Poushali Bhadra is a solutions and results-driven professional with over 8 years of experience. Currently, they serve as a Proposal Consultant, specializing in optimizing deal-winning chances. They possess expertise in developing winning proposals across application development, cloud services, and data analytics, leveraging strong analysis and research skills.
Experience
Proposal Consultant
IBM
Day to day job involves writing Application Development, Maintenance and Cloud proposals with the aim to produce a winning compliant proposal response on time and on budget. This includes developing work plans, schedules, and milestones directing proposal management activities and ensuring the compliance to RFP requirements. Contributed in collaborating with the Partner teams, Solution Architects in planning and reviewing proposal content. Have the capacity to comprehend and summarize technical Infrastructure, application outsourcing and Cloud solutions, strategies, and themes into winning proposal. Ability to collaborate effectively with multi-cultural dispersed and multi-party teams. Understanding of Statement of Work (SOW) and Bid Management.
Business Analyst
IBM
Played key role in translating client requirements of the business processes into meaningful user stories in JIRA. Understand user expectations and develop functional requirements and raises clarifications with stakeholders. Handled the responsibility of refining stories in detail that will enable code to be written and tested without defects; write system design & interface documents, acceptance criteria and generate test scripts. Worked with developers, user experience designers, subject matter experts, Dev & Testing teams to obtain a well-rounded understanding of what is being asked for and our ability to deliver it within the constraints of our telecom environment. Juggled multiple projects and initiatives at any given time, all with aggressive delivery expectations - where attention to detail is essential. Understand Agile practices (daily scrum, iteration planning, retrospective, test driven) and follow the same. Also given Knowledge Transfer to the development team on Functional Specifications.
Developer
IBM
Worked as an Application Developer in a core development team. In this tenure I have prepared UI screen on Applet, Java Framework and have also fixed real-time bugs of production tickets. I have also baselined High level design documents of the project that was assigned to me.
Education
West Bengal University Of Technology
B.Tech
Electronics & Instrumentation
Completed project on Mini Cement Plant
Licenses & Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
IBM Blockchain Foundation Consulting
Introduction to IoT
Financial Markets Industry Jumpstart
Data Science Foundations Level 1 & 2
Bertelsmann Data Science Challenge Scholarship
Udacity