1. Key Skills
Data Analytics
Project Management
Data Visualization
Software Development
TAC Business Intelligence
Service Delivery
Root Cause Analysis
Client Servicing
Team Management
BUSINESS ANALYTICS AND DATA SCIENCE THOUGHT LEADER
Capitalising the vast domain knowledge in Data Analytics through natural
leadership to steer companies & clients in breaking new business avenues and
reaching new horizons
Preferred Industry: IT
Preferred Location: Bangalore
ProfileSummary
 Dynamic professional with over 19 years of experience in the Data Analytics
domain with over 15+ years in creating strategic roadmap for Data Warehouse
and BI initiatives visible at C-level
 A keen planner with expertise in defining the overall data strategy, well versed
in managing end-to-end implementation methodologies for Big Data solutions
 Hands on experience in managing transformation initiatives & delivering
strategic consulting services to enable clients to establish Data Program COE’s
that include best practices across process, people and tools
 Enthusiastic learner who constantly thrives to improve his understanding of
the technology trends and advancements in the data science domain by
constantly up skilling his skill set – recently completed the Data science
graduate program at University of Washington
 Thought leader with a consultative approach to bringing about continuous
improvement of Technical Customer Support process along with quality
standards, frameworks, practices and measurements
Significant Accomplishments
 Software Development, Project Management and Business Intelligence, Data Analysis and Visualization
 Architecting turn key data solutions as a Big Data Analyst/Architect with focus on building solutions that enable the client
to establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for model development & validation, model implementation and large
scale data analysis
 Identifying continuous improvement initiatives with focus on delivering automation and data centric testing technical
solutions in PL/SQL, R, Tableau, Hadoop and other associated platforms and toolsets
 Managing life-cycle of a big data solution including requirements analysis, platform selection, technical architecture
design, application design & development, testing and deployment
 Defining and delivering strategic consulting services to assist clients in establishing Data Program COE’s
 Supporting pre-sales activities with the primary responsibility for designing solution approaches using the latest
technology developments
 Innovating by drivingcontinuous improvementinitiatives forclients withfocus onidentifying& analyzingkey business KPI’s &
trends to provide actionable insights to the business to drive revenue and profitability
 Mentoring team members to enable their development as professionals and individuals: Long term career planning & skill
development plans for team members
Trainings / Certifications
 Data Science Graduate (University of Washington)
 PMP Certified since Jun’09
 Trained on Oracle 8i DBA, Informatica, Oracle BPEL, Siebel Analytics (OBIEE), Hadoop and Agile Methodologies
RAJESH MANJUNATH
rajesh_manjunath@yahoo.com
99801 60473/ 080-33438169

2. Career Timeline
Work Experience
Since Apr’06 with Cisco Systems, Bangalore
Growth Path:
Jul’06 – Apr’11 as Project Manager
May’11 – Mar’16 as Business Analyst
Since Mar’16 as Data Science Associate
Nov’05 - Jun’06 with Infosys Technologies Limited, Bangalore as Project Manager
Feb’05 – Nov’05 with Cisco Systems, Bangalore as IT Engineer
Aug’99 – Feb’05 with Deutsche Software, Bangalore as Associate Manager
Jul’98 – Aug’99 with Canbank Computer Services Limited, Bangalore as Software Engineer
Role across the Tenure:
 Driving global assignments that involved a detailed analysis & understanding of the business needs which enabled the
creation of innovative & unique analytics solutions such as S1/S2 - Cost for Moving from an SLA of less than 15 minutes
to less than 5 minutes for MTIA that resulted in improving the Time to Initial Accept within 5 minutes by 30%
 Streamlining information delivery by leveraging tools such as Pentaho ETL & BI suite of applications coupled with Tableau
for visualization that in our ability to replace home grown application with dashboards rendered in Tableau
 Designing and developing data strategy to enable clean, reliable and usable data for Self Service Strategy and Dimensional
Modeling – this resulted in $300,000 savings on infrastructure and resource costs
 Leveraging BIDE infrastructure to deliver key BI dashboard capabilities
 Gathering requirement for customer elements to be incorporated for analytical models across different data sources -
structured /unstructured and 3rd party feeds
 Netting competitive team by guiding, mentoring and training in applied statistics and analytics
 Working closely with various teams across the company to identify and solve business challenges utilizing large
structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data in a distributed processing environment
 Interacting and engage with existing and potential clients in anticipation of developing business
Education
 M.Sc. (Mathematics) from Bangalore University with 63% in 1995
 B.Sc. (Physics, Mathematics, Electronics) from National College, Bangalore University with 70% and 21st rank in 1993
 Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications
IT Skills
Database: Oracle 10g/9i/8i, Oracle PL/SQL, Tuning, Oracle Apps, BPEL, Informatica, Advanced SQL, Hadoop
Others: Java, XML, Unix Shell Scripting, PL/SQL Web Pages, OAF, Crystal Report 8.5, Actuate Reports 6, Visual Basic, Developer
2000, Siebel Analytics, Oracle E-Business Suite, JMP, Tableau and Pentaho (ETL and Report Designer), ZoomData, OBIEE
Data Science Focus: R, Python, IBM SPSS Modeler, Sense.io, Domino, Dataiku
PersonalDetails
Date of Birth: 16th April 1973
Languages Known: English, Hindi & Kannada
Address: C-2421, Brigade Meadows, Saalu Hunase Village, Udayapura, Bangalore – 560082, Karnataka
Canbank
Computer
Services
Limited
Deutsche
Software
Cisco Systems
1998-1999 1995-2005 2005
Infosys
Technologies
Limited
2005-2006
Cisco Systems
Since 2006

