Master of Science in Management Information Systems, Northern Illinois University – Dekalb, Illinois

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University – Hyderabad, India

Northern Illinois University, Illinois, USA

Graduate Assistant, Jan 2017 – Dec 2017

• Delivered a range of teaching and assessment activities including tutorials directed towards the delivery of subjects at undergraduate level.
• Applied departmental processes related to peer advising/mentoring.
• Involved in the development of new material for department courses.
• Captured large datasets, manipulated and generated reports using MS Excel and MS Access with above 95% efficiency.
• Supervised practical work, advising on MS Excel & Access methods and techniques to assist the transfer of knowledge.

We Consultants (Startup for Market Strategies)

Managing partner, May 2014 – August 2015

Established a marketing firm with a vision to provide marketing strategies and business solutions for new and

upcoming businesses

• Business Development: Gather requirements and used intrinsic data handling techniques to analyse and identify new leads, make proposals and present at stakeholder meetings.
• Reached break-even within 6 months with over 85% project delivery efficiency.
• Led the project procurement and alternate vendor analysis for parts of a hydraulic system in the market.
• Improved customer reach and support by almost 30% using demand forecasting and ‘Point of Entry Market Strategy’.
• Managed and negotiated supply agreements across a range of commodities and complexity resulting in 7% savings.
• Sufficient exposure to designing and developing Tableau reports and dashboards for data visualization using R & Tableau.
• Team Building & Management:
• Successfully managed teams of highly skilled analysts, strategists, graphic designers and partners to deliver 5 projects within 12 months.
• Trained and mentored sales and marketing teams of the clients to deliver the given strategy with maximum gain.
• Techniques:
• Viral, Scarcity, Relationship, Social media and Search Marketing to name a few were some of the marketing techniques.
• Multiple Regression, Factor and Cluster analysis were used to drive the decision-making process.

Vishwesh Udyog,                        

Business Data Analyst, January 2012 – July 2015

• Develop, perform and manage analysis of business and financial metrics for ongoing projects and find prospects.
• Gather and interpreted relevant data to assess costs, productivity, demand patterns, etc.
• Gathered and elicit customer requirements through focused discussions with product end-users, business operations staff, tax & compliance groups, and related stakeholders.
• Streamlined the reporting process through SQL and SAS and automated the daily reporting process.
• Provided management support for budgeting, records management, information security, financial controls, and business continuity activities.
• Developed dynamic reports, dashboards, and key performance indicators aligned with business strategies and initiatives, also alternative solutions to issues with Product Management and Technical Managers.
• Designed and built statistical analysis models using company’s customer database.
• Quantifiable results:
• Optimized inventory by developing new safety stock methods designed to reduce excess by 15% with no effect on service levels.
• Boosted market share by 6%, customer satisfaction by 30%.
• Reduced service requests and buy-back by 50%.
• Team Building & Management:
• Train, develop, and mentor new hires on business processes, account management and business objects/MS Excel processes used within the organization.
• Hands-off approach to team management with 20% increase in team efficiency and almost 10% increase in productivity.
• Techniques and Skills:
• Created pivot tables, charts and presentations to help management take decisions on financial planning.
• Relationship and Direct Marketing to engage clients and on-board new clients.

• R
• SAS
• Python
• Tableau
• SQL
• MS Excel

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