Experience Summary

• Data Management professional with over 16 years of progressive experience in Information Technology area and Operational Management with major strengths in Process, project and Technology Management and strong focus on continuous improvement.
• High level of knowledge in driving business in Retail, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Technology Finance domains having worked for top fortune organizations like Costco, Nike, Kohl's, Target Corporation, HEB, Medtronic Inc, SAP Inc, Microsoft and Citibank NA.
• Played key role in shaping global organizations under various capacities including People Manager, Project Manager, Business Analyst, Technical and Solution Architect.
• Focus on business, data and process with key exposure to business analysis, requirements gathering, scoping, resourcing, data governance processes, data policies and procedures, data profiling, data quality management, design data modeling, data validation, Data security strategy, process re-engineering.
• Expertise in building data governance and data quality teams along with building processes, procedures and supporting infrastructure.
• Expertise in building Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence solutions in all the stages of the System Development Life Cycle from Project Initiation, Scoping, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Effort and Cost Estimating, Requirement, Design and Development through Deployment. Extensive experience in Agile RUP Methodologies.
• Managed and lead performance improvement initiative on BI applications working closely with consulting vendors such as SAP, IBM and Oracle.
• Holds certification on Project Management, Business Communication and Customer Requirements Analysis and Informatica Certified Developer.
• Nominated for 'CIO award' for re-engineering the data warehouse process using Lean Sigma technique.
• DGIQ Conference: San Diego by DGPO and TDWI World Conference: Orlando.
• Member of Data Management International DAMA

Tools Technical Skills

Databases: Teradata V2R6, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, DB2 on Unix, SQL Server 2000, MS-Access

ETL Tools: Informatica Data Quality, Metadata Manager, Developer, Analyst, Glossary Manager, Monitor, Power Center, Information Steward, Data Stage, SAS, MS Analysis Services

OLAP Tools: Cognos, Business Objects, Crystal Reports

Other Technologies: Erwin, Maestro ESP Scheduler, Mainframe, PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripting, Google Docs, Salesforce.com

Organizational Experience

Enterprise Data Manager

Confidential

Role and Responsibilities

• Enterprise data management of Master Data domains on Customer, Vendor, Product, Inventory, Financial data, migrations and data conversions.
• Management responsibilities such as resource assignment and coordinating large project tasks, and working with third party consulting partners.
• Manage relationships with third-party solution partners
• Responsible for the design delivery of enterprise data information, which maps to enterprise architecture.
• Along with all data stakeholders, define enterprise data information architecture principles, policies, standards and procedures.
• Implement the defined Enterprise Data Management strategy and applies data information governance program.
• Collaborate with peers from other IT teams on implementation and adoption of standards and guidelines for technology solutions including those solutions requiring integration and Interfacing across multiple platforms and applications.
• Responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of an MDM hub and syndication of enterprise data across multiple platforms, applications and ERP systems in a 24/7 environment.
• Responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of Informatica Product Information Management PIM solution
• Ensure data security and compliance processes are implemented and practiced.
• Develop Key Performance Indicators KPI's to monitor and measure data quality and process effectiveness
• Conduct scheduled checks and audits as part of quality assurance framework

Data Steward

Confidential

Role and Responsibilities

• Defining and implementing data governance standards for data and data management activities for Costco enterprise.
• Identify and Supporting Data Owners in their data governance standard implementations, and monitoring their progress.
• Acting as liaison between functional Data Owners and the Data Governance organization.
• Ensuring that data quality for key data elements is defined for critical enterprise processes, including ratings data delivery, and that all groups measuring data quality conform to the Data Quality Standard.
• Conduct brownbag sessions on sharing data governance standards across the enterprise.
• Driving data migration, data quality for special project of first SAP implementation for HR and Finance functions.
• Define systems of record, standards, naming conventions, access policies
• Reviewing data load requests to assure compliance with data governance standards.
• Assisting the Data Monitoring Group in escalating data quality issues to Data Owners, Operational Data Stewards, and Data Custodians.
• Architect and managing the Enterprise Business Glossary, assuring it includes business definitions of all key data elements and terms, and that the Data Owners/Data Stewards maintain the information for the terms belonging to their functions, the lineage is defined appropriately.
• Drive acceptance of enterprise data standards and policies within the various organizations
• Ensure that data management methodologies include the steps, activities, and deliverables required to consistently achieve high data quality.
• Work closely with business data owners and users to identify quality metrics and thresholds.
• Define and build enterprise Data Quality scorecard.
• Ensure data stores and applications adhere to defined data management practices, policies, and procedures.
• Support project delivery teams in their effort to adopt and execute on data management processes.
• Identify and implement information quality tools for enterprise wide access.
• Work with Technology center of excellence groups to enhance the standards.
• Build and operate enterprise Data Quality organization and enterprise Data Validation organization
• Architect and built enterprise metadata glossary

