Harigopal M V
Senior Bid Manager
Berlin
Summary
- 13+ years’ qualitative work experience in Bids & Tender, Rolling Stock Design, Interface activities, Project Management, Project Planning & Execution, Testing Commissioning & warranty of Metro Rail system.
- Hold the distinction of managing Rolling Stock Design documents and Interface Design documents related to Rolling Stock for Chennai Metro Project.
- Adopt in swiftly ramping up projects with competent cross-functional skills and on time execution.
- Hold strong ability to handle multiple priorities and prioritize workload as per the requirement of the project
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Bid Manager
Alstom Transportation GMBH
Berlin
04.2021 - Current
- Responsible for bid compilation of Traction / HV / Aux / Brake System.
- Ensures overall bid remains within bid budget.
- Responsible to Deliver bids for the Target Cost defined based on existing Bids.
- Responsible for the authority and the obligation to review the effort of the sub-bid team members and to give directives related to the bid execution, as such will be involved in the PMP objective setting process for all sub-project Bid Managers.
- Support sub-bids in resolving execution issues within the right escalation process.
Lead Bid Manager
Bombardier Transportation Rolling Stock
Berlin
05.2018 - 03.2021
- Responsible for bid compilation and completeness. Generates overall Rolling Stock Equipment bid summary document and Bid Brief and ensures any high level adjustments are carried out.
- Ensures quality and consistency is maintained across all bids, increasing effectiveness.
- Ensures overall bid remains within bid budget
- Drive deployment and implementation of common standardized processes, tools and techniques for bid managers in order to positively impact the bid performance and increase visibility, ensuring full understanding and adequate realization.
- The Lead Bid Manager has the authority and the obligation to review the effort of the sub-bid team members and to give directives related to the bid execution, as such will be involved in the PMP objective setting process for all sub-project Bid Managers.
- Adheres to bid governance.
- Set priorities in case of resource conflicts between sub-bids under his/her responsibility.
- Support sub-bids in resolving execution issues within the right escalation process.
Deputy Project Manager
Alstom Transport India Limited
Chennai
04.2016 - 04.2018
- Ensuring work safety and timely Completion of the task within stipulated span of time with perfection and technical feasibility ensuring operation worthiness to meet contractual obligations.
- Manage contract, project scope, risk, and Change Orders (CO) and day-to-day operations in depot and with customer.
- Manage and monitor the Interface activities with other contractors to ensure the contractual obligation and CCF’s
- Responsible for the change management process and approvals to follow up with depot till implementation.
- Monitor/Review the updating on Project Master schedule in Primavera and PMS on monthly basis and validate with Project Manager to identify the critical path which block the On Time Delivery of the milestone.
- Prepare and submit MPR’s, SPR’s, Weekly/Monthly status of Plan Vs Actual report on progress of Manufacturing site, testing & commissioning, retrofit, Financial billing progress etc to Internal management and customer in timely manner.
- Responsible to manage and monitor the project cash flow as per the commitment to management. Forecasting, reporting and maintaining effective communications with management.
- Responsible for monitor and ensure the T&C Plan, Conditional acceptance plan, retrofit plan for each milestone for the work to complete as per the Project scheduling.
Project Planning and Coordination Leader
Alstom Transport India Limited
Chennai
06.2015 - 03.2016
- Responsible for Documentation Management System.
- Control and Monitor list for design document submittals (Preliminary Design Review, Preliminary Final Design Review, Final Design Review, Contract Deliverable and As-built drawing) and regular follow up with Internal stakeholder and customer for the closure of Design documents.
- Updating of Project Master schedule in Primavera on monthly basis and validate with Project Manager to identify the critical path for On Time Delivery.
- Prepare/follow up with Stack holder to Launch the project dashboard on weekly basis (T&C, Warranty, Quality, Engineering, Reliability, Project, EHS etc).
- Prepare and submit weekly status of Plan Vs Actual report on Manufacturing site, testing & commissioning and retrofit progress to customer.
- Coordination with Manufacturing site and customer for the Train release from manufacturing site for the Timely delivery of trainset from manufacturing site to Customer Depot to achieve On Time Delivery.
- Interfacing between respective team Supplier, warranty, Testing & Commissioning, Manufacturing site, Engineering, experts, Project, Contract, Finance, quality, and Internal Alstom units to close out the issues in timely manner with customer.
