Results driven Professional with 15+ years of substantial experience in guiding product development and driving market success. Adept at leveraging data-driven insights, leading cross-functional teams, and aligning projects with business goals. Strong focus on data analysis, collaboration, flexibility, and delivering impactful results. Skilled in strategic planning, user experience optimization, and agile methodologies.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Analyst (ARP Product Mgmt), Enterprise Systems
PayPal
01.2023 - Current
Created product roadmaps and prioritized features based on customer impact, business value, and technical feasibility
Collaborated cross-functionally with Business, Product, Engineering, Accounting, Regulatory and Reporting teams to deliver high-impact product releases on time and within scope.
Partnered with Risk, Legal, and Regulatory teams to ensure products met fintech regulatory standards (e.g., PSD2, SEPA, OCT).
Partnered with go-to-market teams to support product launches, positioning, and customer onboarding strategies.
Acted as the primary liaison between stakeholders and development teams, translating high-level business requirements into actionable technical tasks.
Supported release planning, user acceptance testing (UAT), and go-to-market strategies for major product releases.
Led cross-functional teams to enhance data analytics processes and improve decision-making efficiency.
Streamlined reporting processes, reducing turnaround time for critical business insights and enhancing stakeholder engagement.
Manager
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP
08.2020 - 01.2023
Utilized data visualization tools like Tableau to effectively communicate business insights.
Designed and implemented tools like 'Regression Framework' (internal to PayPal) to support strategic value chain optimization initiatives.
Analyzed transactions to build logical business intelligence model for real-time reporting needs.
Analyzed and Designed various reports to demonstrate various aspects of data and business on 'WATCH' tool (internal to PayPal)
Worked on Informatica's Data Governance Application, Data Director, to analyze and design various MDM Domains used within PayPal
Researched and resolved issues regarding integrity of data flow into database.
Participated in requirements meetings to understand business needs. Identified and documented detailed business rules and use cases based on requirements analysis.
Synthesized complex analytics-derived insights into easy-to-understand, actionable recommendations for business users and engineering partners.
Extracted and interpreted data patterns to translate findings into actionable outcomes.
Collaborated with business-unit leaders to identify and prioritize problems.
Created various Excel documents to assist with pulling metrics data and presenting information to stakeholders for concise explanations of best placement for needed resources.
Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.
Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
Developed and maintained relationships with customers and suppliers through account development.
Recruited and hired top performers to add talent and value to department.
Senior Systems Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2010 - 11.2015
Worked with Customers like Walmart and Kohls'.
Good functional knowledge on different domains like manufacturing, retail and logistics.
Analyzed and documented high level and detailed business requirement and translated into user stories and use cases
Gathered requirements and performed gap analysis through design workshops with users.
Created Traceability Matrix to map the requirement with the Project timeline
Worked on Data Analysis, Data Requirement Analysis and Data Mapping for ETL processes
Worked in concert with Business Analysts to identify and validate data required from various source systems. Assisted in developing data extractions and tested data extractions
Created Tableau visualizations and dashboards using Tableau Desktop
Provided client support on system operation and troubleshooting
Assist developers in implementing the approved design solutions
Identified areas of possible system improvement to enhance overall system and business performance
Analyzed data performance and implemented changes necessary to improve execution time
Translated business requirements into technical requirements. Authored technical documentation. Supported system developers by creating system models, diagrams, and charts.
Translated technical applications specification into functional and nonfunctional business requirements
Established specifications and coordinated production with programmers.
Systems/Technical Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2006 - 11.2010
Worked with various customers including Saint-Gobain, Elemica Inc and Sun Chemicals
Functioned as an engineering resource in designing, writing and implementing various customizations as well as APIs for integrations with other systems
Provided expert analysis to troubleshoot technical and functional-related issues and problems, including finding and fixing bugs in the base products
Proposed and presented new design solutions to Design Council and Business
Performed code and service development to meet the user requirements
Trained in areas of Defect Management, Defect Prevention and Software Configuration Management.
Education
Kumaraguru College of Technology - Coimbatore, Tamilnadu
Bachelor Of Engineering
Computer Science And Engineering
05.2006
Skills
Core Skills:
Product Management Knowledge
Stakeholder Management
Agile & Scrum Expertise
Business, System and Data Analysis
Problem resolution
Technical writing and support
Technology and Tools
SQL, Hadoop, Big Query, Web Services, JQuery, Javascript, XML, Cascading Style Sheets, AJAX with JASON.
Notebooks, SAP HANA, Tableau, Power BI, Informatica Data Director for MDM, MS Tools, Intellij Idea, Hudson build & deployment console, SoapUI-4.6.0, Visual Paradigm for UML
JIRA, Quality Center, Firebug, Findbugs
Queryman, Toad, Talend Open Studio
Accomplishments
Awarded with various titles like Associate of the Quarter, Above & Beyond, Best Organizer, HR Champion, The Rain Maker and The Phoenix for contributions to various accounts in Cognizant and in Deloitte.
Timeline
Sr. Analyst (ARP Product Mgmt), Enterprise Systems
PayPal
01.2023 - Current
Manager
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP
08.2020 - 01.2023
Senior Systems Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2010 - 11.2015
Systems/Technical Analyst
Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2006 - 11.2010
Kumaraguru College of Technology - Coimbatore, Tamilnadu