Purna Duggirala

Current

Business Analyst at TATA Consultancy Services
Founder at Chandoo.org

Past

Marketing Intern at Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
Software Engineer at XINTHE Technologies

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Andhra University
Andhra Polytechnic

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Purna Duggirala’s Summary

Purna Duggirala is the founder of http://chandoo.org/wp an award-winning technology blog.

An IIM graduate, Purna works with Tata Consultancy Services as a Business Analyst in their insurance vertical and in free time runs one of the world's most popular excel and visualization blogs.

Microsoft awarded Purna the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for year 2009.

Purna Duggirala’s Specialties:

Purna's professional interests include data analytics, information dashboard design, Excel and VBA based modeling and business solutions, writing, insurance (P&C), software development

Purna Duggirala’s Experience

Business Analyst

TATA Consultancy Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

As a business analyst - insurance practice at TCS I have,

- Prepared business specifications for a new reporting environment at AHA Korea by working with our customers at Seoul, South Korea
- Developed and implemented Balanced Score Card (BSC) based account performance evaluation framework for 10+ large accounts based out insurance solution center, Chennai, India
- Written and presented a proposal for implementing a bespoke underwriting and policy administration solution for our customer at Dublin, Ireland.
- Conducted 5 user workshops, gathered requirements and prepared functional specifications for helping a large global insurance company in starting their health insurance operations in China by working from Bangalore and Hong Kong.
Founder

Chandoo.org

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)

Pointy Haired Dilbert is an award winning excel, analytics and visualization blog that features productivity tips, hacks and charting tutorials for YOUR success.
Marketing Intern

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

April 2005 — June 2005 (3 months)

As a marketing intern with Glenmark Pharma I have,

- Analyzed customer relationship management practices followed by pharma companies by interacting with 60+ dermatologists across the country (India)
- Developed an optimum CRM framework and road map for Glenmark pharma on managing relationships with dermatologists
Software Engineer

XINTHE Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 2 months)

As a software engineer at Xinthe technologies (http://xinthe.com) I have,

- Developed Sales Force Automation system for our customer Reebok using J2EE / Web technologies
- Developed Excel Bridge - a Java based off the shelf component for creating excel based reports using J2EE / JSP platform.
- Received appreciation for commitment and innovation shown in the project from the customer

Purna Duggirala’s Education

Indian Institute of Management, Indore

PGDM , Marketing, Systems , 2004 — 2006

First prize in a national level marketing event conducted at MDI, Gurgoan

Activities and Societies:

Marketing Club
IRIS (Internation B-school Festival) Organizing Committee Member, responsible for handling media and public relations, promotions, web based contests
Member of Media committee responsible for Institute's PR and Website
Andhra University

B Tech , Computer Science & Engineering , 1999 — 2003

- State FIRST rank in the entrance examination (ECET - 1999)
- Winner of PRATIBHA Award & Scholarship from State Govt. of Andhra Pradesh

Activities and Societies:

- Presented papers at 3 national software symposiums, won first prize for our paper on "Cracking RSA Encryption Algorithm", won second prize for "template libraries in C++"
Andhra Polytechnic

Diploma in Computer Engineering , Computer Engineering , 1996 — 1999