Candidates About

Professional Summary

Business Intelligence/Analytics professional with 18+ years of versatile experience in software industry. A unique experience including BI Development, Design, Architecture, Consulting, Team lead, Onsite/Offshore coordination and Product Management with strong focus on customer BI needs. Proven experience in implementing enterprise level Data Warehouse, Analytics and Data Visualization solutions in HealthCare, Insurance, Investment Banking, Shipping and Legal industries. Solid experience with IBM Cognos BI Tool suite and Tableau with a profound understanding of QlikView, TIBCO Spotfire and SAP Business Objects. Well versed with new trends in Big Data, Cloud Computing and Machine Learning/IoT (Internet of Things).

 

Specialties:

Ø  Managing Agile/Scrum development (Product Owner Role)

Ø  Product Management – Driving BI product Roadmap & Strategy

Ø  Managing Onshore/Offshore Development

Ø  Architecting large scale Data Warehouses/Data Modeling

Ø  Profound knowledge of statistical Analytics solution (Artificial Intelligence) and its integration with BI.

Ø  Business Intelligence, Data Visualization and Analytics (Operational, OLAP)

Ø  Enterprise BI Architectures/Technology Assessments

Ø  Customer/Vendor Management (OEM)

Ø  Extensive communications abilities & Team building skills

Ø  Well updated with latest trends in BI,Big Data market and Cloud

 

Tools & Technologies: 

Ø  BI/Visualization: IBM Cognos BI Suite, Tableau, QlikView, TIBCO Spotfire, Amazon QuickSight, MS Power BI

Ø  ETL: Informatica, SQL Server SSIS, Alteryx

Ø  RDBMS: Oracle 8i/9i, SQL Server 2008/2012, IBM DB2 UDB, Sybase 12.0., Amazon Redshift, MySQL

Ø  Data Modelling: Erwin Designer 3.5/4.0,Embarcadero E/R Studio 9.1

Ø  Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Scripts, HTML,R,Python

Ø  Scrum Tools: Rally, Mingle

Ø  Cloud: Amazon Web Services (EC2,QuickSight,Redshift )

Ø  CRM: SalesForce, Zuora (Billing)

Ø  Customer Care: Zendesk Support

Ø  Cloud Monitoring Service: Datadog

 

Professional Experience       

Senior Product Manager –Business Intelligence

Alert Logic Inc, Houston TX

Jan 2016 – Present

 

Playing a Critical role in shaping the strategy and operations of Business Intelligence product offerings introduced to the market. Responsible for defining, building and overseeing all product capabilities to address identified market needs. This is both a highly strategic role and a tactical role requiring the ability to accomplish goals through influence and leadership.

Key Highlights:

Ø  Direct the product leadership to define the metrics that shine light on all facets of product and service health end to end

Ø  An integral business leader, pushing both strategic and operational aspects of the business and ensuring monthly, quarterly and yearly targets are met

Ø  Driving enterprise BI product Roadmap & Strategy

Ø  Pricing and Market strategy for the BI products and solutions

Ø  Managing Agile/Scrum development team

Ø  Managing OEM relationship with Tableau

Ø  Product & Release announcements

Ø  Collaborate with Product Marketing on go-to-market planning and strategy, and provide guidance and support for the creation of sales tools and collateral

Ø  Develop and maintain an expert knowledge of assigned product lines including features, benefits, intended use, value proposition and competitive position

 

 

 

Product Manager –Business Intelligence

Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, Houston, TX

Nov 2011 – Dec 2015

 

Joined the company as Lead Data Warehouse Architect, the job role transformed to a product management role. Playing a BI Product Owner role for a fast pace (Agile) development for this leading product in ELM market has given me a great vision and insight for managing a BI organization. This involves continuous collaboration with Business Customers, Sales Engineering, Marketing & Professional Services executives. Additional responsibilities include new product launch, OEM relationship management and driving enterprise level BI Roadmap strategies.

Key Highlights:

Ø  Managing Agile/Scrum development team

Ø  Driving enterprise BI product Roadmap & Strategy

Ø  Interaction with Onshore/Offshore Development teams

Ø  Managing OEM relationship with IBM (Cognos)

Ø  Product & Release announcements

Ø  Collaborate with Product Marketing on go-to-market planning and strategy, and provide guidance and support for the creation of sales tools and collateral.

