Nilaj Rukadikar

Bangalore, Karnataka - Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/Nilaj-Rukadikar/63f594ad408db17a Responsible for ongoing product management support for data products for financial and nonfinancial institutions.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Business Analyst

Yodlee Infotech Private Ltd - Bangalore, Karnataka - March 2011 to Present Created and maintained product road-map based on varying market conditions and competitor landscape. Worked with US-based teams to successfully deliver multiple projects and initiatives. Product SME for sales and marketing team to define the go-to-market strategy. Successfully led the development of Yodlee Data Products like Insights, Data Extracts and User Panels. Primary interface between Product Management, Program Management, Engineering and QE teams to build the product from conceptualization to implementation. Constantly led discussions with cross-functional teams such as marketing, professional services, operations and engineering as part of product sustenance or new product development. Adept at creating business requirement documents (BRD), functional specification documents (FSD), use-cases, user-stories, acceptance criteria and reviewing with engineering, technical architects, QA etc for smooth delivery of the product. Worked with QA team to create/review solution test plan, test scenarios and test cases and participated in the Alpha and Beta testing of products. Conducted product demos to internal teams and clients. Worked with Program Management to launch product releases successfully. Industries Banking FMCG Telecom

EDUCATION

Bachelor Of Production Engineering

Shivaji University - Kolhapur, Maharashtra June 2006

SKILLS Product Roadmap Requirements Gathering Requirements Analysis Gap Analysis New Product Launches ROI Analysis Product Demonstrations Scrum Data Warehousing Business Intelligence Reporting/Dash boarding Data Mining Solution Consulting Internet Banking Business Communications Team Leading

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Areas of Expertise

Product Roadmap Requirements Gathering Requirements Analysis Gap Analysis New Product Launches ROI Analysis Product Demonstrations Scrum Data Warehousing Business Intelligence Reporting/Dash boarding Data Mining Solution Consulting Internet Banking Business Communications Team Leading 1|7 Nilaj J. Rukadikar +91-98867 49349 Product Manager nilajr@yahoo.com th th #1185, 5 Main, HSR 7 Sector, Bangalore - 560102 Chronological Details of Work Experience Senior Business Analyst Yodlee Infotech, Bangalore, India March 2011 - Present 1. Yodlee Interactive Dashboards Software Configuration - Tableau Desktop 8, Tableau Server 8, Cloudera Hadoop Distribution (CDH3u4), Apache Hive Product Description This product offers set of twenty four interactive dashboards designed using tool called Tableau. This set includes dashboards like Spending by Category, Spending by Merchant, Spending per Day, Transactions per Day, Top 10 ecommerce sites, Top 200 retailers etc. Customer is charged based on number of sits / licenses they are buying. Product Management Responsibilities - Product conceptualization - Screen different tools available in market - Choose right tool based on requirements - Product Costing based on licensing cost and other parameters - ROI Analysis - Write and review BRD with senior management - Document all requirements in FSD and review it with engineering, QE, Security team - Sync up with internal teams to get necessary permissions - Help associates break requirements into User Stories and review same with engineering, QE teams - Prioritize requirements for each iteration and maintain same in Scrum - Review solution test case plan - Product demos to customers and internal teams - Product Launch Technical Responsibilities - Sync up with technical architect to understand Hadoop architecture - Sync up with Operations to get necessary hardware - Define set of aggregated tables in order to optimize queries - Make sure these queries consume restricted resources of Hadoop cluster and do not consume lot of i/o - Deployment of Tableau Desktop and Server in development environment and then in Production environment - Achieve connectivity of Tableau with Hadoop using Hive - Make sure no PII (Personally Identifiable Information) is exposed to customers - Design dashboards and demonstrate to customers - Optimize Tableau queries to make dashboards run fast - Automate whole process which includes alert mechanism - Assist associates make customizations or debug issues raised by customers 2|7

