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SANDHYA UPPULURI

Cleveland

Summary

Detail-oriented Project Coordinator & Business Analyst with hands-on experience leading academic and applied software projects in Agile environments. Skilled in requirements gathering, workflow documentation, stakeholder communication, sprint coordination, and reporting. Strong analytical and organizational skills with proven ability to work independently.

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Business Analyst / Project Coordinator

Indiana Institite of Technology
10.2025 - Current

— Cognilearn (AI-Powered Educational Platform)

  • Elicited and documented functional and non-functional requirements, user personas, and system workflows for an AI-driven personalized learning platform.
  • Created process flows, data flow diagrams, acceptance criteria, and wireframe logic supporting system design and development.
  • Facilitated sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, and stakeholder communication, ensuring alignment across engineering, ML, and QA teams.
  • Developed status reports, workflow documentation, and dashboard insights to enhance project visibility and decision-making.

Business Analyst / Project Coordinator

Indiana Institute of Technology
10.2024 - 12.2024

Medicines delivery application

  • Conducted requirements gathering, gap analysis, and process modeling for a multi-module e-commerce medicine delivery platform.
  • Produced BRDs, user stories, BPMN process maps, WBS, Gantt charts, and risk registers, ensuring clarity of scope and dependencies.
  • Collaborated with UX teams on UI flows and customer journey mapping to improve user experience.
  • Supported test planning, issue tracking, and sprint coordination, improving development cycle efficiency.
  • Conducted data analysis to identify trends and insights in educational content usage.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to support product development initiatives.

Education

Master of Science - Information Science

Indiana Institute of Technology
Fort Wayne, IN
12.2025

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Sir MVIT
India
08-2022

Skills

  • Project Tools: Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Trello
  • Data & Analysis: Excel (Pivot Tables, Dashboards), SQL (beginner), Power BI (basic)
  • Documentation: User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Process Flows, BRDs, FRDs
  • Methods: Agile, Scrum, SDLC, Requirements Elicitation
  • Other: Workflow Diagrams, Testing Support, Reporting & Dashboards
  • Data analysis
  • Requirements gathering
  • Team collaboration
  • Microsoft Office Suite

Certification

  • Google Project Management Certificate
  • Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)
  • Agile Methodologies — Academic Certification

Timeline

Business Analyst / Project Coordinator

Indiana Institite of Technology
10.2025 - Current

Business Analyst / Project Coordinator

Indiana Institute of Technology
10.2024 - 12.2024

Master of Science - Information Science

Indiana Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Sir MVIT