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Bharati Kakarla

Saratoga,CA

Summary

A multi-faceted professional with advanced analytical, problem-solving, and leadership skills. Adept at building, managing, and motivating scalable global teams in delivering cost-effective solutions that meet business objectives. Strategic thinker with excellent leadership, interpersonal, oral, written communication, and presentation skills. Passionate about building a next-gen analytics platform that eliminates silos and eases user adoption. ROI-focused and adept at influencing strategy.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. TPM Central Analytics

Blue Origin Inc
10.2022 - Current

· Own deliveries of Data engineering & Analytics teams.

· Maintained 80% timely deployments of Central Analytics teams through partnerships, effective stakeholder collaboration, backlog prioritization, expectation management, BI council etc..

· Built data policy framework to bring data discipline among data consumers.

· Built dashboards to monitor & track key performance indicators on data sanity.


Sr. Technical Program Manager

Consultant
11.2020 - 08.2022
  • Own program portfolio & provide cost-effective solutions for several large and complex projects involving CRM (Sales force), Data Engineering & Business Analytics for clients like Apple, Meta, Citi & NASA.
  • Effective at assessing risk, identifying limitations, and defining dependencies to mitigate project risk, manage change and deliver products timely.
  • Facilitate sprint planning, standup, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning
  • Responsible to recruit, mentor, coach highly motivated teams across TPM groups on data processes.

Product Manager Reporting & Analytics

FireEye Inc.
11.2019 - 06.2020
  • Worked with Executive team in building data strategy to deliver actionable & timely insights
  • Identified and automate workflows to track multi-touch attribution, lead conversion etc..
  • Built predictive models to analyze campaign drivers and optimize segmentation and campaign activities

Sr. Manager Analytics

8x8 Inc
12.2017 - 10.2019
  • Developed highly scalable SaaS Analytics platform that is built to adapt and scale
  • Architected BI As A platform driven self-service tool which reduced report development cycles of BI team to 50%
  • Built data analytics team ground-up (Data Engineering, Business Analysts, Data Architect, & Reporting specialists)
  • Good understanding of confidentiality practices that handle sensitive data
  • Created pipelines to enable Customer Success team reduce case resolution times, improve case deflection and increase renewal growth.
  • Built management hierarchy to bring accountability in teams & provide quick turnaround in case of outages & disaster recovery
  • Mentor growing team of business operations analyst to manage & execute growing portfolio of dashboards & reporting projects
  • Owned BI process End-to-End (Road map - meeting SLA)
  • Developed Churn prediction model that helped bring back 15% of company revenue
  • Drive descriptive & prescriptive analytics for operations, services & support organizations.

Key Projects: Customer 360, Marketing Funnel, Renewal growth, Customer Retention, Pipeline 360 (COA, Avg deal size, Lead conversion rate, Avg Sales Cycle Length etc.), Case 360, Billing 360, Product usage metrics, Business Operation metrics, Cost OF Resources Acquired (HR), Hiring Funnel, Benefits participation rate, SaaS, GTM reporting

Tool: Treasure Data, SQL, Presto, Tableau, PowerBI, MS Excel, Salesforce, CRM, Billing Manager

Staff. Business Systems Analyst/BI Architect

First Tech Federal Credit Union Bank
10.2015 - 06.2017
  • Designed and developed data acquisition frameworks for FTFCU’s big data initiative.
  • Designed analytics platform to track product adoption.
  • Built team and collaborated with Stakeholders, SMEs & technical lead to streamline project execution

Key Projects: Member Journey, Product 360, Marketing funnel, NBA calculator (Next Best Advice)

Tools: SQL, Altrex, Talend, Jira, Tableau, HDFS, HQL, Big data, Visio

Sr. Business Systems Analyst/Program Manager

Hexcel Corporation
10.2012 - 09.2015
  • Designed and developed reporting tool (Data Visualization) to track revenue, month-end closing, plant resource allocation (People, time, machine, material, SIOP etc.…), RPS (Restricted Party Screening) etc
  • Automating RPS data pulls helped minimizing risks in Order fulfillment by 15%

Key Projects: Order time management and SIOP (Sales, Inventory, Operations and Planning)

Tools: SSRS, PowerBI, ZAPBI, SSIS, SSAS, Share point, Microsoft Dynamics

BI Consultant

Symmetry Inc
03.2012 - 09.2012
  • Built sales models and reports for Invisilin BI team.

Sr. Software Engineer

SCI Solutions Inc
09.2010 - 02.2012
  • Designed and developed reporting tool for Hospitals to track appointments, check patient Medicare & Medical eligibility, resources availability etc.. Tool measure resource allocation and schedule appointments 2x faster.

Sr. Data Warehouse Developer

PlayPhone Inc.
11.2008 - 08.2010
  • Automated Royalty calculation and receipt distribution. This project has helped finance eliminate 4 days/ month of manual labor and, detected 5 % of unaccounted revenue.

BI Database Developer

FunMobility Inc.
01.2006 - 09.2008
  • Designed data marts for Marketing, sales & finance department & automated daily , quarterly & yearly reports to track revenue & product performance which reduced report generation cycles to 50%.

Education

Master of Science - Software Engineering

San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
12.2005

Master of Science - Information Sciences & Management

Periyar University
India, Tamil Nadu
08.2000

Skills

  • Collaborate with leadership to define BI strategy & roadmap
  • Recruit, hire, and onboard top talent
  • Define & track KPIs
  • Product & Portfolio management
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to build solutions that ensure customer satisfaction & product adoption
  • Design platforms that drive thoughtful & timely insight
  • Business Analytics
  • Data Modeling, ELT , DQ, Data Visualization
  • Manage Customer expectations, Resources & Schedules
  • Build & Coach data enthusiasts to execute data strategy
  • Comfortable with Waterfall, Agile & Critical Path project management methodologies
  • Data ingestion, processing, management & analytics

Timeline

Sr. TPM Central Analytics

Blue Origin Inc
10.2022 - Current

Sr. Technical Program Manager

Consultant
11.2020 - 08.2022

Product Manager Reporting & Analytics

FireEye Inc.
11.2019 - 06.2020

Sr. Manager Analytics

8x8 Inc
12.2017 - 10.2019

Staff. Business Systems Analyst/BI Architect

First Tech Federal Credit Union Bank
10.2015 - 06.2017

Sr. Business Systems Analyst/Program Manager

Hexcel Corporation
10.2012 - 09.2015

BI Consultant

Symmetry Inc
03.2012 - 09.2012

Sr. Software Engineer

SCI Solutions Inc
09.2010 - 02.2012

Sr. Data Warehouse Developer

PlayPhone Inc.
11.2008 - 08.2010

BI Database Developer

FunMobility Inc.
01.2006 - 09.2008

Master of Science - Software Engineering

San Jose State University

Master of Science - Information Sciences & Management

Periyar University
Bharati Kakarla