Business Analyst Project Management

SANDHYALAKSHMI KIDAMBI

Jersey City, NJ ***** (Visa Sponsorship - Not required) 612-***-**** *******@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/sandhya-kidambi

BI Specialist, Project Management, and Product Management Professional Experienced and Versatile BI Specialist, Product Manager, and Project Management Professional with a decade of expertise. Skilled in leading project management initiatives and envisioning innovative solutions. Proficient in business intelligence and process management, with a track record of optimizing processes for enterprises and achieving impressive results.

Professional Experience

Business Analyst, TCell Technologies, (Remote) Feb 2024 - July 2024

● Volunteered as a business analyst to collect and document the requirements for the JNarratives App - a clinical study narrative generation application that can automate creation of clinical study narratives. The application lifecycle management system Spira has been used for documenting the requirements.

● Regularly interact with business users to elicit comprehensive requirements for dashboard features and build the dashboard using Power BI

Manager - BI & Analytics, Wayfair ( Boston, MA & Remote ) July 2021 - Oct 2023

● Focused on strategy - planning demand and coverage goals for the visual media teams.

● Initiated and led project management efforts for optimized proprietary imagery production, ensuring accurate data monitoring and addressing pipeline concerns, thereby decreasing the turnaround time from 55 days to 25 days.

● Implemented data-driven solutions on Google Cloud using Google Big Query and Looker Studio, that involved extracting data, analyzing, and sharing insights, publishing to the production environment using Kronos and proactively identifying key business trends.

● Contributed to stakeholder visibility and achievement of OKRs through effective communication with internal, external, and executive teams.

● Addressed pipeline fall-offs through both automated reporting and accessible dashboards, leading to an impressive elevation in image coverage from 45% to 55%, aligning perfectly with our org’s overarching OKRs

● Monitored org-level metrics, assessed ROI for expansion avenues, and collaborated closely with engineering teams to enhance pipeline efficiency.

● Partnered with the internationalization team to expand Wayfair paid search to other languages, supporting translation and localization efforts.

● Coordinated with different product managers to achieve cross-vertical synergy within the Customer Success Team and led a successful migration project to a new platform for improved accessibility and maintenance, reducing time spent by the teams by an impressive 35%.

● Partnered with CRM teams to design reports using Google SQL & Looker Studio for intensive campaign analysis reporting on KPIs such as Open Rate, Success Rate, Click through Rate, Unsubscribe Rate etc.

● Streamlined metric collection and reporting for OKRs and Business Activity Reports (Business Reviews). Project Manager - Paripoorna Software Solution Services (Chennai, India) Feb 2016 - Oct 2019 Experienced Project manager with a track record of successful development projects:

● Project manager for Proprietary BI Dashboard for Microfinance & Manufacturing industries - accountable for dashboard application development, prioritizing sprint backlog, and ensuring stakeholder buy-in.

Developed BI dashboards with Qlik Sense and Power BI, extracting data from Azure database SANDHYALAKSHMI KIDAMBI

Jersey City, NJ 07306 (Visa Sponsorship - Not required) 612-***-**** *******@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/sandhya-kidambi

for insights and reporting on KPIs such as Pull-through Rate, Average Cycle Time etc..

● Project manager for an omni-channel portal for e-commerce vendors - accountable for end-to-end development of native mobile apps, integrating procurement, inventory, payment gateway, order tracking, and logistics.

Led project kickoff meetings, defining scope, objectives, and deliverables.

Developed comprehensive project plans, timelines, and resource allocation strategies using tools like Gantt charts Increased sales-development alignment 70% by implementing release planning, versioning, and scrum techniques.

● Project manager for a modular solution for Microfinance institutions, accountable for developing 7 core modules with a budget of 8 million INR.

Introduced Scrum/Agile methodology, managing three teams with 26 members, and facilitated daily stand-ups and release planning following Scrum principles.

Designed and conducted A/B tests using industry-standard methodologies to determine whether group lending was more successful than individual lending and concluded that 96% of loans were repaid on time in group lending.

Education

● Master’s in Computer Applications, Anna University, Chennai, India Certifications

● Microsoft Certified: Azure Enterprise Data Analyst Associate

● Snowpro Core Certified, SnowFlake

● Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance

● Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance

Skills

● Project Management

● Collaboration, teamwork and Stakeholder Coordination

● Critical thinking and excellent Problem solving skills

● Excellent written communication

● Strong leadership skills

● Proficient in SQL for extracting, transforming, and analyzing data from relational databases.

● Skilled in complex query writing, database design, and using SQL for advanced analytics, contributing to actionable business insights.

● Familiar with ETL processes, data integration, and database management systems including MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.

● In-depth knowledge of statistical concepts relevant to hypothesis testing and significance analysis.

● Strong in Microsoft Suite, Power Apps & Power BI

● Strong analytical skills to interpret test results and guide strategic improvements.

● Experience with data visualization tools (Google DataStudio, Power BI, Qlik Sense, Tableau) to present findings in a clear and impactful manner.

● Experience in creating mockup screens, visual designs & flowcharts using Creately & Balsamiq

● Business Analysis

● SDLC & Agile Methodologies

● Proven ability to quickly learn new business domains & technical applications

● Application Lifecycle Management using JIRA, Spira

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