SUMMARY:

• Business and technology consultant with over 10 years of combined industry and consulting experience with multiple Fortune 500 clients in building strategy and implementing solutions that focus on solving complex business problems by utilizing information assets. Confidential ’s experiences range across financial planning and analysis, business intelligence, data analytics, strategic business development, process improvement and change management. His major strengths include development of strategy and related tactical implementation plans and process improvements, leadership and team building, decision making, analytical problem solving and delivering results.
• On the technology front Confidential has IBM Information Management certifications and Big Data and Data Science certifications including Apache Hadoop. Apache Spark, Machine Learning and R. He has hands on experience with different IBM Cognos Toolset and Hadoop components (Pig, Hive, Flume, HDFS) and Apache Spark programming using Python. He has development/implementation experience in Big Data Projects and Solutions using commercial open source Hadoop distributions. He also has implementation experience in developing real - time BigData solutions using Apache Flume, experience in implementing machine learning algorithms using Apache Spark, clustering techniques, Sentiment Analysis, Recommendation Engine, Customer Analytics and business customer dashboard integrated with BigData platform using Tableau. He has also played important role in BigData pre-sales work within Media and Entertainment domain.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Global Delivery Management
• Solution Architecture
• Program Management
• IT Strategy
• Process Improvement
• Management Consulting
• Business Process Analysis
• Cross Functional Team Management
• Agile Methodology
• Gap Analysis
• Predictive Analytics
• Recommendation Engines and Big Data Processing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Apache Spark
• Machine Learning
• Hadoop Distros (Hortonworks and MAPR)
• Apache Pig
• Apache Hive
• Sqoop
• Flume
• IBM Business Intelligence Toolset
• IBM Cognos Performance Management Toolset (TM1 & EP)
• Tableau and AWS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Manager

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• He has led multiple enterprise wide solution implementations for Confidential ’s Fortune 500 clients with focus on Media and Entertainment industry.
• As a Manager at Confidential, he has significant experience working directly with C-Level client executives and internal Confidential leadership to plan, execute and deliver strategic programs.

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Solution Lead / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Functional SME relating to Media production, marketing, distribution and licensing business processes
• Led the requirement gathering workshops with other M&E industry experts internal and external to Confidential
• Interacted with Product Sponsors and Product Manager to establish product vision and develop a concept through market analysis, establish the conceptual architecture, identify key vendors/partnerships required, contribute to developing a high-level business case and define a capabilities based release roadmap
• Worked with Data Science lead to develop and optimize prediction models to be used for recommendation engine
• Managed project plan and solution delivery
• Managed multi-disciplinary Hadoop and Spark development teams(10+ developers) for Agile development, which included orchestration of sprint planning sessions, user story definition sessions, backlog prioritization and effort estimation
• As an architect in dual role, defined the backend technology reference architecture and standards including Hadoop and Spark based analytics
• Led implementation of predictive models using Apache Spark MLlib and Python
• Built Sqoop, Pig and Hive scripts to extract, transform and analyse data using Hadoop clusters
• Participated in Pre-Sales activities with the Account Managers and Commercialization teams

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Functional Lead / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed project plan, solution development and commercialization activities
• Functional SME relating to Media and Entertainment industry
• Led the requirement gathering workshops with other M&E industry experts
• Interacted with Product Sponsors and Product Manager to establish product vision and develop a concept through market analysis, establish the conceptual architecture, identify key vendors/partnerships required, contribute to developing a high-level business case and define a capabilities based release roadmap
• Managed multi-disciplinary Hadoop and Apache Spark development teams(8 developers)
• As an architect in dual role, defined the backend technology reference architecture and standards including Hadoop and Apache Spark based analytics. Python was used to build Spark components.
• Built Sqoop, Pig and Hive scripts to extract, transform and analyse data using Hadoop clusters
• Worked with Account managers to prepare marketing material

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Functional Lead/Technical SME

Responsibilities:

