VINOTHA PERIASAMY

Responsibilities: Curriculum Management Modernization Project.

• Liaised with different stakeholders to gather an in-depth understanding of the data that is being migrated to the vendor platform.
• Served as a bridge between IT and business, identifying the existing data migration issues, and helping to resolve issues based on business and technical inputs.
• Prepared and provided a template with guidelines so faculties can provide data in a more structured format where data couldn’t be sourced elsewhere.
• Prepared technical documentation for mapping data from the Customer Information System (CIS) and the Student Management System (CASS) to Courseloop, the vendor platform.
• Created a data dictionary for the curriculum items migrated to the vendor system.
• Handled difficult stakeholders, managed expectations, facilitated decision-making, and enabled smoother delivery of deliverables.
• Trained casuals in data quality, data validation, and data reporting, which aided in smoother data migration to the vendor system.

Achievement: Pred Karunkaran mentions that this data migration is a beast, and Vinotha has it all under control.

Liliana Thompson mentioned that Vinotha was the missing piece in the puzzle and was able to cover any loopholes in the project.

• Create project schedules that include project estimates and resource needs to be submitted to management.
• Collaborate with Tech lead and subject matter expert to create user stories.
• Writing detailed user stories and maintaining them in JIRA.
• Coordination of tech work that is already being implemented and planned.

Responsibilities: Legal Panel automation Project

• Defining the scope and providing a detailed business requirements document by engaging the legal business stakeholders.
• Eliciting the requirements for the end-state dashboard for New South Wales, and rural and regional legal services panel.
• Manage the development and implementation of a comprehensive reporting system using the Power BI tool.
• Documenting the user requirements and tracking them in the JIRA tool.
• Acting as the bridge between technical and business stakeholders, and providing the requirements for end-to-end development, testing, and implementation of an automated legal service panel.
• Managing change requirements by effectively convincing the business with alternate solutions, by gathering relevant inputs from the IT team.
• Provided effort-cost estimate, budgeting, and forecasting based on the funds allocated for the project, where the delivery was done in phases.
• Created business process flows using Microsoft Visio.
• Created a readiness checklist, implementation plan, and service onboarding form to implement the solution in production.
• Created a solution proposal by liaising with technical leads on how the solution would be implemented, and ensuring the solution meets business requirements.
• I had provided training to the business on how to use the Power BI tool and provided a demo on the end-to-end automation of the Legal Services Panel.

Achievement: I delivered these detailed BI reports when even the Tech Lead and Program Manager mentioned that it would be a challenging project and feared taking it upon themselves. Resolved issues with complex stakeholders by mediating through the Client Engagement Manager.

Responsibilities: Key Performance Indicator Deliverables.

• Defining the scope and providing a detailed business requirements document by engaging the Office of the Deputy Secretary team.
• Eliciting the requirements for the approval workflow, and data collection methods from business users.
• Created a solution proposal by liaising with technical leads on how the solution would be implemented, and ensuring the solution meets business requirements.
• Manage the development and implementation of a comprehensive reporting system using a model-driven app and the Power BI tool.
• Created complex approval workflows using a business process tool called ARIS Express.
• Documenting the user requirements and tracking them in the JIRA tool.
• Managing change requirements by effectively convincing the business with alternate solutions, by gathering relevant inputs from the IT team.
• Acting as the bridge between technical and business stakeholders, and providing the requirements for end-to-end development, testing, and implementation of key performance deliverables, stakeholders.
• Created functional and usability test case development.
• Created a readiness checklist, implementation plan, and service onboarding form to implement the solution in production.
• I had provided training to the business on how to use the Power BI tool and provided a demo on the end-to-end automation of the Legal Services Panel.

Responsibilities: Oracle upgrade 11g to 19g.

• Conducting workshops, information-sharing sessions on details of what the stakeholders need to be aware of for their upgrades.
• Gathering tickets and triaging them to the Oracle team for upgrades, decommission tasks, etc.
• Documented meeting minutes outlining decisions made during sessions.
• Worked closely with application stakeholders, change management, solution architects, prod, and dev support teams to improve delivery processes.

