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Soumya Thomas

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

Summary

  • 19+ years of experience in IT industry with expertise in Data Analysis, Business Intelligence and Software Development.
  • Demonstrated data analytics experience working with a variety of data sources.
  • Good experience in analyzing and working with Medical, Finance, Payroll ,Media and Retail data.
  • Expertise in T-SQL, SQL Server, Power BI,QlikView, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Python, R, .Net, C#, ASP.Net
  • Good experience building and leading BI initiatives from the ground up
  • Excellent analytical skills and ability to understand complex logic
  • Demonstrated management and leadership experience
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; working cross-functionally, ability to prioritize and drive BI projects across the enterprise and effectively present ideas
  • High attention to detail and proven track record in taking ownership, manage multiple tasks, driving results and moving with speed to implement ideas in a fast-paced environment
  • Great data visualization and presentation skills and ability to develop new ideas and creative solutions
  • Good ability to confidently translate business intelligence into compelling and actionable recommendations
  • Good understanding of emerging BI technology and Industry trends
  • Excellent project management skills; ability to manage multiple projects across critical yet often fluctuating deadlines – and with sometimes minimal and/or ambiguous input from stakeholders
  • Effectively apply Agile software development process, managing entire business intelligence development life cycle from concept through definition, development, and delivery
  • Microsoft Certified Professional in Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012
  • Microsoft Certified Professional in Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012
  • ITIL V3 Certified Professional

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Senior Business Intelligence Developer

NSW Health Nepean Blue Mountains LHD
09.2022 - Current
  • Championed a data-driven culture within the company, empowering employees at all levels to make better-informed decisions through the use of BI tools like QlikView ,Power BI and SSRS
  • Took up additional responsibility of HIE/ EDWARD co-originator and facilitated HIE data loads and back ups.
  • Good understanding oof all health care data including Clinical, Payroll and Finance.
  • Conducted detailed root cause analyses to troubleshoot complex issues within the BI environment, resulting in swift resolutions of critical problems.
  • Enhanced decision-making capabilities by designing and implementing advanced business intelligence reporting tools.

<p>Acting Manager Business Intelligence Unit (11 Months) and Senior Business Intelligence Developer</p>

NSW Health –South Western Sydney LHD
03.2016 - 09.2022

Roles and Responsibilities

  • In the acting manager position, assist with technical solution design, day to day support as well as process improvement decisions.
  • Building data warehouse and set up data feeds from various source systems.
  • Analyze data and create useful visualization to help operations to take informed decisions.
  • Requirements engineering, business process redesign and gap analysis
  • Build up data warehousing solutions groud up for various data streams.
  • Extract - Transform - Load data
  • Create visualization in QlikView and SSRS.
  • Design and develop automated data input systems when necessary.
  • Translate stakeholder business needs into technical requirements for new reporting.
  • Lead project teams and collaborated with other teams to determine and translate business requirements into technology and training solutions.
  • Work with developers from other LHD on collaboations.
  • Particiapte and contribute in state level forums.
  • Support ethics approved data requests.

<p>Technical Analyst</p> <p></p>

Nielsen ( TCS Consultant )
05.2014 - 03.2015

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Responsible for Analyzing data flows and translating the Business requirements into High Level technical Design specifications.
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze data and processes to see patterns and models for automation.
  • Performed business process automation through requirements engineering, business process redesign and gap analysis
  • Used SQL querying skills for data analysis
  • Created mock ups to demonstrate the functionality.
  • Incorporated requirements traceability through design, testing and user acceptance phases.

<p>Technical Business Analyst</p> <p></p>

AMEX Australia ( TCS Consultant )
02.2013 - 11.2013

Roles and Responsibilities 

  • Migrate a Legacy Application developed in VB 6.0 and SQL server 2000 to .Net 4.0 and SQL Server 2008 as a part of platform renovation.
  • Involved in Full project life cycle (from requirements gathering to implementation phase).

  • Responsible for translating the Business requirements into technical specifications.

