Sr. Business Analyst

GUHA KUMAR

SIX SIGMA (LEAN) AND PLANISWARE CERTIFIED

Ph: (M) +1-224-***-**** Email: adll32@r.postjobfree.com PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

14+ years of professional experience with demonstrated success while working in Clinical, Quality, Engineering, R&D functions across Pharmaceutical/Life science, Automotive, Investment Banking and Transportation industries/domains and delivering Technical solutions.

Proven leadership in managing complex projects by collaboratively working with cross functional departments while engaging and meeting stakeholder expectation

Expertise involves in Planning, Business Analysis, Process Evaluation, Requirement Gathering & Gap Analysis, Project Coordination, Client Relationship Management

Operational experience with process development & execution, portfolio analysis and planning, Metrics defining and reporting. Understanding and Successful execution of Projects with Waterfall, Agile and Stage-Gate methodologies. Self-motivated, Positive Attitude professional following right levels of emotional intelligence to achieve First Time Right. KEY TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS/TOOLS EXPERIENCE

Project, Portfolio Management (PPM) Enterprise Systems such as Planisware, Planview

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) system such as PTC Integrity

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) such as Siemens PLM

Clinical Trial Management Systems (CTMS) such as IMPACT, RAVE

SharePoint and Data Visualization/Interpretation tools such as Power-BI, Tableau, QlikView

Requirement Management tools such as JIRA and ERP tools such as Oracle Apps, SAP (briefly) etc.

IT Service Management, Operations, Software Asset Management (SaaS solution) such as Service Now

Identity and Access Management (IAM) using SAML

EMPLOYMENT

Tech. PM/Functional Partner/Sr. Business Analyst, Tenneco Automotive Inc. (Feb’19 – present) Sr. IT Lead/Analyst, Tenneco Automotive Inc. (Apr’17 – Feb’19) Assistant Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services Limited (Jan’11 – Apr’17) Senior Software Engineer, Infosys Limited (Oct’06 – Jan’11) EXPERIENCE

Management and Technical Execution:

o Successfully lead, managed budget and implemented the global roll out of the Project Portfolio Management Enterprise Tool (Planisware) with a budget of ($3M+) used for managing operations, maintaining schedule, dashboards for executive reviews, portfolio level reporting

Savings:

~350K USD (Purely IT savings excluding business benefits the tool will bring)

Overall ROI would be seen in 5-6 years from implementation o Successfully lead, managed budget and implemented the global roll out of the Application Lifecycle Management Tool with a budget of ($1.5M+) which is used by engineering function to achieve V-model solution to track requirements through testing helping with audit compliance with traceability of data.

Savings:

~175K USD (Purely IT savings excluding business benefits the tool will bring)

Overall ROI would be seen in 4-5 years from implementation o IT product owner for tools, manage operational budget and manage consultants/personnel supporting respective tools. o Successfully implemented migration of request process from Lotus Notes into new digital workflow tools o Managed, executed, and supported 7 major, 9 minor and 3 continuous improvement projects by working as Individual contributor, as a Team Player and managing small set of teams. o Research and work in new tools which brings values to the organization such as RPA tools which could help deal with few repetitive tasks for a user on daily/weekly/monthly basis and provide time savings. o Key point of contact and support for the Planisware application for PM and clinical functions, as well as supported the clinical information processed from CTMS systems

Functional Partner:

o Maintaining strong relationship between IT and different functional groups on positive terms by setting right level of expectations and adhering to the timeline of delivery. o Supporting Global Engineering Operations and Global PMO team for KPI Metrics using data visualization tools. o Key resource in North America supporting Global PMO specific key initiatives at North America o SME for the SharePoint development and maintenance of various project, team sites.

Vendor Management:

o Involved in vendor selection process by supporting during vendor demo, vendor service related feedback and other contract related information gathering activities

o Manage contractors for continuous improvement work and new projects. o Liaising with vendors for surveys to obtain latest technologies and tools in the market to assess digital solutions. o Coordinating with vendor for providing demonstration to respective functional groups to determine the best solution for given problem or requirement

Support:

o Supported organization with request/incident/support tool implementation such as Service Now o Supporting NA training documentation updates, and training activities for respective tools o Integration of various tools – Successfully implementing the integration of data between multiple applications helping achieving data compliance and availability of necessary data for respective business teams. o At times keep my software development skills open in order to do small internal projects for a quick win. ACADEMIA

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication from Anna University, Chennai, India CERTIFICATIONS

Six Sigma Green Belt (Project done utilizing Lean Methodology) (2012) MS Sharepoint Site Admin Certification (2019)

Core Planisware Certification (2020)

AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS & EXTRA ACTIVITIES

Award for best execution and implementation of IT project resulted in good savings.

Received the award for best Project to have run successfully for more than 1 year without any defects.

My solution resulted in a cost savings of $60,000/year.

Key Player Award for the Account Level Activities for engaging team members.

Volunteer: Food packaging for NGO.

Volunteer: Taught Mathematics and Science for under privileged children. References can be provided on the need basis

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