Abhishek Sharma

Senior Architecture Governance Analyst at BMO
Helping Standards and Architecture Governance team deliver excellence.This is an old site I made in my college days, keeping it online just for fun, please ignore the outdated information.

Experience

• Campaign Manager
• Reporting Analyst
• Ontario Ministry of Education
• President
• Student Ambassador
• Concierge
• Inventory Analyst
• Yoga teacher
• Vendor Development
• Volunteer

Campaign Manager/ Acuity ads
Toronto, June 2021 – Feb 2022

As a Campaign Manager, my role is to plan, coordinate, implement and oversee various marketing campaigns for our clients in all sectors. The campaign manager’s duties will include setting up, monitoring, assessing, and measuring the ROI of campaigns of clients.Summary:

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Reporting Analyst/ Acuity ads
Toronto, Nov 2020 – May 2021

As a reporting analyst, I was helping my team to develop insights for the campaigns. It was interesting to learn to tell a story based on data and logical reasoning.
I was fortunate to work in this wonderful team with an amazon team lead who was also a great mentor for me in this role.Summary:

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Information & Information-Technology (I & IT) QA Assistant/ Ontario Ministry of Education
Toronto, June 2020 – Sept 2020

During my internship with the Ontario Ministry of Education, I worked with the PMO office in Community Services Cluster (DDSB Branch) as an I&IT QA assistant. It was a great experience working in a classic Canadian work culture with a great team. I will always be grateful to my manager Marc Trottier for giving me this opportunity and being a great mentor.During this time, while we were all working from home, I realized that everyone in our team had a busy schedule and when co-op students had process-related questions, communication was not as fast as would have been in a face-to-face office environment. To reduce this bottleneck, I took an initiative to make video tutorials for 6 operations which are now being used in the Ministry for training purposes. With the help of these tutorials, new co-op students can easily replay these videos for frequent process-related questions.I also played an important role in executing a change project within the cluster which changed the way resources in 2 teams reported their time against the allocated tasks. This was a project in which we delivered within a short deadline while adapting to changing requirements and ultimately leading to a successful Go-live which allowed 100+ resources to report their time through Planview Enterprise (Cloud Platform). The result was that the resource managers could easily monitor the timesheets submitted by their resources working on different projectsSummary:

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President Student Council/ Lambton College
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020

Being elected as a president for the student council was an honor and a great opportunity to serve and learn. During this time I led a wonderful team of more than 20 professionals from diverse backgrounds.
In a very short period of time, we delivered more than 16 projects which helped me to practice and learn more about leadership, project management, and digital marketing skills. When nature served us the curve with COVID, we quickly adapted to online platforms.This was the time I was managing my Co-op with the ministry, part-time job, LCIT Yoga club, and other volunteer roles all at the same time. However, my skills in time management and prioritization have never let me down despite the workload.I am always quick to applying what I learn. Based on what I was experiencing in the Ministry of education I drafted an Initiative Governance Model which would increase the productivity and organizational processes of future student councils. This model contained minutes of templates and documents to help implementation of the new processes.Summary:

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About

I am a Project Management graduate with experience in managing projects in the field of Education, Government, NGOs, and Web Designing projects for Canadian Clients. I also have an engineering background with a Master's in Mechanical Engineering and extensive experience designing experiments, research & analysis, procurement, and coordinating manufacturing processes.Currently, I am working in the Governance and Standards team in BMO.My first exposure to professional life was in 2011 when I started selling an educational product as a part-time job. Since then I have always been involved in communicating with the masses to present some products or to help others live a better life. When I arrived in Canada as an International student at Lambton College in 2019, I juggled with part-time activities as a security concierge for Condor to support basic needs in this new country and I have volunteered for the Art of Living Foundation since 2013.In my Internship for the Ontario Ministry of Education as an I&IT QA assistant, I got the opportunity to work in the PMO team where I saw all the Project Management best practices in action. It was a fulfilling role where I experienced the benefits of being a part of a healthy work culture. This experience of coordinating project governance processes helped a lot in my professional growth.At Lambton College, I have taken on many leadership roles like Student Ambassador, Chair for the Project Management Guild, Vice-President Membership for LCIT Toastmasters, Founder and Instructor for LCIT Yoga club, Member of Student Council, and many more.During my semester break, I worked for a wonderful employer at Perfume Distributor Inc. where I finished 2 projects in just 4 months leaving a system with long-term benefits for the organization.
I am proud that as an International Student I have delivered excellent performances in all my responsibilities and I am accepted as a reliable teammate who will always finish the task. I am grateful that I am blessed with a network of such amazing professionals who are always willing to help.Finishing what I have started with the highest standard is always my first goal. My dream is to work in an organization where I can earn my living by helping others. I need a sense of pride in the vision of the organization I work for.Kind regards,
Abhishek Sharma

