Hiren Suraiya

Hiren served as a Senior Consultant in the Advisory practice of EY based in the Atlanta.

He is a Computer Science and Economics graduate from Emory University with coursework experience spanning Database Systems, Computer Security, Operating Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Data Structures and Algorithms, Systems Programming, and Assembly Programming.

He has experience in business intelligence, data analytics and visualization, cloud computing, big data, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), graph databases, and other emerging technologies.

Emory University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Economics

  • Honors:
    • Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society
    • Alpha Epsilon Upsilon
    • 100 Senior Honorary
    • Dobbs Society
  • Activities:
    • Residence life
    • Student Conduct Board
    • Photography Club
    • Alternative Spring Break
    • LeaderShape

Ernst & Young (EY) | Senior Consultant

Site Harmonization – $50 Billion Pharmaceutical Company

  • Developed Alteryx Flows to dynamically cleanse, standardize, and harmonize over 60,000 trial site addresses, incorporating fields from 12 sources, with ability for manual corrections, and reconciliation with master datasets; Reduction of manual effort by 90%
  • Developed geographical Qlik Sense dashboards to provide Medical Science Liaisons, and executives a method to track trial KPIs at a franchise level, examine satellite-primary site relationship, and drill down on key dimensions, assisting with future trial setup
  • Evaluated internal, external and regulatory sources for data gap, compliance, master data, and governance issues; Authored work papers with findings; Proposed strategies involving graph databases for automating harmonization and master data management
  • Aligned, managed, and led meetings and interviews with key client stakeholders across business, technology, and data areas
  • Led engagement team of 2, created project timeline, drafted statements of work, managed engagement finances of $270,000, sold additional work in competitive process, delivered project on time and budget receiving perfect service quality score from client

Delivery Excellence Analytics – EY

  • Analyzed $1.5 billion in engagement finances for EY Technology Consulting Lead with minimal supervision; Utilized Alteryx and Tableau to uncover co-relations and causes for profit margin misses, data quality issues, and shortcomings in execution

Operational Audit – Fortune 100 Cable and Telecommunications Provider

  • Performed two formal code audits (Java, JavaScript, SQL, MicroStrategy) for new customer on-boarding and credit assignments to ensure accurate code logic, measures, and protections, according to audit objectives and testing methodology
  • Worked directly with client’s Internal Audit Service Manager

Spend Analysis – $15 Billion Food Service Company

  • Analyzed 60 million data entries from 3 countries across 3 systems to assess procure-to-pay process using Tableau and Tableau Data Prep; Recommended vendor consolidation, and buying channels for improved control, speed, compliance, and efficiency

Automation Assessment – $55 Billion Global Fortune 200 Beverage Company

  • Evaluated automatability of operating processes ranging from logistics, to customer service management using Blue Prism Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software; Produced end-to-end documentation of RPA Bot Design Documents

EY Internal Initiatives

  • EY Employee Knowledge Graph: Developed a Neo4j knowledge graph including employee availability, skill, experience, and teams for increased efficiencies in staffing resources, tracking in-demand skills and locations, recruiting, and network management
  • Advisory Consultant Program (ACP) Headcount Modeling: Worked directly with ACP Practice Partner and Director to build a sustainable Excel Model to track and predict future practice headcount accounting for hiring, attrition, and promotions
  • EY ACP Council: Served as co-lead overseeing 10 team members to advocate for National practice employees and curate initiatives to improve employee satisfaction and retention; Interfaced with new hires, program directors and senior EY leadership
  • Miscellaneous: Led an Automation Anywhere RPA training (24 employees); Served as a recruiting guide lead, attended Interview Megadays, spoke on new hire panel; Developed Blue Prism bot to sort prospective recruit’s resumes; Designed chatbots using Botmock and researched AI market for client proposals; Created COVID-19 dashboards for EY Life Science sector sales

The Coca-Cola Company | Business Intelligence Analyst

  • Assisted the Global IT Business Intelligence and Big Data Platforms department with prototyping Google Cloud Platform
  • Automated data cleansing, Google Big Query upload and visualization of 700 million rows and 700 columns of 2015 sales in Argentina mashed with 300,000 NOAA weather data entries; incorporated tools such as Talend, Tableau and Microstrategy
  • Provisioned cloud monitoring services for Information Risk Management team utilizing Google Stackdriver and Splunk APIs
  • Assessed 7 visualization tools on 20 metrics and ranked them for various functionality
  • Programming:
    • Java
    • Python
    • SQL
    • C
    • Assembly
    • PHP
    • UNIX
    • HTML
    • CSS
    • JavaScript
    • BASIC
  • Software:
    • Tableau
    • Alteryx
    • Neo4j (certified)
    • Qlik
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Automation Anywhere
    • Blue Prism
    • Microsoft Bot Framework
    • PowerBI
    • Botmock
    • MicroStrategy
    • Talend
    • Looker
    • Splunk
  • Hiking
  • Photography
  • Badminton
  • Violin

  • Proficient in English, Hindi, Kutchi (Indo European)
  • Conversational Gujarati, French