Badri Narayanan Kannan


Location

Chicago, Illinois
Tiruchirappalli, India
Education
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    August 2016 - May 2018
    degree
    Master's
    major
    Management Information Systems
    SASTRA University
    July 2009 - May 2013
Work Experience
    IBM
    DATA Analyst
    May 2013 - June 2016
    company
    IBM
    title
    DATA Analyst
    overview
    • • Built an application to expedite data management for extraction, merging, data cleansing, aggregation, and data profiling of over 270 million business records for creating marketing reports, maps and market insights using SAS. • • Created the master data files for customers like Microsoft and Dell which involved checking the data integrity, data migration, creating data backups and optimizing the data for high scalability and efficiency. • • Formulated sophisticated models like Market Insight, Customer Insight and data append which have helped to generate higher revenue for clients from Fortune 500 companies and produce descriptive statistics using SAS Macros. • • Implemented customized ad-hoc solutions by extracting, merging and cleaning multiple tables using SQL Joins and query optimization on the old ones by removing bushy joins, indexing, setting constraints and measuring redundancy. • • Generated Market Penetration Analysis reports, this has helped to research the changing market extensively and developed comprehensive solutions to boost the profitability and streamline operations. • • Automated the creation of master files using job triggers and SQL thereby eliminating human errors by 80 percent and creating performance measures and monitor data transfer error logs to validate the data accuracy. • • Delegated meetings and discussions to understand the product requirements and formulated methods to achieve the requirements thus decreasing the turnaround time by 40 percent. • • Handling ad-hoc maps with historical data including exploratory data analysis and creating BI dashboards, business intelligence and financial reports that have boosted the revenue by 20 percent. • • Lead the team in analyzing highly analytical requirements involving source to target mapping and collaborate with cross-functional teams on business solutions, thus doubling the productivity of the team
Fun Fact

I am good singer

Passion

I am a data enthusiast and I have been working with analytics for the past 5 years trying to make myself better by learning more. This keeps me driven and my passion for learning is unquenchable.

Skills
Languages
EnglishGermanHindiKannadaMalayalamTamil
Technical skills
Easytrievejavapythonsas
Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)JCLMachine LearningMS Word, Excel & PowerPoint; Social Media Savvy; email; Strategic; Communication; Decision-making; Detail-oriented; Personable; Positive; Motivated; Creative; Highly adaptable; Organized; Coordinating schedulesMySQLPowerBI TrainedrsqlTableau
Leadership
    Cricket
Hobbies
Singing
Dancing
Cooking