Smita Deshpande Email & Phone Number

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Providing delivery governance to all AIM (Analytics & Information Management) projects under the Insurance vertical.
• Understand the client expectations, and participate in appropriate steering committee and status reviews with the client.
• Creating value for the client and LTI by ideating & leading initiatives for operational excellence.
• Working towards meeting AIM Revenue Growth targets and providing projections thereof.
• Active involvement in proposals for new clients as well as tapping new opportunities with existing clients.
• Define delivery mobilization approach. Recommend and act on sourcing strategies.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• As Functional Consultant for a major AIM-M&E (media & entertainment) client.
• Inspite of being in a functional role, have contributed to the data model, solution design and architecture due to my past experience.
• Interviewing stakeholders and gathering functional & non-functional requirements.
• Establishing and managing relationships with key client stakeholders.
• Leveraging the functional expertise gained by working for an earlier broadcasting and media industry client.
• Gathering the Dashboards and data requirements for linear (TV) and non-linear (digital or OTT) platform.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• As Delivery Manager, have led 3 different BI engagements.
• Being accountable and responsible for delivery.
• Leading the implementation of ~15 projects with a peak size of ~40 resources overall.
• Mobilizing the delivery team. Determine the project approach, staffing, responsibilities, and schedule.
• Baseline Scope and Change Control. Defining and agreeing on a change control process.
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure that the project is delivered on time and within budget.

Mumbai Area, India

• As Pre-Sales Solution Architect.
• Solution Planning to define the technical solution and delivery approach that the organization will provide to clients.
• Understand the requirements, confirm scope, and validate assumptions. Identify the risks and propose mitigation strategies
• Creating and confirming the technical solution blueprint. Collating the inventory / RICEFW for estimation. Creating the Estimates.
• Create resource ramp-up & ramp-down plans. Define delivery mobilization approach. Recommend sourcing strategies.
• Obtain Delivery centre support. Obtain sign-off from multiple stake-holders (from delivery and sales) w.r.t the solution and estimates

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Have played the role of India Lead for SAP Business Objects CoP (Community of Practice).
• Provided SME support to projects to help them identify and fix critical technical issues in their projects. (These were 2-3 month duration full-time engagements for fire-fighting kind of projects phases).
• Proficiency development in terms of course creation for DW/BI technology trainings etc. Have created the course content for Advanced Data Modeling training as well as delivered/conducted this training.
• Reusable Assets/Tools Development, and driving their usage accross projects for productivity improvement and value addition to the clients.
• Providing and managing community building activities like publishing weekly articles in the DW concepts space etc.
• Provide sourcing support in terms of conducting technical interviews etc.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Have played roles of BI Architect, Application Architect, Data Architect, Data Modeler, Business Analyst, BO CoP Lead – across industry verticals.
• Interviewing stakeholders and gathering functional & non-functional requirements.
• Establishing and managing relationships with key client stakeholders.
• Gathering process inputs and recommending bare minimal process changes such that they can be adopted easily as well as facilitate an automated solution.
• Recommending a short-term and quick win solution to be developed in parallel with a long term robust solution.
• Defining the data requirements, data flow architecture and technical architecture for the solution.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Have played roles of Project Manager, Data Modeler and Technical Architect.
• Invented a patented asset. This was for productivity improvement of developing and documenting Business Objects universes.
• Designed a dimensional data model for a mortgage underwriting processing system.
• Designed the ETL strategy for data loads into dimensional data mart.
• Created a quick and cost-effective ETL solution wherein Oracle materialized views were created on the OLTP source, and PL/SQL procedures were then used to perform ETL and data was loaded from MVs into the data mart.
• Designed and built the semantic layers (Business Objects universes) for the functional areas. Incorporated security and access control requirements into the design.

Mumbai Area, India

• Have played roles of On-site Co-ordinator, Group Lead, Analyst, Technical Designer, Data Modeler, Developer, Quality Facilitator, Configuration Manager, Test Lead.
• Worked on 6 projects across the Banking and Insurance verticals.
• Designed Reporting systems in order to facilitate ad-hoc querying, reporting and analysis by end-users.
• Designed and developed several semantic layers and several canned reports using Business Objects suite of tools.
• Automated the generation and distribution of these reports.
• Managing user creation and access control for the generated & distributed reports.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Efficient team player performing analyst, developer and tester roles as part of Rapid Response Reporting team.
• Received Client Recognition Awards on 2 occasions for my accurate and quick turn-around on reports.
• Worked on 4 projects using Business Objects & Cognos reporting suite of tools for the Re-insurance and Insurance industry verticals.
• Prototyping and developing new business reports as per user specifications.
• For few specific client requirements, experimented with HTML and Business Objects’ features to develop and provide dashboard-like, web-enabled and pre-published reports to the client.
• Replicating legacy reports using Business Objects. Cater to standardization and formatting of reports.

Diploma In Advanced Computing.

Activities and Societies: DoE (Department of Electronics), Govt. of India

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E), Electronics

S.S.C & H.S.C, Science & Electronics

Activities and Societies: Maharashtra State Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education