• Engaged client leadership as technical and functional SME during pre sales cadence and successfully managed $3M+ component of the project
• Led the requirement gathering workshops with 8 business units to understand business requirements around Forecasting and Budgeting process
• Provided functional guidance to business users in regards to TM1 capabilities and the best practices being followed across the industry
• Helped client with technology/vendor selection
• Developed functional specifications for the proposed TM1 planning applications and reports
• Led prototype demo sessions and brokered work-arounds when required, due to technology limitations
• Provided technical guidance to the development team
• Led the development of change management material
• Guided creation of user training materials and conducted user training sessions

Technical Environment: Cognos TM1 10.1/ Cognos BI 10.1, Tableau, Amazon EMR

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PMO/ Functional SME

Responsibilities:

• Functional SME relating to Media production, marketing, distribution and licensing business processes
• As a Project Manager, Confidential helped establish an org structure for the threads assigned to him and developed a trusted relationship with the client business counterparts. He led the teams through the planning and requirements analysis phase
• Managed multi-disciplinary teams for Agile development, which included Orchestration of sprint planning sessions, user story definition sessions, backlog prioritization and effort estimation

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TM1 Solution Architect / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As Solution Architect, Confidential had the overall responsibility of Solution design and development effort and led a team of 10 onsite and offshore developers besides managing project plan and executive communications. He led requirement gathering session with client leadership and business users to determine system needs, prepared requirements traceability matrices, conducted prototype workshops and end user training sessions.

FPM Practice Lead

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Confidential led the Business Intelligence and Financial Performance Management practice at Confidential .
• He worked with various Fortune 500 clients to help them plan, execute and deliver strategic programs.
• Primary focus was implementation of IBM BI and Analytics toolset.

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Enterprise Architecture SME

Responsibilities:

• Confidential engaged with the Chief Architect from client side and his team to define the relevant deliverables across Business and Solution Architecture.
• He led a team of 4 resources on the Solution Architecture thread.
• His team was responsible for developing various current-state artifacts across Application/Integration, Information and Infrastructure domains which would allow the client to perform various types of analysis such as impact of business / technology changes, application rationalization etc.
• Once the technology selection was complete, Confidential led the development team to build TM1 POC to demonstrate the tool capabilities to business users and client leadership.

Technology: Cognos TM1 9.5.2, Cognos BI 10.1 (Report Studio, Analysis Studio), Cognos Enterprise Planning 10 Windows Server 2008, Database- DB2.

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Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Role required assessment of planning requirements for the Confidential Audio business segment, design a TM1 Planning and Reporting solution and lead a team of developers to implement the design.
• We developed an end to end solution for Forecast, AOP and 5 year plan involving 9 TM1 Contributor applications and two TM1 reporting cubes.
• Reporting data was delivered via Cognos BI reports and Analysis Studio.
• Role also required Cognos TM1 Vs Cognos Enterprise Planning tool value analysis for Confidential project.
• Confidential also guided client during tool selection phase and worked with the client leadership to understand business requirements and pain points, perform requirements assessment and create solution blueprints.

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Cognos EP/TM1 Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Confidential was part of the development team which helped various Disney business segments to design and implement their Planning/Budgeting/Forecasting models and roll them out to their business users. Project also involved Production support activities for Cognos infrastructure.
• Confidential developed six Cognos EP Contributor apps for the Disney Studio segment and three Forecasting apps for the Disney Corporate Finance.
• He also performed analysis of the existing Cognos Planning models and infrastructure, and prepared expansion plans for Cognos based on the ongoing projects and projected user growth.

Product Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed and administered planning applications, reports and dashboards for business users.
• Setup two new Cognos environments with distributed architecture and delivered 25 Cognos EP models which supported AOP, Forecasting and 5 year plans.
• Migrated existing reports and cubes from existing Cognos 7 environment to Cognos 8.
• Confidential was awarded two Confidential Bravo awards for the exemplary work.