EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished professional with a distinguished 15+ 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.
• 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 education 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.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• 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, Training & 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.

TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCY:

Business Intelligence Tools: Big Data Framework (Hadoop, Pig, Hive) Tableau, D3.JS, Oracle Reporting, Microstrategy and QlikView Informatica

Databases & Software: Oracle, MS SQL Server, Rally, Clarity Visual Source Safe, Microsoft Project, Unix

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Manager, Phoenix, AZ

Technical Solution: Leveraged Big Data ecosystem to quality control data, including transactional # Custom UI for business users to author business rules and collaborate # Dashboards to communicate up to date data quality to the key stakeholders and propose improvements # Built Backend components for rules execution

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

Senior Manager, Phoenix, AZ

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

Manager, Phoenix, AZ

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

Manager, Groton, CT

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

Manager, Green Bay, WI

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

Lead, Hartford, CT

Technology: Business Object, Oracle, PL/SQL, UNIX

Responsibilities:

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

Confidential

Tech Lead, New York, NY

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

Tech Lead, Thousand Oaks, CA

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.