Indranil Bhowmik

Bio

A senior result-driven IT professional with ten years of project implementation and consulting experience in data warehousing, main expertise being in ETL. Proficient in analysis, solution and strategy design, onsite project coordination, team leading and management. Currently working as a Data Excellence Expert in GDE, UK after completing MBA in Sept 2010 from Lancaster University Management School.

STRENGTHS

Involved in all stages of lifecycle in global and multi-vendor projects with seven years of onsite lead roles in multiple countries such as US, UK, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, Spain & Russia.

Exceptional client relationship skills, strong planning, negotiation, people and team management capabilities and experience in developing strategies, managing change and problem-solving.

Ability to integrate with multicultural teams of diverse backgrounds and business process areas.

IT SKILLS

Experience: Informatica (Powercenter 6x/8x/9x, IDQ 9x), DB2 7.2, Office 2007, Solver, MS Project 2007, Oracle 8i (SQL, PL/SQL), Crystal Ball, Base SAS 9.2, SPSS 17 and basic SAP R/3

Training: IBM certifications in Project Management Fundamentals, Data Warehouse Bootcamp DW Modeling, Leadership@IBM, CMMi, Lean Six Sigma, Informatica certification in IDQ 9.0

Knowledge: BI and Data Management concepts, IBM Datastage, Business Objects XI, Cognos 8

Currently

Works at:: Global Data Excellence
Location in:: London, United Kingdom

Indranil has worked/studied in

Bangladesh
Germany
India
Poland
United Kingdom
United States of America

Indranil speaks

English
Hindi
Bengali

Indranil has experience in

Consulting
IT
Technology

Work

2010 – present

Data Management Expert

Global Data Excellence , United Kingdom

Developing pre-sales and marketing strategy, product design and architecture, proof of concept, partner training presentations and client demos for a new data management tool (DEMS)
Client engagement, preparing response documents to client RFP, RFI or ITT to win new projects
Supporting data quality and governance initiatives by integrating Informatica 9x tools with DEMS

2002 – 2009

Senior System Analyst

IBM India , United Kingdom

Performed requirement analysis, solution design and effort estimation in data integration activities.
Led both the onsite and offshore data warehouse teams and carefully synchronized their work
Negotiated successfully with the client to manage conflicts, controlled project scope and planned resource requirements
Performed end-to-end integration among multiple project teams at onsite and offshore
Reduced 25% of the project costs by planning and designing a strategy of resource sharing, IDB (Intermediate Database) approach and facilitating offshore model for data loading and testing
Built on client relationships to win key businesses in data loading, testing and data workshop
Developed common data conversion strategies which were subsequently reused in all European countries implementing the project and thus avoided redundancy and duplicity in development
Addressed project issues for different European countries and provided implementation support
Formulated the data conversion Quality Assurance Checklist to achieve 98% delivery excellence
Led change management, resource planning, effort estimation and testing coordination activities
Prepared the UAT and naming standards, client training presentations and estimation metrics
Led a team of 18 members translating client requests into value-added innovative solutions that were key factors in winning client projects worth millions of dollars against stiff competition.
Designed the ETL interfaces with SAP R/3 and AS/400 legacy systems using Powerconnect
Contributed in organization’s team building and growth as a key member of the recruitment panel

2000 – 2002

Consultant

PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd , India

Built custom software solutions for client using Oracle tools (PL/SQL, Forms)
Applied relationship building and change management skills to reverse the initial skeptical and unhelpful attitude of the stakeholders’ towards the business transformation initiative.
Successfully implemented the Billing System at client sites in Dhaka and obtained project sign-off

Education

2009 – 2010	Lancaster University Management School MBA (MBA)
1996 – 2000	Jadavpur University B.Engg (Bachelors)

Clubs

Not a member of any clubs

Achievements

During seven years in IBM India evaluated as topmost ‘1’ rater thrice for organizational contributions
As onsite data integration lead coordinator devised a common data conversion approach and program reusability strategy for data extraction that reduced development efforts by nearly 20%
Designed the data conversion Quality Assurance process that became part of IBM best practices
Designed an Intermediate Database (IDB) approach for data extraction which reduced overheads for network and connectivity by 30-35% and also opened up a new development expertise area
Planned the workshop-based development model and designed the estimation metrics for Nestle GLOBE data migration which reduced the issue resolution time at implementation stage by 60%
Planned and facilitated an offshore delivery model for Nestle GLOBE ETL process and achieved over 98% compliance rate with SLAs and scored over 99% on Customer Satisfaction Index
Successfully led multiple teams comprising 7-26 members engaged in various project roles and mentored and trained them into the project mentality and organization processes
As team leader ensured that all project delivery deadlines were met during implementations
Won the IBM Bravo Award in 2004 for excelling in the onsite project coordinator role in Germany
Helped to recruit around 40 persons in IBM India and contributed in the organisation growth
Won the Lancaster MBA Open Scholarship Award in 2009 on merit criteria