MADHU KUMAR SANDEPUDI
Hyderabad
Summary
Dynamic Lead Technical Specialist at Thomson Reuters, adept at leveraging Power BI and SQL to deliver impactful data insights. Proven track record in enhancing operational efficiency through process improvements and agile methodologies, fostering collaboration across teams, and driving strategic decision-making. Recognized for cultivating strong stakeholder relationships and leading high-performing teams.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Technical Specialist
Thomson Reuters International Services Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad
01.2021 - Current
- Responsible for collaborating with a team of 10-20 Specialists/ Analysts/ Developers/ Product Owners.
- Establishing/ Building/ Supporting Domain Expertise.
- Leading/ Providing analytics support for Operations teams leveraging Excel, Power BI, Snowflake and Datadog.
- To identify and visualize insights from numerous disparate data sources and deliver insightful self-serve dashboards to business partners with intuitive user experience.
- Story telling with impact (why/what/how) enabling decision making.
- Lead/ support product analytics experience initiatives, and influencing specific decisions, with dashboarding techniques to make complex data more understandable and insightful.
- Create/review and manage project scope, schedule, delivery plan, validate any requirements, identify project dependence, risk and issue.
- Drive and balance project schedules and resources through close collaboration with key project stakeholders.
- Facilitate high-level communication across multiple Editorial teams, including stakeholders with varying technical proficiency, to achieve strategic alignment.
- Translate complex editorial and product needs to Product Management, operations, technology partners, and other key stakeholders.
- Proactively explore emerging technologies and tools, assessing their strategic impact on products and applications.
- Contribute ideas and participate in discussions to support system enhancements and workflow changes.
- Operate independently and collaboratively across a complex matrixed organization to achieve strategic objectives.
- Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships across organizations to advance business goals.
- Lead and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously, adapting to changing priorities.
- Supporting the development and launch of TR products.
- Collaborating with developers, design, and product teams to define product requirements, and prioritize features aligned with product launch.
- Customer issue response and monitoring Data Acquisition/ Ingest.
- Setting up a team-level dashboard on Service Now (SNow) by collaborating with the SNow team for effective and accurate ticket/task tracking for the team.
- Continuous UI Improvement by collaborating with Product Managers/ Product Owners/ Business side, Developers, Stakeholders, and Product users.
- Leading and supporting Product Testing and Editorial support team.
- Leading and supporting a team of Proactive product research to foresee data issues, identify trends and opportunities, and informing product strategy.
- Building good rapport and enhancing technical knowledge with Developers and stakeholders.
- Following Agile Methodology with Dev, QA, and Product teams.
- Coordinating with cross-functional teams to gather and prioritize product requirements, ensuring alignment with customer needs and business objectives.
- Sharing the Product/ Process related guidelines to the team and ensuring the team adheres to the guidelines.
- Providing/ supporting leadership with Project management activities and the required reports/ metrics and any other requirements as and when needed.
- Develop new process improvements to enhance data, increase the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of our work.
- Work with the Technology team(s) on projects to support Operations teams and see that the requirements are met.
- Analysis and preparation of the requirements, workflows, checklists, reports for daily usage, and trackers used by the team.
- Lead/ participated in BI build-a-thon and AI hackathon teams.
Team Lead – Operations
Thomson Reuters International Services Private Limited
Hyderabad
04.2012 - 12.2020
- Responsible for leading a team of 7-24 specialists.
- Following Agile Methodology across various projects owned and building good Dev & QA relationships.
- Drive projects that provide answers to strategic and tactical business questions.
- Implemented agile methodologies to improve product development processes, resulting in a 30% reduction in time-to-launch.
- Supported development teams and leadership to develop product positioning and go-to-market strategies.
- Build robust processes to ensure a high degree of accuracy and timely analysis.
- Quickly grasp business problems and identify tangible and actionable solutions.
- Recommend suitable approach to solve problems based on facts, figures, and data.
- Sharing the Product/ Process related guidelines to the team and ensuring the team adheres to the guidelines.
- Facilitating the successful delivery of multiple projects using Agile methodologies, resulting in on-time and within-budget completions.
- Coaching and mentoring team members on Agile principles and practices, promoting self-organization and continuous improvement.
- Collaborated with product owners to define project scope, prioritize user stories, and ensure alignment with business objectives.
- Conducted daily stand-ups, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to drive transparency, accountability, and iterative development.
- Monitored project progress, identified, and resolved impediments, and ensured effective communication within the team and with stakeholders.
- Implemented and maintained project management tools (Azure, Trello, Excel), to track and visualize project progress and metrics.
- Working on Data Development day-to-day tasks.
- Planning and assigning of tasks among various team members, providing technical and people management guidance to the team.
- Identifying project and people risks at the early stage and taking necessary actions.
- Nurturing innovation in the team. The team has successfully created a lot of tools that helped in the simplification of day-to-day activities.
- Building good rapport and enhancing technical knowledge among the team members.
- Providing feedback/ guidance to the team members at regular intervals.
- Providing management with the required reports and any other requirements as and when needed.
- Develop new process improvements to enhance data, increase the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of our work.
- Determines work procedures, prepares work schedules, and expedites workflow.
- Develop, perform, and manage all aspects of team planning.
- Providing data analysis and reporting for management information leveraging Excel and Power BI.
- Provide management support for budgeting, records management, information security, financial controls, and business continuity activities.
- Provide assigned work effectively.
Senior Specialist – Data Development
Thomson Reuters International Services Private Limited
Hyderabad
08.2010 - 03.2012
- Responsible for Customer issue response, Domain expertise, Monitoring Data Acquisition/ Ingest, and Continuous UI Improvement by collaborating with Product Managers, the Business side, Developers, Stakeholders, Product users, and Product Testing.
