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Abhijeet Rai

Denver,CO

Summary

Experienced leader with 16+ years of leveraging big data to create impactful stories that drive business decisions. Proven track record in implementing organizational transformation through strategic process and technology interventions. Trusted advisor to business heads and executive teams, providing expertise in business strategy, digital marketing strategy, and knowledge solutions. Possess broad knowledge across finance, healthcare, and supply chain industries, with expertise in business intelligence & data services, business optimization, and applications & integrations. Extensive depth in process automation, business intelligence & data services (including strategy, data architecture, analytics, reporting, and integration), and business optimization (margin/resource optimization and process optimization). Skilled in strategic planning, team leadership, and operational management. Utilizes comprehensive business acumen to drive efficiency and innovation. Demonstrated ability to foster collaborative environments and consistently achieve high-impact results.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Manager- Analytics & Reporting

Arrow Electronics
08.2016 - Current
  • Corporate Analytics leader for Supply Chain serving Vice Presidents and Directors
  • Established corporate operational metrics, reporting infrastructure and data governance globally
  • Led a team of analysts, data scientists, and engineers in the development and implementation of a corporate analytics platform
  • Drove business value through data-driven insights, including: Increased inventory efficiency by 15%, Reduced overhead costs by 20%, Generated $2 million in profit
  • Spearheaded the development of a new enterprise data lake, which consolidated data from multiple sources and improved data access and governance
  • Spearheaded modernization effort of existing analytic platforms(e.g,Qlik/Teradata/AzureSynapse/Alteryx) into new Enterprise Data Lake
  • Spearheaded development for Automated process to feed the pricing into Oracle web screen using Robotics Process Automation (UI Path), 30% decrease of staff allocation time
  • Always an unswerving adviser to business heads, and executive teams, on business strategy, digital marketing strategy, knowledge solutions
  • Provided overall direction and oversight of the strategy, architecture, governance, development, implementation, and administration of strategic data assets
  • Design and implement Arrow Data Platform that consists of Data Lake, Global Data Warehouse, Data as a Service (DaaS), Data-Driven applications, Advanced Data Visualization
  • Worked horizontally across all IT Technology domains as well as Business Applications to identify opportunities for improving efficiency, enhancing quality of services, and reducing cost
  • Prepared conceptual and logical architecture specifications (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture) for the enterprise Application
  • Oversaw expansion into new markets, conducting market research and adapting strategies to meet local needs.
  • Utilized data-driven insights to make informed decisions that resulted in higher returns on investments.

Technical Architect - Digital Platform and Analytics

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2005 - 07.2016
  • Designed an Analytical app for Customer Fraud detection
  • Designed the Disaster recovery platform for one of largest customer facing app
  • Leveraged Splunk tool to capture the event logs and build the Monitoring dashboard on Qlik
  • Used big data (100 M records daily) to understand customer behavior for targeted pricing changes
  • Identified trend in customer Shopping and recommended for customer segment target
  • Develop business cases (revenue opportunity, scenario analysis, regional impacts, customer impact etc.) for global (EMEA, LAC, CA, APAC) products/features using historical data and strategic marketing approach
  • Led the team to predict the trend in customer Shopping and recommended for customer segment target base
  • Led the team to build the Data lake to store structured and unstructured data(100+ TB)
  • Have designed capacity planning, Architected the solution for Enterprise DR for one of the largest farms (12 TB of Data) consisting of 20 WFE, 15 APP servers and 10 DB with 4 hours RTO/RPO
  • Planned and implemented multiple environments in Azure for scalability, high availability, performance with disaster recovery centers

Education

Wharton Marketing Analytics - Predictive Analytics for Business Nanodegree

Wharton
10.2024

Bachelor of Technology -

Production Engineering
05.2022

Skills

  • IT Strategy
  • Supply chain Advanced Analytics
  • Leadership
  • Web Analytics
  • Competitive Analysis
  • New product pricing
  • Requirement gathering
  • Enterprise Architecture Standards
  • Development Best Practices
  • Strategy
  • Digital Marketing
  • Program Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Operations Management
  • Data-driven decision-making

Certification

  • Alteryx Core Certified
  • Togaf 9 Certified
  • Microsoft Certified – Azure Infrastructure
  • Azure Data Architect
  • Azure Security Fundamentals
  • Azure Powerbi

Activities

Participated in Big Data Analytics workshop with Cloudera

Timeline

Senior Manager- Analytics & Reporting

Arrow Electronics
08.2016 - Current

Technical Architect - Digital Platform and Analytics

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2005 - 07.2016

Wharton Marketing Analytics - Predictive Analytics for Business Nanodegree

Wharton

Bachelor of Technology -

Production Engineering

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