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Taru Gupta

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Fremont, CA ****9

Cell: 408-***-****

Email: ad14jx@r.postjobfree.com

Head of Analytics & Applications

Accomplished IT leader with 16+ years of experience in large global semiconductor organizations. Recognized for strong consultative and practical approach with an acknowledged core competency in initiating, leading and managing IT-enabled business transformations.

Successfully blends expertise in business & technology with a proven strategic planning and execution track record. CORE COMPETENCIES

• Data Management & Governance

• Business Intelligence

• Quote to Cash, Procure to Pay

• Production Planning, Scheduling

• Inventory Management

• Demand Planning and Management

• Lean Methodology – Kaizen

• Supply Chain Planning and Operations

• MES Systems

• Data Quality & Privacy

• HIPAA Compliance

• Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC)

• Master Data Management

• Project Management Office (PMO)

• Vendor Management, SLAs

• Budget Planning, Business case development

• M&As

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

§ IT Leadership, Strategy Development and Execution: o IT Leadership roles at LamResearch, Atmel, Nexperia o Development of IT Roadmaps, ROI-based business justifications, solution designs and delivery of strategic business projects to drive business transformation, productivity and process improvements.

§ Establish Data Analytics Platform

o Implement Data Governance & management program. A part of it was using AI/ML for Data Cataloging and enforcing data quality.

o Leveraging deep understanding of product engineering, emerging technologies, and technical capabilities to guide and influence stakeholders and teams in developing solutions, building, deployment, testing and ongoing management of technology services.

o Transform the company to be a data driven company, from excel files to analytics providing actionable insights into various functions. Some of the key KPI’s included Sales Operation, Commission, Gross Margin, Customer Behavior, Yield Management, success of Clinical trials, Overall performance of the company. Predict the accounts receivables and identify the potential bad debts in near future, Manage the consignment patterns for better revenue and minimize the inventory loss (expired Inventory).

o Lead the reporting team to establish the ongoing development and operations of a business intelligence architecture that enables fact-based decision making and ad hoc analysis and insight.

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o Translated business requirements to charters, service agreements (SLA's) and key performance indicators (KPI's), implemented Data Analytics backbone. o Designed & Implemented Analytics Framework.

o Designed & Implemented classical Datawarehouse Strategy and Modern Datawarehouse strategy to manage the demands of a high growth environment.

§ Strong Domain Knowledge of Finance, HR, Sales, Supply Chain Planning and Operations: o Global ATP, Master Data Management, Demand Planning and Management. o Cost & Margin Models, Sales Territory Management and tracking against quotas. o Championed Lean Methodology using Kaizen for operational process improvements.

§ Project Management:

o Managed 10+ large-scale business transformation initiatives including: o Lot Tracking System, P2P, ATP, QTC improvements. o Managed global teams to successfully execute system implementations / upgrades o 3 SAP ERP, 3 SCM/MES and 2 CRM system, SAP HANA, 4 SAP BI/BW,6 Tableau,1 Workday

CAREER PROGRESSION

Penumbra 2017 - Current

ROLE: Head of Analytics & Applications

IT partner for transforming Penumbra to a data driven company from excel files to analytics providing actionable insights into Gross Margin, account receivables, HR, Inventory, Clinical trials, supply chain by working with the business leaders across Penumbra. Enable Penumbra’s sales team globally to track performance of product, Consignments and discounts. Help growth by providing accurate & robust metrics showing open and actionable opportunities. In the process set up an integration environment to ingest/transfer data as a service from one source to another.

