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A versatile and result oriented professional with over two years of experience in business process re-engineering and rule management, and over five years of experience in business intelligence solutions incorporating a wide-range of enterprise technologies. With a strong functional dept in finance, sales, purchasing,and inventory, Irfan's current focus at Infor, an enterprise business software provider, is on building a BI solution that leverages enterprise information for strategic and operational reporting and delivers actionable insights for better decision-making that reduce cost, improve operational efficiencies, and positively impacting bottom line. Irfan's experience is backed with strong quantitative background with solid understanding in descriptive and predictive analytics. Excellent verbal and written communications, strong technical capabilities, inherent ability to speak technical issues and concepts to business, positive attitude towards problem solving, establish effective working relationships BI Reporting: BIRT, SQL Server Reporting (SSRS), Analysis Services (SSAS) , Cognos 10 Framework Manager, Report/Analysis/Query Studio, Business Insight, Cognos 10 SDK. ETL: SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Databases: SQL, Oracle Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, MDX, Java, C++, Structured Rules Language, JavaScript, VBA. Other tools: Savvion BPM, Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor BRM, SQL Server BIDS, Oracle, MS SQL, TOAD, Rational ClearCase, Eclipse, Matlab, HP Loadrunner, JIRA, SVN, MS Visio/Project/Access, Advanced Excel Authorized to work in the U.S without visa sponsorship. Specialties: Enterprise Performance Management & Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing (Kimball and Inmon approaches) Data Mining, Business Analytics, Master Data Management (MDM), Business Process/Rule Management, Business Analysis, Software Development Life Cycle, UML, Financial Analysis / Modeling, Risk Management, Loan Origination/ServicingBusiness Analyst @ From January 2010 to Present (5 years 10 months) Research Assistant @ - Assisted in the analysis of capital allocation across corporate divisions of large enterprises on the basis of various attributes of divisional managers. From September 2009 to January 2010 (5 months) Programmer Analyst (on campus) @ - Designed and developed Web Harvester, automating retrieval of social science research data. It reduced manual effort by almost 80%, streamlined extraction process and improved study selection process. - Defined user requirements and existing system inefficiencies that facilitated designing of flexible solution. Performed requirement elicitation across various functional units single-handedly. From September 2008 to January 2010 (1 year 5 months) IT Systems Analyst @ - Developed Loan Origination solution, an automated and integrated common lending platform that supports loan origination across multiple lines of business for Capital One Auto Finance, USA - Spearheaded design and implementation of business rule flows and process flows in Savvion automating underwriting and credit decisioning, segmentation based on risk profiles and dynamic pricing of auto loans, which reduced costs by 40%, increased mortgage volume, and shortened turnaround times - Designed decision tables/tree facilitating business to tweak the policies governing the assessment of risk and credit worthiness, enabling client to identify fraudulent applications leading to reduced bad debts - Coordinated with subject matter experts during business process design, modeling and analysis. Reviewed functional and non-functional requirements and created system and integration test cases resulting into identification of 30% defects. Presented business process flow design and code walk-throughs to the client - Supervised three team members ensuring timely completion of the tasks. Formulated process and handled deployments of all Business Rule Engine (BRE) modules. Increased team’s productivity by 125% by improving defect prevention; trained team members by conducting domain and technology workshops Awards and Honor - Conferred Excellence Award by Capital One Auto Finance for outstanding achievement in business rules management and Special Recognition Award by Infosys for exceptional performance in business process - Adjudged in the top 5% band of employees at Infosys. Received highest performance rating in appraisal cycles and special appreciation for excellent analytical and interpersonal skills From June 2006 to May 2008 (2 years) Master of Science in Financial Engineering, Quantitative and Computational Finance @ University of Michigan From 2008 to 2009 B.E, Information Technology @ University of Mumbai From 2002 to 2006 Science @ Bhavan's College (Andheri, Mumbai) From 2000 to 2002 Irfan Prasla is skilled in: Business Intelligence, Business Analysis, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Integration, Software Development, PL/SQL, Java, Enterprise Architecture, Requirements Gathering, UML, Enterprise Software, ETL, Business Process, Data Analysis, Business Process Design, VBA, Analysis