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 Around 10 years of experience in strategic programs, operational projects management & consulting. Proven expertise in complete systems integration [analysis/ design/ development/ optimization/ implementation] around informatics, risk mgmt., network/ channel mgmt., materials mgmt., compliance mgmt., health care economics {medical policies, disease & care mgmt.} at various international clients in public, non-profit, insurance, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, agriculture and R&D sectors.
 Demonstrated experience in managing some of the key responsibilities such as,
 Data Mgmt., Reporting & Analytics. Managing & setting up of BI, DW, operational data marts, repositories, cubes, data
exchange & acquisition, mapping & integration, mining, modeling, aggregation & synthesis, complex data manipulation of extremely large datasets, reporting pipelines. Preparation & presentation of comprehensive, highly visible business perspectives to senior/ top mgmt., internal/ external customer groups, national account/ c-level executives & leadership forums. End-to-end analytical reporting [savings forecasts, ROI/benefits, root cause, opportunity findings, scorecards, KPIs, dashboards, qualitative and quantitative data driven analytical solutions, SWOT/ RISK impact, feasibility evaluation, pre-sale, prospective, pre & post scenarios/ snapshots/ interventions, outcomes, baseline, benchmarking, value proposition, statistical sampling methodologies, product/ service – trends, industry/market – segmentation, customer profiling, performance guarantee reconciliations, appraisals].
 Systems & IT Operations. Collaboration with on site, off site IT teams & matrix partners for requirements generation, developing statements of work and/or client proposals, scoping out the efforts and costs for enterprise wide reporting solutions and deployment of optimized systems, applications & self-service tools utilizing leading edge technologies.
 Vendor Mgmt. Profiling, selection, negotiation, contracting, engagement, data coordination, communications & relationship mgmt.
 Project Mgmt. & Business Analysis. Project proposals, business cases, scoping of requirements, cost estimations, organizing stake holders/ sponsorship, meetings/ charters, presenting GAP analytics (as-is, to-be), budgeting/ funding variance, road maps, capacity planning, conducting surveys/ interviews, functional/ scenarios process design, flow mapping, conceptual, logical and physical design documents, prototyping, generating formative business requirements/ processes/ questionnaires/ user scripts/ technical specifications, testing, training, and defining support procedures, user acceptance test plans per specifications, scheduling SLAs/ work-flows, managing work shops, demos & implementations.
 Resource Mgmt. Leading (direction & delegation of periodic reporting tasks) & engagement, training & mentoring analysts, user groups in terms of querying, extraction, updating using SAS and other analysis tool packs, guiding & educating client service teams in terms of utilization and interpretation of BI reports. Prioritizing & ensuring timely delivery of reports, resolving process roadblocks, developing core competencies & tactical efficiencies.
 Highly motivated, customer focused, self-starter with sound multi-tasking & analytical problem solving skills.
 Exhibits strong work ethic standards, excellent team mgmt. oriented interpersonal [oral, written] communication skills and solid organizational & presentation skills using MS Visio| MS-office suite (Power point/ MS Project/ Access/ Excel/ Word).
 Proficient & possesses hands on experience in using the below technology & software.
 DW| Decision Support Systems| OLAP: SAS [on Unix, Mainframe, PC Windows], SAS [Base/ Macros/ Access/ pass thru SQL/ Connect/ SAS Enterprise Guide/ SAS Web Report Studio/ SAS Microsoft Add-ons/ Integration Technologies/ GRAPH/ AF/ Enterprise Miner/ Data Warehouse Administrator/ ODBC]
 Client-Server| OLTP: Business Objects 6.0| Crystal Reports. RDBMS/database:- Oracle, DB2, SQL server, SQL Query Analyzer
 Operating Systems/ Platforms & Web Servers & other tools- Windows XP/NT/2000| UNIX| Mainframe| MVS/TSO| Tomcat| IIS| VIPS Star Sentinel, ERWIN| JCL| Exceed| FTP| EzTrieve| SQL*Loader| Rumba (AS/400)| Rational Rose| RUP| UML (Use Cases).
Education
 Masters in Business Administration MBA
 Post Grad. International Business Management
 Post Grad. Computer Applications.& EDP Mgmt
 Oracle Certified DBA