Candidates About

                                         Vidya Lakshmi Pillai

Self-driven individual with the objective to work in a challenging environment that enables me to use my technical expertise that I have obtained through my education and training experience.  

SUMMARY

·         4 years of experience as a Business Analyst in the Software Industry.

·         Extensive knowledge and hands on experience in Agile Methodologies, SDLC, BRD creation, UML, and CRM applications.

·         Demonstrated the ability to analyze business activities and requirement gathering with business owners to develop creative solutions.

·         Experience in SAP GRC Implementation- GRC 5.3, GRC 10.0.

·         Fluent in a wide range of technology, including business process tools such as MS Excel, Visio, and Project.

·         Experience in conducting Gap Analysis and developed Use Cases and Activity Diagrams using UML.

·         Experience working with real time projects and guiding teams.

·         A proactive individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Engineering Management, GPA: 3.6

University of South Florida, Tampa                                                                                                                 Dec 2015

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical & Electronics          

Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India                                                                                   May 2011

TECHNICAL SKILLS

·         Agile Methodologies, SDLC , Project Management

·         MS Office (Visio, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)

·         SAP GRC Implementation, SAP GRC 5.3/10.0, IBM TSRM, BMC REMEDY

·         Lean principles, Supply Chain, Tech and Finance, Human Resources 

·         C, C++, Java, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAP Security Business Consultant (Cognizant Technology Solutions)                                                 Oct 2011 - May 2014

·         Involved in gathering requirements, analysis and documented business process flows, functional specifications for the business needs.

·         Developed the project breakdown plan based on the functionality for various modules.

·         Experience in Governance Risk and Compliance Access Control 5.3 and GRC 10.0.

·         Creation, administration and maintenance of Roles, Profiles and Authorizations.

·         Experience in providing Emergency Access to Firefighters, PFCG proficient, and SU24 understanding.

·         Extensive knowledge and hands on experience in SOD.

·         GRC CUP- creating CUP requests, assigning roles, new account creation, uploading roles.  

·         Role maintenances and creating transport request for roles.  

·         Worked on Authorization related issues of end users for R/3 and traced missing authorizations.

·         Extensively used SUIM to assign the missing authorizations to the users.

·         Creation of Integration test cases for QA testing of the existing and new functionalities.

Business Analyst (University of South Florida)                                                                             Nov 2014 – Dec 2015

·         Act as technical advisor to the Director to facilitate all newly proposed/initiated technical projects.

·         Gathered requirements with business owners to develop solutions.

·         Performed Gap Analysis for existing system and evaluated benefits for the new system.

·         Made presentations to the executive management team documenting the business status, current performance and pending business initiatives.

·         Experienced in efficient requirement gathering with business owners to develop solutions.

·         Experience using MS Suite (Excel, Visio, Power Point etc.) for data management.

·         Identify life issues on equipment and analyzing areas for business improvement.

·         Create and maintain logs for inventory for different departments.

LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS

·         Awarded ‘BEST New Addition’ in 2015.

·         Awarded ‘Employee of the Quarter’ in 2012.

·         Trained and guided associates and interns at Cognizant technology Solutions on technical aspects and tracking the progress of the work