SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished professional with a distinguished 20+ year career leading the design and implementation of advanced data capture, integration, analysis, and reporting solutions to enhance decision - making. Skilled in partnering with business, leadership, teams and partners to identify needs, define strategy, and guide the delivery of tools, systems, interfaces and analytics to measure performance against goals, identify trends, and respond immediately to new opportunities or issues. Natural communicator and team leader with strong motivational skills and ability to produce and succeed. Proven ability to quickly grasp and apply new technologies and best practices.
• Strategic Business & Organizational Planning
• Project Design, Execution & Management
• Business Process Analysis & Automation
• Business Intelligence Roadmap & Strategy
• Data Acquisition, Integration & Analysis
• Data Modeling & Predictive Analytics
• OLAP & OLTP Database Management
• ETL, Dashboard & Reporting Frameworks
• Systems Development Life Cycle Management
• Team Development, & Leadership
• Executed projects in BIG Data-Hadoop, Informatica,Oracle
• Agile-Scrum, Waterfall based development
• Well versed and trained in Safe 4.0(Scaled Agile Framework) program implementation.
• Develop core Business Intelligence strategies and the multi-year roadmaps for implementation of capabilities for the enterprise. Build a capable team to deliver solutions for the organization.
• Work with key stakeholders, including senior management, to align, and drive an analysis based culture through the delivery of solutions to key user communities.
• Build the capabilities for each of the technology areas that support the concept of ease of access (any information, any time, and in an easy to access fashion) to information to user community
• Work with the enterprise advisory group to assist in prioritizing the work in the business intelligence team.
• Enable the development and maturation of sound data management strategies and practices in the organization by facilitation and with key executives and managers of the business
• Champion the adoption, and communicate the strategies effectively, and market the capabilities of the business intelligence team to ensure alignment where needed with support from the CIO and other key stakeholders.
• Create a high performance team by retaining and recruiting the high quality talent through development, coaching. Cross functional team leadership.
• Effectively manage projects and budgets to meet goals, objectives, and timelines. Handled program budgets of $3M+. Best practices of SDLC life cycle.
• Well versed Agile and Waterfall project methodologies. Work with external providers and internal stakeholders on creating and implementing plans for an efficient infrastructure.
• Implemented projects in Safe 4.0(Scaled Agile Framework)
• Delivered project needs on time and within the agreed acceptance criteria in a hybrid methodology environment as they attempted to transition to an Agile Methodology.
• Reported progress to all stakeholders through Sprint Burn-Down Reports, Iteration Burn-Down Reports, and velocity target updates.
• Wrote User Stories based on the requirements gathered from all the stake holders.
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
• Coordinated with systems partners to finalize designs and formalize requirements Utilized Story. Sizing and Planning Poker techniques as needed based on the length of the backlog and priorities.
• Operated in 2 week sprints with flexibility on length based on immediate functionality concerns.
• Ensured application availability and data integrity through preventative maintenance and upgrades.
• Team designed and trained to follow Kanban or Scrum based on project or user story.
• Strong Vendor management experience.
• Experienced in execution of project Onsite and Offsite model (Global delivery model).
• Highly experienced in DW & BI applications development.
• Handled projects/programs using products like Informatica, BO, Cognos, Oracle ERP and Siebel CRM. Familiarity with BIG Data framework- Hadoop Ecosystem.
• Main Domain Worked: Banking & Financial Services, Insurance, Health care and Life Sc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

BI Program Manager

Technology Stack: Front end /UI: JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5.0, CSS3.0, Bootstrap # Control Tier: Java, Spring, REST API, JSON # Backend and Storage: PIG, Hive, MySQL # Visualization: JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5.0, CSS3.0, Bootstrap, underscore.js, d3.js

Responsibilities:

• Project was executed following agile-scrum methodology.
• Planning and defining software development methodologies for the work streams, initial assessment, and effort and resource estimation, identifying skill set requirement.
• Implementation of business requirements, gap analysis, and technical specifications.
• Creating project plan, scheduling, setting up milestones and deliverables.
• Engaging child teams/managed sizing/forecasting/approving cost plan in SDLC Project Management tool Clarity.
• As part of project tracking activity, conducting reporting and status calls with business customer and various child teams involved.
• Planning and managing end users / internal customers sign-off process.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

BI Program Manager

Technology Stack: Informatica, Oracle, OFSAA reporting

Responsibilities:

• Project was executed following agile-scrum methodology. Rally was used to manage distributed agile.
• Managed business intelligence projects conceptualizations to implementations.
• Developed project plans, prepared a schedule and ensured work according to same.
• Analyzed business requirements and developed project deliverables accordingly.
• Administered projects and prepared regular status reports.
• Coordinated with various stakeholders and management for execution of project appropriately.
• Maintained good working relations with all key teams of organization.
• Assisted technical team in developing and analyzing operational reports.
• Engaging child teams/managed sizing/forecasting/approving cost plan in SDLC Project Management tool Clarity.
• Planning and managing end users / internal customers sign-off process.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

BI Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed project plans, prepared a schedule and ensured work according to same.
• Analyzed business requirements and developed project deliverables accordingly.
• Administered projects and prepared regular status reports.
• Coordinated with various stakeholders and management for execution of project appropriately.
• Maintained good working relations with all key teams of organization.
• Assisted technical team in developing and analyzing operational reports.

Confidential, Groton, CT

BI Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creating project plan, scheduling, setting up milestones and deliverables.
• Engaging child teams/managed sizing/forecasting/approving cost plan in SDLC Project Management tool Clarity.
• Planning and managing end users / internal customers sign-off process.

Confidential, Green Bay, WI

BI Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed business intelligence projects conceptualizations to implementations.
• Developed project plans, prepared a schedule and ensured work according to same.
• Analyzed business requirements and developed project deliverables accordingly.
• Administered projects and prepared regular status reports.
• Coordinated with various stakeholders and management for execution of project appropriately.
• Maintained good working relations with all key teams of organization.
• Assisted technical team in developing and analyzing operational reports.

Confidential, Hartford, CT

BI Lead

Responsibilities:

• Taking the client requirement, Design and development. Acted as a team lead.

Confidential, New York, NY

Tech Lead

Technology: Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, C++, JAVA, UNIX (SunOS 5.8), Window 2000,Oracle Forms/Reports

Responsibilities:

• Taking the client requirement, Design and development. Acted as a team lead.

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA

Tech Lead

Technology: Oracle 8i, Informatica, Cognos, Siebel

Responsibilities:

• Development, Enhancement of Interface with other systems.
• Loading data into the Siebel system from different source system using EIM.
• Generating reports from Siebel database for different Management Info. Systems using Pl/Sql
• Generating extract for the Data Warehouse Application.
• Delivering Reports to the MIS department using Cognos.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Developer

Technology: ORACLE 8, Oracle Applications R 10.7, PL/SQL, Pro*C

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the technical support team Pradip was involved in attending all the enhancement requirement of the client, fix different bugs and giving production support.

Confidential

Developer

Technology: ORACLE 8.0, Designer 2000 (R 2.1) with Web server generator

Responsibilities:

• Most of the phases of the system development where Designer 2000 was extensively used.
• Starting from ERD to Process Modeling and DDL generation.
• Loading the test data and managing the database objects.
• Developing stored procedures using PL/SQL