PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Senior Data & Analytics Program Leader offering 20 years of successfully leading cross - functional project/program/portfolio delivery experience directly contributing to organizations growth and profitability.
• Experienced in strategic business transformation/modernization initiatives for Fortune 200 companies.
• Expert in Data and Analytics Agile Program/Project management; delivered programs for diverse industries including Financial Services (Insurance and Banking), Health Insurance, Retail, Airline and Supply chain.
• Seasoned in translating business case ideas intake to project conversion and successful implementation.
• Experienced in Cloud Implementations (AWS, GCP), On-Prem to Cloud migration (AWS, GCP) of Data lake leveraging CI/CD and leading Data Engineering teams.
• Led the $25 million BI COE portfolio for Global Financial services company; transformed Actuarial data processes for Insurance company; Oversaw $15 million EIM portfolio for largest Retailer including EIM, Big Data and Advance Analytics.
• Collaborated with business leadership to establish engagement, defined and managed key data governance processes (e.g., data dictionary & glossary, data lineage, data quality framework, intake/demand prioritization).
• Established, led and mentored cross-functional teams of up to 70 members in global set up.
• Exceptional interpersonal, communication and presentation skills; story telling capabilities, tailoring the message according to the audience created.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Migrating On-Prem Cloudera Hadoop based Enterprise Data Lake to GCP Cloud based Data Lake.
• Stabilized On-Prem Hadoop cluster environment by implementing global support process improvements increasing the application availability to 99.999%.
• Responsible for managing Operations for On Prem Data Lake based on Cloudera Hadoop platform, GCP migrated Data Lake and AWS EMR cluster-based product implementations.

Confidential

Lead Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led Data and Analytics projects portfolio for Data & Analytics office; led two critical programs with direct impact to company’s financial health and compliance (SOX 404) requirements using Spark, Python, Hive, Hue, Impala, Parquet files, Alteryx and Tableau.
• Remediated financially high-risk Annuity (multi-billion-dollar business block) based data processes that fed data into Valuation and Hedging models, Experience studies and Financial statements avoiding ratings downgrade for the company.
• Developed business cases, secured funding for all Finance Portfolio projects ($7 million budget) for Data & Analytics office; Initiated eight projects and completed 6 projects within budget and schedule.
• Implemented Agile delivery processes to improve faster time to market for data and analytics solutions.
• Developed strategy and plan to migrate Health Net data to Centene data warehouse by and delivered the merge entity data within 6 months of aggressive timeline leveraging Big Data and AWS cloud hosted solutions.

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Program Managed client’s $25m BI & Analytics cross-functional projects portfolio (20+ projects) in agile environment.
• Partnered with Business Heads and delivered $5m Innovative Self-Service Legal Entity Governance Reporting program for Treasury, Finance & Risk functions; achieved $1.5 million in annual cost savings.
• Introduced MicroStrategy as Firm’s new BI & Visualization Tool, delivered 5 Pilot projects in agile environment and influenced CTO organization to certify MicroStrategy as Firm’s new strategic BI tool.
• Drove exploratory Big Data pilot to support data warehouse (DW) volume growth (Greenplum, Hadoop pilots for Massive Parallel Processing capability).
• Established and managed 70-member offshore development team for $7m IT Risk re-engineering program (web, middle ware development, data integration, reporting and data migration).
• Repaired troubled B2B payment gateway project, delivered 3 weeks ahead of schedule and saved $125k.
• Reduced Store Operating cost, optimized associate schedules and wages by implementing Global strategic Work Force Management change initiative in all 10 markets, delivering an ROI of $450 million.
• Led a team of Enterprise Architects and proposed EIM Strategy for Big Data, Data Cafe, MDM and Advance Analytics. The proposal was accepted and company was awarded $25 million project.
• Implemented inventory management system enabling real time product availability to consumers using Cassandra and Java based solution.
• Led a team of 15 direct reports and 100 offshore associates for the client engagement. Developed and mentored junior staff and promoted 10 associates.
• Spearheaded the SAS Implementation program; repaired the 3 stressed projects in SAS Implementation program ($5 million budget).
• Developed Solutions Architecture and data processing framework for the $6.5 million Enterprise Data Warehouse .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• AWS Cloud (EC2, EMR, S3, CloudFront, Cloud watch), GCP Cloud, Cloud implementations, Cloud Migrations, Cloud/Big Data Strategy, Big Data Architecture, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Hue, SQL, Impala, Kafka, Big Query, Privacera, Cassandra, Tableau, MicroStrategy, Oracle, data virtualization.
• PM/DevOps Tools: Microsoft Project, Jira, Clarity PPM, Confluence, GitHub, Bitbucket, SharePoint, Microsoft Office