Passionate about turning data into valuable and meaningful stories, while leading with excellence.

1. Padma Thangaraj
Aurora, IL 60504
269-547-7813
spadma10@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/padmathangaraj
CAREER SUMMARY
Recognized strategic and influential senior IT executive with extensive knowledge in leading
innovative technology solutions, cloud migration, enterprise data transformation and analytics.
Highly accomplished in building and empowering cross-functional teams to re-engineer IT
architectures, streamline workflows, optimize tools, and define quality standards.
Passionate about turning data into valuable and meaningful stories, while leading with excellence.
Seeking Senior to Midlevel Management position, PMO, Program Management positions in
Data Analytics, Information Services, Data Governance
SKILLS
 Strategic Business Planning  P & L Management and Budget Control
 Program Management  Advanced Data Analytics
 Project Management/Agile Methodologies  Vendor Relations Management
 Business Intelligence (BI)  Community and Board Relations
 Data Governance  Legal Contract Management
 Tableau and Power BI  Enterprise Resource Planning
 Cloud Data Warehousing  Mentoring and Coaching
WORK EXPERIENCE
All Chicago, Chicago, IL 2012 – 2020
VP of Information Services and Analytics (2017 - 2020)
Spearheaded a $6M effort in Chicago for a cross sector, cross functional data integration platform
between Rush Hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Cook County Jail.
 Recovered $15M in lost funding, leading to a creation of PMO and cloud enablement
 Planned migration of on premise server to Amazon Web Services (AWS) along with Key
Management Services (KMS), AWS Cloud9 IDE(C, C++, Python, PHP), AWS Lambda and
Amazon RDS
 Reduced redundancies by 70% and drove business effectiveness and agility by directing
a change in the organizational IT infrastructure and optimizing processes
 Reduced IT expenses by27% by strategically collaborating with key vendors
 Reduced fines by 98.8% by spearheading a risk plan that lead to lesser audit findings
 Drove 80% of enterprise policy change with data-driven solutions and business intelligence
using Tableau and Power BI visualizations
 Accelerated 95% project deliverables within 3 months of implementing PMO strategic
plan, product and process roadmaps and continuous improvement methodologies
Senior Director of Information Services (2017-2017)
Headed a technology strategy for a federally mandated system with $3M in annual spend.
 Authored legal agreements that covered HIPAA, 15 HUD and HHS regulations. Enforced
regulatory compliance with 100% monitoring on signed partner entities
 Achieved 70% automation by directing data transformation and integration with SQL SIS
 Achieved 80% buy in and informed policies by expanding the use of data as a strategic
enabler with SSRS and SSAS
 Implemented SCRUM practices through sprint review, retrospective, story planning,
estimation and grooming sessions using JIRA

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Director of Information Services (2012 – 2017)
 Increased system utilization from 12% to 73% within 2 years by assembling a super
system utilizer network
 Drove $650K cost saving over 5 years by developing a custom solution for a complex
government regulation that integrated to the existing core platform
 Increased 95% customer satisfaction which allowed for scaling by 340% across 89
locations by enhancing online training, process optimization and helpdesk support
 Authored a 32-page Standard Operating Procedure to implement standardization and
improved operational efficiency
Dearborn National, Downers Grove. IL 2011 – 2012
Program Manager
Oversaw the operational aspects of a company-wide QA portal and business intelligence solution
for a $1.4 billion insurance company.
 Increased overall efficiencyby 80% by automating a department wide QA tool
 Managed schedules, tasks, risks and resources by utilizing SharePoint, and MS Project
management tools
Business Project Manager
 Designed progress reports and monitored programs while reporting directly to VP of IT
 Analyzed current processes and recommended solutions to reduce risk and improve
efficiency by 25%
 Define timelines, budgets, KPIs and milestones throughout the project life cycle
Catholic Charities, Chicago IL 2009 -2010
Data Manager, Data Analysis and Reporting
Managed a team of data analysts responsible for research and analysis. Accomplishments as a
Data Analyst resulted in a promotion as a supervisor within 5 months.
 Managed a team of analysts, analysis procedures, call metrics and dashboards.
 Conducted interviews, reviewed market studies and references, budget and performance
EDUCATION
Master of Science, Software Systems Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia
Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, University of Chennai, India
PMP, Project Management Institute, Chicago, IL 2020
Kellogg Executive Certificate, Northwestern University at Kellogg, Illinois 2019