Project Analyst

I psita Nanda

G reater Boston Area, MA Cell : +1-817-***-**** E -mail Id: i ******@*****.***

I psita has about 7 Years of experience in the life-sciences domain. She comes with a significant experience as a

B usiness Analyst working in client facing projects and building Solution Frameworks aimed at solving critical

i nformation management challenges in R&D Labs. In addition, she holds Master’s Degrees in Biotechnology and

B usiness Management

Following is a summary of Ipsita’s professional experience, achievements and skill set:

• Business Analysis and Requirements Management for large programs utilizing both I terative and Waterfall

Methodologies

• Requirements Gathering techniques such as; J oint Application Development (JAD), Workshops,

I deation, Root Cause Analysis, White Boarding and Business Process Gap Analysis

• Worked on Application Rationalization, System Landscape Assessment, Tool Evaluation, Data Integration,

B usiness Process & Data Flow mapping

• Requirement management tool - R ational RequisitPro

• Infosys proprietary business process modeling tool- I n flux

• Quality Management tools such as R ational ClearQuest and Rational Clearcase

• Significant understanding of the Pharmaceutical value chain specifically in L aboratory Information

M anagement space

• Hands on L aboratory Research and Development (R&D) experience

• Published Scientific Papers in Noted Research journals

• Published White Papers within Infosys in the area of L aboratory I nformation Management and D rug

D iscovery

• Presales activities to support RFI and RFP responses

P rofessional Experience Summa ry

1. I nfosys Technologies Ltd. (BSE: 500209, N ASDAQ: I NFY )

Consultant M ay 2007 &

C ontinuing

• Infosys’s Product, Platform and Solutions (PPS) Group

o Integral part of Infosys’s next generation Intellectual Property drive in the field of Discovery Informatics

o Business Analyst for Infosys proprietary solution framework “ Drug Repurposing Platform” .

• Business Analyst for Elan Pharmaceuticals

o Developed Requirements for creating a “Mash-Up” for Protein Kinase information collected from public

databases using web services and displayed on a Share-Point (MOSS) 2007 framework.

• Worked on Infosys Scientific Innovation Solution Framework and Proof-of -Concept (Web

l ink: http://www.infosys.com/offerings/industries/life-sciences/industry-offerings/Pages/scientific-innovation-solution.aspx ).

• Business Analyst for Aetna Inc at Blue Bell, PA

o Executed various projects for the Health Insurance leader Aetna.

• Published white paper; “Semantic Web: Elixir for drug discovery and

development"( http://www.infosys.com/research/publications/setlabs-briefings/Pages/better-healthcare-delivery.aspx ).

• Published white paper; “Leveraging Research Informatics to Accelerate D rug Discovery”

(http://www.infosys.com/offerings/industries/life-sciences/white-papers/pages/index.aspx ).

2. Central Rice Research I nstitute (CRR I- Government of I ndia)

Senior Research Fellow for a Depa r tment of Biotechnology (DBT) Sponsored P roject

M a r 2005 - Jan 2006

CRRI is one of the Premier National Research Institutes affiliated to the I ndian Council of Agricultural Research ( ICAR). T he

I nstitute conducts basic, applied and adaptive research on crop improvement and resource management for increasing and

stabilizing r ice productivity.

• Responsible for executing key protocols of the project and delivering results well within stipulated deadlines.

Some of these activities included:

o Screening of BPH resistant varieties and Protein profiling

o DNA fingerprinting of BPH gene donors and Gene identification preliminary studies

o Polymorphism study of BPH resistance markers and Polymorphism marker validation

• Mentored two research trainees and guided them with their internship program

• Augmented the standard protocols and customized them for the project for faster results

• Authored two abstracts which were subsequently published in noted biotech journals

3. Universal Chemicals & Pha rmaceuticals Ltd

R esearch Associate J une

2 004 - Feb 2005

• Carried out microbial testing to validate antibiotic efficacy in pathogenic bacteria in vitro

• Maintained microbial culture in culture banks and maintained libraries of sub cultures

Academic Pu rsuits

• Master’s in Business Management (PGPM); Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai.

2007

• Master’s in Biotechnology; Utkal University

2004

• Bachelor’s in Life Sciences; Utkal University

2002

D etailed P roject Expe rience

I nfosys Solution Offering; Drug Repurposing Platform

Primary Role Consultant

Project Description Infosys’s Product, Platform and Solutions (PPS) Group has planned to create the next

b reakthrough innovation in the field of Discovery Informatics by offering in the market a robust

and reusable solution framework for the Pharmaceutical industry targeted at drug researchers.

T his offering is envisioned to help the researcher reduce the t ime and cost to bring a drug to

market by using strategies to reposition a known drug for alternate and Novel indication

( Therapeutic Switching and Drug re-tasking).

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Roles & Business Case Creation

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Responsibilities

Creating ini tial sales collaterals

• H igh level Business Requirements creation

• Building the initial Functional Specifications Document

• Detailed use case definition of lab workflows

• Workflow modeling of Key Process

• Functional testing

Infosys Solution Offering; Scientific Innovation Solution

Primary Role Domain Business Analyst

Project Description The pharmaceutical and biotech industries are t rying to reverse the decline in R&D

p roductivity. Infosys Scientific Innovation Group has identified some of the key challenges

faced by drug discovery researchers and attempts to address those pain points th rough a

u nique, f lexible and extensible framework; “The Scientific Innovation Solution”.

