Srinidhi

SRINIDHI N.S #A2, Staff Qtrs, Sri Devgiri Venkateshwara Temple, B.S.K 2nd Stage, Bangalore, Karnataka -560070 Mobile: -, E-mail:- COMPETENT Data Analyst PROFESSIONAL CAREER OBJECTIVE: Seeking challenging assignments in IT Sector for a well reputed and established business unit of National / International scope, which offers diverse job responsibility and will fully utilize both my Technical and Managerial abilities. PROFESSIONAL SYNOPSIS              Proactive, Results-driven professional with sound experience of 12+ years. Well-versed in creating new data collection systems that optimize data management, capturing, delivery and quality. Special talent for acquiring data from different sources and develop data systems that support analysis and reporting. Thorough understanding of finance, marketing, production and personnel management Experienced in having continuous interaction with clients & top management for coordinating and conducting management review meetings, project assessments. Gained solid exposure to data management policies, procedures and widespread technical tools evaluation, configuration, implementation, usages and troubleshooting of various process Metrics Dash Boards. Understands appropriate IT controls required to achieve Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. Possess complete clarity of the project couple with proven ability to communicate solution strategy and product offerings with proven aptitude to analyze and translate complex customer requirements and business problems, design and implement innovative solutions. Acknowledged trouble shooter and a key decision maker with well-honed skill set in collaborating with project teams, interfacing with clients and deploying technology to build successful solutions for Clients. Outstanding instructional, interpersonal, and business / communication skills with the experience required to remain highly focused on achieving bottom line results while formulating advanced technology and business solutions for the clients. Sound experience in leadership and management. Tableau usage for Data Reporting. Oracle Projects – Portfolio Management Project status change monitoring for Active, Delivery Close to Closure. TECHNICAL SKILLS Operating Systems Windows 7/XP/2000/NT/98/95, MS-Dos. Languages C, C++ RDBMS SQL Server, MS-Access. GUI Visual Basic CERTIFICATIONS/ASSETS    Trained and Certified ITIL Foundation Professional. KPMG trained Internal Auditor and CMMi Model ATM. Practical hands on experience on Project Development & Management. This is the key to understand the need of the Clients/Projects and mindsets of the team members. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Data Interpretation Ad-hoc Reports Creation Metrics Analysis & Reporting Global Project reviews Task Prioritization Problems Identification Data Analysis Techniques Training & Development PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS IonIdea Enterprise Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, executing CISCO Systems Project Jan 2011 to Till Date. Program Manager – Business Analyst Role              As a Analyst supporting CISCO’s Advanced Services Finance Operation. Well versed with Tableau Reporting. Publishing Transaction Revenue Forecasting Dashboard Metrics across AS senior management on a timely basis. Oracle Projects – Project Creation and Closure, Oracle Project Management Portfolio (Project Billing, Project Costing, Project Accounting and execution), Experience in Oracle Time & Labor and iExpenses tracking. Well versed with Oracle/Hyperion-Essbase tools usage for capturing AS Finance Headcount and Expenses related information. Well versed with SAP- Business Objects tool for driving Global Profitability by Project Report – Finance Hierarchy and AS Hours Report by Financial Hierarchy. Wrote reports using query on SAP- Business Objects reporting system to extract data for analysis using filters based on the analysis. Well versed with Plan-it tool Cisco's global expense and headcount planning tool used by financial analysts on a quarterly basis to set budgets and targets for Cisco departments. Well versed with Systems Integrator (SI) application for maintaining Profit and Loss (P&L) Hierarchy and the Management Hierarchy across Finance function. Preparing Journal Entries for PCOGS & DCOGS Accrual on a monthly basis. Tracking Invoices with respect to PID/Sales order number across Market Segment in AS with the CISCO’s Invoice Tool and Status Tool. Co-ordination with Revenue Accounting Office Team for tracking Revenue Recognition and Invoice release for various project type across AS. Manage Stakeholder Relationship and collaboration among Project Managers/Delivery Manager for driving Finance function effectively. Key achievement: Employee Performance Excellence Award 2012. Randstad India Ltd, Bangalore, executing CISCO Systems Project Dec 2009 to Nov 2010. Program Manager – Business Analyst Role.               Creating and Updating process documentation Track progress, identify, escalate, and resolve issues; recommend and ensure decisions Manage Stakeholder Relationships Working with EDCS Shared repository and whereby reviewing the EDCS process documents Provided consultancy on process and quality, implementing CMMI high maturity (Level 4 &5) practices. Updating the review comments in the catalogue for frequent follow up Sharepoint site creation for Software Central Operations Engagement. Maintain continuous contact with customers/end users to invite feedback on product /service quality and drive preventive and corrective actions Track progress, identify, escalate, and resolve issues; Reviewed Project plan for adequacy of tailoring process, identification of metrics, defect prevention planning and collection of data NPI Metrics Trend Analysis report for missing SW PE & SW GPO Data analysis Manage Stakeholder Relationships Good business skills and ability to initiate and grow relationships within counterparts Ability to meet on-time deliverables General understanding of supply chain processes Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore, Nov 2007 to Apr 2009. Engineer – SEI-CMMI Software Quality Process Engineering Role.      