  • Reviewed and managed complex business process information and data scenarios, performed impact analysis and GAP analysis for new processes or changes to improve on the current methods.

  • Applied analytical skills and provide strategic recommendations for review with the business partner.

  • Demonstrated ability to see patterns, identify root causes and combine disparate ideas to maximize value. Highly focused on efficiency and process improvement.

  • Participated in project planning sessions with project managers, business analysts and team members to analyze business requirements and outlined the proposed solution.

<p>Business Intelligence Developer</p> <p></p>

International Monitory Fund( TCS Consultant )
09.2012 - 02.2013

This was a migration project from Dynamic DTS packages (DTS packages were generated and executed using VB.net) to SSIS. Due to unavailability of documents, this project needed extensive system study and code analysis.

Roles and Responsibilities 

  • Analyze project scope as it was a migration project

  • Code Analysis of existing application

  • Work on SSIS Package for transferring data from different databases and files to SQL Server.

  • Created Database Objects - Tables, Indexes, Views, Stored Procedures and User defined functions according to the requirements of the project.

<p>Business Intelligence Developer</p> <p></p>

Commonwealth Bank of Australia( TCS Consultant )
02.2010 - 08.2012

Roles and Responsibilities 

  • Design/Build Extract Transform Load (ETL) process in SQL Server Integration Services.

  • Migrate DTS packages to SSIS packages.

  • SSIS performance tuning, error handling, event handling, re-running of failed SSIS packages using checkpoints and scripting with Active-X and C#.NET in SSIS.

  • Create SSIS script task, look up transformations and data flow tasks using T- SQL and scripts.

  • Use the SQL Analyzer, and Profiler for studying the SQL statements and procedures and optimize query performance.

  • Involve in re-design, development, and deploy of new data pipelines using SSIS

<p>DotNet & SQL Developer</p> <p></p>

HEB, Texas, USA (UST Global Consultant)
01.2006 - 01.2010


Roles and Responsibilities 

  • Developed application logic using C#.NET.

  • Used Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to coordinate with external applications.

  • Developed SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) reports and integrated in Microsoft SharePoint Server.

  • Assisting DBAs in SQL Queries and performance tuning of database.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Mahatma Gandhi University, India
08.2001 - 05.2005

Graduate Certificate - Data Science

University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW
04.2001 -

Skills

    Health Data Analysis

    Problem Solving

    Teamwork,  Collaboration

    Thought Leadership

    SQL Server, T-SQL

    QlikView,  SSRS

    SSIS, SSAS

    Python, R

    C#, ASPNet, MVC, Sharepoint

    Microsoft Teams

    Git, TFS, SVN

    Excel, Powerpoint, Word

Certification

ITIL V3 Certified Professional

Timeline

Senior Business Intelligence Developer

NSW Health Nepean Blue Mountains LHD
09.2022 - Current

<p>Acting Manager Business Intelligence Unit (11 Months) and Senior Business Intelligence Developer</p>

NSW Health –South Western Sydney LHD
03.2016 - 09.2022

Microsoft Certified Professional in Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012

09-2014

Microsoft Certified Professional in Querying SQL Server 2012

07-2014

<p>Technical Analyst</p> <p></p>

Nielsen ( TCS Consultant )
05.2014 - 03.2015

ITIL V3 Certified Professional

03-2014

<p>Technical Business Analyst</p> <p></p>

AMEX Australia ( TCS Consultant )
02.2013 - 11.2013

<p>Business Intelligence Developer</p> <p></p>

International Monitory Fund( TCS Consultant )
09.2012 - 02.2013

<p>Business Intelligence Developer</p> <p></p>

Commonwealth Bank of Australia( TCS Consultant )
02.2010 - 08.2012

<p>DotNet & SQL Developer</p> <p></p>

HEB, Texas, USA (UST Global Consultant)
01.2006 - 01.2010

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Mahatma Gandhi University, India
08.2001 - 05.2005

Graduate Certificate - Data Science

University of Sydney
04.2001 -
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