- Interfacing between customer and engineering team to close the issues like Compliance Matrix, Type Tests, Contract Deliverable and First Article Inspection.
- Coordination for closure of Engineering Incident Report with support of engineering and other stack holders which was raised by customer as per noncompliance to contract.
Project Coordinator
Alstom India Limited
06.2014 - 05.2015
- Responsible for Document management process.
- Control and Monitor list for design document submittals (Preliminary Design Review, Preliminary Final Design Review, Final Design Review, Contract Deliverable and As-built drawing) and regular follow up with Internal stakeholder and customer for the closure of Design documents
- Review and approval of purchase budgets for better efficiency in adherence to the company’s policies, procedures and financial budgets
- Floating RFI / RFQ, negotiating and settling part pricing with suppliers by keeping target costs at a minimum by optimized processes, achieving most suitable payment terms etc.
- Responsible for Interface with Signalling contractors for Testing & Commissioning activities and Joint test
- Responsible to Prepare the Spares and consignment stock list with reference to the Operating and Maintenance manuals and followed up with customer for the approval of the list.
Project Engineer
Alstom Projects India Limited
05.2013 - 05.2014
- Control and monitor compliance with Documentation Management rules per contract and internal Document Management Plans (DMP)
- Control and Monitor list for design document submittals (Preliminary Design Review, Preliminary Final Design Review, Final Design Review, Contract Deliverable and As-built drawing) and regular follow up with Internal stakeholder and customer for the closure of Design documents
- Managing for strategic sourcing within capital equipment, including identifying and managing sourcing strategy as well as transitioning parts from high-cost to low-cost sources.
- Floating RFI / RFQ, negotiating and settling part pricing with suppliers by keeping target costs at a minimum by optimized processes, achieving most suitable payment terms etc.
- Managing along with customer for the successful completion of the RDSO (Research Design & Standard Organization) and CMRS (Commissioner of Railway and Safety) Certification’s
Project Support Engineer
Alstom Projects India Limited
01.2012 - 04.2013
- Responsible for documentation life cycle from receipt of the project to the end of the warranty period, applies the rules defined in the Documentation Management instruction as per contract and individual Document Management Plans (DMP)
- Responsible in creation of Project repository structure, Correspondence Log, Document Master List, Customer Deliverables and Project templates according to standards/Contract.
- Controls documentation formal homogeneity (Internal and Customer): templates, references and revision to ensure all project related documentation are complete, accurate and in compliance with Alstom corporate procedures and customer contract requirements.
- Control and Monitor list for design document submittals (Preliminary Design Review, PRE-Final Design Review, Final Design Review and Contract Deliverable) and regular follow up with Internal stakeholder and customer for the closure of Design documents
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Jeppiaar Engineering College
Chennai, India 04.2001 -
Skills
Project Management
Bid Management
Project Planning & Execution
Rolling Stock Design
Contract Management
undefinedPersonal Information
- Date of Birth: 12/25/88
- Nationality: Indian
- Passport Number: Z4435185
Professional Development
- PMP preparatory Course of 'Advance Project Management', GIPM-870, 2016
- Planning Management System (PMS) Expert Training, China – Shanghai, 2014
- Managing Projects Training, 2015
- Project Management in Tender and Contract phases, 2016
References
Name : Ed Barker
Designation : Solution Region Bid Director
Company : Alstom Transport GMBH
Mobile no : +49 174 926 27 1
Name : Saravanan MUTHUPILLAI
Designation : Human Resource Business Partner
Company : Alstom Transport India Limited
Mobile no : +91 9900552771
Disclaimer
I, Harigopal hereby declare that all the details furnished above are true to the best of my knowledge
Timeline
Senior Bid Manager
Alstom Transportation GMBH
04.2021 - Current
Lead Bid Manager
Bombardier Transportation Rolling Stock
05.2018 - 03.2021
Deputy Project Manager
Alstom Transport India Limited
04.2016 - 04.2018
Project Planning and Coordination Leader
Alstom Transport India Limited
06.2015 - 03.2016
Project Coordinator
Alstom India Limited
06.2014 - 05.2015
Project Engineer
Alstom Projects India Limited
05.2013 - 05.2014
Project Support Engineer
Alstom Projects India Limited
01.2012 - 04.2013
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Jeppiaar Engineering College
04.2001 -
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