Entry level Business Analyst

Location:

Edison, NJ

Salary:

65000

Posted:

January 24, 2019

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Resume:

Saritha Varma

Email:*************@*****.***

Ph: +1-914-***-****

Relevant Skills for a role as a Business and Data Analyst:

Identification of a customer’s requirements and customizing services accordingly

Documentation and Agile Scrum (User Story preparation)

Customer relationship management

Data analysis using SQL, Excel and R

Knowledge in building workflow and analysis using Data IKU.

Continuing Education:

Currently pursuing Statistics with R (Duke University) on Coursera

Certification in Business Analytics (Customer Analytics, People Analytics, Accounting Analytics and Operations Analytics offered by the Wharton School), Coursera, July 2017

Completed a Capstone Project in Business Analytics, Coursera, October 2017

Professional Experience:

6 years of experience as a management consultant(Clients include: IBM, 3M, Sanofi Aventis)

Business development for existing and new clients.

1 + Freelancing experience in management, documentation and data analysis

Employer

Job Description

Major Clients

Duration

Location

Freelancer (Flex Timings)

Customer Interaction

Documentation and Testing

Data Analysis using R and SQL

Jan 2017 ~ Till Date

USA

Hema Ravichandar Strategic Advisory Ltd

Providing Recommendations and Solutions

Business Development

Customer Interaction

Project Management

IBM BPO, Aban Offshore

June 2009 ~ April 2011

Bangalore, India

Cornucopia Pvt. Ltd

3M, Sanofi Aventis

April 2005 ~ March 2009

Bangalore, India

Summary of Experience:

Freelancing:

oRequirement gathering and documentation.

oUI Testing (Unit and Functional).

oReport generation from raw data in SQL (mySQL and SQL Server) and report generation in Excel.

oCreate Tables, View, Stored Procedures.

oData processing using Dataiku

oCustomer Interactions

oBusiness Development

Projects

Freelancer (Jan 2017 till date)

1.Dataiku - On Contract

Worked on a contact to evaluate DataIIKU (as Data Analysts) automation tool. 3 POC’s provided by the client

-Connect to different source systems

-Extract and parse the data.

-Build workflow for various data transformations using standard recipe

-Sync the data BTW Amazon S3 and HDFS files (text files)

-Write data to external systems (RDBMS)

-Documentation

2.Data Reporting – On Contract

Generate reports for a large datasets data

-Load files in RDBMS

-Create Tables and Views

-Filter, Join, Group and Aggregate data the data using SQL quires based on business rules.

-Generate reports as Extracts.

3.Centre for Public Policy Research – Part Time

-Client interaction in ongoing projects

-Interacting with think tanks and universities in the US.

-Networking

-Review of proposals and contracts

-Documentation of organizational processes

Hema Ravichandar Strategic Advisory (June 2009 – April 2011)

Profile of the firm: Founded by one of the former C-Suite employees of a large IT company in India. Consulting provided to other IT companies and several large companies in other industries.

Responsibilities:

-Research and documentation of Information Technology (IT) industry trends and best practices

-Interview stakeholders (C-Suite to entry level) at client location

-Review and understand business process documents.

-Document and identify inefficiencies in business processes, emerging from interviews and documents

-Recommend solutions to improve business processes

-Act at the go-to person with clients

Cornucopia Pvt. Ltd. (April 2005 – March 2009)

Profile of the firm: Founded by a former executive with global oversight of a multinational pharmaceutical company. Clientele is small and medium sized manufacturing companies in India.

Responsibilities:

-Administrator of an online product of the firm

oInteract with customers to customize the product