SHIKHA LODHA
San Jose, CA 630-***-**** ac69bp@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/ShikhaLodha
EDUCATION
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY San Francisco, CA
MBA in Marketing and Information Systems, May 2018
Information Systems Lead, Women in Business SFSU College of Business
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY Santa Clara, CA
Executive Certificate in Productizing Innovation, May 2018
UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN India
Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering), June 2006
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PriceWaterHouseCoopers
Senior Consultant August 2014 - July 2015
Organized and facilitated daily stand-ups and retrospectives at the end of each sprint and created an environment in which the team is continuously learning from the past
Reviewed product backlog and design documents to address delivery impediments
Engaged with product owner, business stakeholders, and delivery team to understand business needs and identify appropriate solutions
eVerge Group LLC
Senior Consultant April 2014- April 2015
Engaged with product owner and business stakeholders to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment with development teams
Lead business process and workflow mapping/analysis using data capture and modeling technologies, methods and tools
Managed all agile project team activities
Accenture
Senior Business Analyst Dec 2009 - March 2013
Provided executives with analytics and decision-support tools used as the basis for reorganization, consolidation and relocation strategies
Translated stakeholder requirements into tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, workflow/process diagrams and data flow/data model diagrams
Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs
Hexaware Technologies
Software Engineer August 2006 - Dec 2009
Contributed to the pre-sales cycle by building and presenting the demo solutions for CRM system
Customized and implemented various business processes in Oracle Sales application to meet the business requirements
Identified and reconciled errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Certified Scrum Master by Scrum Alliance (Dec 2017 – present)
Tools – JIRA, Oracle, SQL,
Proficient in Data visualization (Tableau, R, Oracle BI) and CRM (Oracle) tools
Expert knowledge of SQL and relational database management systems.
Skilled with MS project management software.
Agile and Waterfall software development methodology.