Suriya Narayanan
@suriyanarayanan
Business Analyst translating complex operational needs into actionable analytics and process improvements.
ZimbabweWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Business Analyst who bridges business stakeholders and technology teams across analytics, enterprise systems, and reporting workflows. I’m experienced in requirements gathering, functional documentation, UAT support, and process improvement, translating complex operational needs into structured, actionable outputs.
In research and industry roles, I built reproducible analytics pipelines in Python (Pandas and Polars) to standardize data profiling, validation, and cross-platform comparison, including processing 246,745+ advertising and social media records. I also evaluated AI-assisted analytics reliability, assessed external metadata and APIs for recommendation prototypes, and improved forecasting accuracy by 10% through planned-vs-actual variance analysis and forecasting models.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Research Data Analyst
Syracuse University
Jan 2026 - Present (7 months)
Engineers a reproducible Python analytics pipeline using Pandas and Polars to process and validate large volumes of advertising and social media data. Evaluates AI-generated analytical responses against code-verified ground truth and documents model errors and reliability risks.
Researcher, AI Team
Nexis Lab
Jan 2025 - Dec 2025 (11 months)
Evaluates artist, genre, and metadata APIs for a music recommendation prototype, assessing data coverage and response quality for personalization workflows. Documents responsible AI risks including data limitations, transparency gaps, and bias to guide prototype decisions.
Data Analyst
Paragon Digital Services (Dentsu International)
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 5 months)
Coordinated reporting and systems operations across campaign, finance, and analytics teams for multiple global brand accounts. Built and documented MediaOcean workflows and KPI/reconciliation processes, and delivered planned-vs-actual variance analysis and forecasting models that improved accuracy by 10%.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Syracuse University
Master of Science (M.S.), Information Systems
Earned a Master of Science (M.S.) in Information Systems at Syracuse University, completed Dec 2025.
Syracuse University
Certificate of Advanced Study, Data Science
Completed a Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science at Syracuse University, completed Dec 2025.
P.S.G College of Arts & Science
Post Graduate Diploma, Business Management
Earned a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management, completed May 2023.
G.R.D College of Arts & Science
Bachelor of Commerce, Commerce with Computer Applications
Completed a Bachelor of Commerce with Computer Applications, finished Apr 2020.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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