PROFILE SUMMARY:

• Seasoned Strategy and Analytics consultant with over 15 years of experience managing projects across Technology, Financial Services, Banking and Insurance sectors.
• Expertise in Program Management, Stakeholder Management, Vendor Management, Strategy & Executive Communications, Cross - functional team collaborations, Enterprise Data Management and Data Governance.
• Core competencies include: Managing complex and business critical programs, preparing project proposals, planning and supervising deliverables, partnering with technical and business SMEs, Building consensus across Senior Leadership, leading requirement gathering (functional and technical), managing stakeholders, executive communications, building governance roadmap and strategy, and designing data management solutions for IT and Financial transformation projects.
• Strong at forging lasting stakeholder relationships, identifying and translating business requirements into robust functional and technical solutions, collaborating across teams, defining governance strategy and policies, people management and managing overall project delivery.
• Experienced in Scaled Agile, Agile and Traditional project methodology. Certified in Informatica Axon Data Governance

COMPETENCIES, SKILLS & CERTIFICATIONS:

Functional Expertise: Business Requirements Workshops, Stakeholder engagement, Consensus building, Business Data Definitions, Business Analysis, Business Proposals, Functional Design, Information governance, Project & Solution Roadmaps, Team Management, Executive Summary, Stakeholder management, Storyboarding, Key Design Decisions, Identifying KDEs, Business Glossary, SOPs, Change Management, Business User Training, Functional Specifications and CTO presentations

Data Management & Governance: Data Quality, Master data management, Information/Data Governance Roadmap & Strategy, Data Governance Policies & Processes, Data Governance Operating Models, Governance Playbooks, Data Modeling, Data Provisioning, Approval workflows and UI design, Data Architecture, Data Integrity, Information management, Business Glossary, DQ metrics, Data Integration including data profiling and ETL, Informatica MDM Multidomain 10.3, Informatica Reference 360, IDD, E360, Informatica Axon, Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog(EDC), IBM Information Server, Information Analyzer.

Project Management: Project Management, Scope of Work (SoW), Estimations and Assumptions, Team Leadership, Systems Thinking, Process Improvement, Change Management, Agile Scrum, Risk and Issue Management, Scaled Agile, Strategic Planning, Project economics (budgeting & forecasting), Deployment plans(Microsoft Project, Cutover, Testing Planning (HP ALM), Test execution strategy, User Stories Planning and Tracking (JIRA, Rally)

Industry Expertise: Finance, FinTech, Technology and Automotive

Systems and Databases: SAP S/4, ECC, SAP MDG, Amazon Snowflake, Siebel EIM, Sybase Power designer, Flexera, Tableau, Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Analytics & Cognitive Practice, Senior Consultant

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Manage enterprise data management & governance projects across industry sectors with cross-functional teams to drive impact, efficiency, effectiveness in support of client goals and priorities
• Work with cross-functional stakeholders including executives, IT representatives, business leaders and the analytics/AI user community to understand data challenges and identify solutions for remediation
• Manage projects establishing a clear path and owners of next steps, including identifying dependencies, develop mitigation strategies, predict roadblocks and obstacles and establish meetings or integration points
• Facilitate relationships between cross-functional teams, setting up processes, managing resources, tracking schedules, raising concerns to appropriate owners early and resolving open issues that prevent progress
• Design data governance operating models and implement data governance and master data solutions based on industry-standard governance frameworks
• Define systems strategy; develop system requirements; design, prototype, and test custom technology solutions; and support system implementation.

Finance Data Governance Manager

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Managing the end-end data governance and master data strategy and solution delivery for Finance MDM
• SPOC for stakeholder engagement, PMO and status reports, requirement revision, and client demos
• Conducted workshops and interviews with business stakeholders in Finance, Accounting and Product teams to assess the business and technology requirements for MDM solution
• Established data governance standards and processes for managing enterprise finance data for planning, consolidation and management/regulatory reporting.
• Led the MDM solution architecture design including MDM data model, UI, Workflows and data integrations between the MDM Hub and S/4 using PCF.
• Managed a team of technical and functional resources to develop data integration (ETL), data profiling, data UI screens, customized workflows and MDM process jobs
• Established the test strategy and MDM test plan for conducting SIT and UAT and led the execution of testing. Managed production cut-over, go-live, and knowledge transfer activities.

Business Architect

Confidential, Daly City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led stakeholder workshops to determine functional requirements for Planning & Reporting and translate the same for solution design of Financial Data Warehouse.
• Recommended incremental business value delivery by consulting with Client’s cross-functional stakeholders, and drafted plans for corresponding build out of technical components.
• Interfaced with design-time governance structure setup to obtain Client’s specific data/design decisions.
• Advised Client on project interdependencies, critical success factors, project schedules, resource loading/levelling, issue resolution and coordinates with other teams.

Data Governance Lead

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed DG implementation strategy, roadmap and phase-wise deployment plan
• Developed DG operating model inclusive of structure, roles & responsibilities, process & policies and implementation plan

Data Governance Manager

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led the data governance (DG) business workshops to gather business requirements and built supporting material and deliverables towards the same
• Designed the DG Operating Model, defined the DG metrics, documented the DQ metrics and created the communication for the newly created Data Governance Organization.
• Designed Finance MDM solution for the M&A and Financial Transformation project including end-end integration of Finance master data.

Project Manager

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Created the release roadmap and timeline, project structure, communication plan for the Confidential
• Organized Business requirements workshops and Business/IT Interlock sessions to gather requirements
• Managed communication across stakeholders and evaluated organizational change by ensuring dependencies and deliverables for project per release are tracked and communicated

Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted partner and customer workshops for IBM InfoSphere Information Server stack of products.
• Design data profiling strategies and data quality solutions using IBM stack of Data Management products.
• Led the design for ETL & DQ projects (SDLC) across ERP and CRM downstream systems.
• Worked with team to help build queries and SQL in Toad, Oracle, DB2, SQL, SQL Plus, and MS SQL Server.
• Facilitated the performance of data lineage, impact analysis, and metadata stitching using IBM Metadata Workbench and Business Glossary.

ETL Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed, Tested and Debugged ETL jobs using Informatica Powercenter
• Trained fellow team-members on Siebel EIM and Informatica.
• Developed Siebel EIM Workflows and Analytics solutions based on Functional & Technical specifications
• Prepared test plans, Unit testing, Bugs Analysis and fixation for ETL.