NAME :-Paresh Asher
Contact :-888-***-****
E-Mail :- ***********@*******.***
PROFILE SUMMARY
Enterprising professional with nearly 22 years of experience in Delivery Management, Program Management and providing Solution on Analytics and Big Data Technology using Azure Cloud Environment
Spearheaded portfolio of around 6M project on ETL, In-Memory, Big Data, Analytic on Azure Cloud Environment
He is also a certified Certified SAFe Agilest (SA4.0), Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
He specializes in leading global, multi-functional, cross-skilled teams and establishing best Digital practices & Agile processes in the small to medium to large-scale organizations. He has great experience in Digital & Agile transformation of very large scale global distributed teams, Scalable Agile methodologies & Design Thinking innovative approach.
He is technology strategist, business driver, and change agent offering thought leadership and innovation. With Global experience.
True value is the fluency in both business and technology, to effectively advise C-level peers on the impact of particular technology solutions for the corporation as a whole
Ability to collaborate with business and executive leaders to translate strategic direction into a series of actionable, measurable projects/initiatives to achieve both short-term and long-term goals and objectives; establish program-level success measures.
Gained international exposure of being stationed in Switzerland, UK & Germany
Skilled in Agile, Scrum & Waterfall Project Management Methodologies with proficiency in directing Project Teams and maintaining high-quality deliverables within time and budgetary parameters Rich experience in managerial activities entailing rendering technical leadership & guidance to the team members, planning, scheduling tasks, and holding discussions with different functions & management for analysis
He ensures relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly across Technology programs/projects and products.
Experienced in managing big Projects, Program, Technical capabilities POC and with proven track record of executing the projects on time and within budget. Expertise in managing multiple projects concurrently. Experience in Risk assessment and mitigation
Expertise in working as a liaison with customer and other stack holders highly focused on bridging the gap between technology and Business;
Strong skills in project planning, delivery leadership, controlling scope, ensure financial performance and manage escalations and managing multiple program
Interfaced with cross-functional clients such as ABInBev Deutsche Bank, CoreLogic, VMWare, Intuit, VMWare, Digital Insight, Johnson and Johnson across multiple domains including Banking, Life Science, High tech and Finance to identify business problems and develop state-of-the-art solutions aligned with business objectives
Leadership Skill
Lead and coordinate the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction across portfolio.
Works with Client and design and develop a roadmap and implementation plan based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint.
Lead the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends and operational support activities.
Provides domain expertise to own/lead technical design reviews, investigation of technical risks and analyzes impact of technology choices and provide creative solutions
Develops, motivates and directs staff to create a team environment.
Recommends expenditures based on the size, scope, and cost of hardware and software components. Assists in developing business cases.
Collaborates with project management on reporting project status, issues, risks and benefits. Meets with project leaders and software development Leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements
Ensures understanding of issues and presents clear rationale.
E COMPETENCIES
Data Migration Tools: Azure Data Migration Service
Project Management Tools: Microsoft Visio, JIRA, Devops
Machine Learning Tools: R, Python, Azure Machine Learning
Big Data Tools: Azure HDInsight, Azure Data Lake,Hive,Spark
PaaS Services: Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Datawarehouse,Azure SQL Database Managed Services, Azure Analysis Services
Cloud based Visualization Tool: Power BI
IaaS Services: Azure Virtual Machines
Cloud Storage: Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake
Cloud ETL Tool: Azure Data Factory(v1/v2)
NoSQL Databases: Azure CosmosDB
Data Processing Tools: Azure Data Bricks, Azure Data Lake Analytics
Statistical Techniques Exposure
Regression
Classification
Clustering
Regression,
Support Vector Regression (SVR)
Decision Tree Regression (CART)
Logistic Regression
K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN)
Decision Tree Classification
K-Mean Clustering
Association Rule
Apriori Algorithm
ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mar’12-July 2020 with Cognizant Technology Services as Project Manger
Jun’09-Sep’11 with Dell International Services (P) Ltd., Hyderabad as Sr. Technical Leader
Sep’04-Jun’09 with HCL Technology, Bengaluru as Sr. Software Engineer
Jul’99-Aug’04 with People Power (Formally part of PSI Data System), Mumbai as Project Leader
Jul’97-Jun’99 with Parle Products Ltd., Mumbai as Tr. Programmer
EDUCATION
Diploma in Computer Technology from Board of Technical Education (B.T.E) M.S, India in 1996
Other Courses:
Advanced Diploma in Software Export Technology from Asset Centre (Aptech) Vile Parle (1996-97).