Nilaj J. Rukadikar +91-98867 49349 Product Manager nilajr@yahoo.com th th #1185, 5 Main, HSR 7 Sector, Bangalore - 560102 2. Yodlee Data Extracts Software Configuration - Cloudera Hadoop Distribution (CDH3u4), Apache Hive, Oozie (Scheduler) Product Description This product offers set of twenty reports which includes account and transaction stats for containers like Bank, Card, Investment, Insurance, Loan, Rewards etc. Account reports contain attributes like savings balance, holding description, loan interest rate, maturity date while transaction reports contain attributes like transaction category, transaction merchant, transaction amount, transaction description etc. FI or non-FI customers use these reports to understand various users' spending patterns, popular categories and popular merchants. Customers are charged higher of 50 cents / user or 20 grand. Product Management Responsibilities - SME and SPOC for product - Consult domain experts and identify fields of interest - Define structure of each report - Document all requirements in FSD and review it with engineering, QE, Security team - Break requirements into User Stories and review same with engineering, QE teams - Prioritize requirements for each iteration and maintain same in Scrum - Review solution test case plan - Product demos to customers and internal teams - Product Launch - Constant sync up with engineering, QE and professional services to make sure timely delivery of product - Handle customizations Technical Responsibilities - Sync up with technical architect to understand Hadoop architecture - Assist associated design tool called Test Harness to automate testing - Run hive queries periodically to monitor data quality - Bring up data quality issues and fix them - Help associates debug issues reported by customers 3. Yodlee Constant User Panels Software Configuration - Cloudera Hadoop Distribution (CDH3u4), Apache Hive, Oozie (Scheduler) Product Description This product was originated from different customizations requested by different Data Extract customers. It offers bank and card transaction reports for constant set of active users. Users who have 2 years' worth of historical transaction data and who have at least one transaction in every five weeks are considered as active users. These reports contain attributes like transaction description, transaction category, transaction merchant, transaction amount etc. Panels are available in different sizes 3 million, 5 million and 10 million. Size of the panel is nothing but number of active users in the panel. At a certain point of time, if some users become inactive, same number of new active users is added to panel in order to keep panel size constant. Analytics on same set of sample, always results in better result. This is revenue share product. 3|7 Nilaj J. Rukadikar +91-98867 49349 Product Manager nilajr@yahoo.com th th #1185, 5 Main, HSR 7 Sector, Bangalore - 560102 Product Management Responsibilities

- SME and SPOC of product - Spoke to different Data Extract customers and came up with generalized and popular customizations - Define structure of each report - Document all requirements in FSD and review it with engineering, QE, Security team - Break requirements into User Stories and review same with engineering, QE teams - Prioritize requirements for each iteration and maintain same in Scrum - Review solution test case plan - Product demos to customers and internal teams - Product Launch - Constant sync up with engineering, QE and professional services to make sure timely delivery of product Technical Responsibilities - Designed product called Test Harness to automate testing of both reports - Run hive queries periodically to monitor data quality - Bring up data quality issues and fix them - Assist associates debug issues reported by customers 4. Yodlee Insights Software Configuration - Adobe Insights, Cloudera Hadoop Distribution (CDH3u4), Apache Hive Product Description This product offers set of dashboards designed using Adobe's Insight tool. Set of dashboards include Debit Vs Credit spending, Held Vs Held Away spending, # Of Transactions per Day etc. Customers are charged based on number of sits / licenses. Product Management Responsibilities - SME and SPOC for the product - Document all requirements in FSD and review it with engineering, QE, Security team - Break requirements into User Stories and review same with engineering, QE teams - Prioritize requirements for each iteration and maintain same in Scrum - Review solution test case plan - Product demos to customers and internal teams - Product Launch Technical Responsibilities - Design new dashboards based on customer requirements - Optimize queries - Review solution test case plan - Product demos to customers and internal teams - Product Launch - Constant sync up with engineering, QE and professional services to make sure timely delivery of product This product is discontinued due to lack of demand. Lack of demand is primarily due to its intricacy. For existing customers it is still being supported though. 4|7 Nilaj J. Rukadikar +91-98867 49349 Product Manager nilajr@yahoo.com th th #1185, 5 Main, HSR 7 Sector, Bangalore - 560102 Senior Associate MindTree, Bangalore, India March 2010 - February 2011 Software - Kalido 8.5R6, BOXI 3.1, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10g, Tivoli Role - Team Leader Client - Unilever Korea, Unilever Philippines, HUL