Responsibilities: AUSIEX 2.0 Divestments.

• Involved in the discovery tasks for the IT stream for the Day 1 activities.
• Elicit business requirements for network segregation and email domain requirements document.
• Gathered, organized, and synthesized large amounts of information from various sources, and by speaking to different stakeholders, to build insight and understand business impacts on the data extraction tool (Alteryx) and reporting tool (Tableau).
• Documented business processes for data flows from the source all the way through to reporting layer
• Identified the different workflows that feed into data sources and also capture the downstream information that flows to the reports and dashboards.
• Worked closely with stakeholders, service management and architects to identify impacts to business processes as a result of system or application changes in divestment
• Documented and assessed the current state of Imagine a risk management system used by CAS

Responsibilities: Infinity.

• Used user stories to capture requirements from users’ perspectives.
• Involved in the discovery tasks for the application migration for the Day 1 stream. We would triage the requests from application SMEs to various teams, such as Platform Ops, Net Apps, Oracle DB, and SQL DBs, based on the requests coming through in JIRA.
• Liaised with the SCAT team to understand what they are looking for in the recovery plan, elucidated the SCAT team requirements to DB, the application team, and upstream and downstream contacts, so all their steps get documented accurately.
• Involved in updating configuration items (CIs) into the Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
• Mapping the child CIs to the parent CIs by understanding the data model of the CMDB.
• Conducted various meetings to resolve issues between stakeholders.
• Updated the existing SMP to record the changes for MIS 1.2, which included the setup of a new data mart for reporting purposes.

Responsibilities: Bedrock.

• Raised SMTP requests to whitelist 12 servers to enable data to be sent from one system to another.
• Updated Service management plan with SIT server updates by liaising with SMEs of Simcorp Dimension project
• Documented NPS provisioning form for NSX firewall burn and followed up on the change to completion.

Responsibilities: Fenergo.

• Involved in updating Configuration items(CIs) into Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
• Mapping the child CIs to the parent CIs by understanding the data model of the CMDB.
• Attending Availability Non negotiables meeting and providing updates from Infrastructure perspective
• Supporting in creating Active directory groups for NAS
• Updating the service desk onboarding kit and conducting workshops to educate the stakeholders of the IT service desk solution.
• Provided an end-to-end data flow walkthrough.
• Finalize the Flightdeck onboarding for the infrastructure.

Responsibilities: London Internet Proxy.

• Updating the sections relevant to the changes in service in the service management plan.
• Liaising with stakeholders to get the London Internet Proxy support model finalized
• Enabling the smooth transition of the solution to the IT service desk.
• Gathering the CI information from various stakeholders involved to update the Configuration Management Database.
• Conducting walkthrough with the pen testing team to explain the solution and provide them with prerequisites so to enable pen testing to be performed on the solution

Responsibilities: CSPARQ MRE.

• Gathering information from various stakeholders by conducting workshops or through one-on-one sessions for documenting the service management plan.
• Create configuration items in the CMDB for the documents, and provide relationships to the IT service.
• Raise Service Access Requests for new cloud servers, CSPARQ MRE.
• Supporting the SCAT team to perform the testing.

Responsibilities: Sanctions.

• Created a Network Perimeter Services (NPS) provisioning form that aided in building new firewall rules.
• Provide inputs to the Firewall Policy Integration Design (FPID) Provisioning Form.
• Enabled secure file transfer to be setup to shares files between two entities (CBAs and external party)
• Create CIs for the servers and documents in the configuration management database
• Raise Service Access Requests (SARs) for sanctions projects as per high-level solution design.
• Gathering information from various stakeholders by conducting workshops or through one-on-one sessions.

Responsibilities: AAPTS.

• Create CIs for the servers and documents in the configuration management database
• Prepare a detailed Service Management Plan, submit for review and get approval from Operations and Service delivery manager

Responsibilities: FMDW.

