Business Analyst - Data-driven Strategy & Stakeholder Influence

Vidyullatha Kavilukodige Sathishrao

Alexandria, VA +1-202-***-**** ***************@*****.***

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidyullatha-ks

Profile: https://vidyullathaks.github.io/

Github: https://github.com/vidyullathaks/

SUMMARY

Business Analyst and strategic consultant with 5+ years conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis, developing client insights, and delivering actionable recommendations to senior leadership. Proven ability to define project strategy, identify opportunity areas, and present compelling deliverables that drive operational excellence for public sector and enterprise clients. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with hands-on experience building data-driven solutions in Python, SQL, R, and Tableau. CORE SKILLS

Quantitative & Qualitative Analysis · Client Engagements & Deliverables · Strategic Recommendations · Operational Excellence · Problem Solving & Opportunity Identification · Public Sector Advisory · Trend Identification & Meaningful Insights · Stakeholder Presentations · Project Strategy & Management · Innovative Solutions · Cross-functional Collaboration · Agile/Scrum · Python · SQL · R · Tableau · Power BI · Excel (VBA) · Jira · Claude API · n8n

WORK EXPERIENCE

George Washington School of Business Program Coordinator, Business Analysis Washington, DC Jan 2025 – Present

• Accomplished 30% participation growth across public sector-adjacent programs, as measured by enrollment KPIs, by conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis of 50+ stakeholder interviews to identify opportunity areas and develop meaningful client insights, delivering strategic recommendations to senior leadership that shaped program direction.

• Accomplished 0-to-1 coaching program launch within $6K budget, as measured by 25+ leaders served, by defining project strategy, owning end-to-end deliverables, and presenting findings to senior stakeholders, driving innovative solutions that improved operational excellence across student programs.

• Accomplished 45% attendance increase, as measured by semester-over-semester tracking, by performing trend identification across engagement data, surfacing opportunity areas, and collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop and implement actionable recommendations.

• Accomplished automated workflow delivering 100% process accuracy, as measured by elimination of manual processing, by building innovative solutions using Excel VBA and Qualtrics, presenting the business case to leadership and driving adoption across stakeholders. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software Designer II, Business Analysis & Strategy Bengaluru, India Mar 2023 – Nov 2023

• Accomplished $200K+ executive buy-in for new product platform, as measured by sign-off across 4 structured client engagement cycles, by conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis to develop client insights, preparing comprehensive deliverables, and presenting strategic recommendations that validated 30% operational efficiency improvement.

• Accomplished 15% reduction in processing time impacting $0.6M+ pipeline, as measured by cycle time benchmarks, by identifying opportunity areas and operational risks across enterprise workflows, developing innovative solutions in collaboration with cross-functional teams across engineering, product, and operations.

• Accomplished build-vs-buy decision adopted by senior leadership, as measured by cross-functional sign-off, by conducting competitive analysis of 5 vendor solutions, synthesizing meaningful insights from complex data sets, and delivering a structured consulting deliverable with clear strategic recommendations aligned with operational excellence goals.

• Accomplished 35% operational efficiency gain, as measured by data throughput metrics, by performing quantitative analysis to identify process bottlenecks, developing actionable recommendations, and acting as liaison between business and IT groups to drive implementation. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software Designer I, Business Analysis Bengaluru, India Feb 2019 – Mar 2023

• Accomplished elimination of 8 hrs/week manual reporting, as measured by Tableau dashboard adoption as single source of truth across 10M+ daily records, by conducting trend identification and surfacing meaningful insights that reduced operational waste 20% and improved client experience across product teams.

• Accomplished 47% query time reduction, as measured by SQL pipeline benchmarks, by performing quantitative analysis to identify 3 critical opportunity areas in backend systems, developing problem-solving solutions and presenting findings to senior stakeholders for prioritization.

• Accomplished data-driven roadmap adopted by product leadership, as measured by stakeholder adoption, by conducting qualitative analysis of client needs, synthesizing insights into structured deliverables, and sharing strategic recommendations that drove public sector-facing product decisions. Marvelsoft Solutions Business Analyst Intern Bengaluru, India Jun 2018 – Aug 2018

• Accomplished 60% improvement in client satisfaction, as measured by post-engagement surveys, by conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis of user feedback to identify opportunity areas, developing innovative solutions, and presenting deliverables to leadership.

• Accomplished 30% retention increase, as measured by SaaS platform KPIs, by building Tableau dashboards tracking trends in customer behavior and delivering meaningful insights that shaped strategic recommendations for the product team. PROJECTS

Mobile AI Functionality Market Research GWU Showcase Sep – Dec 2024

• Accomplished strategic pricing recommendation adopted by public sector stakeholders, as measured by $9.99/month tier selection from conjoint analysis of n=200, by conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis and presenting deliverables with meaningful insights to a cross-functional team. IdeaForge: AI Toolkit Live Product GitHub Feb 2026

• Accomplished end-to-end product launch, as measured by live deployment adopted by practitioners, by identifying opportunity areas in PM documentation workflows and building an innovative solution using Claude API that reduced documentation time from hours to minutes. EDUCATION

George Washington University M.S. Engineering / Business Management, GPA: 3.88, Summa Cum Laude Washington, DC Dec 2025 Coursework: Product Management, Program & Project Management, Marketing Analytics (R), Programming for Analytics (Python), Data Science (R), Database Management Systems (AWS)

Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering B.E. Computer Science & Engineering, GPA: 8.98 Bengaluru, India May 2019

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