About

Pooja Kumar is a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over 16 years of experience in data analytics, data warehousing, and business intelligence. She completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Data Analytics from I.I.I.T., Bangalore and M.Tech. in Information Systems from N.S.I.T., Delhi. Pooja is an expert in analysis, design, development, and implementation of Data Warehousing solutions. She has designed and developed complex BI solutions and supported end-users in designing and developing reports and dashboards using BI tools. Pooja has a strong acumen in delivering valuable insights with the help of data analytics and advanced data-driven methods. She is skilled in formulating and defining overall data architecture and associated specifications of the data storage, data processing methodologies, and approaches. Pooja is a keen analyst with skills in gathering business/reporting requirements, followed by translation into functional specifications as well as provisioning of suitable solutions. She has operationalized business intelligence solutions and conducted advanced analytics to identify opportunities and strengths to meet business goals. Pooja has presented and communicated the findings in an understandable and actionable way tailored to the audience and customer's needs. Pooja has established value-added relationships with assigned business partners to develop the analytic capability of business customers and the organization. She has created and maintained data visualizations that educated, informed, and engaged business partners on key metrics and performance measures. Pooja has collaborated with the enterprise data warehouse, data governance, and business teams on data quality issues, as well as architecture or structure of data repositories. Pooja has leveraged her expertise in end-to-end data management interactions and dependencies across complex data pipelines and data transformation and how they impact business decisions. She has led data collection, cross-channel data integration, reporting and insights, dashboards, data visualization, and data mining. Pooja has collaborated with the whole of the Data Team and wider business to support forecasting, predicting trends, and developing new products. Pooja has worked closely with the BI team to develop data infrastructure to provide access to information and expand reporting capabilities. She has worked with Business Intelligence tools such as Cognos, Tableau, and Power BI to develop reports and provide data to stakeholders. Pooja has created project plans and defined project milestones to be executed by project teams while ensuring optimal use of resources to meet the client objectives. She is resourceful in single-handedly evaluating and monitoring Product management lifecycle. Poo