SUMMARY

• Seasoned senior management consulting professional with 25 years’ experience leading large global IT programs and projects in IT Strategy, Finance Transformation Strategy, BI / DW / Data management, and Data Science strategies for clients across diverse industries, generating millions of dollars to the top and bottom lines.
• Successful recruiting and leading onshore/offshore cross - cultural teams to deliver complex enterprise-wide solutions within tight deadlines and budgets.
• Highly effective at breaking down strategic program/project initiatives into tactical plans and processes to achieve aggressive customer goals.
• Excel at leveraging strategic partnerships, global resources, process improvements, and best practices to maximize project delivery performance and ROI.
• An inspirational, solution-focused leader with exceptional ability managing multimillion-dollar P&Ls/budgets and change management initiatives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Perf. Mgmt Tools (BPM): OutlookSoft CPM (4.0 /4.1/ 4.2 and 5), SAP BPC, SAP SM, Hyperion Planning, Cognos Planning, and MS Performance Point

Project Mgmt Tools: Microsoft project 98, 2000, 2003 and 2007 Microsoft Project 2000 / 2003 Server

DW Tools: Cognos power play, MSAnalysis Services, Business Objects

Languages: ASP,.NET, VB.NET, XML 1.0, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, Java, JHTML, COBOL, RPG

GUI: Visual Basic 6.0 / 5.0, Visual Interdev 6.0

Internet: COM/DCOM, MTS 2.0, ADO 2.5 / 2.1 ADO.NET, .Net Framework, ATG Dynamo

Tools: Visual Source Safe, ATG Dynamo 5.5 / 5.0, PVCS, Informatica 7.2 / 6.2 / 5.1

RDBMS: SQL Server 2016 / 2000 / 7.0 / 6.5 , Sybase Sys 11, SQL / 400, Oracle 8i, Informix

Report Writer: Crystal Reports. 10 /9 / 8. to 4.6, Crystal Enterprise 10 / 9, Brio, Tableau, Cognos

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Program Director / Platinum Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed delivery of multiple 3 + million-dollar programs (from initiation. planning, execution, control, and closure of the Business Analytics and Enterprise Data Management projects
• Led and Managed Business Analytics (including Machine Learning) and Data Management Strategy for multiple clients.
• Created and operationalized BI Roadmap with current and emerging BI capabilities, BICC, and development projects
• Led and Architected multiple design sessions and created a Business Blueprint document with machine learning model architecture
• Created a Data management roadmap with governance for interdepartmental participation.
• Created a structured approach for data science projects enablement - business case & initiative alignment, data acquisitions, data enrichment, machine learning model planning, features selections, model building, optimizing and deployment
• Created Project Scope statement, Project Schedule (Plan) and managed a project timeline
• Created communications plan and delivered project related information to key stakeholders
• Managed direct project resources and functional resources under matrix environment
• Identified projects risk, issues and managing them
• Maintained projects-related KPIs - Schedule Performance Index (SPI), Cost Performance Index (CPI), ETC, EAC, and VAC.
• Hired, Mentored and managed multiple resources
• Led multiple RFP responses and presales engagements (15 in 2 years) that involved Business Analytics, data science, and ERP implementation. Won 81% of the projects
• Lead the Orals team for the customer presentations
• Regular speaker of SAP BW and Financial Conferences, Microsoft SQL Saturday conferences, and PASS conferences.

Confidential

Director

Responsibilities:

• Managed delivery of multiple 3 + million-dollar programs (from initiation. planning, execution, control, and closure of the data management programs
• Developed data Management Intellectual Property for solution offerings, best practices, and user conferences
• Developed relationships with vendors and corporate leadership
• Lead team in sales cycles presented RFP and presented orals to win multiple projects in ERP, CRM, BI and Data management area
• Accountable for the scope, schedule, budget, and delivery for data management technology investments in managing and leveraging Business Analytics, CDI, MDM, and EPM Projects
• Transformed Statistical models to business metrics to track performance.
• Created and managed P&C Insurance Risk models using SAS tools.
• Implemented Data mining to understand the patterns of claims, risks, etc.
• Created and managed BI Strategy, BI Competency Center (BICC) and PMO
• Championed design sessions on Enterprise-wide BI architecture
• Created costing models, profitability models, and other performance and statistical models using Excel, SAS, and SAP PCM.
• Good Knowledge in Predictive Analytics and Big Data
• Created a unique value proposition to the clients through Customer Intelligence and Competitive Intelligence
• Developed a roadmap for successful implementation of Business / IT Strategy, Business Intelligence Strategy
• Designed and implemented VLDB Data Warehouse (~1.0 TB) from Strategy to Implementation
• Implemented Planning, Forecasting, Budgeting, IC Elimination, ForEx Translation. Minority Interest, SOX Compliance and Consolidation modules in OutlookSoft CPM / SAP BPC Solution suite and Hyperion Suite
• Hands-on implementation on SAP, Hyperion, and other leading BI, CDI, MDM tools
• In an advisory role, analyzed existing EPM System to do performance improvement, adding newer functionality and consolidate operations
• Used Customer data to understand the Lifetime Customer Value (CLV) by customer analysis
• Used the Industry data and public data created a pricing strategy for utility organization for smart pricing for peak periods
• Directed staffing and budgeting projections
• Hired, mentored and managed project managers and technical team members
• The catalyst for cultural change, creating templates, policies, procedures, and training

Confidential

Practice Director

Responsibilities:

• Managed, defined and created a Corporate Performance Measurement tool to build a data warehousing solution for finance and forecasting applications
• Interacted and managed expectations of C-level executives
• Responsible for defining the appropriate modeling approach as it relates to customer data
• Accountable for the scope, schedule and budget for technology investments in managing and leveraging Strategy, BI and CDI Projects
• Championed design sessions on Enterprise-wide BI architecture
• Designed and implemented VLDB Data Warehouse (>1.5 TB) from Strategy to Implementation
• Implemented Planning, Forecasting, Budgeting, IC Elimination, ForEx Translation. Minority Interest, SOX Compliance and Consolidation modules in Outlooksoft CPM Solution suite
• Initiated and implemented a project change management system, which was based within Rational Clear Quest. System was used to account for efficient project events (issues, changes, and risks) handling.
• Responsible for defining the appropriate modeling approach as it relates to customer data
• Created and Managed PMO from inception.
• Led the implementation of the Enterprise Information Management strategy for the corporate IT of BCBS.
• Directed business process improvement initiatives.
• Implemented Resource workflow through Primavera portfolio management software.
• Developed relationships with vendors and corporate leadership
• Good experience with Predictive Analytics
• Managed IT-related purchasing and budget usage; worked closely with accounting to develop budgets
• Directed IT staffing and budgeting projections.
• Hired, mentored and managed Project Managers and technical team members
• The catalyst for cultural change, creating templates, policies, procedures, and training.