• Create CIs for the servers and documents in the configuration management database
• Prepare a detailed Service Management Plan, submit for review and get approval from Operations and Service delivery manager

Responsibilities: IS EXL Cowero.

• Prepare a detailed Service Management Plan based on the information provided by the Application support team
• Complete the Production readiness checklist to support the Go-Live activities
• Create Configuration Items in CMDB for the documents and provide relationships to the IT Service

Responsibilities: GMDI Re-Platform.

• Raise Service Access Requests for GMDI Re-platform.
• Collaborate closely with subject matter experts to document a detailed service management plan.
• Complete the production readiness checklist to support the Go-Live activities.
• Create configuration items in the CMDB for the documents, and provide relationships to the IT service.

Achievements: Received good feedback and appreciation from project managers and the business analyst team lead (Maria Stankowa, Jerry Pena, Berlinda Beck, and Hom Pandey) for detailed documentation and prompt provisioning of deliverables.

Responsibilities: Grateful patients' program

• Gathered business requirements from stakeholders at hospitals, medical research institutes.
• Drafted an options paper to recommend the solution required for the Grateful Patients Program.
• Collaborated closely with SMEs to identify and analyze core data requirements and key features of the Grateful Patients Program.
• Create business process flows and conceptual high-level solution diagrams using Microsoft Visio.

Achievements: Nikki McGregor - I’m really impressed with how quickly you have gotten your mind around this project. As you know, this project both excites and scares me. But each time we meet, my confidence grows; we’re in good hands with you. It was also great to see this reinforced in our conversation with Jason this morning; you’re clearly asking all the right questions and developing a strong sense of the solution we need.

• Created a high-level solution design for Ticketmaster and Salesforce integration.
• Conducted workshops and engaged stakeholders from various business units (Marketing and Membership, Play NRL, League Net, NRL ID, Commercial (B2B, B2C), and Clubs like Roosters, Storm, and Rabbitohs).
• Documented business requirements by means of product backlogs, epics, and user stories.
• Participated in sprint planning, daily scrums, testing, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
• Led daily stand-up meetings.
• Documented business requirements for Master Data Management, data governance, and data quality related.
• Developed a business glossary from departments that had engaged stakeholders.
• Used JIRA for tracking tasks, and SharePoint for document repository, sharing, and publishing documents.
• Used Tableau reports to analyze the data requirements.
• Gained significant experience working with back office systems, like NRL IT, HR, and finance teams.
• Working with the data custodian teams to define data quality reports.
• Used complex SQL queries to report on data quality issues.

Achievements: Dan Gaunt, PM emails: A huge thank you to Vinotha, who has played a pivotal role in helping us gather and document the requirements for the Data Warehouse Project.

It’s been a mammoth task, which has involved a lot of workshops, and a very detailed level of documentation.

James Vulling, Codeware Architect: An impressive amount of detail for an Integration Design Document.

Responsibilities: Next Generation Infrastructure Services.

• Participated in sprint planning, daily scrums, testing, retrospectives and sprint reviews
• Led daily stand-up meetings
• Assisted in entering and updating Issues (Epics, Stories, and Tasks) onto JIRA Agile application
• Created file specification document for End User Computing (EUC) and MP
• Conduct workshops and engage stakeholders from various towers (DCS, EUC and Networks) and agencies like RMS and Sydney trains
• Designed data discovery status reporting, migration risk reporting for applications initially in excel which was then migrated to automated system
• Identify and define critical data, determine ownership and assure its quality
• Supported data migration, defining data transformation and validation rules and processes
• While analysing process flows, had identified process gaps and reengineered business processes using MS Visio
• Informed Change management team regarding any impacts caused and had raised technology change initiatives where needed
• Determine the root cause of data quality and assist with process change
• Created a business requirements document for Transport support gateway implementation
• Mapping attributes from different sources (DCS, EUC) to Migration Planning team
• Maintain data quality checks on the database.

Responsibilities: Roads and Information Strategic Services.

