Shivprasad Rao (Business Intelligence, Analytics & Big Data Professional)

 

Profile Snapshot

 

·               A competent professional with 20 years of experience in consulting and executing system integration engagements across various global customers.

·               Over 15 years of hands on BI and data analytics experience. Responsible for leading numerous BI road-map initiatives, designing enterprise data warehouses, building enterprise data architecture, implementing data quality and data governance initiatives, executing master data management, building data analytics and data visualization platforms using traditional, open source and big data technologies

·               Possess competency in envisioning and designing future architecture, create road-maps to transit from current state to future state. Deft in conceiving creative business solutions in response to a new business opportunity. Has experience in building industry specific solutions across Banking, Insurance and Higher Education customers

 

Skills set

 

Platforms: Linux, UNIX, Windows, Cloud, Virtualization, SOA

Databases: Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL

ETL: Informatica, InfoSphere DataStage, Abinitio, BODS, and Talend

MDM: Informatica, SAP MDM

Big data: Hadoop, Map/Reduce, Hive, Pig, Flume, Sqoop, oozie, Splunk

NoSQL: MongoDB, HBase, Cassandra

Analytics: R, Tableau, SpotFire, QlikView, Crystal Reports

Big Data Platforms: Pivotal, Cloudera, and Hortonworks data platform

Programming: VB, Java, JSP, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON

 

Career Contour

 

Capgeminifrom December 2013 to Till Date

ANDISAT/Startupfrom March 11 to November 2013

Accenture from July 2005 to March 2011

BearingPoint Inc.from November 2002 to July 2005

Info-sys Solutionsfrom October 2001 to October 2002

Mascon Global Ltdfrom Jan 1999 to October 2001

SGI InfoTechfrom March 1995 to Dec 1998

 

Education and Certification

 

B.Sc. (Mathematics) from Mangalore University

CBIP (Certified Business Intelligence Professional) from TDWI

Certified Project Management Professional from PMI

 

Job Summary

 

Period:December 2013 – Till Date

Organization:Capgemini India

Client:Unilever Inc., T. Rowe Price

Designation:Enterprise Architect

 

Roles and Responsibilities

·               Member of technical design authority at Unilever, responsible for maintaining program vision and objectives, build technology PoCs, enhance and maintain end to end BI architecture, build high level ETL, data load, data modeling and semantic designs, create best practices and performance tuning guidelines for the Unilever “Connect” program which is a 80 terabytes global enterprise data warehouse built on top of Teradata, Tableau, BODS, SSIS and SSRS tools

·               Responsible for building

o   ETL and Data Quality Standards and Best Practices

o   Metadata and ILM Standards and Best Practices for T. Rowe Price

·               Part of the architecture and advisory group at Capgemini, responsible for envisioning future architecture for high value RFP and RFI requests using diverse BI, big data, MDM, and data analytics technologies

 

Period:March 2011 – November 2013

Organization:ANDIAST (Start-up)

Designation:CTO

 

Roles and Responsibilities

·               Manage customer’s relationships across various Swiss Insurance companies and maintained business relationships and communication

·               Created a flexible and scalable insurance aggregator for Switzerland using SOA architecture,  open source java tools and technologies

·               Built data analytics platform that captures user inputs and product buying preferences to predict buying needs and trends across various demographics. These dashboards were made available to insurance companies at premium price

 

Period:July 2005 – March 2011

Organization:Accenture, India

Client:Ally Bank | Commerzbank | SunTrust Bank | Alberta Treasury Branch | Morgan Stanley | Lloyds Banking group | Safeco/Liberty mutual | Farmers Insurance Group | Zurich Insurance Group

Designation: Senior Manager (Delivery Lead and Solution architect)

 

Roles and Responsibilities

·               Key member of solution architecting team responsible for building industry specific solutions, RFI/RFP responses for various financial service customers

·               Led numerous RFP responses as a solution architect, created business solutions using latest technology, leveraging existing global sourcing model and proposing innovative pricing & delivery models

·               Responsible for conceiving technical architecture, design hardware, software, middleware, and database software’s to support the proposed solution and adhere to customers availability and scalability requirements

·               Attainments: solution architect and  program delivery management for:

o        Developed three year Enterprise Business Intelligence roadmap for Safeco/Liberty Mutual

o        Lead BI architect for Safeco/Liberty Mutual Enterprise BI initiative that constituted over 17,000 data elements and 29TB of storage. Integrated various business functions, including Distributors (agents), Q&I (SBI and SPI), Policy, Claims, underwriting, Customer, Compensation, finance, and HR in the new enterprise data warehouse.

o        Lead BI architect for Farmers Insurance BI initiative which enabled organic growth through the sharing of consistent, reliable, and trusted information across the company

o        Morgan Stanley's IT re-platform, integration, and data migration initiatives of its own and Smith Barney's IT platforms and applications

o        Enhancements to the existing SunTrust BI platform to make it Basel II Compliant, assure Credit Quality, and Performance Management and Pricing

o        Europe's largest system integration engagement resulting out of Lloyds TSB and HBOS merger. Responsible for SIT, UAT, automation, and Performance testing of the new platform

o        North America's first SAP CORE Banking implementation where Accenture was responsible for the implementing SAP payment module, integration of all SAP modules with existing/new channels and other applications, Data migration, SIT, UAT, and automation.

o        Allay bank’s initiative to develop a new technology platform to automate back office business processes of its US and Canadian business

 

Period:Jan 1999 – June 2005

Organization:BearingPoint Inc. | Infosys Solution | Mascon Global

Client:State of GA | University of Alabama at Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Huntsville | Cole National | DELL | Motorola | State of Kentucky

Designation:              Senior Consultant

Roles and Responsibilities

·               Lead architect of the KPMG consulting  team who envisioned, developed, and marketed ‘K-Frame’ solution that targeted US higher education industry that allowed campuses to go from ‘No BI’ to ‘BI ready’ in few weeks.

·               ETL architect of the BearingPoint team that developed ‘NCLB’ solution targeting all US states to comply with ‘no child left behind’ legislation.

·               Responsible for interacting with the customers during requirements gathering, coordinate with multiple business leaders, subject matter experts, and project managers to analyze the requirements, conduct gap analysis, design workshops to evaluate, refine, and develop requirements as per business objectives

·               Responsible for Defining technical functionality, framework for data transformation, developing data models, analyzing content and quality of the data, recommend data management procedures

·               Demo prototype solutions to make sure designed solutions are in accordance with the business requirements

·               Recommend and design strategies for data quality, data acquisition, data migration, warehouse implementation, metadata management, master data management, disaster recovery and archiving processes

 

Period March 1995 – Dec 1998

OrganizationSGI InfoTech

DesignationSenior Software Engineer

 

Responsibilities:

·               Learnt and perfected programming skills on web development, client server, N-tier technologies using VB, Power Builder, Oracle Forms, VBScript, JavaScript, JSP, and ASP

·               Gained experience in database development including Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, MS Access

·               Designed web portals and software applications, reviewed requirements/specifications, build unit and system test cases and scripts

·               Analyze and solve software problems, ensuring software/application is error free

·               Document system/application manual, software results and tests