Girish M
Senior Manager
Bangalore
Summary
Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings. Versatile Senior Manager specializing in Data Analytics and skilled at planning, implementing and overseeing key improvements to drive business growth and efficiency. History of cultivating an open culture with free exchange of information. Pursuing new professional challenges with a growth-oriented company.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager, Data Analytics
Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW – Bosch)
4 2013 - Current
- Currently responsible for identifying Analytics projects within Bosch India starting with inception, strategizing, help them build the usecase, driving proof-of-concepts and support the team through the development cycle.
- Established strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, ensuring long-term partnerships and repeat business.
- Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
- Led cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliver high-quality results.
- Collaborated closely with peers from other departments to drive organizational success jointly as one cohesive unit.
- Improved team performance by providing comprehensive training and fostering a collaborative work environment.
- Managed budgets effectively, achieving financial objectives while maintaining strict control over expenditures.
- Implemented innovative solutions to overcome challenges, leading to enhanced productivity levels.
- Managing Service delivery of projects for clients across the Bosch Business units for Data Analytics.
- Good Knowledge on technology landscape on data analytics, big data and data visualization
- Practical experience on building scalable enterprise solutions for Digital transformation.
- Adapted innovative methods in recruitment strategy for the roles - data scientists, data visualization, Big data and other Data integration capabilities.
- Coached and mentored team in adapting agile delivery methodology in various projects delivery models
- Implemented and developed operational standards, policies and procedures.
Project Manager, Project Lead, Team Lead – DW and EIM CoE
Target Corporation.
03.2008 - 03.2013
- Over the years, played multiple roles in Target, starting with Team lead, Project lead and Manager, Delivery services for DW, EIM - Reporting & Analytics CoEs.
- Built the governance model encompassing all the teams contributing to the lifecycle of the BI project including infrastructure budgeting Developed the estimation models for maximum resource utilization and track resource effectiveness.
- Managed performance engineering team to mitigate performance challenges in the Enterprise programs.
- Successfully led complex projects in Merchandising BI (MBI), Inventory foundation and Finance BI, all were multi $MM projects with team members working from geographically diverse location as well as multi-vendor partners.
- Efficiently managed teams across shores including Business Process Consultants, Engineering consultants, Solution Architects, Developers & Testers, which includes team members & vendor partners
- The program’s key driver was to achieve enhanced Business Intelligence and Analytics by addressing the platform’s capacity challenges, scalability, improved supportability, and roadmap enablement.
- Project size in Person Hours – 30000
- Peak Team size – 32
- Budget – 2 million USD
- Technology – DataStage 8.5, Teradata 13
- My Primary responsibility in these projects was High Quality and on time delivery
- To achieve the objective, I adapted CMMI level 5 practices like Qualitative project management process, Causal Analysis, PQA process etc.
- Implemented lean Methodology Tool - Visual Display tracker and Complexity Mapping tools in the project which enhanced the on-time delivery.
Analyst
Infosys Technologies Ltd
01.2003 - 02.2008
- Started my carrier as Data warehouse, ETL developer
- Worked on various projects for American Express playing multiple roles including, ETL Developer and Designer, Data Modeler, Onsite Project Coordinator
- Also worked with Enterprise and Solution architects in Proof of Concepts and Estimation activities.
- Requirement Gathering & Analysis, System Designing, Database Modeling and Designing using informtica, etc.
- Preparation of, Load logic for Informatica mappings, Business Objects Universe design.
- Development of Informatica Mappings, Business Objects Reports, unit testing and system testing.
- Deployment of Informatica mappings and BO Reports on test and production environment
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and communication
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Skills
- Strategic Planning
- Large Scale Program Management
- Talent Development : Building Talent, High Preforming Teams
- Operations Management
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Data Analytics
- Problem-solving aptitude and Process Improvement
- Analytical Skills
- Agile program management
Professional Highlights
- Led DW/BI & Data Analytics projects from inception, strategizing and drawing up blueprints, including market demand and technology trends, demand & supply of right talent pool. Establishing hiring processes and leading talent acquisition. Leading the team, on-boarding, training and aligning the competencies to strategic and tactical needs. Driving proof-of-concepts, frameworks and product development in data analytics and AI/ML topics.
- Led and successfully delivered multi-$MM annual budget complex Big Data, Data warehouse projects working with geographically diverse teams, mitigated risks and managed end-to-end delivery of quality business solutions within time and budget.
- Experience in leading Global Data Analytics CoE at major US Retails chain (Target Corp.) – Led diverse technical and functional teams across various technical and functional roles in the various phases of BI development lifecycle. Primarily worked on Enterprise Data warehouse projects like Expense Management Initiative projects and Platform. Migration projects with budget of $7M annually. Collaborated with Business/IT stakeholders and onshore/offshore development teams. Successfully contributed to the delivery of multi-million-dollar projects demonstrating influential leadership capabilities and effective communication skills
- Trusted leader known and respected for leading successful change in projects and building credibility with executive team and team members. Mentored and coached team members by developing their skill sets, reviewing performance, proficiency in maintaining cordial and productive relationships with all the team members.
- Experienced in project delivery – Expertise in end-to-end project implementation ranging from Business process definition, Requirements gathering and scoping, Systems design, Development of ETL application, Test planning and execution, deployment and rollout. End-to-end implementation of large Data warehousing projects for Fortune-500 organizations.
Timeline
Project Manager, Project Lead, Team Lead – DW and EIM CoE
Target Corporation.
03.2008 - 03.2013
Analyst
Infosys Technologies Ltd
01.2003 - 02.2008
Senior Manager, Data Analytics
Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW – Bosch)
4 2013 - Current
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and communication
Visvesvaraya Technological University
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