Business Analyst Resume

EDUCATION
Master of Engineering Management (MEM)

Coursework at the Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck School of Business includes: Statistics, Decision Making, Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship, Corporate Finance, Marketing and Advanced Competitive Strategy
Lean six sigma green belt certification.
Awarded partial scholarship to the program.
Teaching Assistant at Thayer School of Engineering at the Computing Lab and for the course Everyday Technology.

BE (Hons) in Electrical & Electronics Engineering.

INTERNSHIP & GRADUATE PROJECTS

Confidential, West Lebanon, NH June 2009 - September 2009
Summer Intern

Gained exposure to existing practices and Quality Assurance standards revolving the manufacture and maintenance of medical devices and procedures.
Recommended methods to promote continuous improvement within teams and improve the existing Quality Assurance process while incorporating best practices.
Interacted with cross-functional teams to devise an optimized workflow to automate the process of maintaining records for DICOM Armorcar, a secure data transfer device.
Reduced operational resource utilization by 15% by designing a software module which aided in the automation of the manual process of maintaining batch records.

Confidential September 2008 - December 2008

Forecasted unit sales and market shares of current and evolving lighting technologies; considering factors such as cost, manufacturing materials and environmental effects.
Presented a detailed technical and business analysis of alternatives to incandescent light bulbs to a review panel.

Confidential September 2008 - December 2008

Applied strategic concepts such as brand portfolio management, segmentation, positioning and advertising in a competitive environment through the online Markstrat tool.
Independently presented a report stating the rationale behind each decision, supported with statistics and graphs.

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hyderabad, India April 2006 - August 2008
Business Analyst

Prepared and documented high level and detailed system design flows and business requirements.
Developed software to enhance communication features on a multiplexer and participated in the product development life cycle using C++ platform.
Administered performance and fault management support for network elements, as a part of the NMS(OSS) team of Nokia Siemens Networks using the C++ language platform.
Collaborated with the development team in the project to deliver presentations on the on-going work within the project at various conferences held within the company.
Interacted with the top level management at both the company and the customer end, on a regular basis, to report task updates and discuss future course of the project.
Awarded the Trailblazers award for exceptional contribution in the domain of project management.

Confidential, Hyderabad, India July 2004 - December 2004

Project Trainee

Developed an automated test suite to define Human cell phone interface, to drastically reduce manual testing efforts.

TECHNICAL SKILLSET

Software: C, C++, Java, SQL, XML, SPSS, SAS Operating Systems: Windows, Linux
Performing data validation checks to ensure that software met business requirements and functional specifications

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES