Chemical Engineering Data

GAYATRI KAKARLA

adhv8g@r.postjobfree.com 857-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayatrikakarla/

Statistical Process Control User Acceptance Testing Data Analysis & Visualization Business Process Analysis & Improvement Process Improvement Program & Project Management Risk Assessment Financial Management Business Model Design Quality Assurance

TOOLS

Alteryx, Tableau, MySQL, JMP, QlikView, MS Project, Gantt Project, Visio, SharePoint, Jira, Minitab, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst Closeloop Technologies LLC, Palo Alto, CA Apr 2019 – present

Partnered with CEO and Product team to gather requirements, create user stories & wireframes, and support feature prioritization that helped in preventing scope creep.

Created test cases, executed test plans, and tracked 70+ bugs weekly utilizing InVision wireframes as reference to ensure user story acceptance criteria are met 100%.

Streamlined product development process by establishing and communicating best practices on JIRA to client and internal development teams improving efficiency of the team by 50%.

Acted as a liaison between client, development teams to document defects using MS Excel, JIRA as bug tracking systems.

Monitored project milestones from progress to development phase and improved product delivery performance by 25%.

Utilized SQL knowledge to ensure basic testing is performed and validate test results are consistent with data.

Business Analyst Kareergraph Technologies, New Orleans, LA Jan 2018 - Mar 2019

Interacted with Development Engineers and helped develop testing strategies for products and services.

Designed internal procedures for data consistency & cleanliness, thus promoting efficient analysis for clients using Alteryx.

Utilized understanding of both structured and unstructured data mining, generated visualizations, provided insights using Tableau.

Reported KPIs to internal business stakeholders to track business and improved the overall performance by 30%.

Participated in defect product lifecycle from opening to closure and tracked over 50+ bugs on a weekly basis using JIRA.

Maintained and updated database with the goal of enhancing efficiency and consistency using MySQL.

Facilitated business analysis and weekly metrics to understand customer requirements using surveys and behavioral data.

Quality Control Co-op Bristol Myers Squibb, Devens, MA Jan 2016 - May 2016

Created and maintained SharePoint sites including technical memos, procedures, best practices, FAQs etc.

Improved quality and reduced process variations by creating datasets, diagnostic plots and control charts using JMP.

Identified process improvement opportunities by monitoring adverse events using Discoverant for the Quality Control team.

Restructured technical memos, statistical adverse event tracking and dashboards for the SPC team across 4 countries.

Achieved process optimization by streamlining data extraction and evaluating CPV metrics for 5 pharmaceutical products.

EDUCATION

M.S, Information Technology Management Campbellsville University, Louisville, KY Jan 2020 - Present

M.S, Engineering Management Northeastern University, Boston, MA Dec 2016

B.Tech, Chemical Engineering Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India Apr 2014

TECHNICAL PROJECTS

Wholesale Food Products Analytics Dashboard Project Feb 2018 - Mar 2018

Analyzed YOY growth by presenting statistics related to order placements segregated by employee and customer.

Designed dashboards to observe actionable insights on Customers, Suppliers, Products, and Employees using Tableau.

Catalog Demand Prediction Project Feb 2018 - Mar 2018

Predicted 30% increase in profit margin from the distribution of catalogs for 250 new customers using chronological data.

Deduced a linear regression equation by using historical data and applied it for 250 new customers.

Commercial impacts of autonomous drones Sep 2015-Dec 2015

Published white paper using market research and reliable sources and industry reports on drone technology.

Analyzed R&D, cost of development, commercialization strategies and impacts on other markets in white paper. White paper link - https://www.memsic.com/userfiles/files/SensorsMakeDrones%204-6-16.pdf.

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