• Designed a high-level design document for the source system, Global Positioning System (GPS), to be included in the data warehouse.
• Undertook data analysis over various source system files (upstream) as part of profiling by writing SQL scripts.
• Analyze data relationships and dependencies, business processes, and communication needs regarding existing and new systems.
• Gather, document, and analyze the detailed business requirements and the data design.
• Followed the SDLC process for documenting across all solution documents.
• Review the functional specs and solution concepts developed by the vendor that describe the desired outcomes of system development.
• Supervised and monitored by a professional team, vendor, and support teams.
• Involved in writing business test cases and executing them.
• End-user training regarding the process changes.

Achievements: Joining the team towards the end of the project phase, I delivered a Global Positioning System solution design document with very little support from my project manager.

• Have led workshops and conducted one-one-one interviews to elicit requirements from business unit teams and external/internal clients and documented them in a Business Requirements Document (BRD)
• In Agile environment elicited, analyzed the AS IS and TO BE processes and documented the impact analysis on various systems
• Visually represent business processes using UML by creating sequence diagrams and activity diagrams
• Coordinated and facilitated extensive user interviews and workshops to gather and analyze requirements
• Analyze data relationships and dependencies, business processes and communication needs regarding existing and new systems
• Determine the root cause of data quality and assist with process change
• Understand finance and risk data requirements to ensure they are captured in the source and target systems
• Gained significant experience in Agile SCRUM Software Development Life Cycle and Waterfall Methodologies
• Participated in sprint planning, daily scrums, testing, retrospectives and sprint reviews
• Led daily stand-up meetings
• System Analysis of credit and risk systems like Matrix, Wealth Management product, risk frontier, TIAMS which involved products like Equities, options, Marginal Lending, Fixed income, derivatives, payments, bonds, Mortgages, Home lending etc
• Used MS Visio tool to illustrate the business processes across systems
• Good understanding of fund accounting, middle and back office
• Information provided to APRA was based on AIRB (Advanced Internal Rating Based) standard
• Integrated AIRB with General ledger (GL)
• Good understanding of compliance and regulatory risk management
• Determine how the source system reconciles with general ledger (GL)
• Liaise with business product owners, Quality managers to understand processes and document business requirements.

• Analyzed and consolidated data across the business and made effective planning decisions
• Working with the data custodian teams to define data quality reports
• Facilitated meetings to achieve specific outcomes
• Designed reporting specifications for Prospero system
• The BI technologies used were Hyperion for reporting and Teradata database
• Fix performance issues, involve in writing business test cases
• Liaise with business product owners to understand processes and document business requirements.

• Analyze and document the Business processes
• Documented change impact assessment to understand the possible implications by implementing the change
• Performed data analysis on the customers possessing handy cards and migrated customers possessing visa debit cards
• Develop and validate business rules for new and existing process.

• Provide business cases and produce quality impact analysis documentation covering all customer data
• Have good understanding of Kimball, data vault and star schema methodologies
• Enhanced the physical model using Erwin tool
• Maintained data model and synchronized it with changes to the database
• Writing technical specifications around finance operations and building reporting capabilities
• Worked on Business Objects data analytics and reporting
• Managing the progress of the project
• Resource Allocation for the project
• Provide high quality Functional Design Documents
• Provided Test Strategy and Test plan documents for E statements Phase 1
• Reporting Phase Included the following activities:
• Documented system Impact Analysis document and Business process flows for Home Loan systems thereby gained significant understanding of Originations and Servicing flows
• Responsible for interfacing between Business and Technology to ensure that needs are met
• Responsible for coordinating between clients and development team for the delivery of the project
• Responsible to assist streams with the development of technical implementation plans
• For Business intelligence reporting, Business objects was used., :
• Managing the progress of the project
• Interact with the team members and stake holders to obtain finer requirements
• Defining report specification document for new reports and modified reports
• Reporting tool used was Crystal reports
• Liaising between Vendor and Project Teams
• Develop and validate business rules for new and existing process
• Liaise with the development team and business teams during the implementation phase of the solution
• Develop high quality test designs and test plans.