Key Accomplishments:

• Digital Transformation

o Architected & Solutioned the roadmap and path from excel to actional insights using Integration

(Dell Boomi/Azure Data factory) and cloud platform (Azure) with the existing ERP (QAD /SAP) and (Tableau/Power BI) as a visualization tool.

o Build the Gross Margin Tool in Data warehouse (SQL DW on AZURE) providing revenue and cost calculations across all Penumbra subsidiaries.

o Ensure HIPAA compliance during data extraction and staging. o Integrated Tableau with SFDC platform for better user experience to be able to use the power of the application along with the Analytics.

o Implemented Dell Boomi/ Azure Data factory as the integration platform o Support 400+ Sales rep with near Realtime (less than 2min) information about their customers, orders, new launch and discounts

o Provided Visibility to C-Level on daily basis of the company’s performance across globe, by Product, by targets and showing the acceleration or deacceleration in sales on daily basis. This design was architected and build in Datawarehouse and Tableau and was emailed to execs as pdf files. This Pdf was a mix of Prescriptive & Cognitive analysis. o Implemented the CMS (Content Management System) for Penumbra products o Developed and maintained data dictionaries to include identification of business-critical metrics and data elements driving the single definition for a KPI across the organization.

• Salesforce Platform setup o Manage implementation of salesforce commerce cloud and integration with ERP (QAD) o Designed the analytics platform for Sales Rep /Marketing to manage events and follow up leads.

• Integration Platform o Integrations between systems (about 21) to provide seamless data flow and processes implementation o Presently setting up best practices for Azure Data factory to integrate with SAP ERP.

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• Human Resource Management o Implement UltiPro as a HR tool at penumbra and build HR Metrics and HR planning application to manage resources effectively. Nexperia 2015 - 2017

ROLE: Deputy Director, Analytics & HRIS

IT partner for supporting divestiture for Nexperia from NXP with higher focus on Business Intelligence and Analytics, Human Resources, Travel & Expense Management for managing and producing the key metrics for finance, Planning and Operations. Help sustain business on its own data models and revised processes. Key Accomplishments:

• Divestiture for SAP applications, with higher focus on SAP BI applications, Workday and Identity Access management system, Concur and CWT

o Managed multimillion-dollar project with a team of around 20 people to help separate out the Business intelligence Travel and Human resources function to enable future company growth by by strategizing to align with company goals and strategy. Worked with all business groups and external partners to manage the implementation of the new processes and tools that included following improvements

§ Business Intelligence implemented across all Factories and plants enabling better coordination between Planning, Manufacturing, logistics and Finance allowing the departments to enhance their efficiency and productivity.

§ Travel & Expense management via more robust processes and integrating the SAP ERP with Concur.

§ Human Resource management systems across all Europe and US sites. Implemented workday across all global sites

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• Lean Methodology – Process Improvements o Kaizen for improving on time delivery (OTD) o Streamlining and improving many processes for planning and scheduling

• Project Management o SAP ERP Upgrade

§ Managed all functional tracks for the upgrade – Sales, Procurement, Finance, Supply Planning and Logistics

o PLM, DFM, ABI automation

o HANA implementation, Hyperion Upgrade

Atmel Corporation 2011 - 2015

ROLE: Sr. Manager, Analytics

IT partner for supporting Atmel’s Supply Chain and Manufacturing Organizations. Responsible for SAP BI ( Business Intelligence) SAP APO (advanced planning optimizer) including SNP (supply network planning), CTM (capable to match) for supply/demand matching, wafer & assembly starts planning, various legacy MES apps like LTS (lot tracking system) for end to end WIP movement/ tracking and Inventory Management, ABI generation etc. Also was responsible for evaluation of SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) in order to establish the fit for Atmel supply chain.

Key Accomplishments:

• Business Intelligence

o Built a solid foundation for Atmel’s business Intelligence initiative. Partnered with various business groups to build and establish standard definitions of key metrics like bookings, backlog, billing etc. o Implemented and maintained SAP data warehouse as well as reporting tools like Business Objects to meet needs of various types of data consumers. Re-designed Sales data cubes in the data warehouse with internal resources saving around 500k. Implemented Business Objects reporting tool saving another 200k in implementation costs.

o Implemented Shipping cycle time, procurement cycle time and on time payment metrics to track and measure different processes and improve service levels for internal as well as external customers.

o Partnered with business users to support Quote to Cash, Procure to Pay, Inventory Management and Finance areas

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• Lot Tracking System Decommissioning o Managed multimillion-dollar project with a team of around 30 people to migrate WIP and inventory from Atmel’s legacy lot tracking system (LTS) to SAP ERP to enable future company growth through the reduction of supply chain complexity and error prone processes. Worked with all business groups and external partners to manage the implementation of the new processes and tools that included following improvements

§ Inventory management via more robust processes, detailed inventory representation in ERP, product costing and part standardization throughout the supply chain.

