Pharma Domain- Business Analyst

1. Ganesh Panjaksharam
Email ID:
ganesh.panjaksharam@cognizant.com
M: +1-908-392-5932
Current Location: New Jersey
Executive Profile
More than 6 years of experience in Pharma domain, where I have worked with R&D (research and
laboratory) and Manufacturing domain.
 Experience with business analyst in R&D and Manufacturing domain.
 Client interaction, stakeholders meeting, weekly status meeting
 Requirement gathering, interacting with developers, documenting various business
processes, coordinating various projects.
 Gathering requirement/inputs from business users and transforming into the
required documentation, analysis of the requirements.
 Experience in project co-ordination in validated systems.
 Good work experience with Migration of the application, Decommissioning, Co-
ordination with service provider teams (windows, dB team, storage team, UNIX
team, Citrix team) during the migration/Decommissioning of applications.
 Playing the lead role during transition and steady state of the application.
 GxP compliance based document/template creation for company standard.
 Good knowledge on 21 CFR Part 11.
 Using MIDAS tool, EDM quality for uploading and routing the GXP related
documents for approval for FDA audit.
 Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite of products - Excel, Word and
PowerPoint.
 Excellent knowledge in ITIL process & concepts.
 Domain Knowledge on Health Care.
 Exceptional ability to quickly grasp and master new concepts and technologies,
outstanding team player and leader.
 Excellent problem solving ability, strong communication and presentation skills.
 Highly organized, detail oriented, proactive, and ability to multitask.
 Outstanding relationship management and coordination fueled by exceptional customer
focus.
Roles Performed in Previous Projects
Sanofi Aventis:
 Client interaction, requirement gathering, design document and other system
document/template creation.
 Problem solving, business user interaction to understand the requirements and
working with the team.

2.  Performing data analysis, impact analysis, risks analysis.
 Gathered Functional and Data Requirements, analyzed workflows and created
Use/test Cases, Requirement Specifications, Report Specifications, Data
Requirements.
 Business Requirement gathering, Business Process flow, Business Process
Modelling and Analysis, design documentation.
 Work across multiple functional projects to understand data usage and implications
for data migration.
 Prepare data migration plans including migration risk, milestones, quality and
business sign-off details.
Amgen:
 Business Analyst Role and managing the team
 Creating GxP validated document.
 To document the business process by identifying the requirements.
 Preparing documentation on business requirements.
 Handling various activities of the project like information gathering, analyzing the
information gathered, documenting the functional or business requirements.
 Assist in designing, planning and managing the data migration process.
 Manage assigned risks and monitor potential impacts as part of the data migration
plan.
 Perform source system data analysis in order to manage source to target data
mapping.
 Perform migration and testing of static data and transaction data from one core
system to another.
Merck:
 System Analyst/business Analyst role.
 Client interaction for requirement gathering,
 Document creation during transition and steady state of the application.
 Work with subject matter experts and project team to identify, define, collate,
document and communicate the data migration requirements.
 Perform data migration audit and exception reporting.
 Manage cross-program data assurance for physical data items in source and target
systems.
Professional Summary
Client Employer Role Duration
Sanofi Aventis Cognizant Technologies Solution Associate Mar 16-Jun 16
Amgen Inc. Cognizant Technologies Solution Associate Dec 13- Feb 16
Novartis Trained Wipro Technologies Senior Executive Sep 13-Nov 13
MSD HCL Technologies Software Engineer Apr 10- Aug 13

3. Project Description
Sanofi- It engages in the research and development, manufacturing and marketing of
pharmaceutical drugs principally in the prescription market, but the firm also develops over-the-
counter medication. The company covers seven major therapeutic areas: cardiovascular, central
nervous system, diabetes, internal medicine, oncology, thrombosis and vaccines.
Amgen –A biotechnology company, where it is committed to unlocking the potential of biology
for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and
delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced
human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human
biology.
Merck Sharpe & Dohme – One of the largest pharmaceutical company manufacturing Drugs and
Medicines. I have been part of MMD Global for Support and maintenance process. LIMS is a
Laboratory Information Management System used for Sample processing, testing and result entry.
It is used globally with more than 5,000 users.
Technical Profile
Operating Systems Windows XP, 7
RDBMS Oracle
Tools IBM Cognos Tool, BMC Remedy, Crystal Reports.
Education
2004-08 Thangavelu college of Engineering
2003-04 St. James Matric Higher Secondary School
2001-02 St. James Matric Higher Secondary School
Achievements
Certifications
1 FTL (First Time Lead) Certified
2 RTB (Run the Business) Certified.
3 ITIL certified internal.
4 SPE Certified
Trainings
1 Completed Level I and Level II Pharma
2 GxP related trainings.
Declaration
I hereby declare that all the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.
DATE: Yours truly,
PLACE: New Jersey, US P. Ganesh