Alokananda Chatterjee

Area of Expertise:

• Agriculture, Livelihoods, Microfinance, Rural, Urban
• Director, CEO, COP, President
• Health, Doctors, Nurses, HIV/AIDS, Nutrition
• Private Sector, Corporate Social Responsibility
• Social, Gender, Education, Youth, Child

Professional Experience:

? An accomplished program management professional with over two decades (22+ years) of progressive and multicultural experience in achieving revenue commitments, developing return of investment assessments and leading large teams to achieve organizational objectives.
? Gained extensive experience in working with client spread across India, driving digital transformation and delivering numerous projects and programs by managing end to end product lifecycle along with revenue accountability.
? Hold credentials in setting up Project Management Office and spearheading projects right from conception to estimation, planning, tracking, managing risks, team leadership and mentoring and delivery.
? Skilled in leading all facets of business development, executing sales/presales activities, account management partner/alliances/stakeholder management and product launch & management.
? Capable of turning around opportunities with insightful exposure of appropriate principles, practices and methods to apply in all phases of assignments.
? Brings a well development of network of contact and comfortable in communicating with Top Level Executives; established benchmarks in formulating and implementing advanced technology and business solutions to meet a diversity of needs.
? Was acknowledged with numerous awards and appreciations for delivering outstanding contribution in the organization (details available on request).
? Creative problem solver, able to think logically and pay close attention to details.
Key Deliverables:
? Defined long and short-term strategic vision and spearheaded the setup of project plans to ensure the effective on-time completion of major technology initiatives.
? Involved in facilitating the best solutions involving evaluation and definition of scope of project and finalization of project requirements, planning handover, identifying end-user training needs and organizing the sessions.
? Acted as the Head of Project Management office with the accountability of prioritization and pipeline management of Change requests & Maintenance requests.
? Handled activities pertaining to resource allocation & utilization across project and built capacity among Project Managers by mentoring, supporting and providing seamless guidance to achieve operational objectives.
? Architected the Project management team and successfully researched as well as customized the PMI methodology to best suit the working model in the organizations.
? Streamlined processes and project artifacts to develop the repeatability and scalability by conceptualizing and rolling out new processes, including Incident management process, Change management process, utilization & health tracking, etc.

? Accomplished numerous projects and programs within stipulated time and allocated budget (details available on request). Built the program vertical from vision screening 2.50+ lakh communities earning less that $4 a day in 2018 to impacting 4.50+ lakh beneficiaries in 2023 by providing the gift of clear vision to 2.45+ lakh individuals with the intervention of VisionSpring eyeglasses through multiple projects in collaboration with 250+ CSR organizations and partners across the rural, peri-urban and urban landscapes in 23 states of India.
?Distributed the training on The Journey and Milestones in a Program – Project Life Cycle to both the India and the US teams.
?Acted as an integral part of the Handwashing focus groups, COVID-19 Taskforce, Program Committee meetings to drive forward the COVID-19 activities and build further on the programmatic approach and thereby strategically launch the various projects.
?Worked with Global team on the logic models of the See to Earn programs – both communities and factories.
?Worked on handwashing stations, mapping of assets with Global leads.