CERTIFICATIONS
Post Graduation in International School of Engineering (INSOFE) in Decision Modelling,Data Visualization,Machine Learning,Text Mining,Artificial Intelligence
Completed Scrum Master,Safe Agile Certification
Completed SAFe Agilist
Completed Certificate from Microsoft DP-200 Implementing an Azure Data Solution
KEY PROJECTS AND AREAS
Major Clients
Domains
Industry
· Leading Brewing Company
· HR (Data Lake) and Analytics
· Retail
· Leading Hitech Company
· Developing Data warehousing
· HiTech
· Leading Luxury Brand Retailer
· Digital Transformation
· Retail
· Leading Mortgage Servicing Company
· Data warehousing
· Banking and Mortgage
Key Project
Client: Leading Drink and Brewing Company (Oct 2019 – till Date)
Enterprise Data Lake for HR Process (BrewDat)
Responsiblity: - Technical Program Manager
Business objective is to developed Data Lake on Azure environment for HR Business Area. The benefit of data lake is the centralization of different content sources. Users, from various departments, may be scattered around the globe can have flexible access to the data and further use data for automation of People Analytic report and using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence can be used to make profitable predictions
Tools
Project Management Tools: Microsoft Visio, Devops
Cloud ETL Tool: Azure Data Factory(v1/v2)
Big Data Tools: Azure HDInsight, Azure Data Lake,Data Bricks
PaaS Services: Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Datawarehouse
Cloud based Visualization Tool: Power BI
IaaS Services: Azure Virtual Machines
Cloud ETL Tool: Azure Data Factory(v1/v2)
Data Processing Tools: Azure Data Bricks
Responsibilities
•Lead a diverse group of project stakeholders and members towards successful delivery of a project. Provides formal and informal coaching on-the-job to grow team members to their full potential. Mentors junior members of the team and reviews their work acting as a best practice / quality resource
•Speaks with Project sponsor team / Executive Leadership team on diranection and strategy.
•Works with architecture leaders business stakeholders/clients, product owners, project managers, product managers, engineers, product analysts and business stakeholders to drive a project's progress and ensure success
•Works with client on building and developing strategic roadmap implementation plan based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint.
•Need to work closely and continuously with the business/stakeholder to focus on meeting business/client requirements and incorporating broader aspects such as overall product costs/revenue, data privacy & sovereignty, business continuity, information security, integration with other systems, etc.
•Works with architect builds consensus, mediates conflicts providing technical leadership and advisory services to the business.
•Helps to create an environment which solicits positive contributions from all participants: Solution and Technical Architects, engineering teams, product manager, project managers, product analysts, test and project teams, Information Security and Operations recognizes industry technology trends and emerging technologies, understands how they apply to CLIENT and can drive their adoption into organization
•Strong program management skills working across teams and stakeholders Proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities
•As part of product life cycle ensure solution intended to support business investment decisions which means they must hold the appropriate balance between costs, risks and quality of the product.
•Deliver end-to-end technology and operations projects working through the obstacles and handle change.
•Communicate and gather expectations and requirements equally well with business and technology teams, and capacity to write well-reasoned and data-driven proposals, performing your own data analysis as necessary A creative problem solver who proactively seeks out system/process improvements in support of his/her customers Plan and manage multiple parallel projects Experienced in change management, quality improvement initiatives.
Reporting project metrics, status, risk, skill availability, resource allocations, SLA adherence, and quality assurance as per standard, stakeholder management.
Resource forecasting and hiring resource as per requirement
Facilitate Service Delivery Committee/Portfolio Review/Quarterly Review meeting
Client: Leading HI-Tech Company :- Data Warehouse for Real time Analytic Reporting (Feb 2019 – Oct 2019 )
Responsiblity: - Technical Program Manager / Scrum Master
Project Management Tools: Microsoft Visio,JIRA, Devops
Cloud ETL Tool: Azure Data Factory(v1/v2)
Big Data Tools: Azure Spark
PaaS Services: Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Datawarehouse
Cloud based Visualization Tool: Power BI
IaaS Services: Azure Virtual Machines
Cloud Storage: Azure Blob Storage
Cloud Data Security: Encryption at rest, Encryption at motion, Role Based access control, Shared access keys
Cloud ETL Tool: Azure Data Factory(v1/v2)
Business objective is to developed Data Warehouse on Azure environment for application like Oracle,Salesforce, Sibel and other Adhoc application to centralized data warehouse. The Warehouse in a form of Data Mart form which will be used by reporting tools like Power BI for better performance and visualizations.
