Lavanya Poluru

Global Manager, BI Advanced Analytics

Los Angeles, CA

ad2627@r.postjobfree.com

512-***-****

Visa Status – H1B

SUMMARY

• Global Manager, BI Advanced Analytics, and architect with an overall experience of 15+ years in Product management/leadership focused on Transformational Initiatives in Applications and Analytics areas and SAP HANA technologies for Medical Devices, Retail, Auto and product business scenarios.

• Transformational Leadership, People/talent Management. Managed global application delivery teams. Engaged with the business and use data analysis to influence key stakeholders at various levels.

• Experience in Analytics (SAC, SAP Fiori, Tableau), Predictive Analytical model, Machine Learning/ Data Science, & Statistical Modeling. Good experience in the SAP business domains: Sales, Finance, Product development. Familiarity with cloud services and cloud management systems like AWS, Microsoft, Google, SAP

• Results-oriented Leader: Maintained a critical advisory role with senior management across the organization, driving best practices in analytics, building capabilities and talent for SAP customers using SAP BI Analytics and SAP HANA/BW solutions.

• Accomplished establishing BI Self-Service platform and Advanced Analytics (Data Science) throughout the Global Sales Organization. EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering

Visvesvaraya Technological University, Graduated 2004 SKILLS

SAP SAC, SAP Fiori, SAP Business Objects

SAP HANA, SAP BW on HANA, SAP BW4HANA

Tableau

Python, R and SQL

Machine Learning/Data Science

Cloud Services

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAININGS

• SAP Certified and Trained Consultant in BI & Integrated Planning.

• SAP Certified and Trained Consultant in HANA.

• Trained on Business Objects and Integration at SAP.

• Trained on SEM BPS at SAP AG, Germany.

• Trained on Business Planning and Consolidation at SAP. EXPERIENCE

Global Manager, BI Advanced Analytics

KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA April 2022 – Jan 2024

• Enable Business transformation with strong background in research methodology, statistics, and data analytics with a deep understanding of the Medical Device industry.

• Drive strategic initiatives including identifying issues, creating hypotheses, executing the analysis and translating data by leveraging statistical modelling and AI/ML to generate meaningful insights and actions that create a competitive advantage for the organization.

• Responsible for the development, enhancement, and production of various predictive and Machine Learning driven models to generate behavioral shopper insights, target audiences, and optimized customer journeys

• Responsible for establishing a self-service BI platform to be flexible and scalable enough to support a wide range of users.

• To provide and deliver a secure self-service ( SAP Analytics Cloud, Tableau etc) platform where users can distribute their content to the right audience.

Business Intelligent Lead

KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA May 2018 - March 2022

• The Business Intelligence lead coordinates functional design activities with IT team members as well with business process owners.

• To lead the development and testing function within the company, line manage a multi-skilled development team covering a range of Technologies, define and lead continuous improvement of delivery processes & ensure 3rd party development is done to the correct quality standards and follows company processes. Involvement with high level technical design of solutions and champion of agile development within the company.

• Participate in Road-Map Estimates and provide technical subject matter expertise/architecture to development teams to develop technology road maps, select new technology products.

• Work with Infrastructure Professionals to ensure that solutions are implemented in a way that offers optimal reliability, scalability and throughput as required by the business.

• Oversee the integration of code delivered by third-party development resource into the company's source control systems and processes. Sr. BI Developer

KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA December 2016 - April 2018

• Conducting Customer Design Thinking Workshop.

• Understanding Client requirements, Analysis, Documentation and Study of Impact.

• Understanding the Customer Security hierarchy and Build Security Matrix.

• Designed and Developed Information Models. Functional and Technical Analysis and Reviews.

• Provided Techno Functional expertise, Guidance, Presentation to the Customer.

• Reporting on Information, Prepared Technical specs. Test case documentation, Unit testing.

• Provide Technical assistance to team members.

Systems Analyst

SBP Consulting, Moline, IL, USA March 2016 - December 2016

• Duties included successful delivery of BOBJ reporting, development of HANA XS development, support development of fiori apps, provide end to end security solution for HANA, BO, BW, Fiori.

• Coach team members on best practices, provide detailed documentation for all the development objects as per standards.

• Provide knowledge transfer & training whenever and wherever required.

• For this role it included functional and technical skills of SAP HANA (data modeling, scripts, security), SAP BW (data modeling, reporting), SAP BI/BO (webi reporting, design studio, dashboards), SAP Fiori (smart apps, kpi modeler, fiori ui5 custom apps) and SAP security as well as skills of sap NetWeaver components.

SAP Business Process Consultant

SAP Global Delivery Center, Bangalore, India April 2012 - February 2016

• Senior Certified SAP BW and HANA Consultant responsible for Managing Analytic Projects, leading the BW and HANA team to Implement and follow Best Practices and Standards.

• Handled multiple e2e Implementation projects with BI, HANA and BOBJ scope. Work independently and manage development resources, Technical Architecture. Designing and developing data models and reports.

• Proficient in the use of ASAP Methodology.

• Gathering Business requirements and Business Blueprinting at Onsite and preparing bw estimations for large projects.

• Engage in Pre-Sales activities.

• Interaction with both Business and Technical Stakeholders of Client Companies, Set-Up Project activities, Functional and Technical reviews.

• Mentored on avg. 4-5 trainees/year.

SAP Principle Solution Consultant

SAP Labs, Bangalore, India July 2006 - March 2012

• Sap Solution Consultant with 5+ years of experience with sap labs.

• Has played the role of Resource Manager.

• Experience includes end-to-end Implementations, support, upgrade, roll up project as well as solution architecture and presales. Especially in sap bw/bobj with subject matter expertise in Business Intelligence Domain.

• Played key role in practice building, business development and solution consulting for various consulting firms.

• Involved in a global pre-sales activities and design/development and consulting in SAP specializing in SAP Net Weaver business warehouse & business objects reporting tools, is retail MAP IP, SEM BPS, BPC ms/nw versions and extensive experience on ERP logistics and retail related data October 2016

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