Unilever is a multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. Unilever's main competitors include Danone, Henkel, Mars, Incorporated, Kraft Foods, Nestl, Pepsico, Procter & Gamble, Reckitt Benckiser, Sara Lee and S. C. Johnson & Son. This project mainly handles primary sales, secondary sales and POS (Pont Of Sales) data. Data from various ERP systems is fetched by BODS (Business Object Data System) . After performing necessary operations on this data, it is brought to Kalido warehouse (in SQL server or Oracle) with the help of Kalido interface scripts. The whole process is automated with the help of Tivoli Work Scheduler. Data in the warehouse is used by Unilever users to create / refresh the reports in BOXI. Since number of users is more housekeeping need to be done frequently. Product Management Responsibilities - Understanding client requirements - Designing RDR (Requirement Definition Record) and DRD (Data Reader Document) - Effort Estimation - Lead team of four developers - Train new team members and bring them up to speed - Demonstrations to customers - Speak to customers to understand their issues - Execute smooth and timely delivery of project - Handle escalations Technical Responsibilities - Design Kalido model - Write batch scripts to configure jobs in Tivoli - Write test cases for SIT - Create / edit universe through Designer - Create / edit, cross-tab, chart reports in WEBI, DESKI - Involved in BOXI administration and auditing - Involved in database tuning activities like d/b partitioning, query optimization - Designing dashboards using Xcelsius 2008 - Achieve connectivity within Xcelsius and BOXI using QAAS and external web service Flynet - Automation of reports, dashboards - Kalido and Business Objects upgrade activities - Migrated BO universe, reports manually after upgrade - Performed post upgrade activities like comparing security features, refreshing reports, universe integrity check pre-upgrade and post-upgrade 5|7 Nilaj J. Rukadikar +91-98867 49349 Product Manager nilajr@yahoo.com th th #1185, 5 Main, HSR 7 Sector, Bangalore - 560102 Consultant Capgemini Consulting (India) Ltd, Bangalore, India August 2007 - February 2010 Software - Informatica 8.1, Business Objects 6.5, BOXI R2SP1, SAP BI, Oracle 9i, Teradata v2R5 Role - Team Member Client - Alcatel - Lucent, USA Alcatel-Lucent is a global telecommunications corporation, headquartered Paris, France. It provides telecommunications solutions to service providers, enterprises, and governments around the world, enabling these customers to deliver voice, data, and video services. The company focuses on fixed, mobile,

and converged networking hardware, IP technologies, software, and services. This project was meant to handle Financial / GL, SD, MM, Primary Sales data. Architecture involved staging, warehouse detail tables, data marts, presentation layer. ETL tool Informatica 8.1.1 Power Connect was used to extract data from SAP R/3, Oracle, SQL Server 2000 and flat files. After performing data cleansing, transformations data was loaded to Teradata warehouse using teradata multiload or tpump utilities. After having warehouse tables populated, data mart tables were filled. Finally these tables were used for reporting through BOXI and Cognos. Responsibilities - Understand client requirements - Create mappings using necessary transformations, mapplets, reusable transformations - Create sessions, analyzing session logs in case of job failures and taking necessary actions - Create Universe using BO Designer - Generate master and cross tab reports in WebI, DeskI and providetechnical documents related to project module - Write DDL, DML statements to debug issues Conferences & Trainings 1. O'Reilly Strata Conference 2013, Santa Clara, CA - February 2013 2. DataWeek 2012 Conference and Festival, San Francisco, CA - September 2012 3. Finance and Banking Fundamentals by FLIP - May 2012 4. Certified Business Analyst Program (CBAP) workshop by KnowledgeWorks - December 2011 5. 40 hours training of Data Warehousing - 2007 6. 40 hours training of Informatica 8.1 - 2008 7. 40 hours training of Business Objects Xi - 2008 8. 40 hours training of Cognos 8.4 - 2008 9. SAP BI 7.0 - 2009