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Shruthi Ashok

Portland,OR

Summary

Data Analytics and Application Development Manager at Qorvo, adept in leveraging SQL, Power BI, Python and Appian to drive significant improvements in enterprise analytics reporting and Applications. Demonstrated expertise in mentoring cross-functional teams and leading technical projects, resulting in enhanced data governance and operational efficiency. Excel in strategic planning and stakeholder communication, ensuring alignment with business objectives.

Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager Supply Chain Analytics & Application Development

Qorvo
06.2024 - Current
  • Building applications in Appian BPM tool and building reports in Tableau and Power BI for Product Marketing, Operations and Procurement team.
  • Analyzed large data from multiple sources and helped business take strategic decisions.
  • Automated workflows and reports and increased productivity by 20% and reduced 10% operational costs.
  • AOP meetings, prioritizing requirements, and managing technical projects for enterprise Global Planning and Logistics.
  • Mentoring teams in Europe and North America.
  • Architecture design provides technical teams with tools to build applications.
  • Maintain, drive, supervise, and implement robust technical standards, systems, and processes.
  • Coordinate the regular testing of products to address faults and provide evaluations in order to improve them.
  • Influence technology strategies and decisions with a high level of expertise and knowledge.
  • Negotiated contracts with vendors to secure favorable terms and pricing.
  • Products: Omni label warehouse for Hong Kong: automated label reading using OCR and reducing errors by 70%.
  • Built leadership reports using Power BI, improved data understanding by 50%, and created 25+ data visualization dashboards for businesses to make strategic decisions.
  • Led a cross-functional team to develop a new analytics tool, improving data-driven decision-making by assessing complex business requirements and debating technical solutions with engineering, resulting in a 35% increase in operational efficiency.
  • Implemented Jira for Master data team and saved $30K.
  • Internal Warehouse management system built using BPM tool, reduced customization in SAP and cost reduced by 35%.
  • In the last two quarters, we were able to save more than $500K in shipping and achieve 98% on-time delivery to our customers.
  • Played a key role in improving the user experience by gathering and analyzing customer feedback through surveys and focus groups.
  • Led a team of six individuals to execute data standardization protocols, reducing discrepancies by 20%.
  • In-house Warehouse Management, Stockroom Ops Kitting Request, Wafer Request, Prototype, cycle count inventory adjustment, and document extraction (RPA) applications product built by the team.
  • Implemented AI-powered, automated business reports, saving 15 hours per week.
  • Collaborated with the Design, Engineering, and Quality teams, and built the application in Appian.
  • Saved $260K in contract pricing by eliminating licenses that we do not use with vendors.
  • Built applications in Appian-Warehouse Management and reduced customizations in SAP modules like MM and saved 100K.
  • Reports for Sales and Distribution team built to understand Pricing and Shipping delivery.

Sr Product Management and Engineering

Qorvo
08.2020 - 06.2024
  • Proven ability to respond to, and prioritize, changing business demands effectively.
  • Experience demonstrating interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills in communicating progress on near-term and mid-term plans to users and partners.
  • Demonstrated complex critical thinking and the ability to creatively solve problems with measurable business impact.
  • Experience in addressing current and future customer needs through innovative solutions.
  • Analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, cloud-based, or Internet-related computer programs.
  • Using current programming languages and technologies, I write code, complete programming tasks, and perform testing and debugging of applications.
  • Implemented process improvements that increased efficiency of the product management team by 25%.
  • Interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications.
  • Expertise in best design and implementation practices in data visualization tools, such as Tableau or Power BI.
  • Building applications in Appian. Maintained detailed business and technical documentation in Confluence for Operations, OTC and Engineering teams and helped Engineers save 10% of time answering queries via email.
  • Products: Manage the annual product budget of $2M, coordinate with seven teams to ensure on-time product delivery, and high-quality products.
  • Designed 12+ interactive dashboards using Power BI, leading to a 25% increase in business performance measurements.
  • Templates and libraries created for developers to reuse code. Reduced development efforts by 15% and shared with cross-functional teams.
  • RPA Good Receipt product reduced workforce manual errors by 45% and improved productivity by 30%.
  • Improved inventory turnover and reduced waste by 30%.
  • Directly managed customer service interactions, often resolving complex issues and translating customer feedback into actionable insights.
  • Launched a business process model tool used by over 300 BPOs and more than 200 technical resources to improve processes and prioritize new feature requests or enhancements to the process.
  • Developed 12 applications for the Logistics and Planning team, reduced customization in SAP, and saved $1M in costs.