• To identify risks and Issues with existing data
• Created data mapping document from source to target reporting
• Holocentric was identified as a tool to manage business definitions/business glossary and published on intranet
• Gained a good understanding of tolling back office central system and customer service operations
• Analyses of data feed for data quality issues and in turn calculate the cost for improving the data
• Conduct Workshops with the SMEs and Vendor to document RTA Business Processes

Responsibilities: DW Business Analyst (3G Phase 2 Reitz Remediation).

• Analyzed the existing logical data model (LDM) and made appropriate changes to make it compatible with the business requirements.
• Expanded Physical Data Model (PDM) for the OLTP application using ERwin.
• Conduct meetings with stakeholders, and detail the functional requirements clearly and concisely.
• Interact with the team members and the solutions architect to obtain finer requirements.
• Articulate the possible impacts on the reports because of the migration of the products.

Responsibilities: BI Business Analyst (Reitz Reporting).

• Understanding the requirements and providing solutions for the reporting and testing activities.
• Identify assumptions, including dependencies on other projects to be delivered.
• Solving performance issues, space issues, and environmental issues.
• Understanding the business logic, its dynamism, its relevance, and linking it to IT to preempt possible disasters in time.
• Driving and supervising technology, build, test, and deployment activities.

Responsibilities: Reitz – Self-Serve BI Layer.

• Designing and implementing reporting solutions that help improve business efficiency.
• Analyzing, defining, and documenting the business case, business requirements, and functional designs.
• Articulating business requirements for technology change in the program, and agreeing on an appropriate solution.
• Writing ETL routines to load data from the holding area to the staging area.
• Created dashboards that helped monitor, measure, and manage corporate performance using Cognos.

Responsibilities: Reitz Canned Reports.

• Understanding and analyzing business processes across all business units in scope.
• Documenting reporting solutions that help improve business efficiency.
• Analyses of data feeds for data quality issues, and in turn, calculate the cost for improving the data.
• Worked with business users to define and analyze problems, create logical data model, implement physical data model, and considers the implications of business solutions to the current and future environment.
• Analyzing the impact of Migration project on High and Critical reports.
• Creating Report Information Matrix to write down the understanding for the remediation reports.
• Defining business rules for the attributes of the report.
• Creating report specification document for high and critical reports –identifying and framing the business logic for the Cognos reports.
• Assessing the performance of query built to generate the report.
• Query Optimization to get the report run faster.
• Delivering reporting solutions.

Responsibilities: Reitz Phase 2.

• Documenting reporting solutions that help improve business efficiency.
• Worked with business users to define and analyze problems, create a logical data model, implement a physical data model, and consider the implications of business solutions for the current and future environment.
• Analyzing the impact of the Migration project on High and Critical reports.
• Creating a Report Information Matrix to write down the understanding for the remediation reports.
• Defining business rules for the attributes of the report.
• Creating a report specification document for high and critical reports – identifying and framing the business logic for the Cognos reports.
• Assessing the performance of the query built to generate the report.
• Query optimization to get the report to run faster.
• Delivering reporting solutions.

Responsibilities: Data / Test Analyst (System Integration Testing).

• Created business rules and tested the data quality, as stated in data governance best practices.
• Testing the functionalities of the PPIN source system.
• The challenges faced while setting up the test environment were tactfully managed.
• The capabilities of the PPIN source system were enhanced and were required to test the changed macros.
• Writing business test cases, test scripts. Running business test cases through Mercury Test Director. Redefine the scope based on the test plan and the requirements.

Teradata Developer / Test Analyst

Responsibilities: Customer Care & Billing - Minerva Phase I.

• Understanding business rules and the domain.
• Writing ETL routines to load data from the holding area to the staging area.
• Writing MLOAD to load data from the holding area into the staging area.
• Writing BTEQ scripts to move data into the strategic data mart.
• Testing the scripts in the mainframe environment.