- Developing the data sets for Checkpoint, a Research and Guidance tool of Thomson Reuters used by most Tax & Accounting Professionals worldwide.
- Exploring websites of several governments, organizations, and agencies; research, analyse and ingest/ acquire the right documents which are relevant for Checkpoint publishing.
- Aiding with sample data testing for new or enhanced products, by searching and finding the right input formats for conversion, which are compatible with our existing conversion processes.
- Aiding with special projects relating to data research and conversion.
- Analysing documents and preparing them for conversion to SGML / XML / HTML, using the DTD, in-house documentation, and knowledge of the product requirements for print, CD-ROM, and online output.
- Recommending proposed changes as data dictates and updating data structures.
- Maintaining and changing data structures and tagging as per standards.
- Understanding, preparing, and providing observations to the programming team and stakeholders on DTD (Document Type Definition), Schema, and batch files, used by the team.
Product Quality Analyst
Apex Logical Data Conversion Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad
01.2005 - 07.2010
- Responsible for evaluating and testing products to ensure that products are developed meeting the quality and performance standards according to requirements.
- Develop and maintain quality management systems to ensure compliance with industry standards.
- Conduct internal audits to identify process gaps and recommend improvements.
- Analyze data to identify trends and develop metrics to measure quality performance.
- Facilitate training programs to improve quality awareness and skills.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement process improvements.
- Conduct root cause analysis investigations to identify and resolve quality issues.
- Support/ Lead a team of quality analysts.
- QA on product reporting the defects.
- Updating the complete status of QA performed in the performance reports.
- Prepare the QC Plan for a new project at the facility to ease the QA task.
- A subsidiary of Apex CoVantage LLC
Data Analyst
Apex Logical Data Conversion Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad
01.2004 - 12.2004
- Responsible for analysing the data to identify trends/ patterns.
- Data preparation/ clean-up for easy analysis of the data, which is the initial process of the job work.
- Support the team in building data visualizations using Excel for KPIs that reduced manual reporting by 10 hours weekly.
- Using Excel and SQL, built reports for a client to help them prioritize their project roadmap.
- Collaborated with product managers, gaining insight into marketing aspects, and writing documents.
- Supporting the team to identify strategic marketing opportunities through detailed analysis with the intern team, making recommendations that saved the client over $11K in yearly campaign costs.
- Contributed to weekly and monthly reports on product development and design.
- Data processing by creating the customer-required final deliverables by executing the software/ applications supplied by Dev teams and running a parser to validate the document instances, by creating the customer desired output.
- Meeting the quality and quantity standards set by the organization.
- Thorough knowledge of Project specifications.
- Creating innovative ideas and being initiative-taking in the work.
- A subsidiary of Apex CoVantage LLC
Education
Master of Computer Applications -
Osmania University
Andhra Pradesh01.2003
Bachelor of Science - Computer Applications
Nagarjuna University
Andhra Pradesh01.2000
Intermediate - MPC
Board of Intermediate Education
Hyderabad01.1997
SSC -
Secondary School of Education
Hyderabad01.1995
Skills
- Programming languages: Python, SQL
- Data analysis tools and visualization techniques
- Business intelligence tools: Power BI, Tableau
- Excel proficiency for spreadsheets
- Project management frameworks and methodologies
- Issue tracking systems: JIRA, Bugzilla
- Collaboration platforms: Slack, Trello
- Digital publishing technologies
- Data transformation methods
- Regex applications and macros expertise
- Text editing tools proficiency
- Markup languages: SGML, HTML, XML, JSON expertise
- Domain knowledge in specific areas
- Process improvement initiatives
- Leadership in team settings
- Problem-solving abilities
- Collaboration across functions
- Quality assurance processes
- Optimization of business processes
- Expertise in project management
- Reporting and documentation skills
- Management of team performance
- Gathering requirements effectively
- Delegation of tasks
Certification
• Project Management Program (PMI Certified), in progress, Q2 2026
• Data & Analytics Advanced (TR Certified), 10/24
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt (TR Certified), 09/24
• Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance Certified), 09/23
• Master’s Program (SimpliLearn Certified), 2023, Data Science, AI, ML, and Big Data Technologies
• Lean Six Sigma White Belt (TR Certified), 06/23
• Scrum Master/Agile Practitioner (TR Certified)
• Data & Analytics Advanced (TR Certified), 10/24
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt (TR Certified), 09/24
• Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance Certified), 09/23
• Master’s Program (SimpliLearn Certified), 2023, Data Science, AI, ML, and Big Data Technologies
• Lean Six Sigma White Belt (TR Certified), 06/23
• Scrum Master/Agile Practitioner (TR Certified)
Traits
- Excellent business communication, presentation, leadership, and closing skills to thrive in a team-oriented environment.
- Results-driven and inquisitive Operations Professional, committed to tight deadlines and quick turnaround times.
- Proven ability to translate business needs into technology requirements that support the company's business objectives.
Timeline
Lead Technical Specialist
Thomson Reuters International Services Pvt Ltd
01.2021 - Current
Team Lead – Operations
Thomson Reuters International Services Private Limited
04.2012 - 12.2020
Senior Specialist – Data Development
Thomson Reuters International Services Private Limited
08.2010 - 03.2012
Product Quality Analyst
Apex Logical Data Conversion Pvt. Ltd.
01.2005 - 07.2010
Data Analyst
Apex Logical Data Conversion Pvt. Ltd.
01.2004 - 12.2004
Master of Computer Applications -
Osmania University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Applications
Nagarjuna University
Intermediate - MPC
Board of Intermediate Education
SSC -
Secondary School of Education