Manager-Onshore

Nike Inc (Contract)
02.2020 - 08.2020
  • Work with business stakeholders to gather, analyze, and translate requirements in the BI reporting area, either by recommending an existing solution, developing a solution, or synthesizing requirements in support of a new project initiative.
  • Prioritize the requirements and meet the needs of the business.
  • Work with key partners to deeply understand their needs and improve opportunities to drive knowledge into action.
  • Develop crucial functional requirement specifications, create detailed use cases, process flow diagrams, and dashboards to support functional specifications in the form of epics, user stories, and document the same over different iterations and sprints, in addition to issue tracking, as-is analysis, workflow analysis, and troubleshooting.
  • Troubleshoot data and analytics issues and perform root cause analysis to proactively resolve issues.
  • Understanding data mining techniques and familiarity with applied statistics, including time series analysis.
  • Writing queries in Snowflake, Athena, and Hive, and assisting developers in writing blocks of code based on requirements.
  • Assist in coming up with KPI metrics and building reports in Power BI, which helps in answering business-critical questions.
  • Create, lead, and execute a strategic research roadmap that explores complex problems and delivers compelling, actionable, and impactful insights for Nike's digital business and analytic plans to identify opportunities to accelerate growth and improve consumer experience.
  • Create and standardize approaches for identifying and quantifying key consumer trends that are meaningful to shaping and improving Nike's digital and mobile shopping experiences.
  • Products: Voice of Consumer product: customer research, data analysis, and translating customer feedback into actionable product improvements showcased a strong ability to gather and interpret customer needs to drive product strategy and development.
  • Tools like SQL, Athena, and Snowflake are used for data analysis, and data visualization platforms (Tableau) are used to analyze customer feedback and identify trends, resulting in a 20% increase in customer satisfaction scores through targeted product improvements.
  • Developed and implemented a customer segmentation strategy to tailor product offerings based on user needs, leading to a 15% uplift in customer retention.
  • Mapped and maintained several databases, ensuring data integrity and availability, and decreasing query response time by 72%.
  • Managed four products in a quarter and conducted a blitz for on-time delivery project delivery.

Data Analytics Manager

Nike Inc (Contract)
10.2018 - 02.2020
  • Work with business stakeholders to gather, analyze, and translate requirements in the BI reporting area, either by recommending an existing solution, developing a solution, or synthesizing requirements in support of a new project initiative.
  • Drive the standardization of key metrics across various business stakeholders to improve data governance.
  • Collaborate with other teams for cross-functional data initiatives and analytics.
  • Provide expert advice on the usage and interpretation of data to various business stakeholders.
  • Develop and deliver training on data and analytics tools to provide autonomy to key data users.
  • Recommend system functional improvements to meet user requirements.
  • Ensures that system and process user requirements are properly defined and met, and that tasks are accomplished within defined time frames, at the highest quality, with attention given to detail and scalability.
  • Support product managers in gathering business requirements and translating them into technical specifications.
  • Analyzed membership data, sales data, inventory levels, and competitor activities to optimize product placement and promotions.
  • Wireframe, pilot, and scale advanced dashboards per business requirements.
  • Products: Led and collaborated with a cross-functional team to build an inventory management product.
  • Forecast models were built using historical sales data to estimate what customers will buy in the future.
  • Pioneered the implementation of a predictive analytics platform to optimize product positioning and messaging, leading to a 30% increase in marketing-qualified leads, and a 25% improvement in conversion rates.
  • Built a marketing product report with metrics like conversion rate, sales per employee, inventory turnover, sessions by channel, traffic, churn, returning visitors, velocity, revenue, ROI, etc., for the senior leadership team.

Business Intelligence Analyst

Smith & Nephew
06.2018 - 10.2018
  • Conducted data analysis using SQL and Excel to identify significant trends.
  • Developed dashboards to enhance efficiency across internal teams.
  • Conveyed complex analytics to a broad audience through written and presentation formats.
  • Played a key role in determining essential business and information needs.
  • Analyzed external and internal data to support data warehouse development.
  • Created dynamic reports utilizing TM1 Cognos and Power BI.
  • Built a business intelligence reporting tool for a 30-member leadership team using Power BI.
  • Developed predictive models spanning a decade of data trends.
  • Generated daily, monthly and annual reports to address short- or long-term business intelligence questions.
  • Identified opportunities for data optimization and automation of processes.

IT Business Analyst

LaCrosse Footwear Inc
06.2016 - 06.2018
  • Analyze the requirements and map them to ERP systems (Microsoft Dynamics AX) without much code customization.
  • Work on modules-production Control, inventory and warehouse, product information management, Sales Order Management.
  • Developed analytical reports utilizing Power BI, SQL, and Excel PowerPivot tools.
  • Participated in Kaizen manufacturing meetings to enhance processes.
  • Develop crucial functional requirement specifications, create detailed use cases, process flow diagrams, and dashboards to support functional specifications in the form of epics, user stories, and document the same over different iterations and sprints, in addition to issue tracking, as-is analysis, workflow analysis, and troubleshooting.
  • Minimized warehouse team errors by 55% through implementation of change control processes.
  • Enhanced revenue by 45% through leading a talented group of developers and crafting an extensive roadmap.
  • Achieved code reduction equivalent to $200K through strategic application development.
  • Oversaw document development across project workstreams to create internal control statements per compliance and regulatory standards.

Education

Master of Science - Industrial Technology

California State University, Fresno
Fresno, CA
12-2015

Bachelor’s of Engineering - Information Science

VTU
Bangalore, India
01.2012

Skills

  • SQL
  • Python
  • JIRA
  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • Service Now
  • Visio
  • Athena
  • Snowflake
  • AWS
  • Appian
  • Oracle
  • Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
  • SAP ECC

Timeline

Manager Supply Chain Analytics & Application Development

Qorvo
06.2024 - Current

Sr Product Management and Engineering

Qorvo
08.2020 - 06.2024

Manager-Onshore

Nike Inc (Contract)
02.2020 - 08.2020

Data Analytics Manager

Nike Inc (Contract)
10.2018 - 02.2020

Business Intelligence Analyst

Smith & Nephew
06.2018 - 10.2018

IT Business Analyst

LaCrosse Footwear Inc
06.2016 - 06.2018

Master of Science - Industrial Technology

California State University, Fresno

Bachelor’s of Engineering - Information Science

VTU

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