Kumar Gandipan

Consultant at Verizon Technology Stack: Spark, Adobe Anlytics -sitecatalyst, Hive

• My current job since June 2017

RTCI
FIOS as ONT alarms (heart beat) generated for (ISP/Telephone/Cable) for every millisecond and their customer touch points. We need to come up with exercise which will aid various intervention strategy both Proactive/ Reactive.
I was leading the engagement, starting from identifying the data required

Analytics Activity

•Building Sequence Mining Model for Proactive intervention, Using Spark/H2O Prefix Span.
•Evaluating the SPARK/H2O model integration with the application for real time results.



•Engagement: Vprice Pricing Analytics
FIOS as ONT alarms generated for (ISP/Telephone/Cable) for every millisecond and their customer touch points. We need to come up with exercise which will aid various intervention strategy both Proactive/ Reactive.

Analytics Activity

Lead analytics adaptation in vPrice. All the analytics initiatives are driven by the team and working with the business for the adaptation.

•Presented a case to the Management on how the spatial analytics can be used for better revenue realization for Verizon based on Verizon’s and its competitor’s presence.
•Presented a case to the Management on how the product bundling can be done for Cross Selling using MBA.
•Product Simplification of the VRD Products.
•Using the Random Forest Regression model predicted the Net Price of the product.
•Access product pricing and buying pattern on how to focus On Quotes that as higher win rate and margin optimization

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vPrice Pricing Analytics, Verizon (Client Location, Chennai)
vPrice application provides pricing information for the VRD(Verizon Rapid Delivery) quotes as a part of VES(Verizon Enterprise Solutions) Portfolio in Verizon. vPrice Pricing Analytics provides reporting/analytical solution for vPrice.

When I joined VDSI as contractor in Dec 2014, focus was on providing accurate, consistent and faster reporting solutions. In Dec 2015 I was observed into Verizon as an employee, once application was stabilized, focus was shifted to analytics.

•Application development and Maintenance activities was transitioned from Onshore to Offshore with no major escalations.
•Getting the requirement from business user and prepare the Design and implementation approach for both in Informatica and OBIEE.
•Created the framework for conducting regression testing and shorter deployment cycle.
•Perform Unit / Regression / Progression testing and also involved in the Deployment process.
•Implement the data and object level security in OBIEE reporting.
•Mentor the team in resolving many challenges that they may face in Informatica and OBIEE.
•Managed the entire life cycle of BI/DWH owning of the deliveries starting from data accusation from data source team to BI reporting.
•With agile mindset, implemented bi-monthly release in vPrice Pricing Analytics.
•Provided analytics road map for the vPrice Pricing Analytics.