Ø  Develop and maintain an expert knowledge of assigned product lines including features, benefits, intended use, value proposition and competitive position

Ø  Conduct ongoing in-depth research and analysis, incorporating market and customer voice to deliver products and solutions that exceed customer expectations and satisfaction

Ø  Accountability for P & L ownership of global product portfolio

 

BI Architect & Team Lead

HCSC (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas) ,Richardson, TX

April 2006 – November 2011

 

One of the major Healthcare providers in the nation, Blue Cross and Blue Shield has one of largest in house Data Warehousing solutions in the industry. Enterprise Dashboard & Reporting is the enterprise level initiatives to put forth Cognos as a seamless reporting architecture which can support multi users concurrent reporting and Operational / Marketing / Sales / Financial data needs. I was Lead Architect in designing/delivering the data warehousing solutions at enterprise level. This included design, development and maintenance of 500+ detailed report, 300+ aggregated reports and 100+ Dashboards using IBM Cognos 8.x/ SQL Server 2000.

Key Highlights:

Ø  In-charge of Production Rollouts and Production Builds ensuring the proper documentation, versioning and all other pertinent details for the build

Ø  Lead a team of 7 developers (BI / ETL)

Ø  Data modeling (ERD), ETL Mappings and Database design

Ø  Lead Joint Application Development (JAD) activities, including requirements gathering and analysis, specification development, and solution design.

Ø  Owned the design and development of Enterprise Marketing Scorecards and Dashboards for top executives

 

Senior BI Consultant & Onsite Team Lead

Client: JPMorgan Chase (TSS Division), Dallas, TX

Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions

November 2004 – March 2006

 

Responsible for the delivery of large, complex global financial reporting system, New Performance Measurement,  including Business Requirement Gathering, design, development, implementation, helping production support, testing, and performance tuning of the Enterprise Data Warehouse, using IBM Cognos BI. Also was responsible for enhancing and supporting reporting system across three Global locations and over 75 business users.

Key Highlights:

Ø  Responsible for Onsite-Offshore Global Delivery Management

Ø  Ensuring report deliverables are consistent with business requirements and are on time.

Ø  Training/Coaching offshore reporting team on Advance concepts in Cognos reporting, organizational standards, and development processes and procedure.

Ø  Responsible for managing product related issues with Cognos support team

 

BI Consultant & Onsite Coordinator

Client: JPMorgan Chase, Glasgow, UK

Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions

November 2003 – October 2004

JPMorgan UK is a leading global financial services firm in Europe. Investment banking technology’s reporting system is one of first solution focusing at Capital Markets and M&A reporting. I played a role of BI consultant from offshore facility in Pune India and Onsite coordinator in Glasgow,UK.

Key Highlights:

Ø  Coordinated the development work with other modules leads and developers.

Ø  Involved in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements, functional requirements and data specifications for Reporting System using Cognos EP Series7.0.

Ø  Data Transformation and loading using PL/SQL in Sybase 12.0.

 

Lead Software Developer (BI)

Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India

March 2001–October 2003

 

Tata Consultancy Services is one of the largest IT consultancy in the world. I started as a developer and grew to a team lead position in 3 years. Worked for Major Global Clients mainly: McKinsey and Co, USA,US department of defense, Travelers, P & O Ports & GE Medical systems

Ø  Lead Cognos Developer involved in Design of Cognos Impromtu Reports using Cognos EP Series 7.0.

Ø  BI offshore report developer/Module lead using Cognos 6.x/7.x & Oracle 8.x/9.x

Ø  Database development using Unix Shell scripting and Oracle 8.x

Ø  Involved in testing and delivery process

Ø  Received training on CMM 5 and Six Sigma

 

Software Developer

Systime Computers Systems, Mumbai, India

July 1999–February 2001

 

Key Highlights:

Ø  Enhancement and Development of  PayCalc (Centralized Payroll System)

Ø  Product development, Unit Testing and Debugging using Visual Basic 6.0 and Oracle 8i.

Ø  Enhancement of Paycalc system for modules like IT FORM-16, Non-JV Earnings and Employee Settlement.

Ø  Involved in development of database objects mainly Functions and Procedures using PL/SQL.

 

Publications:

Ø  Big Data The next frontier innovation in Analytics (2013)

 

Certifications & Courses:

Ø  AWS Certified Technical Professional

Ø  IBM Certified Designer Cognos 8/10 BI Report

Ø  Certified Scrum Product Owner® - Scrum Alliance

Ø  Computing for Data Analysis (using R) John Hopkins University online (www.coursera.org)

Ø  Machine Learning (using Octave/Matlab) Stanford University (www.coursera.org)

Ø  Data Visualization University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (www.coursera.org)

                           

 

Education:

Ø  Bachelors of Engineering (Chemical Engineering) –GPA 3.8