Pradip VS

As a Data Analytics & AI leader, I took the ownership of two Retail customers India division, where I drove all the conversations, helped the customers with strategies and coordinated with US teams to drive some of the initiatives end to end and delivered value to both customers and Microsoft (For e.g. Gen AI implementation across their use cases, planning Architecture Summit /Gen AI summits & hackathons for Walmart-Sams Club for 2 years continuously to innovate and promote use cases to production and helping various other customers on Tableau to Power BI / Fabric adoption strategy & overall analytics strategy like data governance, security etc.). Working closely with product to add new features.

Helped many customers (esp. Walmart & Sams) on their stress tests, holiday readiness planning, cost optimizations by conducting various deep dive sessions and drove various features / technologies on customers use cases to improve the product reliability.

Working on end-to-end life cycle with Customers from inception till / postproduction deployment until the project/product is optimized & stabilized.

The Data Office is the engine driving EY’s transformation. It re-frames how we find, manage, use and scale data to realize its full power and fuel new intelligent technologies. As a part of Client Technology (CT), my primary focus, roles & responsibility is to work on Data Office's vision by building a enterprise data fabric platform and onboarding solutions/clients (like Auditing, Tax, Adversary etc.) to it for various use cases. Built AI models to automate extraction of data from documents to eliminate manual extraction saving a lot of person-hours.

Built data architectures, managed a large team (both in house employees and vendors) to deliver complex data platform projects, managed a team of 10 and drove many projects successfully and delivered them with good quality adhering to all best practices. Nurtured my team with strong leadership skills.

As a data analytics & AI leader, I have around 5 years of delivery experience where i worked with clients like Unilever, BoFA, Telstra, Ecolab and Shell delivering BI/DWH solutions and 5 years into DnA CoE where i worked closely with LT on Data & AI initiatives.

Built complex data architectures, managed a big team and delivered projects on time. Conducted 2 trainings (one for power bi and one for azure data services) every month to the data community of Avanade and was rewarded Avanade Orange awards, ACE awards multiple times and Accenture Tech Star (given only to top 1% employees) for my contribution to the Data Analytics & AI COE.

Delivered Data Engineering, Analytics and Reporting solutions using Microsoft BI Stack (SQL Server 2000 and 2005 BI Suite) to customers like Target and AC Nielsen. Helped build complex ETL pipelines, MDX models and reports.