Ranjitha Rai, MBA

(Valid Work permit)

Miami, Florida

acxej7@r.postjobfree.com Ph. no +1-331-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjitha-rai

IT Business Analyst

6+ years of experience in continually progressive roles within the manufacturing industry

Highlights of Expertise

Complex Data Analysis

Driving cross functional activities

Lean operations & lean manufacturing

Project management

Metrics development and measurement

SQL & Data base management systems

Compliance Protocols & Best Practices

MS office and ERP overview

End to end project rollout

SDLC & Agile methodology

Overview

A critical thinker and strong analytical problem solver, with excellent communication & listening skills, I bring extensive experience providing business analysis and project / system support across diverse industries. My goal is to partner with business areas to understand end-to-end business processes and their architecture. My priority is in translating and aligning business processes and analysis to drive prioritization and approval of complex technology projects per business / functional specifications. Involved in providing Several technical and functional training programs to client in my work tenure. I have also been involved in several process improvement Lean projects using Lean Tools & six sigma methodologies .

Career Summary

Accenture - Senior Analyst, 1.7 years(April 2015 to Current)

Project Lead - Complete dashboard for supply planning and demand planning created which included data on Inventory, Revenue, customer base, CBP waterfall

Consultant – End to end rollout performed for more than 60 critical issues

SME - on Kinaxis S&OP and Supply chain Planning for ASIA region for medical equipment manufacturing client.

SME- Demand planning & Supply planning enhancements.

Business Analyst – Working with the solution Vendor & the Business users to fix critical issues.

Roles & Responsibility

Played a significant role in project planning, new project proposal development, and drafting documentation required from initial project setup stage to project closeout.

Gathered and analyzed data requirements to track and manage multiple projects within tight deadlines.

Exploring new and latest upgrades in the tool & share the benefits with the users

Worked as a Building Training materials and conducting training sessions to the new users

Detailed knowledge of Kinaxis system design and implementation life cycle process, including configuration, analysis, design and optimization of logistics business processes, optimization and support.

Versed in business analysis tools that include Microsoft Office, Visio, HP PPM, JIRA.

Working on Critical issues/enhancements in Supply planning, Demand planning, Capacity Planning, Inventory planning and few other modules.

Preparing the BRD/FDD for issues and ensuring that the issues statuses are maintained and followed up even after post go live.

Defining and building test scripts that included working with business users during training, testing, and user acceptance to launch new third-party systems and custom applications across operations.

Experience working in global cross functional teams, vendors and Business users.

Setting up metrics and KPIs and creating graphical reports

Collaborate with global cross functional teams, vendors and other stake holders.

TE connectivity, Business Consultant, 3 years (APR. 2012 to APR. 2015)

Project Lead– Closed loop rollouts (Belgium, Poland, Hungary) ( Aug 2012-Jan 2013)

Project Lead – Metrics development to measure Success of tool.( Apr-2013-July 2013)

IT Business Analyst – Several Major and Minor enhancements in Kinaxis(Apr 2012- Apr 2015)

Project Lead – SEIO & MEIO Safety Stock Calculation POC in Auto plants( Oct 2014-Apr 2014)

Roles & Responsibility

Understanding and analyzing the business and resource requirements.

Planning & estimations of the timelines & budgets

Business Requirement Documentation & Functional Design Documentation

Coordination & Collaboration with Technical team

User Accepting Testing

Change of scope & enhancement documentation in JIRA

Tracking post go live tickets in BMC REMEDY

Post Go live testing with the users & feedback recording.

Stakeholder Communications and Reviews.

Prepare presentations & conduct trainings with key stake holders.

Lean & process improvement related projects at TE Connectivity

Document a playbook to define Kinaxis- Rollout process from Start till the end. This document includes all information on the timelines, data feeds, training documentations etc. this playbook serves as one stop information.

An initiative to clean up the 2000+ JIRA issues to assign the right priority & category in order.

Worked as a lean leader for a Kaizen event: to improvise the current issue & ticket handling process. Result: a new standardize process map to clearly define the category of issues.

Roles & Responsibility

Understand issues with the current set up

Prepare process map for current state

Performing GAP analysis using various Lean tools

Prepare future state process map

Brainstorm alternate solutions

Work on optimal solution

Coordinate, plan, conduct Business meetings & document

Measure/monitor the success of the process improvement activity and take action.

Infosys technologies limited, Bangalore, India

System Engineer (Sep 2008 – May 2010)

Roles & Responsibilities

Development of JSP pages for a CRM tool

QA & testing

UAT

Post go live Support

CERTIFICATIONS & PROJECTS

PROJECTS

1. Battery Management Systems Indian Space Research Organization

2. KSF for implementation of Knowledge Management

in IT industry: Research Project Christ University

3. Reducing lead-time & increasing on time delivery

using concepts of six sigma KENNAMETAL

4. LEAN LEADER training program(classroom+ online) BMGI

5. Kinaxis basics training Kinaxis

6. Kinaxis Authoring level 1 certification Kinaxis Certified

Sr. No. Certification

1 Business Analysis certification :Christ University

2 Six Sigma trained Greenbelt certification :KPMG

3 Kinaxis Authoring level 1 certification :Kinaxis

EDUCATION

• MBA (Lean operations & systems) from Christ University – Bangalore, [2012]

• B.E (Electronics Engineering) from MSRIT, Bangalore [2008]

• PUC MES Kishora Kendra, Bangalore, Karnataka, India [2004]

• SSLC BP Indian Public school, Bangalore, Karnataka, India [2002]

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