts between Design and Verification teams
• Co-authored Operational and Maintenance manual for HK South Island Line to establish operational scenarios that proved to be very efficient to the operator to understand the normal and degraded scenarios of signaling system
• Identified gaps between the product and the project; developed baseline strategies; 2 vital KPIs contributing to the tender costing
• Managed engineering activities following V model right from development to testing of requirements

Project: Delhi International Airport (DIAL) T3 - New Delhi, Oil Tanking and Terminal Facility, Oman, Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemical Ltd. (MRPL), IN

• Ensured correct design of DIAL’s Building Management System monitoring about 20,000 remote I/Os
• Involved in detailed design and engineering for Oil and Gas projects.