SUMMARY:

Accomplished IT leader with 16+ years of proven leadership in Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Management, Data Integration, Data Migration, Data Analytics, Data Science, Global delivery, Client relationship Management and C - Level presentations. Extensive experience in delivering large scale IT projects in Retail, Hospitality, Telecom, Insurance and Manufacturing industries across USA, UK, Europe and Asia.

Creative, resourceful and flexible, able to adapt to changing priorities and maintain a positive attitude and Strong work ethic. Able to build highly motivated teams focused on achieving business goals. Keep up-to-date with changes in the industry through continuing professional development.

• Helped Santander, Expedia, Bimbo & StateFarm by solving their business challenges through several Machine learning methods.
• Built a Scalable, Self-service and a High performance Reporting & Analytics (APS) platform for Buffalo Wild Wings (BWW).
• Digitized BWW’s charity event process.
• Modernized Legacy Applications of BWW.
• Delivered Strategy & Roadmap for a massive digital transformation of BWW international restaurants.
• Helped TCS senior management in planning and developing long-term business & operational plans
• Delivered executive reports and dashboards for Best Buy.
• Built Master Data Management platform & services for Best Buy
• Migrated Best Buy’s traditional enterprise data warehouse (Teradata) of size close to one Petabyte to a low cost & high performance platform (APS).
• Migrated Colruyt’s Oracle datawarehouse to Sybase IQ
• Moved Colruyt’s Legacy data integration process to Informatica.
• Helped Colruyt in selection of a Geographic Information System (GIS) to support their business in identifying locations for its new stores.
• Helped Colruyt in BI product evaluations & its successful implementations.
• Managed and led a multiyear Business Objects migration program at Colruyt.
• Helped Colruyt in formulating an enterprise wide BI strategy.
• Successfully implemented the manufacturing module of Oracle ebusiness suite for LMW.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Founder

Confidential

• Build a tech company specializing in Confidential for retail industry. Key solutions include Recommendation engine, Path to Purchase, Social Listening for Trend Forecasting, Price Optimization and Inventory Optimization.
• Recruit equally passionate Data scientists and Retail SMEs
• Define & share the vision with the team
• Set short term and long term goals for the business
• Oversee the operations and product development
• Strong focus on sales and marketing

Program Lead

Confdential

• Responsible for delivering a consolidated complaint management system for the Boston Scientific units across the globe.
• Manage the Terdata datawarehouse team
• Manage Teradata batch report development team
• Set the overall strategy and objectives for the teams.
• Planning and designing the program and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action
• Defining the program's governance
• Ensuring effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the program
• Establish budgets and allocate technical resources to individual teams
• Set priorities within the overall program and allocate resources in line with those priorities.
• Managing the program's budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realized benefits
• Managing risks to the program's successful outcome
• Agree to timelines for achieving intermediate and overall goals.
• Coordinate and monitor progress across all the tracks.
• Conduct periodic reviews to ensure that program remain on target.
• Provide updates on any changes in strategy or priorities.
• Report to executives on the progress of individual projects and the overall program.

Technologies: TrackWise, Teradata, Microsoft Project Plan (MPP), Excel, Word & Powerpoint

Data Scientist

Confidential

• Identify dissatisfied customers early in their relationship with Santander. Doing so would allow them to take proactive steps to improve a customer's happiness before it's too late.
• To develop a model for Group Bimbo to accurately forecast inventory demand based on historical sales data. Doing so will make sure consumers of its over 100 bakery products aren’t staring at empty shelves, while also reducing the amount spent on refunds to store owners with surplus product unfit for sale.
• Given a dataset of 2D dashboard camera images, State Farm want to classify each driver's behavior. Are they driving attentively, wearing their seatbelt, or taking a selfie with their friends in the backseat? State Farm hopes to improve these alarming statistics, and better insure their customers, by testing whether dashboard cameras can automatically detect drivers engaging in distracted behaviors.

Technologies: R, RStudio, Amazon Web Services(AWS)

Business Intelligence Program Lead

Confidential

• Responsible for leading a large team engaged in transition from traditional Data warehouse to a next generation Platform, building a self-service business intelligence platform, enterprise reports, Master data Management, Legacy modernization program & Digital strategy.
• Proactively share BI trends, best practices, tools and solution.
• Design and development of solution Architecture
• Built a Strategy & Roadmap for a massive digital transformation of BWW international restaurants.
• Review of key deliverables
• Responsible for execution of strategic initiatives.
• Managing customer relationship with relentless focus on meeting their evolving needs. Constantly seek to understand their critical issues and provide solutions.
• Responsible for managing bids in response to Request for Proposals (RFPs) from client, proposal presentation & contract negotiation
• Providing leadership to ensure that optimal technology-leveraging solutions are developed to address Clients strategic, business and operational goals.
• Directed projects through designated project managers, ensuring consistency with system strategy, and consistency of process across projects, and customer satisfaction with the deliverable.
• Ensuring projects are properly planned, staffed and delivered within budget.
• Ensuring the services delivered by the team conform to what has been contractually agreed with the client.
• Periodic meeting with all stakeholders to review progress of projects.
• Handle communication and status reporting to the Executive Steering Committee.
• Liaise with client to ensure communication and support for the project team.
• Keeping the team fully updated on all feedback coming from the client and ensuring that they adhere to client expectations.
• Guiding and mentoring team members working on the engagement.
• Managing the financial aspects of the contract.
• Accountable for both top and bottom line performance of the account.

