1. Resource Profile – Dr. Charu Talwar
Charu is a resourceful and a well rounded professional with experience in the Retail domain encompassing Master Item Data - EMI Store item set up, SAO
Store assortment Online, Data Quality and Data Governance. Charu specializes in resolving business challenges and driving Product Implementation,
Deployment and Support.
Current/Past Projects:
1) Product Owner and Project lead, Data Management, Global Ethics and Compliance, Walmart
 Successfully launched Data Governance Framework and Collibra technical implementation of the same for Global Ethics and Compliance.
 Was responsible in defining complete framework and policies for end to end data management solution for the client’s Compliance division.
 Created on-boarding and training documents for processes and procedures and other project related artifacts like current and future state documents.
 Led design documentation of workflows for Business Rule management and Data Remediation based on Data Quality exceptions.
 Prepared and executed unit test cases and led UAT sessions with the business
2) Product Owner, Data Quality and Data Governance, Walmart
• Gathered core business requirements for governing and supporting the activities associated with the creation and management of item attributes.
• Was responsible for development of Collibra – the Data Governance tool along with providing business support in the adoption and usage of the tool.
• Developed data driven application screens and reports fetching results for the end user.
• Managed end to end testing to verify all functional and integration points.
• Documented business requirements, wrote solution summaries for any gaps discovered and configured the system.
3) Business Analyst and Project lead, Store Assortment Online, Walmart
• Worked on a critical project that focusses on physical and digital convergence.
• Played a supplier facing role where she helped the suppliers bring their product data to the online environment.
• Was involved in onboarding and training suppliers, organizing and leading supplier focus groups and designing an accurate content review process.
• Facilitated resolution of Walmart’s suppliers’ business and technical issues and keeping suppliers updated with the status of created items.
Education:
Charu holds Ph. D in Organizational Psychology from Panjab University, India.
Name Charu Talwar
Designation Senior Consultant, Retail Business Consulting
Professional
Experience
Charu completed her Post Doctoral Research at University of Pennsylvania and has 10+ years of wide-ranging
professional experience in Research & Academics and more recently in the Retail IT Industry. Over last 3 years
she has successfully led and supported Walmart’s critical projects related to online item set up and data
governance.