pradeepsn@email.arizona.edu

Pradeep Srinivasa Nagendra

+1 (414) 702 5010

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradeepsn

SUMMARY

  · MIS graduate student with 3 years of professional experience in Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics.

  · Proficiency in handling and analyzing large data sets, with both structured and unstructured data, to derive actionable insights.

  · Expertise in consulting and development in Insurance, Manufacturing, Healthcare, e-Governance and Social Service industries.

  · Strong communication, team development, customer liaison and leadership skills.

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Management Information Systems, Dec 2014

Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, USA

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Science, July 2010

Visveswaraya Technological University, India

SKILL SET

  · Concepts and Methodologies: Databases, Business

Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Data Mining,

Data Visualization, Big Data, Web Analytics

  · BI Tools: SAP Business Objects, QlikView, Talend, Tableau,

R, IBM SPSS, RapidMiner, Weka, MicroStrategy, OBIEE

GPA – 4.00

GPA – 3.97

  · Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB

  · Querying and Analysis: SQL, PLSQL

  · Languages: Java, Python

  · Other Tools: MS Excel, MS Visio, MS Project, Amazon

EC2, VMware, Tortoise SVN, JIRA

MIS COURSE PROJECTS HIGHLIGHTS

  · BI Architect, Developer and Lead for several team projects in the area of Business Intelligence and Analytics.

  · Strengthened and applied my knowledge in data modeling, data processing, ETL (Extract Transform Load), data mining, big

data analysis and data visualization.

  · Gained valuable experience in business requirements gathering and analysis, interviewing, software development life cycle

(SDLC), performance tuning and customer relationship management.

  · Implemented a cloud based BI solution to automate client’s weekly operations, performed sentiment analysis and visualization

on online course data, designed dimensional models and ETL processes for a university client in three different projects.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Consulting Intern – BI and Analytics, Wipfli LLP, USA

  · Worked with open source and commercial databases, tools and cloud technologies for data analysis, processing, integration,

visualization, and project management.

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014

  · Involved in a predictive/descriptive modeling project for customer retention analysis for an Insurance client.

  · Prepared and pre-processed data for exploratory data analysis on millions of rows of data to identify patterns and understand

policy cancellation behavior.

  · Researched the applications of predictive modeling (statistical, machine learning) techniques and tools for the Insurance practice.

  · Employed tools such as R for data analysis, QlikView for data visualization and Microsoft SQL Server for data management.

Senior Software Engineer – Data Analytics Solutions, Mindtree Ltd, India

  · Analyzed and gathered requirements to develop BI solutions for Imperial Tobacco Group (ITG) and PepsiCo.

  · Travelled onsite to UK for client interaction during requirement gathering and liaised effectively with the Indian offshore team.

  · Consolidated relevant data from multiple data warehouses to provide intuitive, self-service access to business information.

  · Designed schemas (Universe), complex reports using SAP Business Objects to get answers to challenging business questions.

  · Architected a hierarchical security model to implement region based restrictions for about 12 regions with multiple sub-regions.

  · Created database indexes, partitions which improved performance and data retrieval by 50%.

  · Conducted numerous interviews on BI Reporting for experienced professionals.

Associate Consultant – Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, Ciber Inc., India

  · Designed scalable dashboards with interactive data visualizations of KPIs to enable decision making for a Social Service client.

  · Created reports at various levels of granularity with capabilities to drill, slice-and-dice and format relevant information.

  · Uncovered patterns and trends using defined business rules through charts, scorecards and gauges.

  · Designed complex SQL queries, views to retrieve and aggregate data for the reports.

  · Improved the load times of BI applications by 30 - 40% by creating database indexes.

  · Performed impact analysis and estimation for Medica (USA) on BI reports, views, stored procedures and the security model.

  · Nominated for the ‘Top Gun’ award, 2011 Q2 for consistent performance in the Santa Clara project.

CERTIFICATIONS

  · One out of 40 candidates to be certified by Mindtree on SAP BO - Mindtree Certified SAP BO Professional (July, 2012).

Apr 2012 – Jul 2013

July 2010 – Feb 2012