Technologies: SQL Server, Microsoft PDW(ASP), SSRS, SSIS, .Net, Sharepoint, Microsoft Project Plan (MPP), Excel, Word & Powerpoint

Confidential

Head of Strategy & Operations

• Key advisor to senior management in planning and developing long-term strategic focus of business, operating plans and organizational structure.
• Lead/support multi-year strategic business planning process. Work with Senior Leadership to make decisions to profitably and aggressively grow the business.
• Providing ongoing support and expertise to senior management, assisting them in establishing and meeting or exceeding all objectives, standard processes and revenue generating strategies.
• Lead cost reduction initiatives across the Global Operations. Identify and execute strategies to maximize Operating Income.
• Drive initiatives geared toward operational excellence.
• Periodic meeting with all stakeholders to review business performance.
• Responsible for monitoring and reporting on strategic initiatives, key performance metrics, goals, etc.
• Provide trend analysis on Sales Practices, Strategies and External Environment.
• Oversee overall financial management, planning, systems and controls.
• Periodic financial reporting to senior management.
• Support and take lead on behalf of Leadership on key issues.

Technologies: Microsoft Project Plan (MPP), Excel, Word & Powerpoint

Confidential

Data Management and Analytics Lead

• Responsible for delivering multiple large scale Business Intelligence projects in a Global Delivery Model.
• Projects include, development of executive reports and dashboards, data integration and migration, build Master Data Management platform & services, migration from Teradata enterprise datawarehouse of size close to one Petabyte to a low cost & high performance platform.
• Mapped existing Teradata EDW objects to Microsoft PDW
• Provided Phase wise Teradata EDW retirement plan
• Support Data Migration from Teradata EDW to Microsoft PDW
• Shared Microsoft PDW data governance plan
• Design and review of solution architecture
• IBM Infoshpere Location MDM solution & implementation plan
• Logical data model for the Location MDM
• Technical guidance to IBM Infoshpere product implementation team
• Share industrial best practices proactively
• Set the overall strategy and objectives for a group of projects.
• Ensure outcome of the projects align with the organization’s overall business goals.
• Communicate the strategy to the project managers and ensure that individual project goals align with the strategy.
• Establish budgets and allocate technical resources to individual teams.
• Agree to timetables for achieving intermediate and overall goals.
• Set priorities within the overall program and allocate resources in line with those priorities.
• Review the skills available within the project teams and arrange any necessary training to improve performance.
• Coordinate and monitor progress across all projects.
• Conduct periodic reviews to ensure that projects remain on target.
• Provide updates on any changes in strategy or priorities.
• Report to executives on the progress of individual projects and the overall program.

Technologies: Teradata, Microsoft PDW, SSRS, SSIS, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, IBM Infoshpere, .Net, Sharepoint, JIRA, Microsoft Project Plan (MPP), Excel, Word & Powerpoint

Confidential  

Leadership Development Program

• TCS Strategy
• IT Industry Trends and Competitor Analysis
• Capstone Business Simulation
• Winning Pitch - Alan Doulton
• Networking - Alan Doulton
• GTM Strategy and Demand Creation
• Revenue Storm
• Power messaging
• Strategic Solutions - Win by Design
• Strategic account management
• Give and Take- Negotiation Skills
• TCS Marketing
• The Chemistry of Inorganic Deals
• Cross Selling
• Risk Management
• CRM
• Intellectual Property Rights and Contract Management
• Overview of all vertical & horizontal units of TCS

Confidential

Analytics lead

• Design & Development of Datamarts in Oracle / Sybase IQ
• Migration from Oracle datawarehouse to Sybase IQ
• Helped with selection of an integration platform (Informatica) that would best fit business needs.
• Migration of legacy data integration process to Informatica.
• Development of new data integration process in Informatica.
• Migration from Business Objects 6 to XI R2 & upgrade to XI R3
• Development of new reports in Business Objects.
• Implementation of SAS for advanced analytics.
• Selection of a Geographic Information System to support business in identifying locations for its new stores.

Technologies: Oracle, Sybase IQ, Informatica, Business Objects, SAS, Java, Microsoft Project Plan (MPP), Excel, Word & Powerpoint

Confidential

Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Application Development team to implement data strategies, build data flows and develop conceptual data models.
• Create logical and physical data models using best practices to ensure high data quality and reduced redundancy.
• Optimize and update logical and physical data models to support new and existing projects.
• Maintain conceptual, logical and physical data models along with corresponding metadata.
• Develop best practices for standard naming conventions and coding practices to ensure consistency of data models.
• Recommend opportunities for reuse of data models in new environments.
• Perform reverse engineering of physical data models from databases and SQL scripts.
• Evaluate data models and physical databases for variances and discrepancies.
• Validate business data objects for accuracy and completeness.
• Analyze data-related system integration challenges and propose appropriate solutions.
• Develop data models according to company standards.

Technologies: Oracle, ERwin, Sybase Power designer, Excel, Word & Powerpoint