Sr. Business Analyst

Suraj Verma

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Professional Summary

I am a motivated Business Analyst with the technical expertise and business acumen necessary to translate business requirements and objectives into scalable, highly resilient, and successful solutions.

Skills

Organizational and Planning skills

Effective Communications

Written Communication

Team leadership

Business Development

Problem Solving

Business User Requirement Analysis

Software Development Life-Cycle

Multi-Tasking

Microsoft Office Suite

Documentation Abilities

Technical Writing

Presentation Delivery

Data Governance

Business Intelligence

Project Management

Research Reporting

Data Collection and Analysis

Supply Chain Proficient

Data Profiling & Validation

Data Quality Processes

Tableau

Test Case Scenarios

Agile Project Management

Data Quality

Work History

Entrepreneur, 04/2017 to Present

VerSan Convenience Inc – Vancouver, BC, Canada

Effectively managed finances by forecasting cash flow and sales, as well as, monitored profit and loss. Budgeted & made estimations such as sales or production volumes, number of employees, inventory management

Marketing, sales and customer service: Promoted products & services effectively with vendors like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Imperial Tobacco & Phillip Morris.

Provided excellent customer service by placing a independent marketing strategy in place to further generate sales.

Project management and planning - managed a range of projects, such as setting up a website, developed a range of policies and procedures for employees. Renovated all previous business processes to effectively manage resources, time, budget and employees

Met with several corporate stakeholders to further sales and profit incentives in areas like beverages & tobacco.

Business Analyst, 03/2015 to 01/2017

Accenture – San Francisco, CA

Gathered user requirements from the business and documented functional specifications for the IT team and assessed the impact of current business processes for users and stakeholders.

Implemented user acceptance testing with a focus on documenting defects and executing test cases and reviewed files, records, and other documents to obtain information and respond to stakeholder requests.

Assigned tasks to associates, staffed projects, tracked progress and updated managers, partners, and clients as necessary.

Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.

Tableau Business Application Developer I, 08/2016 to 11/2016

PFIZER: Accenture – Gladstone, New Jersey

Developed dashboards according to the metrics provided by the client in Tableau and designed Tableau visualizations providing analytical capabilities around Pfizer business requirements for supply chain management.

Addressed data quality issues and worked alongside with the data quality team to improve Pfizer's complex supply chain end-to-end vision.

Developed E2E dashboard views and innovative technology transforming in Pfizer's ability to view & evaluate performance.

Developed Metrics aimed to display key decision-making metrics in 3 areas for the client: Supply chain diagnostics, E2E material flow metrics & Shop floor data & metric.

Data Governance Consultant, 10/2015 to 08/2016

Seattle Police Department: Accenture – Seattle, Washington

Collaborated with Data Governance Lead to review and recommend changes to SPD data governance policies, standards processes, and responsibilities to promote the quality of data. Analyzed Seattle Police Department databases to enforce data quality initiatives and documented system security and remediated required changes in the system or hosting environment.

Interpret and translate client Data Governance & Data Quality requirements into developing solutions around the framework, implementation, and governance initiatives.

Created a Data Governance Implementation strategy to further the framework around the client's databases, servers, and different units within the organization.

Key Deliverables included: Data Governance Framework Implementation, DG Processes, DG Framework Strategy, Data Dictionary, and Communication Plan.

Business Analyst, 04/2015 to 08/2015

Cisco Systems: Accenture – Milpitas, California

Developed and drive a strategic engagement plan for Cisco's GBS BI organization.

Key activities include the development of services catalog, engagement model, and communication plan and relationship management around GBS BI core services: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Visualizations, and Data Governance.

Acted as the link between the business and IT environment to help configure business parameters and solutions.

Performed end-user acceptance test for validation & participated in Project Management activities.

Assessed the impact of current business processes on users and stakeholders.

Education

Mechanical Engineer, 3.3 GPA 12/2014

San Francisco State University

Affiliations

Engineer Without Borders

East Bay Astronomical Society

Chabot Space & Science Center

Bay Area Indian Association

Berkeley Chess School

Accenture Alumni

San Francisco State University Alumni

Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology 22nd Conference (Bechtel Corporation)

Tableau Digital Conference 2017

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