Anurag Paliwal

Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®), with years of experience focused on developing new business ideas and leading high-impact projects. Involved in Project planning, Project and Stakeholder management, Time management, People Management, Conflict Management. Completed profitable projects in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders. Presented complex information to diverse audiences with clarity and confidence. Perform assessment on all reporting requirements and develop long term strategy for various reporting solutions. Identified new stakeholders and emerging opportunities to boost revenue. Preparing functional design documents, requirement docs and Technical Design Documents. Requirement gathering from Business Users and Understanding functionality & Business Rules. Aided in developing style guide for development of BI visualizations, design of components, naming of items, data source creation and naming. Developing visual reports, KPI scorecards, and dashboards using Power BI desktop. Create relationships between data and develop tabular and other multidimensional data models. Perform DAX queries and functions in Power BI. Collaborated with staff members to enhance customer service experience and exceed team goals through effective client satisfaction rates. Increased business user's usage of dashboards developed by > 40%.

Develop and prepare strategies for Business Intelligence processes for organization. Perform assessment on all reporting requirements and develop long term strategy for various reporting solutions. Maintain and transform all strategies in operational plans according to business priorities and within budget. Coordinate with data generator and ensure compliance to all enterprise data model according to data standards. Preparing functional design documents, requirement docs and Technical Design Documents. Requirement gathering from Business Users and Understanding functionality & Business Rules. Working as Project Lead/Scrum Master for Development teams with focus on guiding teams towards improvement. Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Demos, Retrospectives, Stakeholder meeting, and Sprint Reviews. Tracked and removed internal and external impediments for scrum team. Assisted team with internal and external communication, improved transparency. Built relationship with Product Owners and other stakeholders to facilitate team's interaction with them. Facilitated grooming sessions with Product owner, to build product backlog. Coached team members on Agile and Scrum principles. Helped teams solving problems rather than providing solutions. Actively Participated in RCAs and fixing of many issues raised by Users with respect to reports. Developer to Reviewer- Actively involved in knowledge transition and training for new joiners. Did Pre-requisite check of all components, which were required for installation and configuration. Prepared all required Release documents for migration of reports from one environment to another. Tools and Software Involved: Cognos, Tableau, SAP Business Objects, SAP WEBI Rich client, Information design tool, SQL Developer, Orcale. Handled team size of 3-15 team members.

Preparation\Alterations of BRDs for Cognos Reports and then sign off from users for same. Creating data Architecture in Cognos Framework manager based on requirements. Developing Simple and Complex reports in COGNOS 8.4,10 as per user requirements. Preparation of Framework Request Form to create framework/package for reports. Preparation of Unit test cases. Developing Simple and Complex reports in COGNOS 8.4 as per user requirements. Performance tracking of developed reports. Performing unit testing of Cognos Reports. Mentoring junior associates to bring them up to speed. Additional responsibilities included Project management in terms of invoicing, Resource Management, milestone completion checking. Pursued learning opportunities to advance knowledge as senior team member. Tools and Software Involved: Oracle and Cognos. Achieved IBM Cognos Developer certification to promote professional development and update technical knowledge.