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Praveen Burra

Houston,TX

Summary

Over 16 years of experience delivering product-based IT projects and implementing effective technology solutions/strategies. Proficient in best practices, market trends and regulatory requirements of industry operations.

Successful in making executive-level project decisions, allocating resources, and evaluating project progress, including technical implementation.

Expertise in data warehouse management, data architecture, business intelligence mapping, modeling, data migration strategy, and system design.

Strategic technology leader with a focus on talent leadership and cross-functional team mentoring. Skilled in leveraging technology for enhanced business capabilities and establishing agile IT governance structures.

Proficient in developing business-centric IT roadmaps and growth strategies for competitive advantage. Exceptional at recruiting, retaining, and developing high-performing teams for increased organizational capability. Diligent trainer and mentor with exceptional management abilities and results-driven approach.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager, Business Intelligence

Safran Group
09.2007 - Current
  • Successfully migrated BI infrastructure from Oracle/Hyperion to Power BI, Infor Birst, and Tableau.
  • Drafted strategic business intelligence roadmap, complete with data governance policies and tactical information safeguards.
  • Developed and delivered comprehensive logical data models and corresponding analysis, aligning with established data architecture standards.
  • Effectively managed a team responsible for delivering complex data and reporting solutions, aimed at assisting top management in optimizing resource allocation across various departments.
  • Served as primary owner of written business requirements, design, and technical specifications throughout entire lifecycle, from initial creation to change management and solution delivery.
  • Highly skilled in interpreting data analysis results, identifying trends and issues, including forecasting, and proficient in developing alternative solutions to support business objectives.
  • Actively participated in data governance processes to ensure data integrity, optimize information, and enhance performance of the data warehouse.
  • Adept in utilizing data visualization tools and techniques to translate business requirements into effective data visualization and semantic data access needs.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to leverage data for developing new strategies and enhancing business performance.

Sr. Data Engineer

New York Life Insurance Company
01.2007 - 08.2007
  • As subject matter expert (SME) and application owner, collaborate with cross-functional team members and facilitate effective communication. Prepare comprehensive program roadmaps for Beacon reporting systems, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and priorities.
  • As a data warehouse liaison, collaborated with new data sources to incorporate key data components that enhance integration with data warehouse. Focused on improving system scalability, facilitating troubleshooting, and delivering enhanced reporting solutions.
  • Spearheaded finance planning and Enterprise Business Intelligence Roadmap to align business and IT strategies
  • Executed QA process after the development of new ad-hoc reports, by extensively using SQL and PL/SQL on Oracle 10g/8i and Teradata databases.

Data Engineer

American Express
07.2006 - 12.2006
  • Managed complete BI product lifecycle, from conception to design and development, overseeing creation of comprehensive dashboards, analytical reports, and supporting infrastructure.
  • Performed hardware sizing, installation and configuration of SAP BI and BO systems
  • Designed and successfully executed migration of Employee Service application (Human Resource) to BI platform, resulting in significant enhancements in accessibility of employee core data.
  • Successfully implemented Customer Satisfaction Survey reporting system.
  • Collaborated on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks, maintaining data integrity and verifying pipeline stability.

Education

Certified Scrum Master -

Scrum Alliance
Westminster, CO
06.2022

Applied Business Analytics, MIT -

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
2020

Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer -

Cloudera
Palo Alto, CA
07.2012

Master of Engineering Science -

Lamar University
Beaumont, TX
05.2006

Bachelor of Engineering -

Kakatiya University
India
05.2004

Skills

  • Business Partnering, Technology assessment, Operations Integrations & Restructuring, Budget & Resource Management, Cross-Functional Team Building/Leadership, Business/Customer Relationship Management
  • Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Strategy, Integration & Migration, and Governance & Roadmap development
  • Database architectures (SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, NoSQL)
  • Workday HCM & Integrations
  • Big data technologies (Hadoop)
  • Cloud Technologies (Azure)
  • Analytics & Reporting Tools (Power BI, Tableau, Business Objects, Birst, Oracle BI, MicroStrategy, Cognos, SSRS)
  • ETL Tools (Informatica, SSIS)
  • Python (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, SciPy, Scikit-Learn), R, SQL, Java Script, DAX, C/C
  • Data Visualizations, KPIs
  • Data Warehousing Solutions, Data mining
  • Scrum, Agile

Timeline

Manager, Business Intelligence

Safran Group
09.2007 - Current

Sr. Data Engineer

New York Life Insurance Company
01.2007 - 08.2007

Data Engineer

American Express
07.2006 - 12.2006

Certified Scrum Master -

Scrum Alliance

Applied Business Analytics, MIT -

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer -

Cloudera

Master of Engineering Science -

Lamar University

Bachelor of Engineering -

Kakatiya University

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