Nithya Gadhella Thulasiram

Lead- Data Analyst

Data Modeling| | Program Management| Business Analytics

SUMMARY
7 years of experience in consulting, managing, assessing and helping the organization improve the strategy,
product placement, planning, and prioritization with majority of focus in the following streams:
o Data Analytics: Utilized business acumen paired with strong data analysis, debugging and problem-
solving skills to identify root causes and offered business analytical solutions
o Product Management: Strategized, analyzed market and competitive conditions laying out a product
vision that is differentiated for digital assets delivering unique value based on customer demands
Exceptional ability to visually present and communicate data, analyses and findings using a variety of reporting,
data analysis, and data visualization tools, such as SAS, SPSS, Tableau, custom dashboards.
Consulted, collaborated and socialized across various domains - Insurance(Nationwide), Healthcare(Aetna) and
Life science(Prudential) developing RFP, Project Initiation documents, Business cases addressing Business and
Technology transformations yielding business prioritizations for various initiatives.
Proactively identified opportunities, defined data needs, designed reference data metamodel to use business
intelligence solutions to better support business management and/or improve efficiency of tools.
Experienced managing various teams with different team members reporting, created work plans and
presented executive presentations to C-level executives on a regular basis and rendered end-to-end roadmaps.

TOOLS

Methodologies - SDLC, Agile/Scrum Methodology, Sprint

Decision Tools - SAS Enterprise-miner, XLMiner, MS Excel, SPSS, IBM Biginsights
Database Tools - MYSQL, SQL server 2008, MS Access, Oracle SQL, PL/SQL
Programming - Struts 2, Advance Java, J2EE, JQuery, Maven, Hibernate, Web Services, Maven, ANT, Plugin
Development, Unix shell
Web/Multimedia - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Dreamweaver, Struts 2, Sharepoint, Camtasia, Macromedia Flash
Project Mgmt - MS Project, RTC, MS Visio, IBM Rational Rose, Visual Paradigm

CCNA Certified Professional-TCP/IP, Routing protocols, Packet Tracer Simulation tool

EDUCATION

School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas May 2014

MS in Information Technology Management GPA:3.9
Amrita University, India May 2010
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology GPA: 3.8

CERTIFICATIONS

SAS Certified Business Intelligence 9.0

TOGAF Business Architecture Certification (In Process)
Cisco Certified Network Associate

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Nationwide Insurance, Columbus OH Oct 14- July17

Role: Lead Data Analyst
Project: Contact Centers and Billing
 Executed engagements with Nationwides strategic partnerships resulting in a long term roadmap compelling
business change by strategically applying people, processes and technology recommendations to the value chain.
Facilitated and lead Enterprise data end-to-end product road-map, governance, life-cycle, end of life, vendor
assessment, project intake flow and took portfolio ownership
Provided Data Mining Solutions using Association Rules, Clustering, Classification and Segmentation techniques
using XLMiner and SAS Enterprise Miner 9.3.
Collaborated with C-level executives and presented success criteria and the benefits utilizing Tableau over the
PoC rollout of the asset implementation and planned and coordinated the rollout across the enterprise.
Manipulated corpus creation, Text preprocessing, Part-of-speech tagging and categorization using Natural
Language Processing in SPSS, R and Python; analyzed Text analytics(customer) creating extractors & patterned
structured data.
Extracted and tagged targeted content performing Information retrieval with Text Link analysis using SPSS
Modeler and presented the cross functional analysis results to the professional audience across Nationwide.
Created the overall solution architecture and database model using SQL/PLSQL for Code Evaluation Product, a
critical part of the clients $15 million data protection program.
Identified & converted functional requirements into SPSS- solution that addresses difficult analytic challenges
Managed a team of SAS Programmers, involved in the predictive modeling and created reports by extensive
use of Base SAS, SAS/Macro, and SAS/Reports.

Client: Nationwide Insurance, Columbus OH May 13-Oct14

Role: Data Analyst
Digital and Strategy Relationships at

Mined and analyzed data using SAS and SQL programming for interpreting the consumer trends through the
exploration of syndicated research, logs and customer profile data. Different predictive models (Decision Tree,
Neural Networks, SVM) were trained on training dataset.
Defined and maintained data dictionary and performed data integration querying custom reports to the leaders
using Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
Applied concatenating, merging, and appending techniques to SAS datasets and generated tabular reports using
Base SAS & SAS/Report procedures.
Extracted data from different sources using SAS/ACCESS, SQL procedures. Performed sorting, cleaning,
manipulations and created SAS dataset; analyzed results from multiple business functions and presented
conclusions from complex models to C-level executives.
Managed project resources to perform work, gained alignment with business stakeholders, facilitated
stakeholder meetings, Coordinated vendors for data integration, defined metadata to undergo association of
project for various initiatives as part of Billing transformation program
Partnered with stakeholders and Capability owners utilizing Enterprise Architecture Tool Abacus to map the
digital assets and mapped capability-to-interaction and capability-to-application.

Client: Global Technology Office, Cognizant Technology Solutions, India July 10 Aug
12
Role: Java Developer

Led a team of 6 members and coordinated application development for multiple projects-JCAP, SDE ,
Codenizant Sonar using lightweight agile development process.
Built and hosted Java code analysis tool built on Struts 2 framework that can generate Code Quality Metrics
from a source repository & compiled classes in terms of 5 important metrics - PMD, Findbugs, CPD, NCSS and
Cobertura.
Gathered the functional requirements and developed a code analysis tool JCAP to dynamically report errors
during coding using Java,J2EE,Maven and Struts 2 framework
Re-engineered the Codenizant-Sonar project to support client level coding constraint and performed end-to-
end requirements gathering and designed database in SQL in just 40 hours getting appreciation from the
management.
 Led prototype development, evaluated KPI performing management audit for Codenizant Security project-the
new market venture.
Gathered metrics and created a dashboard empowering the project managers to continuously track the code
quality and implement measures to improve the code quality.
Maintained project wiki, tracked ticket queues and bug reports, resolved nearly 400 application functionality
issues within a short span of 2 months and was the only one in my team to bag the "Employee of the year"
Award