Concierge / Condor Concierge
Toronto, ON January 2019 – July 2020

I am very proud of my part-time work as a concierge in condominium buildings for condor security. One might think of this as an easy job but Imagine, being responsible for the safety and property of 1000+ people in 12-hour shifts.This part-time job supported by basic needs during my education and allowed me to confidently deliver in my volunteer roles. Being who I am I developed good relations with residents in my building and some of them are now my Yoga clients.
I am thankful to Condor security for giving me this opportunity and my manager Eric for mentoring and supporting me in this.Summary:

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**Inventory Analyst / Perfume Distributors Inc
Toronto ON Sept 2019 – Dec 2019 **

During my second semester one of my Yoga Clients, Mr. Monty Singh offered me to work in his company as an inventory analyst. I worked in this role in fall 2019 and got to learn a lot from the amazing leader Mr. Monty Singh.This job challenged me both physically and mentally but being a student of project management I always find out opportunities to develop something new and take the initiatives to make things better. During this role along with my regular operations, I was able to deliver a few projects which were appreciated a lot by my team.Summary:

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Vendor Development Intern / International Tractors Ltd.
India PB Jan 2015 - May 2015

International Tractors Ltd. Is one of the top Tractors manufacturing MNC in India. During my bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering, I got an opportunity to work in the Vendor Development department of the company. It was a 4 months internship and a great learning experience.One of the key responsibilities I had was coordinating with some vendors to ensure that the mechanical parts are being manufactured as per the requirements and within the schedules. We made sure that the parts are being processed according to the drawings provided to us. This experience helped me improve my skills in understanding 2D and 3D Auto CAD drawings.
Since, I was regularly communicating with vendors and reporting the status to my managers, It also helped me a lot to improve my interpersonal and negotiation skills.
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Yoga Instructor & Founder, LCIT Yoga Club / Lambton College,
Toronto, ON July 2019 - Present

I have been practicing yoga & meditation since 2013 and before coming to Canada, I had a few years of teaching experience in India. On my very first day at Lambton college, I asked college staff about the Yoga club and discovered that this opportunity was waiting for me to arrive.Within a few months of planning, I proposed a plan for launching LCIT Yoga club which started in July 2019. Since then I have been teaching regular yoga classes to students and staff in Lambton college and its been a great success. My project management and leadership skills helped me a lot in implementing this dream.There is a saying "Yoga Karmasu Kaushalam" Yoga is skill in action. I try to be a yogi both on and off a yoga mat. Apart from this Yoga club, I am also a volunteer for the Art of Living Foundation. I am a graduate in 200YTT from Sri Sri School of YogaSummary:

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Yoga Teacher / Art of Living Foundation
India & Canada 2013 – presentAssisted with yoga, meditation, and cultural events
Lead coordinator for weekly follow-up workshops at the University of Toronto

Vice President - Membership Toastmasters / Lambton College,
Toronto ON June 2019 – June 2020Promoted Toastmasters as a powerful brand to increase club membership by 25%
Achieved 1st rank in the annual Toastmasters club speech contest in 2020

Chairperson, Project Management Guild - PM Guild / Lambton College,
Toronto ON May 2019 - Aug 2019Led a group of 24 members to effectively increase volunteer engagement and student participation in PM Guild events by 50%
Successfully facilitated 4 events in Lambton College involving students, alumni, staff and SME’s

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Education

Advanced Project Management and Strategic Leadership, Lambton College, Toronto, ON
Jan 2019 - Sept 2020Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Punjabi University, India
Aug 2015 – Sept 2017Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Punjabi University, India
Aug 2011 – July 2015

Skills

Campaign Management |Project Management | Planview Enterprise | MS Project | Jira | Salesforce | Power BI | Tableau | Power Apps | Agile | Illumin | UI3 | DV360 | CM360 | Google Analytics | MOAT | Double Verify | MS Excel | Teams | Outlook | ZOOM | Trello | Office 365 | Adobe Connect | AutoCAD | WordPress | Android Studio | Web Designing | Stress Management

Contact

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[email protected] | 647-804-2712

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Student Ambassador / Lambton College, Toronto, ON April 2019 – Present
Every semester when new International students arrive at Lambton college, as a Student ambassador it was my job to assist them during the orientation in their registration process.
Deciding to move to a new country as an international student is a life-changing decision and the first few months are a little scary for a few students as everything is new. As a student ambassador, we mentored the new students by answering their questions and helping them to get familiar with life in Lambton college.
During the COVID crisis, the orientation process for students changed quickly, and we adapted to these changes assisting students to the best of our abilities.
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