Merwin Jai Sundar Rajendran

Project Leadership:

• Led and assisted technical upgrade projects for clients by working and coordinating with consultants and developers for integrations.
• Developed project management roadmap to define project objectives, timelines and milestones.
• Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines, and generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination.

Stakeholder Management:

• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to understand project requirements.
• Communicate effectively.
• Provided detailed project updates, risks, and achievements to stakeholders and executive management.

Technical Oversight:

• Guiding technical decisions Azure and/or AWS cloud services.
• Collaborate with technical team to ensure successful implementation of data engineering and ETL solutions.
• Provide guidance for user experience and interface design to enhance product usability.

Quality Assurance:

• Implement and uphold quality assurance processes for data engineering solutions.
• Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.

Performance Management:

• Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
• Developed and implemented strategic project plans to meet business objectives.

Risk Management:

• Identify and assess potential project risks, proactively implementing mitigation strategies.
• Maintain risk management framework to ensure project success.

Documentation:

• Drafted project reports to identify successful outcomes, insights and future recommendations.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer and provide necessary training.

• Prepared product statements and customization proposals for existing customers or new prospects.
• Reviewed design specifications, quality assurance plans and demonstration scripts.
• Worked with development team on design and requirement management of new and existing products.
• Identified new business requirements through analyzing market data, customer requirements, competitive offerings and overall industry direction.
• Prepared product related materials and documentation for sales, marketing and end-users.
• Assembled reports and presentations to share insights and recommendations with stakeholders.
• Analyzed data to uncover insights and identify key opportunities to inform strategic decisions.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and implement research strategies.
• Devised data visualization dashboards to make complex data more accessible to stakeholders.
• Used various market research tools and techniques to gather, analyze and interpret data.

• Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
• Analyzed open orders, backlog, and sales data to provide sales team with insights.
• Used both qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques frequently.
• Designed Excel spreadsheet to estimate costs of future custom projects for clients.
• Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.

• Directed software design and development to meet client needs for functionality and performance.
• Delivered scalable system architecture to support high-availability Internet site with various internal applications.
• Responded to and remedied critical issues to limit downtime.
• Worked closely with clients to establish specifications and system designs.
• Designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction and analysis.
• Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.