Meghana Krishnan

• Result-oriented Data/Analytics leader, who thrives on building long term relationships across functions to support data driven growth and initiatives.
• Proven track record in leading and collaborating with cross-functional teams to build global, scalable solutions for multiple purposes, in Payment and Semi-conductor industries.
• Expertise in defining Strategy and KPIs to track business and team performance.
• People leader with experience in structuring and developing high performing teams.

• Led the BI Solutions team of 15 members with mix of Sr Product Managers, Data Engineers and UX developers.
• Liaise and manage the relationships with stakeholders across various Business Units within VISA.
• Defined Dashboard Solutions and Team Performance KPI’s and year-long goals for BI team.
• Drove and managed portfolio of strategic analytics projects for different LOB’s (Lines of Business).
• Built Agile team structure from scratch and built processes to transform the entire team from a waterfall model to an Agile model with approx. 50% improvement in efficiencies.
• Led successful adoption of Agile Model and processes within Analytics team.
• Drove cross-organizational process improvements, which led to 70% gains in operational efficiencies.
• Defined Strategy and Roadmap for Business Intelligence and Data Analytics at a Global level.
• Managed and supervised a global team of employees & contractors, to design, develop & deliver high-quality, scalable BI Solutions. Recruited and developed BI and data engineering talents.
• Led the design & development of Enterprise Scorecard dashboard for Executive Leadership and C-Suite.
• Architected and deployed Big Data analytics solution using Business Objects for the CIO office to make strategic decisions.
• Designed, developed, and deployed Global, end to end BI Solutions using Hadoop and Tableau. Collaborated closely with business and managed technical resources to ensure quality and timeliness of delivery.
• Grew End user adoption for Dashboard Visualization solutions by 50%.

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• IT , Excellence Award for outstanding results ((INTEL CORP)
• Numerous divisional recognition awards for teamwork, results orientation and customer satisfaction

Women in Big Data

• Tools: Tableau, MicroStrategy, Business Objects, Salesforce, JIRA Align
• Databases: Cloudera Hadoop, Teradata, SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP BW, MongoDB
• Languages: HiveQL, Teradata SQL, T-SQL, Spark, Python
• Methodologies: Agile Scrum & Kanban, SAFe Framework, CI/CD
• Data Integration: Trifacta, AB Initio, Sqoop, Trifacta, SQL Server Integration Services