1. Rishitha Chennupati
#3B-1600 Hinman Avenue, Evanston-60201, Illinois ∙ 240-478-0491| rishitha.chennupati2013@u.northwestern.edu
EDUCATION
Jan, 2012 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Evanston, IL
-Sep, 2013 Masters in Computer Science, Sep 2013 CGPA: 3.52/4.0 GRE: 1420
EMS Database Integration Project
 Developed a pilot project to test the feasibility of integrating the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) data of stroke patients from heterogeneous data sources in Chicago into a single unified database.
 Presented a poster titled “Pre-Hospital and Hospital Data Linkage in an Organized Stroke System of Care: A Pilot Study” at the International Stroke Conference 2014.
Database Management
 Designed and created a University Database using MySQL to accommodate the student data on enrollment, fees, accommodation, details, area of study and the corresponding faculty. Studied Database management concepts related to schema design, development, establishing referential integrity and data retrieval using queries.
Summer 2012 Audited Business Strategy and Marketing Management Courses at the Kellogg School of Management.
2005-2009 JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Hyderabad, India
Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August, 2013 ZS Associates, Evanston, IL
-Present Business Process Analyst
Worked on several Data Warehouse and Mobile Dashboard Reporting projects for major clients across the Healthcare industry.
 Designed data models to create a comprehensive Sales and Marketing Data Warehouse to enable the clients analyze sales data and develop potential strategies to meet sales.
 Partnered with the brand teams at a large Pharmaceutical manufacturer and headed the maintenance and operation of Master Data Management (MDM) for products and plans to enhance the client’s performance and compliance tracking systems.
 Managed a multimillion dollar project spanning across US, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America for a leading medical devices manufacturer. During the course of the project, created project plans and tracked project status, developed budget tracking models, identified risks and recommended mitigation strategies to the senior management.
 Garnered end to end experience ranging from overall project management, requirements gathering, design, development, testing and post go-live support planning over several projects.
Feb, 2010- INFOSYS LTD Bangalore, India
Nov, 2011 Systems Engineer
 Developed ETL processes for a data-warehousing and staging project for a leading Global Energy Group client. Used a Data Federation and Virtualization tool called Composite.
 Worked on a data-warehousing product of Infosys for a major banking client, and implemented data-staging with the help of IBI Data Migrator (Iway) an adhoc tool used for ETL.
 Implemented real world ETL processes for a project using IBM InfoSphere Datastage after conducting the initial requirement gathering.
 Completed 6 month training at the Global Education Centre at Infosys, Mysore with a CGPA of 4.86/5.
SKILLS
Languages C, JAVA, C#, RDBMS, UNIX scripting, SQL, Oracle, Perl scripting, Python, HTML
Tools & Eclipse, SVN, GIT, Composite, iWay IBI Data Migrator, Datastage, MySQL, Oracle DBMS, Visual Studio, SQL Methodologies Developer, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Project, MS Share Point, Teradata, BO Xcelsius and Informatica Siperian,
Microsoft Business Intelligence Suite (SSRS, SSAS, SSIS), SDLC
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Second runners-up, Deloitte Case Competition for Northwestern University ADCA
Marketing Department, Kellogg School of Management, Research Assistant
 Conducted comprehensive literature review on the topics of mental accounting and emotional accounting.
 Researched data to analyze the effects of TRIPS compliance of 60+ countries in-terms of market entry, innovation, parallel imports and price regulation in the pharmaceutical industry.
Project RISHI (Rural India Social and Health Improvement), Graduate Student Liaison
 As an Executive Board member, lead fundraising initiatives in collaboration with other on-campus organizations and local businesses to increase organizational footprint.
Indian Graduate Students and Scholars Association (IGSSA), Publicity Chair
 Lead publicity campaigns to promote IGSSA among the diverse audience at Northwestern in collaboration with other cultural organizations.
McCormick Graduate Leadership Council at Northwestern University, Member
 Organized several events to promote interaction and involvement among graduate students.