Rachana Parikh is seeking a position that allows her to utilize her 9+ years of experience in instructional design, e-learning, and content management. She has experience managing projects involving needs analysis, vendor management, team management, and aligning goals with business needs. Currently she is a Senior Manager at Aptech Ltd., where her responsibilities include content development and management, project management, and team management. She aims to implement her skills in communication, client interaction, project management, and domain expertise.

1. Rachana Parikh : +91 9920046005
: rachana.parikh21@gmail.com
Objective:
Seeking a position and job assignment which can allow me to implement my experience of Project Management, Instructional
Design, and Content Management by utilizing my skills in communication, client interaction, team management and domain
expertise.
PROFESSIONAL VALUES
Profile:
Project Management with 9+ years of experience in Instructional Design, E-Learning as well as Assessment Content
Management. I have managed various end-to-end projects involving tasks such as needs analysis, vendor identification &
management, team management, commercial discussions and alignment of team goals to business needs. I have dealt with
and managed various customers in government, IT, and education verticals.
KEY COMPETENCIES
● INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN ● CONTENT MANAGEMENT PEOPLE MANAGEMENT●
CUSTOMER● RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT TEAM MANAGEMENT● ● TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
CAREER PROGRESSION
Aptech Ltd. (Assessment and Testing) Nov 2011 – till date Senior Manager
Aptech Ltd. (Student Development) Jun 2009 – Apr 2011 Assistant Manager
Net Systems Informatics (I) Pvt. Ltd. Sept 2006 – Feb 2009 Project Lead (E-learning)
Net Systems Informatics (I) Pvt. Ltd. Aug 2005 – Sept 2006 Instructional Designer
Reliance NIS Sparta Jan 2005 – Apr 2005 Instructional Designer (Trainee)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
APTECH LTD.
ASSESSMENT AND TESTING SOLUTIONS (ATTEST TESTING SERVICES LTD) Nov 2011 - till date
Attest Testing Services Limited is fully owned subsidiary of Aptech Limited. Aptech is one of the largest training
providers with a presence in 40+ countries. http://www.aptech-education.com/
Attest is the largest service provider of computer based assessments in India offering end-to-end services.
www.attest.co.in
Senior Manager – Content Management Nov 2011 – till date
• Content Development and Management:–
 Identify SMEs for various domains such as General Aptitude, Engineering, Management Studies, Finance, General
Awareness, IT etc.
 Content strategy development
 Coordination with SMEs for content development
• Project Management:–
 Project Planning
 Resource planning and Management
 Cost management
 Quality and Time management
• Team Management:-
 Recruitment and engagement of content team
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2.  Team development
Responsibilities and activities:-
 Timely and error free execution of projects
 Meeting quality objectives
 Making projects cost effective
 Leading, training and managing a team comprising of Quality analysts and Content analysts
 Managing and co-ordinating with experts, internal teams and customers
 Training client personnel on project basis
 Detailing of process on question bank development for all such related projects
 Developing and enhancing secured software with technical support for maintaining confidentiality in question bank
development
 Initiating e-learning as a new product for the division and achieved success with customer satisfaction
 Training and reviewing storyboards for new initiated e-learning projects
Achievements:-
 Executed every project with error free content without cost and time over-run.
 Conceptualized and implemented project structure modules, methodologies for content development, content validation,
moderation and content analytics processes. Successfully implemented for national level management admission test
-CMAT since inception.
 Conceptualized software tools and designed specifications for these tools to content repository, management, tracking,
access control, exposure, and analytics.
LEARNING SERVICES – Student Development
Assistant Manager – Instructional Design July 2009 – Apr 2011
Responsibilities and activities:-
 Developing end-to-end ILT courses in various domain such as IT, Hospitality, Management, Soft skills
 Training newly joined resources
 Working on new initiative of MOBILE learning
 Reviewing work of newly joined and to enhance quality of their work
 Helping them achieve department’s expectations
 Preparing presentations on PMP training by closely working with the experts
 Preparing induction presentations for internal HR team
NET SYSTEMS
INFORMATICS (I) PVT. LTD.
Project Lead – E-learning Sept 2006 – Feb 2009
Responsibilities and activities:-
 Managing a team including writers, reviewers, graphic designers, integrators and program developers
 Coordinating, conceptualizing and successfully implementing projects
 Analyzing project requirements from customers
 Creating production plan and tracking project status
 Project kick-off meeting with the team members and briefing them about client requirements
 Communicating with client for any further requirement from either sides
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3.  Ensuring quality of the projects from the development phase till the delivery phase for Instructional Design (ID), language,
and flow of the content
 Liaising with program developers, integrators and graphic designers for developing and integrating courses
 Conducting trainings and providing guidance to new and existing writers and reviewers
 Conducting interviews to hire writers and reviewers
 Creating storyboards for developing CBTs and WBTs
 Reviewing ILT projects and suggesting ID strategies to enhance courseware, if needed
 Developing e-learning sample courses for in-house requirements
 Developing web-based demonstrations using Adobe Captivate
 Writing and reviewing Alt+Text for department of Accessibility
Instructional Designer Aug 2005 – Sept 2006
Responsibilities and activities:-
 Assessing overall curriculum needs and designing e-learning courses
 Determining course goals and objectives by analyzing learners background
 Developing and implementing instructional content, teaching strategies, and assessments
 Helping instructional writers/graphic designers with audio, video, and multimedia text writing and functionalities
 Translating face-to-face classroom courses into online and distance courses
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
 Training on PMP certification
WORKSHOPS
 Workshop on Accessibility
 Workshop on Psychometric Testing for selection and development
SOFTWARE PROFICIANCY
 MS Office
 Adobe Captivate
 Fundamentals of Adobe Flash
ACADEMICS
 Master of Educational Technology (Computer Application) SNDT University 2005
 Bachelor of Commerce, University of Mumbai 2001
OTHER INFORMATION
Address: B/2202, Videocon Tower, Thakur Complex, Kandivali East, Mumbai 400101
Date of Birth: 21st
July, 1980
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