3. Annexure
Project: Global Technical Center
Client: Cisco Systems
Designation: Data Science Associate
Role: Business Analyst
Period: Since Apr’16
Tools: Oracle 11g, R
Description:
 Data Science Workbench, Zoom Data Evaluation, Persona Classification, TIA SLA Prediction, RMA Prediction and Variable
Selection and so on
Projects: Global Technical Center
Client: Cisco Systems
Designation: Business Analyst
Role: Business Analyst
Period: Since May’11
Tools: Oracle 11g, Mysql 5.1, Pentaho Suite of Applications and Tableau
Description:
Data and Business Analytics, developing compelling dashboards to solve key business problems. Data Science Focus including
Data Science Workbench, Zoom Data evaluation, Persona Classification, TIA SLA prediction, BORG script classification
Responsibilities:
 Prioritizing & assigning tasks, reviewing work completed, gatekeeper and admin for production deployments
 Providing information delivery using Pentaho ETL and BI suite of applications and Tableau
 Supervising on practical project on clustering analysis; leading one of the POD’s consisting of 4 other members during the
entire course
Project: Technical Assistance Center
Client: Cisco Systems
Designation: Project Manager
Role: Project Manager
Period: Dec’09 – Apr’11
Tools: Various
Description:
Technical Services as a group caters to Service Requests raised by customers on Cisco Products; worked in several projects to
scale the Organization to the next level as Project Manager
The group was functioning with efforts being manual, made proposals to automate / better the situation and many of them
were adopted
Responsibilities:
 APAC and EME L2 Transition Projects – Planned and executed the entire technology / keyword transitions from APAC
and EME theaters to GCE Center in Bangalore
 Increased speed in a short span of time, developed a understanding of the business and led the team to cross the chasm
 Worked on several tactical projects (eg : TACSUNS migration, Open House, Toolapalooza, BCP planning, EVP visit) and
delivered them successfully
Project: EPS (Enterprise Pricing Solutions)
Client: Cisco Systems
Designation: Project Manager
Role: Project Manager
Period: May’09 – Nov’09
Tools: Vistaar, Oracle 10g
Description:
The goal of EPS was to build a robust pricing Analytics Solution for Cisco which gives the company additional levers to
strategize and price the products rights and reduce revenue leakage by virtue of discounts given to Partners
Responsibilities
 Mentored the team to deliver EPS Pilot with select business capabilities – Waterfall and Deal Comparison
 Managed the EPS Proof-of-Concept to evaluate if Vistaar as a product is an Enterprise Class Software (Websphere Farm
Integration, Security Module assessment, Scenario Building capabilities to name a few)
Project: ICE (Incentive Compensation Excellence)
Client: Cisco Systems

4. Designation: Project Manager
Role: Project Manager
Period: Jan’07 – May’09
Tools: Oracle Incentive Compensation
Description:
Incentive Compensation and Excellence (ICE) project is to revamp existing homegrown sales compensation application. With
Oracle Incentive Compensation you can Reduce plan administration costs, inform and Motivate Salespeople and align sales
behavior with corporate objectives.
Responsibilities:
 Promoted from Engineering Lead of projects and to Project Manager during a short tenure
 Participated in the development team; designed all the interfaces for different modular solutions and other groups
depending upon the requirement using robust technology
 Spearheaded and coordinated a team and managed different types of resource requirements and workload balancing
within the project
 Developed project financials-budgeting and taken all measures to keep the cost within budget