• Understanding business rules and domain
• Writing ETL routines to load data from holding area to staging area
• Supporting the solution design process, which is the responsibility of the solutions architecture team
• Supporting the test case creation process, which is the responsibility of the testing team
• Supporting the solution development process, which is the responsibility of the technical delivery teams (investigating defects and raising change requests)
• Providing solutions to the challenges faced while setting up the test environment., Responsibilities:
• Understanding the functionality of TDW Systems
• Understanding business rules and domain
• Writing ETL routines to load data from holding area to staging area
• Writing MLOAD to load data from the holding area into staging area
• Writing BTEQ scripts to move data into the strategic data mart
• Testing the scripts in Mainframe environment.

• Provide business cases and produce quality impact analysis documentation covering both Vodafone and Hutch's customer data.
• Responsible for coordinating between the business team and the development team for the delivery of the project.
• Develop and validate process flows for new and existing processes using swim lanes.
• Supported data migration activities, defining data transformation, and validation rules and processes.
• Data warehouse migration strategy and development were done using SAS jobs and Teradata macros to bring the data to the new Teradata box.
• Fix performance issues, and involve yourself in regression testing.

• Analyzed existing logical data model (LDM) and made appropriate changes to make it compatible with the business requirements
• Expanded Physical Data Model (PDM) for the OLTP application using ERwin
• Conducting meetings with stakeholders and detail the functional requirements clearly and concisely
• Interact with the team members and solutions architect to obtain finer requirements
• Articulate the possible impacts on the reports because of the migration of the products.

• Understanding the requirements and providing solutions for the reporting and testing activity
• Identify assumptions, including dependencies on other projects to be delivered
• Solving performance issues, space issues, and environment issues
• Understanding the business logic, its dynamism, its relevance and linking to IT to pre-empt possible disasters in time
• Driving and supervising technology build, test and deployment activities., Understanding and analyzing business process across all business units in scope
• Documenting reporting solutions that help improve business efficiency
• Analyses of data feed for data quality issues and in turn calculate the cost for improving the data
• Worked with business users to define and analyze problems, create logical data model, implement physical data model, and considers the implications of business solutions to the current and future environment
• Analyzing the impact of Migration project on High and Critical reports
• Creating Report Information Matrix to write down the understanding for the remediation reports
• Defining business rules for the attributes of the report
• Creating report specification document for high and critical reports –identifying and framing the business logic for the Cognos reports
• Assessing the performance of query built to generate the report
• Query Optimization to get the report run faster
• Delivering reporting solutions., Documenting reporting solutions that help improve business efficiency
• Worked with business users to define and analyze problems, create logical data model, implement physical data model, and considers the implications of business solutions to the current and future environment
• Analyzing the impact of Migration project on High and Critical reports
• Creating Report Information Matrix to write down the understanding for the remediation reports
• Defining business rules for the attributes of the report
• Creating report specification document for high and critical reports –identifying and framing the business logic for the Cognos reports
• Assessing the performance of query built to generate the report
• Query Optimization to get the report run faster
• Delivering reporting solutions.

• Created business rules and tested the data quality as stated in data governance best practices
• Testing the functionalities of the PPIN source system
• Challenges faced while setting up the test environment was tactfully managed
• Capabilities of the PPIN source system was enhanced and was required to test the changed macros
• Writing Business Test cases, Test scripts
• Running of business test cases through Mercury Test Director
• Redefine the scope based on the Test plan and the requirement.

• Customer Care & Billing-Minerva Phase I)
• The objective of MINERVA Release 1 is to implement the Interactive CONtact Management (ICON) system and install Optus infrastructure in order to support a “Single view of customer” and provide campaign management
• The data that ICON uses is held in the SVoC Single View of Customer database and is sourced from IDW
• ICON will be interacting with the customers and prospects and will be collecting or enhancing the information currently held in the SVoC database
• This enhanced and new information will need to be synchronized between SVoC and IDW and is done using this interface
• Responsibilities:
• Understanding business rules and domain
• Writing ETL routines to load data from holding area to staging area
• Writing MLOAD to load data from the holding area into staging area
• Writing BTEQ scripts to move data into the strategic data mart
• Testing the scripts in Mainframe environment.