Scientific Innovation Solution framework is designed to support systems for early stage

i deation, design of projects and undertaking experiments to test hypotheses. The framework

i ncludes reusable components such as visualization, search, integration and analytical

components to address the challenges of pharmaceutical information. I t reduces the time

spent by scientists on ‘data dredging’ and interpreting findings

P roject Involved In tegrating Gene, Protein, Disease and Pathway information from Public

database and create a user friendly in tegrated view of the cross-referenced data. This

enables the scientific researcher in the lab to help formulate new hypothesis and validate

existing ones. The framework was based on MOSS 2007 and designed to integrate data from

Public as well as private / proprietary databases.

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Roles & Business Requirements creation

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Responsibilities

Creating Functional Specifications Document

• Detailed use case definition

• Interfacing with technical associates and domain consultants on solution design

p hases

• Workflow modeling / Process map creation

• Created Test cases based on functional requirements

• Executed Functional testing

Kinase Wiki for Knowledge Collaboration; Elan Pharmaceutical, US

Primary Role Domain Business Analyst

Project Description Biopharmaceutical research requires biological entities, of various combinations, to run

assays. Therefore scientists need to register these biological entities and request for

requisite amounts to conduct experiments. Cell lines are one of the important components of

p harmacology assays. In assays, these biological entities are used for analyzing the ability of

t herapeutic compounds to initiate or inhibit biological activity. Registration of biological

systems has no well-defined boundaries, unlike i ts chemical counterpart. Therefore

b iopharmaceutical and biotech research organizations feel an increasing need for a system

t hat can define, archive, search, t rack, and analyze biological samples

Infosys collaborated with the client to develop a collaborative research application.

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Roles & Business Requirements Analysis

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Responsibilities

Creating Functional Specifications document

• Detailed use case definition

• Created Test cases based on functional requirements

• Executed Functional testing

Visual Query Builder and Analyzer; Pfizer, US

Primary Role Domain Business Analyst

Project Description Biopharmaceutical research requires analysis tools to derive meaningful usage of data from

experiments conducted. The objective of this project was to provide a platform for visually

creating queries and rendering the output in the form of graphs/charts. Using the Tool, the

user could perform various activities like slice and dice, annotations etc. which would help

t he researcher prove/disprove stated hypothesis (for an experimental study being

considered).

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Roles & Requirements documentation

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Responsibilities

Workflow to t race the user interactions

• Associated Detailed use case definition

• Created Test cases based on functional requirements

Upgrading Aetna Specialty Pharmacy System; Aetna Inc.

Primary Role Business Analyst

Project Description Upgrading Aetna Specialty Pharmacy system from NCPDP 5.1 to D.0 Version and from

H IPPA 4010 to 5010

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Roles & Business Requirement gathering utilizing JAD sessions

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Responsibilities

Business Requirement Analysis

• System Landscape Assessment

• Field Gap Analysis

• Functional Requirements Documentation

• BA support for Change Requests

Aetna Specialty Pharmacy System; N-Transactions; Aetna Inc.

P rimary Role Business Analyst

Project Description Upgrading Aetna Specialty Pharmacy System from NCPDP 5.1 to D.0 Version for

I nformation Reporting Transactions (N-Transactions)

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Roles & Business Requirement gathering utilizing JAD sessions

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Responsibilities

Business Requirement Analysis

• System Landscape Assessment

• Functional Requirements Documentation

• BA support for Change Requests

Enhancement to Pharmacy System to Support CMS Mandate; Aetna Inc.

Primary Role Business Analyst

Project Description Enhancement of Aetna Pharmacy System to add an End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)

i ndicator Sent by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This was required as a

C MS mandate for Aetna Compliance.

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Roles & Business Requirement gathering utilizing JAD sessions

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Responsibilities

System Landscape Assessment & Requirement Analysis

• Functional Requirements Documentation

• BA support for Change Requests

Enhancements to Support CMS Healthcare Reforms; Aetna Inc.

Primary Role Business Analyst

Project Description Implementation of Healthcare reform for 2012 enhancements on Aetna Systems- Medicare

Part-D Coverage Determination / Redetermination changes to comply with healthcare

reform put forth by CMS

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Roles & Business Requirement gathering utilizing JAD sessions

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Responsibilities

Business Requirement Analysis

• System Landscape Assessment

• Functional Requirements Documentation

• BA support for Change Requests

Upgrading Aetna Systems to support 2012 Explanation of Benefits Changes (EOB) ; Aetna Inc.

Primary Role Business Analyst

Project Description Implementation of EOB changes for 2012 as per CMS mandate.

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Roles & Business Requirement gathering utilizing JAD sessions

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Responsibilities

Business Requirement Analysis

• Functional Requirements Documentation

• BA support for Change Requests

Migration of Mail Order Delivery applications to CVS Caremark; Aetna Inc.

Primary Role Business Analyst

Project Description In accordance with Aetna’s strategic alliance with CVS Caremark, there was a business

need to migrate its Mail Order Deliver (MOD) pharmacy benefit management (PBM)

p latform to that of CVS Caremark.

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Roles & Requirement Analysis and Landscape assessment

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Responsibilities

Functional Requirements Documentation

• BA support for Change Requests

• BA support for design and testing

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