Business Analyst Project Manager

Pravina Viswanathan

Bethesda, MD Cell. 301-***-**** *******.***********@*****.***

Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst with 15+ years of experience in overseeing initiatives to transform company products and processes by implementing innovative solutions to support strategic decision-making that drive efficiency, reduce cost, and improve productivity, seeking a position as Professional Management Analyst.

Effective communicator with strong interpersonal skills to interface with stakeholders, understand their issues, and drive resolution with proven analytical and logistical skills.

Proven ability to manage multiple priorities/projects and a strong background in various domains like Finance, Budget, Human Resources.

Self-Motivated, people driven, organized and dependable with sound business judgement.

Adept at supporting multiple projects simultaneously and moving quickly in a changing environment, working independently with minimal supervision.

Committed to learning along the way to continually develop the skills to support office’s projects, programs, training and other initiatives with a proven track record of working collaboratively to produce detailed/ accurate work products.

Key Qualifications: Project Management * Agile/Scrum Methodologies Software Development Lifecycle

Business/Data Analysis Data Gathering & Organization Business & Financial Analysis Establishing Proactive Analytical Processes That Boost Efficiency * Quality Assurance/Control Mentoring, Leading, and Directing a Staff * Preparing high-quality memorandum, reports, and articles * Reviewing correspondence, documents, reports, and maintaining written material * Developing, analyzing, designing, and implementing office procedures and policies for administrative processes.

Professional Experience

GovCio (Formerly Salient CRGT), Washington, DC 2020 Jan – Present

Project Manager/Senior Business Analyst, Administrative Office of the US Courts

Initiated Tableau reports; exceeded customer expectations by combining requirements with complex Tableau mock-ups; established organization wide tableau standards.

Supported gathering, organizing, storing, and analyzing large volumes of information, for various policies, guidance, and recommended best practices. Built archives for the EDW eVoucher Reports. Organized, Project knowledge base and other project documents.

Provided management with inputs to support its missions, establish priorities and support decision-making. We have a pulse of the DSO’s preferences and, many a times, presented solutions in anticipation of their business needs. Effectively break down any clarification, provide the resources to help them make decisions.

Prepared, reviewed, and maintained a wide variety of written material designed to inform Officers of changes to policies and recommended best practices.

Developed, analyzed, designed, and implemented office procedures and policies for administrative processes.

Trained staff/team members on established office policies and procedures. Demonstrated 90 Day report to the Eigth circuit.

Lead and participated in orientations, briefings, and training programs. Increased team productivity by preparing documentation/training materials and developing production support guidelines for common defects.

Effectively communicated, both orally and in writing, with internal/external customers and officials in various agencies and organizations that liaison with the DSO.

Prepared high-quality memorandum, reports, and articles to assist DSO staff and senior-level judiciary staff.

Reviewed correspondence, documents, and reports, including work products of other administrative staff to ensure that final documents are accurate and acceptable per AO guidelines.

BlueAlly, McLean, VA 2019 Jan – 2019 Dec

Senior Business Analyst

Served as an integral member of the Business Rules Team; responsible for modeling business rules using a structured decision modeling approach, supporting rules deployments, and identifying/managing defects.

Designed business rules for complex issues and new federal financial policies.

Exhibited excellent interpersonal communications while working with business subject matter experts, development, operations, and other IT and business areas throughout the development and deployment processes.

Effectively liaised and interfaced with the Business Team and the Operations Team, quickly resolving issues and ensuring alignment with requirements and goals.

Bethesda Cares, Bethesda, MD 2016 Jan – 2018 Dec

Lead Business Analyst

Served as the primary interface for the client management system with Montgomery County's Department of Health and Human Services.

Spearheaded and led the transition to the new client management system and implemented a migration program; attended county meetings to liaison with the Department of Health and Humane service; mapped business process flow for managing client data and benefit awards.

Supported the critical decision-making process by preparing KPI reports for submission to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Reconciled and reported weekly operations metrics for VA and other clients.

Finch Computing, Reston, VA 2014 Feb – 2015 Dec

Senior Business Analyst

Served as Product Owner accountable for introducing Agile methodology and creating a process for following up the Agile Methodology. Praised by the CEO for exceptional contributions to alleviating backlog issues and enabling a smooth transition to the Agile product.

Defined and executed strategies as Product Owner for the Qbase data analytics product line; spearheaded and managed end-to-end product road map.

Facilitated the process that led to the Qbase Helix product winning Gartner "Cool Vendor" award in the Content and Social Analytics category.

Improved sprint cycle time by 20% by leading the implementation of Agile/SCRUM development, developing user stories and requirements, and implementing product development best practices.

Da Vinci Inc., Washington, DC 2010 Jun – 2014 Jan

Business Analyst and IT Specialist

Saved $10M+ annually by reducing customer account activation time by 25%.

Successfully served as the Lead business and IT analyst supporting business consulting teams on multi-functional projects for clients, including Capital One, FirstUSA, J.P. Morgan, AOL, and AT&T.

Earlier Career History

Citicorp Overseas Software Ltd. (acquired by Polaris Ltd.) 2001 Oct – 2007 May

Client Program Manager and Lead Systems Analyst, Baltimore, U.S.

Project Manager, Global Banking, New York, U.S.

Technical Lead, Global Banking, Chennai, India

Infosys Ltd. 1995 Jun – 2001 Oct

Senior Systems Analyst, India, U.S., Switzerland

Education Professional Development

Master of Science, Informatics, Johns Hopkins University, U.S.

Master of Science, Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology, India

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Chennai, India

Certifications: Certified SCRUM Master (CSM), Certified SCRUM Product Owner (CSPO)

Technical Proficiencies

Design: UML, Rational Rose, ER/Studio, Visio. Testing: Clear Case, JIRA, Sharepoint, WinRunner. Database: SQL Server, Oracle, SharePoint, Oracle Data Miner, ERWIN. Technical: Sapiens Business Management and Decision Modeling, ASP, IBM Web Sphere, JAVA, EJB, C, C++, Python, Crystal Reports, XML, XSD, SAP Business Objects, Tableau.

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