Sireesha Pendyala

• Received Excellence Awards from AbbVie for being "Agile and Accountable", "Make Possibilities Real", "All for One AbbVie".
• Drafted end-to-end business workflow for Flow Cytometry group and proposed various technological solutions to fill the technology gap. Ensure group is digitalized (from excels, pen & paper).
  - Involved in working with a student Intern and ensuring scripting gap is fulfilled.
  - Involved in identifying an application that can fit the gap and negotiating with vendor on licensing and helping AbbVie save money.
  - Established a strong vendor relationship and performed Proof-of-Concept for business use case for 3 sites.
  - Identified new business use cases and worked with vendor on implementing these.
  - Worked with AWS team to establish S3 bucket for data storage as part of pipeline.
  - Established a strong pipeline and roadmap for Flow community.
• Helped many Scientific groups in AbbVie with vendor evaluation and responsible for implementation of the technology platform selected by the Scientists.
• Served as Business System Analyst for onboarding Labmatrix (sample management) to AbbVie.
  - Responsible for drafting data model of Labmatrix for AbbVie environment.
  - Performed gap analysis of legacy Labmatrix and new Labmatrix for Precision Medicine group at Bay Area.
  - Involved in harmonization exercise between Precision Medicine at Bay Area and Chicago sites of AbbVie involving cross-site efforts.
  - Led the effort to harmonize processes, data for NeuroScience TAs across Germany and Cambridge (US) sites of AbbVie involving resolving geographical differences.
• Developed and maintained long-term relationships with clients, fostering strong service bonds and encouraging return patronage.
• Drafted and performed data analysis and data migration for complex data.
• Performed data migration for Science group which helped register their Biologic samples to AbbVie.
• Proposed various solutions to complex business processes and ensured issue is mitigated.
• Recommended specific applications to business stakeholders based on unique technical requirements of each.
• Performed proof of concept demonstrations, instructing potential customers on benefits of certain applications like a group looking for an inventory application, FreezerPro was recommended.
• Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes.
• Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
• Written user stories for the team, prioritized, maintained product backlog.
• Worked with system administrative, and Business teams to ensure enhancement to current process is achieved.
• Worked in cross functional environment, and performed data harmonization activities.
• Identified a business need and proposed solution, performed proof-of-concept.
• Involved in tasks related to modernization of a legacy application from Access platform to Web application.
• Documented various knowledge articles and conducted training sessions.

Responsible for working on projects related to Life Science domain. project involved implementation of new tool LIMS to existing process at various laboratories in Discovery and Dev Science fields.

Tools: Laboratory Management Information System (LIMS), FreezerPro, ELN Lite, StarLIMS, Spotfire

• Responsible for gathering requirements from users for LIMS project at AbbVie for Discovery and Dev Science departments.
• Worked with Users at various laboratories-Cell Culture Development, Protein Purification team, Protein analytics team for different locations.
• Responsible for performing gap analysis (for requirements gathered at various locations) and documenting the same.
• Produced the User Stories, Functional Requirement Document(FRD's),and Mockups, Wireframes , Prototypes (using JIRA, Visio, and Microsoft Tools) for the projects.
• Created Data Mapping artifact for the project with three systems involved.
• Created detailed workflows and BPMN diagrams for the project.
• Involved in facilitating and conducting knowledge transfer sessions with Developers for Product development.
• Involved in producing User Training manual.
• Involved in vendor evaluation for Inventory tool implementation
• Worked with users in ensuring the Scientist selected FreezerPro (inventory tool) is implemented in west-coast.
• Involved in drafting business continuity plan for FreezerPro.
• Developed visualization charts for Science groups using Spotfire.
• Involved in impediment resolution, after production/go-live support to users.

Project at Anthem involved building of Data Lake (using Hadoop architecture) using existing data, and publishing the analytical reports using Tableau.

• Responsible for successful delivery of on-time committed sprint work for project.
• Document the process flow (excel and word) for the project
  Involved in sending executive reports to the CEO and other stakeholders.
• Involved in requirement gathering related to Tableau reporting, and data lake for the project.
• Reviewed finalized requirements and use cases with Clients that served as SME's for requirements validation and Sign Offs.
• Performed GAP Analysis to develop business requirements, created Use Cases, functional requirements, Business Rules, developed wireframes using MS Visio.
• Played key role in System Development Life Cycle Process consisting of Design and Gap Analysis, Business Requirements, Systems Requirements, Test Criteria, and Implementation to have the outputs of project dealt with the automation of correspondence
• Elicited and gathered user and business requirements through open-ended discussions, brainstorming and storyboarding/prototyping.
• Create use case scenarios, process flows, and other supporting documentation as needed to build or define system or process requirements.
• Collaborated with stakeholders in defining user, system, scope and project requirements for the new system enhancement.
• Business Requirement Document and Functional Requirements Document preparation and requirement walk-through with the technical team.