§ Order scheduling via integration of SNP supply dates and enabled more standard sales auto picking processes with batch management.

§ Supplier collaboration with near real time updates from the factories. LAM Research 2008 - 2011

ROLE: Business Intelligence & Analytics Architect

IT partner for areas that included P2P (Procure to Pay), Demand Management, Business Intelligence (SAP BW and Business Objects), and Finance.

Championed lean methodology-based process improvements across multiple functional groups. Key Accomplishments:

• Procure to Pay (P2P) o Migration from legacy purchase requisition system to SAP SRM (Supplier Relationship Management).

o Automation of Purchase Order creation to improve efficiency of buyers/commodity managers and accuracy of data to improve OTP (On-Time Payments) o Improved end to end process/system integration and visibility. o Development and delivery of P2P KPI’s.

• Demand Management

o Improved stability of SAP Demand Planning application.

• Supply Chain Planning, Team Leader o Designed and implemented solutions to improve various operational processes including:

§ Customer Collaboration

§ Customer forecast management

§ Reservations/Allocations for customers

• Availability To Promise (ATP)

o Designed the overall solution for integration of SAP ERP and JDA Planning application. The integration was critical for the project success and completion on time. This was a key process for order scheduling that was used to provide delivery dates and schedules to customers enabling improved on-time delivery to meet customer requested delivery dates. o Designed the solutions for data exchange between SAP and Planning applications. Batch allocation processes. Provided visibility to Sales operations to track orders from booked to shipped.

• Business Intelligence o Architected the Business Intelligence platform across multiple data sources providing a unified view of data across the enterprise

• Sales & Distribution o Deferred revenue and revenue recognition after POS confirmation

• Production Support

o Managed SAP BPC (Business Planning & Consolidation) and multiple finance applications including Long Range Planning, Gross Margin and Product Costing. Varian Medical Systems 2000-2007

ROLE: Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Key Accomplishments:

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o Developed strategic IT roadmap for Business Applications, based on user requirements and business strategy.

o Technical Lead for Implementing SAP 4.0C through SAP ECC6.0 o Laid the foundation for SAP Business warehouse.

o Evaluated multiple CRM solutions like Siebel, SalesForce.Com, SAP CRM and implemented the solution based on the needs of the company and keeping the budget in scope. o Managed end to end SAP modules – Quote to Cash, Procure to Pay and Record to Report. Responsibilities included- Project management as well as Production support. Resource management, timelines and budget. Managed many projects like Revenue management, upgrades and global initiatives. o Worked directly with the Sr. Executive Management – financial controller and VPs of Sales and planning and Marketing.

o Implemented global demand management solution to provide visibility into forecast information across all Varian, and to better manage the supply from the factories to meet the demands of the key customers.

EDUCATION

MBA, San Francisco State university

Management Information System and Finance

Master’s in computer applications, MCA, Banasthali Vidyapith, India Computer Science

CERTIFICATES

CISM, Certified Information Security Manager

SaFe Agile Certified

Stanford Certified Machine learning, Stanford University CA SAP Certified Business Intelligence Professional, SAP Americas SAP Certified Customer Relationship Management consultant, SAP Americas Papers

SAP Insider: Atmel expands into HANA

Ingest Millions of records from SAP BI to Tableau using Theobold CERTIFICATES

SAP Events in Copenhagen and at SAPPHIRE 2015

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