SUMMARY:

• Confidential has 17+ years of experience for enabling clients with data and analytics driven solutions. Deeply involved in leading and championing Enterprise Information Management strategy and delivery for financial, media and technology clients while being a part of leadership teams at innovative, leading edge startups and Big 4 consulting firms. Consulted largest hedge fund for data management strategy.
• Strong experience and background with financial services and insurance industry for enabling their data and analytics strategy for AML, wealth Management, Private banking, risk and regulatory needs for BASEL, FATCA, CCAR and other compliance programs.
• Strong executive leadership and C - Suite/Board communication and presentation;
• Thought leadership in governance of data within highly regulated industries;
• Led transformational information management programs with direct business impact;
• Strong familiarity with big data and traditional data solution architectures;
• Experienced in operationalization of data stewardship and data quality programs;
• Launched data governance boards and executive committees for CDO functions;
• Partnered with latest technology solutions and products available in the market;
• Expertise in creating and deploying EIM best practices and methodologies;
• Excelled in building business cases and ROI for complex organizations data needs;

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: Traditional data technologies like Informatica, SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata Big Data technologies Hadoop, Pivotal, Trifacta, Datameer, Alation, Tamr, Mulesoft Analytics and BI Tools like Tableau, Qlik, Power BI Governance and process framework technologies like Collibra, Sharepoint, Savvion Project Management and Program Management on Microsoft, Wrike, Mingle, Serena Data Quality and Metadata technologies like Informatica DQ, Metacenter, Alation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Solution Partner

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for a portfolio of multi million dollars in sales and delivery for revenue across the financial services portfolio;
• Spearheading the big data governance and data quality solutioning for clients with delivery of critical data element selection criteria and improvement of metrics.
• Led information and data governance initiatives, worked closely with the executives to create data governance board, led Chief Data Officer’s mission and vision.
• Building strong partnership and areas for cross selling with new data management vendors like Collibra & existing players like Informatica and Microsoft. Deep knowledge for Collibra in configuring business glossary, data governance flows for the clients.
• Recruiting, Coaching,, Collaboration, Knowledge Sharing via Lunch and Learn, Point Of Views. Building the go to market strategy for data management areas.
• Incorporating governance to manage data for regulatory or non-regulatory needs within financial and non-financial institutions and implement programs like BASEL,CCAR.
• Defining the solutions and go to market strategy, sales presentations and solutions.
• Enabled media clients to get on the data governance bandwagon and launch the governance and stewardship programs for advanced analytics and metrics.
• Participated in evaluations and POC for Big Data Vendors like Trifacta, Novato, Datameer, Alation and Collibra.

Confidential

Managing Director

Responsibilities:

• Built advisory practice encompassing data strategists, data analysts, business analysts and PMO for the globally delivered technology data management projects for our clients
• Assisted Client’s executives to manage their multi million dollar spend for global data solutions, prioritization of programs and resource planning.
• Enabled largest financial institutions on strategizing their global data re-engineering and building financial backbone redesign efforts. Enabled common data acquisition models.
• Established programs for data governance and metadata management by outlining data stewardship roles
• Assisted clients to build stakeholders and C-Level Executive communication for managing billions of dollars spend across programs. Developed sales presentations and proposals.
• Built long term strategy for various data platforms consolidation to centralize securities, pricing, accounts data. Built legacy retirement plan and multi-year roadmap for migration to strategic centralized solutions
• Established and maintained new initiatives pipeline and targeted leads from existing clients while partnering with business, technology and delivery teams for ITI.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed global advisory teams, created and led various sales proposals for key clients, co-led the effort to create Data Management principle in advisory practice
• Managed the strategic partnership with other Big 4 firms and Confidential alliances, SAP, Oracle, and Cisco for creating toolset to enable data acquisition and advanced predictive analytics.
• Participation in strategic alliance with SAP/Oracle/Cisco Governance, Risk and Compliance areas. Member of enterprise architects group and COI in Confidential to discuss innovative solutions and projects for leadership in BI/ERP/BPM arenas.
• Assessed and developed strategy for Information and Enterprise Data Management in the areas including Master Data Management (MDM), Metadata and Data Governance.
• Execute projects that include requesting, profiling, extracting, analyzing, testing and reviewing data; developing formal reporting or ad hoc analysis. Established data quality measurements and review metrics to ensure reports and analysis are meaningful and accurate; initiate projects and see them through execution to resolve data quality issues,
• Established BPM CoE (Center of Excellence) to strengthen business analyst and business process modeling (BPM) for increasing organizational agility.
• Assisted major financial institutions in defining strategic roadmap for managing securities data. Facilitated decision-making executive workshops and provided vendor selection assistance, in their efforts to define solution and sourcing options.
• Leading and guiding teams to build analytics, information displays, workflows and dashboards using Microsoft BI, Cognos, Oracle and Savvion BPM toolsets for sales data

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the implementation of data warehouse/BI solution using Microsoft Business Intelligence suite, Defined requirements and KPIs with business users from sales, finance and operations business units. Participated in implementing the MDM (SAP) for customer data by integrating data from ERP and CRM systems
• As Data Architect and Business Process Manager, managed the implementation projects including Business Intelligence, ERP implementation, HRMS implementation, CRM Migration and Database consolidation for technology clients
• Built analytics, workflows and dashboards using Microsoft BI, Cognos, Oracle and BPM toolsets using sales and financial data for Corporate Performance Management.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• As Customer Support Executive, worked with Wipro s onsite and offshore clients to support Microsoft Solutions& infrastructure projects