Jaya Sharma
adi5oe@r.postjobfree.com
Technical Skills
Collaboration Confluence, BOX, SharePoint, Iwe, JIVE, Jira,
Social Networking Yammer, MS Teams, Chatter (Salesforce), Jabber
Roadmap Software Aha
SaaS ServiceNow, BMC Remedy
Quality Management: HP ALM, Radar, Espresso, Bugzilla,
Operating Systems: Windows 10 Enterprise, Mac OS- Big Sur, Catalina
Databases: Teradata 13, Oracle 12g, 11i, 10g
CRM: Siebel, Oracle R12
Languages: SQL
Internet Technologies: HTML and XML
BI Tools: Business Objects, Cognos
Dashboards BO 4.0 (Xcelcius), Tableau, Qlikview, Tealeaf, Splunk, Corda, Roambi
Supply Chain Mgmt. Kinaxis, Demantra
Professional Experience
Equinix- Program Manager Feb. 16 – Present, Sunnyvale, CA
Part of Global Product Operations, and responsible for leading and program managing Equinix product portfolio and services.
Managing end to end development and launch of Edge services and Interconnection products and services within the release schedule
Led Equinix data center expansion programs (DCIM amongst others)
Efficiently handled SaaS product deployments
Managed end to end product release from inception to release
Managing program release, scope, and schedule
Facilitation of Program increment planning process and retrospectives
Familiar with Agile methodologies
Facilitation of product roadmap planning and prioritization
Cross functional collaboration and partnership with internal/external stakeholders from Engineering, product and cross functional teams for key initiatives and programs
Risk management and mitigation efforts for programs and projects
Driving cross functional alignment and implementation of many process improvement initiatives
Handled Change management initiatives
Responsible for setting up program for unified product testing
Process owner for the Product Catalog release process, managing the launch and release of new product offerings as well as existing product enhancements
Experienced in managing/leading the entire end to end user acceptance testing management for Product release cycles
Cross functional team collaboration and alignment
Management of bug triaging and reporting
Ongoing collaboration on Product Catalog Management solution design and implementation in partnership with IT teams.
Handling price updates of Equinix product catalog
Environment
Confluence, JIRA, Aha, Clarizen, HP ALM, SNOW, BOX, Zoom, Microsoft Office 365
Cisco- Project Manager (Consultant) Apr. 13 – Oct. 15, San Jose, CA
Was part of Global Procurement and Fulfillment Business and Global Manufacturing Operations (within Supply Chain Business team) .The project was for Cisco’s Supply Chain Large Scale Services (LSS) which involved legacy ERP system decommission (Oracle 11i) and data migration to Oracle R12
Facilitated the data migration from Oracle 11i to R12
Developed and monitored BI training programs within Supply Chain
Developed training materials for presentation as well as responsible for updating the collaborative platform – Jive with all training presentations
SME and Trainer of BOXI training and responsible for providing monthly trainings to Supply chain Business users across USA/EMEA/APAC regions
Interacted heavily with Cost and Payments business stakeholders for issues related to overpayment, underpayment, Bill of materials and inventory related issues
Liaison between IT and business users for reporting issues
Was part of Data Quality and governance group to ensure good quality of data
Drove the User Adoption initiative and was involved in creation of metrics for measurement
Environment
Business Objects 4.1, BO Dashboards 4.0 (previously Xcelcius), Tableau 8.0, Kinaxis, Teradata 13, iWe, Jive, Jabber, Remedy, Quality Center 11, Microsoft Office 2010, MS-Excel, MS- Word, MS-PowerPoint.
Symantec – Product/Business Analyst (Consultant) Feb. 12 – Dec 12, Mountain View, CA Was part of the eBiz responsible for managing the implementation of new product- payment gateway system and provide reporting and analytics solutions to Finance Business.
Worked cross functionally with business users on managing, implementing, supporting and gathering requirements for the new In-house payment gateway system. Also gathered reporting requirements around subscriptions and licensing
Created the Functional Specification Document to capture the reporting requirements for Canned, Adhoc and Real time reports
Assisted the ebiz team with the design and creation of Data warehouse and Real Time Universe and reporting solutions
Gathered requirements for online product catalog
Resolved issues on application side as related to XML messages. Performed functional testing of reports as well as participated in UAT during pre-deployment phases
Active involvement in bug triaging and resolution during UAT with business users and ebiz team
Performed functional testing of QV Dashboards during UAT
Used Teradata for SQL queries and generated reports in Excel and BO
Routinely used Confluence for collaboration within team members
Environment
Business Objects XI 3.1, Qlikview- 11th ver, Tealeaf, Splunk, Teradata 13, Toad 9.6.1, XML, Confluence, Jira, Chatter, Microsoft Office 2010, MS-Excel, MS- Word, MS-PowerPoint.
Apple – BI Analyst (Consultant) Jan. 11 – Dec. 11, Cupertino, CA Was part of the Global Business Intelligence (GBI) group working for providing reporting solutions to the business stakeholders for their products like Phone, iPad and desktop reporting solutions. It involved gathering requirements for creation of Universe using BOBJ, Dashboard mock-ups design and release, report creation and functional testing for the same.
Was part of the Global Business Intelligence group providing direct support to the business group for project initialization, universe design and reporting solutions for iPhone and iTunes reporting
Prepared project charter document and business requirements document
Designed templates for BO reports as well as created adhoc reports
Created prototypes and wireframes as needed by the projects
Gathered requirements for mobile reporting needs as well as designed dashboards for the same
Accessed and queried Teradata using SQL queries and generated reports in Excel and BO
Performed Functional testing as well as participated in UAT during pre-deployment phases
Tested dashboard performance and functionality during UAT
Environment
Business Objects XI 3.1, Corda, Tableau, Teradata, Aquadata Studio, Roambi, Confluence, Jira, Radar, Espresso, Omnigraffle, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Microsoft Office 2010, MS-Excel, MS- Word, MS-PowerPoint.
Data Analysis positions (Abgenix etc.) Jan. 04 – Aug 09, Fremont/Redwood City, CA
Certification
Change Management Foundations Aug. 2020 - LinkedIn
Change Management for Projects Aug. 2020 – LinkedIn
SAFe Training- Dec. 2019 - Equinix
IBM SPSS Statistics Level 1 v2; July 2016
CSM/CSPO Sep. 2015
Cisco Agile PDM (Product Data Management) Sep. 2013
Education
Master of Science, CSU, East Bay, CA (2002-2004)