SUJATHA CHINNAPPA

Phone: (847) 977 7957

Email – sujathachinnappa@yahoo.com

 

Experience Summary

 

·         Senior BI Solution Architect and Delivery Director with 17 years of IT experience. Associate Director – Enterprise Information Mgmt - Cognizant Technology Solutions – Enterprise Information Management practice responsible for leading Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, and Analytics Initiatives across major insurance clients for Mid-West region and east coast major insurance client.

·         Over Seventeen (17) years of experience with Enterprise Information Management, BI Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Technology Delivery Management, IT Governance, Program Management, Business Intelligence, Solution architecuture, business development, and leadership experience. 

o        Extensive experience in BI and Data Architecting, Consulting. Data Modeling, Delivering and Operationalizing Enterprise Data Warehouses, Data Marts, Business Intelligence tools – Enterprise Dashboards, Reports, and self serve analytics.

o        Experienced with ETL technologies such as Ab-Initio, Talend and Informatica. SME knowledge on BI reporting products including Business Objects, Cognos and Have architected several cutting edge dashboards with Xcelsius and Tableau.

o        Exposure to Big Data Technologies using HDP, Talend Data Integration to Hadoop, HDP, Hive, Pig and other related technologies.

o        BI Solution architect experience in strategizing and providing BI Roadmap, data governance, data quality, BICC framework, and technology & solution rationalization at enterprise level.

o       Technology agnostic BI Enterprise architect across various Data Integration, Reporting Solutions and Analytics.

·         Experienced with technology consulting with Top tier consulting firms including Accenture, IBM and insurance companies such as Allstate and Statefarm.

Educational Background

 

·         Bachelors of Engineering and Computer Science. Sathyabama Engineering College, Madras University, India.

·         Certified Talend Open Studio Data Integration Consultant

·         Certified - ITIL Service Management Essentials, Pink Elephant, USA

·         Certified Project Management Professional PMP, PMI Institute, USA

·         Managing Complex Projects Certification, Innovations Inc, USA

 

Technology &Skill Summary

 

Data Integration & BI Tools              : ETL-Ab-Initio, Xcelsius, SAP Business Objects, IBM COGNOS

Tools/Technologies               : ERWIN, Xcelsius, Tableau, MS Project Server, Compuware Changepoint PMT, Ms Project 2007, TFS/VSS, SharePoint, MS Office products, ASP, Visual Basic, MTS/COM, ASP .Net technologies.

Database                                    : Oracle, Teradata, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Work Experience

 

Jun 2012 - Present

Employer: Cognizant Technology Solutions, USA. 

Associate Director at Cognizant Technology Solutions – Enterprise Information Management practice. Responsible for all Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, and Analytics Initiatives across major insurance clients for Cognizant. Extensive experience in architecting, delivering and operationalizing Enterprise Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence tools – Enterprise Dashboards, Reports, and Universes. Leading DW/BI initiatives at Travelers Insurance and also consulting for mid-west based insurance portfolios. Currently managing 25+ projects and support initiatives with 300+ onsite/offshore resources. Some of the current engagements include:

·         Big Data Hadoop integration using Talend – POC

·         Data Governance Strategy, design and implementation for a major MW Financial services/Insurance company

·         International Data Foundation Program to bring information from UK, Canada, Brazil and US into an data mart for financial reporting purposes

·         Strategic Business Insurance Dashboard Initiatives – 3 year program

·         BI Product Support Engagement

·         Group Protection – ODS build out for integrating 9 different source system information into an  integrated CDF

·         Agency Compensation Mgmt – Data Integration with 50+ inbound and 140+ outbound feeds with support Report DataMart implementation

·         GuideWire Billing Center – Data Integration

 

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

 

Business Intelligence/Business Warehouse, Ab-Initio, Informatica, Talend, Business Objects, Cognos, ERWIN, Oracle-ADW, Teradata, SharePoint, Program & Account Management leadership.

 

 

 

Dec 2011 – Jun 2012

Employer: Accenture, USA.

 

Worked as Senior Manager and Executive of Information Management and Business Intelligence Technology Growth Platform at Accenture.  Responsible for delivering upon major delivery assignments, strategizing and developing information management, business intelligence, data strategy roadmap, performing current state assessments and identifying opportunity areas, findings and making recommendations. Function as a RFP lead for key client requests for Accenture delivery.

 

 

 

 

 

Functioned as a Sr. Program Director at CNA leading Advancing Analytics – Actuarial Excellence data warehousing roadmap, releases and delivery to be used by actuaries, modelers and underwriters in book of business analyses.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

 

Business Intelligence/Business Warehouse, ETL-Informatica, Business Objects, Oracle-ADW,  Primavera, Ms Project 2007, SharePoint, Project Management leadership.

