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Priya Sarah Joseph

Summary

Objective:

To pursue a creative and challenging career where I can hone my skills and imbibe new ones in the better interest of the Organization and personal growth. A Data-driven professional with extensive experience in business intelligence, data visualization, and analytics. Expertise in SQL, Power BI, and enterprise reporting tools with a strong foundation in financial and academic data systems. Adept at automating processes, optimizing reporting, and providing actionable insights for strategic decision-making.

Profile:

  • Currently working as an Assistant Registrar in American University of the Middle East, Kuwait.
  • Strong background in Business Intelligence systems design planning and strategy implementation.
  • Expert analytical and problem solving skills based on a data driven approach.
  • Experienced in analyzing complex data and delivering visualization solutions by building dashboards to show insights of different portfolios and customer level detailed reports.
  • Accumulated more than 5 years of expertise in Core Banking System (BANKS), including the development of Central Bank reports and internal operational reports. Proficient in supporting the CINET system, crafting Treasury Cash Flow reports, and developing advices and account statements. Skilled in universe design and automating systems using the INFORMATICA ETL tool.
  • Extensive hand on experience in Java/J2EE, Oracle PLSQL and ETL tools.
  • Experience in content management system: Oracle Web Center Sites (Fatwire 7.5,7.6), MVC architectural pattern, Oracle 11g, Web Intelligence Reports
  • Quickly adapting to newer technologies. Participated in various projects at various stages from conception to implementation.
  • Sound experience in designing and creating custom queries, dashboards, reports and interpret data for analysis.
  • Proven working experience in Data Analysis and Data Visualization.
  • Implemented automation of Business Processes and management of documents using Laserfiche.
  • Ability to meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks, decisive with strong leadership qualities, flexible in work schedules and possess good communication skills.
  • Excellent analytical and teamwork skills, and verbal and written communication skills.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages

Work History

Assistant Registrar - Scheduling & Reporting Unit

American University of the Middle East
12.2018 - Current


Project Description:


American University of the Middle East is a leading higher education institution in Kuwait. This role is responsible for optimizing operational efficiency, enhancing data-driven decision-making, and facilitating seamless course scheduling processes within a dynamic academic environment.


Roles and Responsibilities:


  • Manage and analyze vast datasets related to student enrollment, course registration, and academic performance.
  • Develop comprehensive reports and dashboards using Argos Reporting Tool and Power BI that showcase key data findings and provide actionable insights for academic planning and decision making.
  • Implement data quality control measures to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of registrar data, complying with institutional policies and regulatory requirements.
  • Actively participate in academic planning initiatives providing data-driven insights to inform strategic decision-making regarding course offerings, faculty workloads, academic schedule and resource allocation.
  • Ensure timely delivery of accurate data using advanced SQL queries to facilitate data-driven decision-making by university administrators and academic departments.
  • Assist with registration audits and degree audits to ensure compliance with academic requirements.
  • Learning and building processes for automating the business requirements using Laserfiche which is a process automation and Document Management System (DMS).
  • Constantly updating technical skills on PL/SQL, Business Intelligence concepts and striving to learn new skills and tools needed in the field of Data Analysis and for process automation.
  • Provide training and support to staff members on data management tools, reporting techniques, and best practices in data analysis.

Senior System Analyst - Core Banking IT Consultant

Burgan Bank
01.2014 - 12.2018

Project Description:


Burgan Bank is a leading bank in Kuwait. The project deals with generating BANKS reports based on SAP BO (WEBI). This helps the business people for good analysis based on the information generated.


Roles and Responsibilities:


  • Key member of the successful migration of the Core Banking System.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to gather and analyze reporting requirements from various departments like Retail, Loans, Liability & Operations, Treasury, FCG, Credit Risk etc.
  • Led the development and implementation of the Credit Information Network (CINET) system, covering loan and credit card portfolios, in addition to various complex reports such as Client Position, Treasury Cash Flow, P&L, Basel files, Provision reports, Currency Position, and Account Statements.
  • Developed and designed visually appealing and interactive data visualization dashboards using Qlik sense that drive action within the business.
  • Developed and maintained ETL (Extract, Transformation and Loading - INFORMATICA) jobs to automate system by extracting the data from multiple source systems like Oracle, Flat files etc.
  • Communicating with the Business team, giving clarifications and resolving the problems.
  • Development of Advices and Certificates using Oracle BI Publisher.
  • Logging of defects found during execution and tracking the status using HP ALM tool.
  • Prepared Deployment Document and involved in Production cutover activities.
  • Preparing documents related to the application for knowledge sharing.