This project involved the migration from existing de-centralized systems for forms issuance to centralized system. This migration involved waterfall methodology.

• As a business systems analyst involved in requirement gathering of GhostDraft project for delivery of five products in the span of an year by conducting product definition meetings, screen mock-ups, data element definition artifacts.
• Involved in analyzing the requirements by conducting meetings with SME's, product definition team, and product implementation team.
• Work with Project Manager in understanding the labor required and segregate the projects into manageable tasks and suggest an estimated task completion forecast on MS Project.
• Produced technical specification artifacts-mapping artifacts using Excel, which involved underwriting system, GhostDraft system, and common policy model.
• Conducted data analysis sessions with developers, SME's, BA's and participated in data modelling for five products: Brokerage Casualty, Environmental Refresh, Willis, Life sciences, and errors and omissions.
• Responsible for conducting core hours daily with developers and resolving/clarifying the impediments from requirements/systems point of view.
• Used Waterfall methodology for this project, collected requirements, developed use cases, supported project Manager with project plans and manage scope.
• Documented the process improvement measures in the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and performed requirement analysis to transform business requirements into Functional Specifications (FSD) and undertook sessions for the development team.
• Performed Gap Analysis to identify the deficiencies of the current system and to identify the requirements for the change in the proposed system.
• Created Use Case specifications, business flow diagrams, and Activity using MS Visio, so the developers and other stakeholders can understand the business process according to their perspective with possible alternate scenarios.
• Performed Data cleansing to detect and correct corrupt data. Created and maintained end-to-end data mapping and data conversion spreadsheet.
• Identified performance issues in existing sources, targets and mappings by analyzing the dataflow, evaluating transformations and tuned accordingly for better performance.
• Gathered and documented UX/UI (visual) requirements (using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint), created simple UX designs and UI wireframes.
• Developed multiple Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM), writing the requirements and identifying the necessary report format.
• Produced technical artifacts related to translation of business requirements which involve collaboration of multiple systems: e2, GhostDraft, mPolicy, and CPM in the organization.
• Responsible for data mapping for GhostDraft project.
• Utilized the SQL query language skills to extract the relevant deals and using it for other purposes.
• Created mocked up files in XML to support development process.
• Developed confluence pages for technical, process, system, and tool documents.
• Conducted 4 knowledge sharing sessions quarterly to capture “Lessons Learned” and streamline the product improvement process.

This project with Comcast involved increasing the UI/UX experience for xfinity users by migrating the back-end systems from RDBMS to BigData platforms using waterfall methodology.

• Client Visit to COMCAST, Philadelphia for providing business solutions.
• Involved in conflict resolution regarding selection of best BigData platform fit for the existing business technical need, and proposed Cassandra-best fit for the scope and cost of the project.
• Conducted interviews with key business users and Database SME to collect requirements regarding new database.
• Documented the process improvement measures in the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and performed requirement analysis to transform business requirements into Functional Specifications (FSD) and undertook sessions for the development team.
• Prepared Interview Questions for Stakeholders and SMEs to gather maximum information in JAD Sessions and to minimize the number of JAD Sessions.
• Interviewed Business Users to gather Requirements and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the project manager and technical lead.
• Performed Gap Analysis to identify the deficiencies of the current system and to identify the requirements for the change in the proposed system.
• Created use case scenarios and documented workflow and business process.
• Prepared flows/activity diagram for an existing system using MS Visio and re-engineered the design based on business requirements.
• Analyzed user requirements, attended change request meetings to document changes as per user's request.
• Used Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access for Data Analysis and Reporting.
• Conducted weekly and monthly meetings to review the business processes and the project progress.
• Designed and implemented SQL queries for QA testing and report / data validation.
• Set up definitions and process for test phases including Product, Integration, System and User Acceptance testing (UAT) Being highly knowledgeable in Cassandra database, involved in expansion of Cassandra servers, performance tuning of the clusters.
• Involved in conducting meeting with vendors like DataStax to resolve the issues related to Cassandra.
• Reduced huge cost and 40 hours manual labor work by creating backup script (shell) in Linux environment, and automated many manual tasks.
• Utilised Splunk, JIRA, OP5 dashboards for tracking the performance of the Cassandra servers and agile user stories.