Actively involved in auditing the Process Compliance, SOX Compliance, Release & Deployment, and Closure of Project. Plan and generate audit calendar for each of the domains. Manual Testing. Ensure timely audits and reviews of Project Plan/Service Management Plan, Configuration Management Plan, Test Plan, Release Notes, etc….. Help project teams to resolve non-conformances.                          Experience on conducting Test Audits and reporting NC’s. Dependency Structure Matrix for identifying the dependencies in between Modules and Use Cases / Test Scenarios. Maintain continuous contact with customers/end users to invite feedback on product /service quality and drive preventive and corrective actions. Ensure the scorecard is deployed across all projects. Provided consultancy on process and quality, implementing CMMI high maturity (Level 4 &5) practices. Provide management with the visibility into processes and practices in each BUs through Eyes and Ears report. Reviewed Project plan for adequacy of tailoring process, identification of metrics, defect prevention planning and collection of data, analysis, RCA and Project Performance Analysis. Mentoring TMs/PMs/PLs on process and product quality assurance & CMMi processes Make most of the projects Process 8i / CMMi compliant as per Quality Management System. Identify new opportunities for process improvements through audit reports, Process Change Requests (PCRs), Post Mortem Reports, MR Reports, Quarterly Quality Review Reports. Identify and deploy organizational level defect prevention activities. Deploy attractive schemes for motivating HTSL personnel to propose new ideas leading to process innovation Plan, predict, deploy and measure the results of Process improvement drives. Generate platforms to share best practices and create opportunities for Process innovations in HTSL. Manage all Process Change Requests and resolve them in a timely manner. Plan, implement and track project & organizational level process improvements to ensure that HTSL’s process capability and maturity is maintained and improved concurrent with its growth. Coordinate with Process Automation focal and identify, tailor and deploy Process and Productivity improvement tools and methods in Project Teams after appropriate training. Closely associated with the Engineering and Management Groups and active participated in Quality Audit, thereby got conversant with SDLC, CMMI, ITIL, Quality Assurance and SEPG activities Metrics based management reporting with respect to Quality, Productivity, Predictability & Partner Value Index. Successful re-certification for ISO 9001:2008. Planned and conducted Project level Quality Improvement Council (QIC) Meetings. Organization wide trend analysis and forecasting to the management. Prepared System Test Plan, System Test Cases, Error Message Handling Test Cases (Negative Test Case), Integration Test Cases, Traceability Matrix Document. Test Case Execution and Bug Reporting using Bug Zilla, Meridian Tracker (Honeywell’s Tool), Mercury Quality Center. Experience in leading team and people management. Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd, India Development Center, Bangalore, Oct 2006 to Oct 2007. Software Engineer – Quality Audit & Review for AT&T Application Operations                    Actively involved in auditing the Process Compliance, SOX Compliance, Release & Deployment, and Closure of Project. SOX testing, SAS 109 control for mainframe application for compliance. Plan and generate audit calendar for each of the domains. Ensure timely audits and reviews of Project Plan/Service Management Plan, Configuration Management Plan, Test Plan, Release Notes, etc….. Help project teams to resolve non-conformances. Manage all Process Change Requests and resolve them in a timely manner. Defining and implementing QA procedures/process for all the projects. Scheduling internal quality audits, management review meetings, process reviews, metrics, Defect prevention and follow-up for corrective actions, GAP Analysis. Managing projects for quality aspects. Manual Testing. Actively involved in auditing the SOX Program Change Management Controls (PCMG) Dev1 to Dev5 and Program Development (ITEP) Controls PD-10, PD-11 & PD-14 with respect to COBIT framework for client AT&T Plan and generate audit calendar and followup for closure of non-conformances by sharing audit analysis report to the project manager and team. CMMi Assesments, Certifications, Auditing. Process stability and capability analysis. Project setup, Metrics Analysis, Process engineering with respect to CAR/DAR. Deftly handle escalations and emergency audit on time and frequent follow up as required. Gained hands on experience in implementing Software Engineering Practices like requirement management, estimations, configuration and change management, risk/issue management, and verification while auditing various processes. Gained sound knowledge in evaluation, configuration, implementation, usages and trouble shooting of various process tools viz. Remedy (VANTIVE), Change Management, and Metrics Dash Boards. Closely associated with the Engineering and Management Groups and active participated in Quality Audit, thereby got conversant with SDLC, CMM/CMMI, Quality Assurance and SEPG activities Prepared System Test Plan, System Test Cases, Integration Test Cases, Traceability Matrix Document. Test Case Execution and Bug Reporting using in house tool, Mercury Quality Center.  Prepared Test Summary reports. Key achievement: Got prestigious Accenture Excellence Award 2007. Infynet Technologies, Bangalore as Test Engineer Feb 2004 to Oct 2006.        Designing Test Plan, test case. Executing the test cases reported defects in terms of critical/major/minor defects classifications. On correction of defects we plan for regression tests to ensure all critical and major errors are corrected so that application will be stable. Involved in Manual Testing. Prepared System Test Plan, System Test Cases, Integration Test Cases, Traceability Matrix Document. Test Case Execution and Bug Reporting using in house tool, Mercury Quality Center. Prepared Test Summary reports. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS Master of Computer Application Indira Gandhi National University, New Delhi Bachelors of Science - Computer Science Bangalore University, Bangalore Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering Aptech Computer Education, Bangalore PERSONAL DETAILS Languages Known: English, Kannada, Hindi, and Tamil REFERENCES: Available upon request