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys
11.2011 - 10.2013

Client : Apple, US

Project : AppleCare - Development


Project Description:


This project deals with the content management of Apple’s Support sites. It helps the business team to manage the support sites on the launch of new Apple products with ease. This is achieved by customizing the content management tool – Oracle WebCenter Sites (Fatwire) based on user’s requirement. Project involves important modules like Bulk Approval of assets, TBM, TBR, Site To Site Copy, Static Publishing, Page layout etc.


Roles and Responsibilities:


  • Understanding Business requirements of AppleCare
  • Prepared ERS, Design, Development and Deployment Document
  • Developing POC of the requirements for presenting demo to onsite manager
  • Involved in creating asset model, templates, publishing, asset associations and customizations of Fatwire components
  • Created custom attribute editors providing rich user interface for flex attributes
  • Customized attributes of Basic assets in asset edit screen
  • Communicating with AppleCare Business team, giving clarifications and resolving the problems
  • Analyzed and fixed defects raised as tickets in RADAR and Espresso
  • Used various tools like JMeter, Java Melody for load testing
  • Attending Daily calls and Project meetings
  • Unit testing of the different modules
  • Prepared Deployment Document and involved in Production cutover activities
  • Preparing documents related to the application for knowledge sharing
  • Successfully delivered AppleCare 2.9, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 releases
  • Providing production support for AppleCare project.


Client : Walgreens, US

Project : Walgreens Vendor Portal

Standard Role : Developer, Tester


Project Description:


This project deals with the content management of Apple’s Support sites. It helps the business team to manage the support sites on the launch of new Apple products with ease. This is achieved by customizing the content management tool – Oracle WebCenter Sites (Fatwire) based on user’s requirement. Project involves important modules like Bulk Approval of assets, TBM, TBR, Site To Site Copy, Static Publishing, Page layout etc.


Roles and Responsibilities:


  • Involved in understanding the requirement document and prepared Low-level design document.
  • Unit testing of the different modules.
  • Test case execution.
  • Logging of defects found during execution.
  • Attending Daily calls and Project meetings.
  • Prepared Deployment Document and involved in Production cutover activities.
  • Preparing documents related to the application for knowledge sharing.
  • Walgreens is a leading US Retail pharmacy store.



Project : Infosys Foundation Training

Standard Role : Trainee


Project Description:


Has undergone internal training at Infosys Education & Research Department, Mysore. The training covered different courses like Programming Practices, RDBMS, IP Security, Object Oriented Programming, HTML, Java, J2EE etc.


Education

B.Tech Degree - Information Technology

Mar Baselios College of Engineering & Technology
Trivandrum, Kerala
01.2006 - 01.2010

XII - undefined

St. Thomas Central School
Trivandrum, Kerala

X - undefined

St. Thomas Central School
Trivandrum, Kerala

Skills

ERP - Ellucian Banner 9 and Enterprise Reporting Tool - Evisions Argos

SAP Business Objects - BI Launch Pad [WEBI, Crystal Reports],Universe Designer Tool

Qlik Data Visualization Tool, Microsoft Power BI

Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise 11g

BANKS - Core Banking System

Credit Cards - HPS Solutions (Power Card)

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Certification

  • Python 101 for Data Science (Cognitive Class – IBM Developer Skills Network)
  • Data Analysis Using Python (Cognitive Class – IBM Developer Skills Network)
  • Data Visualization Using Python (Cognitive Class – IBM Developer Skills Network)
  • Model data in Power BI (Microsoft Learn)
  • Get started with Microsoft data analytics (Microsoft Learn)
  • Prepare data for analysis (Microsoft Learn)

Achievements

  • Won MFG-CSI Spot Award for consistent performance and for interacting with customers directly on a daily basis and earned the good will of the client.
  • Received STAR Infoscion Certification after successful completion of Infosys training.

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 04/23/88
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Visa Status: Transferable

Disclaimer

I hereby declare that all the information furnished herein above is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Timeline

Assistant Registrar - Scheduling & Reporting Unit

American University of the Middle East
12.2018 - Current

Senior System Analyst - Core Banking IT Consultant

Burgan Bank
01.2014 - 12.2018

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys
11.2011 - 10.2013

B.Tech Degree - Information Technology

Mar Baselios College of Engineering & Technology
01.2006 - 01.2010

XII - undefined

St. Thomas Central School

X - undefined

St. Thomas Central School
Priya Sarah Joseph