Devika Chowdary Yanamadala Email & Phone Number

Remote, Usa

• Collaborated with customers and cross-functional teams to gather requirements, write, and prioritize user stories, calculate LOE (Level of Effort), plan the sprints, build and deliver Connected Planning use cases.• Responsible for the architectural design of multi-dimensional models in adherence to Anaplan’s best practices and standards.• Lead the Level 1 Certification training sessions for both internal team members and external customers.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

1. Fintech - Quantitative Risk Management2. MEM Seminar Series

• Built MRS & Revenue model in Anaplan from scratch for internal planning by following best practices and methodologies.• Responsible for optimization of Data Hub, Finance and Headcount models that reduced the load times by 65%.• Part of Anaplan CoE team, collaborating with Finance & IR teams to report financial KPIs senior leadership bi-weekly.• Identified new product opportunity by conducting 50+ customer interviews, 250+ user surveys to identify customer pain points.• Collaborated with engineering and design teams to define new product scope and develop a 3-quarter roadmap.• Partnered with the UX/UI team to collaborate on the design and prototyping of the new feature to align all the stakeholders.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

* Worked with Prof. Sharon Belenzon, Fuqua School of Business to identify leading manufacturers and innovators that occupy more than 90% of the Semiconductor market.* Analysed the product-market-fit of 30+ products from different firms to find out their success & failure rates over the last decade.* Conducted Competitor Analysis for the top 6 Semiconductor innovators & manufacturers in the market and compared their approaches to measuring success and customer satisfaction metrics.* Documented the roadmap of 45+ products (latest) from the top 6 firms and analysed their product strategy.* Made a presentation on the 7 leading countries trying to occupy the market and the latest market trends in the industry.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

* Conducted 40+ user interviews to identify customer pain points in the new graduate onboarding process to remove the gap between customer needs and existing solutions.* Defined 4 different User Personas based on the data analysis from the prospective user interviews.* Responsible for defining Product Vision and Product Strategy by following Design Thinking principles for a customer centric approach.* Created Customer Journey maps to understand the problem and proposed 3 solutions to enhance student onboarding experience.* Resolved process gaps for the existing solutions by providing recommendations along with a Product Roadmap for the top solution out of the 3 proposed solutions for the next 3 quarters.* Designed a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for the solution that improved the Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) by 87% based on a survey of 250+ students.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Finance Officer, IDEA (Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Applications) Club, MEM Program Development Committee* Conducted 5 student-driven workshops throughout the semester to familiarise students with Entrepreneurship and to project it as a potential career option.* Responsible for budgeting and planning the events and maintaining the ledgers for the club.* Hosted 3 guest speaker sessions over the span of 4 months.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Collaborated with customers and cross functional teams to gather requirements and translate business problems into sophisticated Anaplan models.• Optimized design and delivery of organization wide Financial Planning using Anaplan, improving the overall operational efficiency by 48%.• Implemented real-time dashboards for stakeholders to track operational metrics, reducing search time by 25%.• Responsible for the architectural design for facilitating requirements gathering, user stories creation, LOE calculation, Roadmap planning that reduced planning time and effort by 40%.• Carried out multi-level User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure quality of the solution delivered.• Ensured seamless integrations between SAP, Oracle databases, OneCloud integration platform, Tableau and Anaplan.• Reduced 50+ hours of weekly work for 3 support teams by automating end user tasks in SQL and web service API integrations.• Led user training and demo sessions to familiarize the client with Anaplan platform and explain its functionality.• Received an Outstanding award and two Applause awards for 2 consecutive quarters for on-time project delivery.• Prioritized, delegated, and assigned daily tasks to the QA team to carryout UAT and ensured timely completion of sprint deliverables to minimize spillovers by 50% and achieve quarterly OKRs.• Prioritized, delegated, and assigned daily tasks to the QA team and ensured timely completion of sprint deliverables.• Documented status updates on daily-basis and maintained RAID (Risk, Action, Issue and Decision) log for the project and provided project progress reports to senior leadership to reduce known risks by 52%.• Designed and built Anaplan models from scratch by building lists, hierarchies, modules, and dashboards.

Master Of Engineering Management, 3.912/4

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electronics And Communications Engineering