Confidential

Role Senior Business Analyst

Role and Responsibilities

• Requirement gathering for the key defined supply chain key performance Indicators.
• Create and propose solution options by meeting business representatives and technical teams.
• Create prototype data model and solution model to confirm the solution options.
• Work with IBM in performing proof of concept for mobile BI application.
• Provide strategic direction on technology implementation.
• Perform data modeling analyze the data integrity, evaluate the ETL processes and validate new
• job schedules
• Work with enterprise information group in defining governance, glossary processes and data classification
• Liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.
• Create AS-IS and To-BE systems and propose an optimal solution both from business perspective and technology perspective.
• Design Teradata data models, Cognos framework models and Cognos reporting solutions.
• Perform coordinate user acceptance testing.
• Plan and track schedule and cost, report and escalate status through appropriate channels.

Confidential

Role Project Lead

Role and Responsibilities

• Prepare and execute development project plan.
• Analyze, document the AS-IS system by interacting with SAP GD and Citibank NA SMEs on existing application.
• Analyze and recreate the stored procedures for data loads.
• Design solution implementation approach to migrate application to report using Crystal Reports.
• The responsibilities also included develop and manage the requirement specification document with approval from Citibank.
• Interact with different business units that are impacted by the reports migration.
• Analyze the impacts from other upstream and downstream applications. Develop, unit test and deliver the upgraded application to Citibank NA.
• Provide daily project status to SAP GD and Citibank NA. Make necessary resource changes to meet the schedule and cost of both SAP GD as well as Citibank NA.
• Manage SAP GD resources and define RACI on the project.

Confidential

Role Project Lead/ Technical Architect

Role and Responsibilities

• Assessment of AS-IS BI architecture. Interact with business interface and business entities to understand the expectations and requirements.
• Design and develop data mart and data extraction process from EDW.
• Design, develop and test seasonal sales data extracts from EDW. Apply best practice in SQL and Unix shell scripts enhancing performance and maintenance.
• Perform Data profiling analysis, scoping, design data modeling, perform source to target data mapping, ETL development.
• Plan, track and manage development and implementation schedules.
• Facilitate Unit testing and coordinated system integration testing and UAT by business users.
• Manage change requests and enhancements for the application. Submit project status reports on periodic basis.
• Develop and design the complex reports using stored procedures, performance assessment and tuning based on the user feedback and manage change request and enhancements.

Confidential

Role Project Manager/ Business Analyst

Role and Responsibilities

• Preparation of project plan, requirements analysis and functional technical specification finalization.
• Approve of functional technical design documents, manage and control application development.
• Design and develop ETL process including designing of data model. Perform Data analysis, scoping, design data modeling, perform source to target data mapping, ETL development.
• Extract application transaction data using DB2 Sql script and Unix scripts.
• Validate the Informatica design, mapping document, monitor and manage implementation schedule.
• Analyze the data model and propose necessary changes, create metadata layer in Micro Strategy Desktop 8.0.1.
• Manage and control resourcing and adjust the delivery schedule and communicate the changes to stake holders.
• Submit project status reports on periodic basis.

Project Lead

Confidential

Role and Responsibilities

• Manage and build global information system application that places stores on a map for research and planning pyramid.
• Manage and build inventory accounting and analytics application.
• Manage vendors and drive their implementation plan
• Develop and implement efficient solution for reviewing, analyzing and reporting store/warehouse stock shortage and related data in cycle inventory accounting systems
• Present the to-be BI application to organizational BI stake holders and analyze upstream and downstream impacts.
• Explore and Partner with global vendors to provide project support at significant cost savings.
• Complete end to end project responsibility of leadership and solution for the Inventory Accounting and Analytics application.
• Interact with the business analysts business users for upstream and downstream application impacts and data impacts apart from requirement gathering, data model design and development, non functional requirements capture.
• Review progress performance with all stake holders and review periodic status reports.
• Coordinate vendor meetings and validate against organizational policies.