 

 

 

Oct 2006 to Nov 2011

Employer: Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, IL, USA.

 

Worked as a Senior Leader of Technology Delivery, Enterprise Products, Business Intelligence Competency Center and IT Governance for Allstate Portfolio Delivery and Operations, enterprise tool sets, business intelligence environment, data warehouse, executive dashboards, reports and adhoc reporting universes.

 

IT Delivery Lead & Program Delivery Governance: Responsible to optimize and maintain the overall health of ATO Portfolio and program initiatives by providing metrics, tools, consultation and governance for effective delivery management, capacity management and financial management. Define and implement portfolio and program level metrics that are measureable and implement and execute governance to track variances, key risks and issues. Track and reduce redundant efforts across allstate to avoid inefficiencies, duplication and process improvement. Oversee milestones, Gantts for major 80/20 initiatives and ensure the schedule and deliverables align with ATO business objectives and goals.

 

Business Intelligence and Metrics Steward: Own and drive ATO Metrics strategy for technology and business executive leadership and ATO wide use, serve as a ATO metrics steward and product owner for Enterprise Portfolio management tools and datawarehouse  to consolidate financial, project, resources, internal  effectiveness and client value related information from various data sources across Allstate. Currently supporting ATO Portfolio Dashboard, ATO Finance Dashboard, CRE Dashboard and Issues, Risks, Change Control metrics for ATO.

 

Enterprise Tools - Product Steward and overall technology architect supporting Microsoft Project Server, Compuware Change Point Portfolio Management Tools, Allstate centralized staffing tool, Enterprise Skills repository, Issues, Risks and Change Management tool sets.

 

Worked as Senior Program Manager and managed portfolio of projects over $40M of size over 3 years of duration. Responsible for managing Claims – NextGen – Claim Component Release 1.0, Release 2.0, production support, custom releases and enhancement projects/efforts for architecture delivery for Architecture services. Played a key role and drove the organization changes of Claims architecture production support team.

 

 

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

 

Business Intelligence/Business Warehouse, ETL-Ab-Initio, Xcelsius, Business Objects, COGNOS, Oracle-ADW,  MS Project Server, Compuware Changepoint PMT, PRISM, Ms Project 2007, VSS, SharePoint, MS Office products, Method-1 Project Methodology, SQL Server.

 

  

 

 

 

May 2005 to Oct 2006

Employer: ACCENTURE LTD

Client: Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, IL, USA.

 

Worked as a Manager – IT Consulting and Accenture delivery lead for Allstate – Next Gen -Claims Component implementation – for Release 1 – Property claims implementation. Working with the client's Technology organization coordinating activities across multiple NextGen releases. Managing Architecture Release which includes Core Architecture, Integration Architecture, Usability, Data Architecture, Frameworks and Performance projects. Successfully lead and delivered a major program and architecture framework implementation. In-depth knowledge of Accenture Delivery Method and Claim Components implementation

 

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

 

MS Project Server, PRISM, Ms Project 2003, VSS, SharePoint, MS Office products, Method-1 Project Methodology,  .NET, ORACLE, SQL Server, ASP, Visual Basic, MTS/COM, ASP.

 

 

Dec 1997 to May 2005

Employer : HTC Global Services Inc, Troy, MI, USA.

Client : Statefarm Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL, USA.

             

Worked as a Project Manager and as an Enterprise Liaison at Statefarm Insurance Company for HTC Alliance. Working with Enterprise Claims Systems (ECS) Program and worked with Good Neighbor Care GNC Program and financial services projects to provide guidance, direction and support for enterprise IBM Websphere-J2EE architectures and N-Tier Architectures. Responsible for promoting Enterprise Reuse Strategy, reusable components, component based development, Insurance Application Architecture and enterprise requirements modeling. Participate in the initiative's (programs, service areas) planning efforts.

 

Worked as an Alliance/Engagement Manager and Project Manager at a Statefarm Insurance Company  for HTC and the Insurance Company’s Alliance for three (3) years from Dec 1998 to Jan 2002.  Responsible for working closely with Statefarm Alliance Management, HTC Vice President, sponsor(s), senior management, various boards, steering committees, others in Project Management, and project teams to guide efforts toward achieving intended business results by business critical dates..  

 

 

 

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

 

MS Project 98, TEAMPLAY, SDM & SFPM Project Methodologies, IBM Websphere, J2EE, IBM Mainframe, Windows NT/2000/XP, VS COBOL II, JCL, IMS DC/DB, DB2, Visual Basic, MTS/COM, ASP. UML, RUP – Clearcase and Clearquest.