Responsibilities
•Lead a diverse group of project stakeholders and members towards successful delivery of a project. Provides formal and informal coaching on-the-job to grow team members to their full potential. Mentors junior members of the team and reviews their work acting as a best practice / quality resource
•Speaks with Project sponsor team / Executive Leadership team on diranection and strategy.
•Works with architecture leaders business stakeholders/clients, product owners, project managers, product managers, engineers, product analysts and business stakeholders to drive a project's progress and ensure success
•Works with client on building and developing strategic roadmap implementation plan based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint.
•Need to work closely and continuously with the business/stakeholder to focus on meeting business/client requirements and incorporating broader aspects such as overall product costs/revenue, data privacy & sovereignty, business continuity, information security, integration with other systems, etc.
•Works with architect builds consensus, mediates conflicts providing technical leadership and advisory services to the business.
•Helps to create an environment which solicits positive contributions from all participants: Solution and Technical Architects, engineering teams, product manager, project managers, product analysts, test and project teams, Information Security and Operations recognizes industry technology trends and emerging technologies, understands how they apply to CLIENT and can drive their adoption into organization
•Strong program management skills working across teams and stakeholders Proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities
•As part of product life cycle ensure solution intended to support business investment decisions which means they must hold the appropriate balance between costs, risks and quality of the product.
•Deliver end-to-end technology and operations projects working through the obstacles and handle change.
•Communicate and gather expectations and requirements equally well with business and technology teams, and capacity to write well-reasoned and data-driven proposals, performing your own data analysis as necessary A creative problem solver who proactively seeks out system/process improvements in support of his/her customers Plan and manage multiple parallel projects Experienced in change management, quality improvement initiatives.
Reporting project metrics, status, risk, skill availability, resource allocations, SLA adherence, and quality assurance as per standard, stakeholder management.
Resource forecasting and hiring resource as per requirement
Facilitate Service Delivery Committee/Portfolio Review/Quarterly Review meeting
Client: Leading Manager for Indian luxury goods company
Business objective is to developed Data Lake on Azure environment for all Business Area. The benefit of data lake is the centralization of different content sources. Users, from various departments, may be scattered around the globe can have flexible access to the data and further use data for automation of report and using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence can be used to make profitable predictions
Project Management Tools: Microsoft Visio, JIRA,
Cloud ETL Tool: Azure Data Factory(v1/v2)
Big Data Tools: Azure HDInsight, Azure Data Lake
PaaS Services: Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Datawarehouse
Cloud based Visualization Tool: Power BI
IaaS Services: Azure Virtual Machines
Cloud Storage: Azure Blob Storage
Cloud ETL Tool: Azure Data Factory(v1/v2)
Responsibilities
Work as Scrum Master to facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
Deliver end-to-end technology and operations to projects
Project Planning, Status reporting to client, Building Roadmap for upcoming phase
Resource forecasting and hiring resource as per Client requirement
Communicate with management, engineers, product managers, BA and support specialists on product issues
Closely work business and IT team to understand data mapping, Business Requirements Documents, essentially to put process in place before starting the development
Deliver end-to-end technology and operations to projects
ACHIEVEMENTS
Successfully implemented Data Lake for People Data on Azure Cloud (BrewDat) environment for leading Brewary
Worked and implement Digital transformation for Iconic Indian Retail and Consumer goods company.
Digital Product Catalog implementation using hybris across Asia Pacific as part of “Digital Shelf” strategy for a
Fortune 50 Healthcare client.
Worked on multiple PoC/ Project (collaborating with Client) for showcasing capabilities on Analytics and Big data team
Appreciation from client for executing following projects including Creating Unifiied Data model (Single True Data), EDW creation for Tax Business area, Migration of Informatica from Mainframe to Oracle, Database & Datacentre Migration.
Spearheaded portfolio of around 6M project on Big Data and Analytic on Azure Cloud .
Successfully honored Dream Team Award for CoreLogic account from Cognizant
PERSONAL DETAILS
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Gujrati and Marathi
Address: Flat No. 902 Block B1, Jain Heights, East Parade, L Narayana Reddy Main Road, Basavanagar,Bangalore 560037