Anup Karde

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Aug 2011 - Feb 2022

  • Implement various Agile and Waterfall projects• Interact with client, understand the process, discuss, gather and analyse requirements and prioritize them. • Create requirements documents such as BRD, SRS, Use Cases, Epics, User Stories Functional Specification, and Flowcharts.• Work with SCRUM Master and Product Owner to coordinate on Agile projects.• Design BI dashboards/reports to display KPIs and essential metrics to elevate decision making abilities, using BI Tools (Cognos and Tableau), develop functional design for the new processes.• Co-ordinate with Client, Architects, Development and QA teams to ensure smooth end to end delivery of the projects.• Attending various business and client meetings and coordinate with various other application teams for developing the implementation strategy for new processes/product.• Analyse data from different business unit, develop the data mapping design and propose solution or enhancements in the existing processes.• Develop SQL queries to fetch complex data from different tables of different databases, using joins and present the analysis results into reports, data analysis (hands on SQL/PL SQL; EXCEL)• Assist QA teams in testing requirements and new process.• Coordinate and conduct User Acceptance Testing with end users including the documentation of user feedback and communication of the feedback to the Application Development Project Teams.• Train new business analysts joining the team. Show less • Managing Projects from Pipeline stage to Go Live stage using Microsoft Project Professional and its web component PWA (Project Web App) based on SharePoint.• Reviewing projects regularly by conducting review meetings in each stage of Project Delivery Framework.• Coordinate with Project Managers and check for any lag and take necessary actions to meet the timelines.• Create standard and ad hoc Business Intelligence reports and Dashboards which provides live data and graphical analysis which enables senior management in appropriate decision making.• Prepare Reporting workflows to enable tracking of project requirements and their progress.• Support Project Server activities and provide resolution for requests and issues like - new Project plan and project site creation, maintaining project plans, adding new users to the project server, access management, work space (Project Site) management.• Support Project Delivery Framework (PDF) updates.• Financial and Benefits Tracking for the projects.• Quality Assurance activities like quality gate reviews. Show less • Participate in sessions with the Subject Matter Experts to gain knowledge about the existing systems.• Communicate with business/technology leadership for overall project/program milestones. • Understand and analyze the business processes.• Develop the fishbone/ishikawa diagram for the root cause analysis by brainstorming with stakeholders.• Develop As-is and To-be Value Stream Map to find out the non-value added activities in the process.• Facilitate project through the various phases of Software Development Life Cycle – Requirement gathering, Planning, Development, Testing, Deployment and post deployment support.• Prepare BRDs, Use cases, functional specification, and flowcharts.• Prepare Traceability matrix. Show less • Coordinate cross-functional process development and identifying areas, potential projects and improvement opportunities.• Understand the core processes with Organizational Unit and building the pipeline for improvements.• Identification of improvement opportunities from Internal IT and prioritize process improvement opportunities.• To suggest a methodology based on the analysis of the project’s data (Six Sigma – DMAIC, DMADOV, Lean and PDCA)• Guide the project team in their data analysis, selection of metrics and calculation of Sigma value pre and post implementation.• Review initiatives’/improvements’ requirement gathering, BRD, data collection, measurement system analysis, proposed ROI, actual ROI (Cost Benefit Analysis), Sigma value calculation.• Tracks PI projects to smooth implementation and closure.• Articulate benefits (quantitative / qualitative) achieved through the PI projects mentored by self.• Spread awareness in Internal IT associates for process improvement, Six Sigma methodologies and benefits out of it.• Adopts and propagates different best practices shared in various PI Forums.• Track % GB aware, % GB Certified and Savings target/compliance of different groups of Internal IT.• Conduct awareness session to encourage associates to come up with improvement initiatives and do more PI Projects. • Conduct training programs on the Lean Six Sigma Awareness and usage of different Statistical Tools (needed while doing PI Project) and Identify and groom mentors in the team. Show less

  • BI Business Analyst, DaVita, Inc.HealthCare

    May 2015 - Feb 2022

  • PMO Analyst, BG International

    Aug 2014 - Apr 2015

  • Business Analyst, Citibank

    Mar 2014 - Jul 2014

  • Process Improvement Consultant

    Aug 2011 - Feb 2014
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  DaVita Kidney Care

  Jan 2022 - now

  Product Manager