Data-Driven Services
Business Strategy
• Precise Revenue Forecasting
                                        • Strategic Target Setting
                                        • Advanced Reporting Enchancement
                                        • Customer & Inventory Management
Machine Learning
• Large Language Classifier Models
                                        • Breakout Analysis for Public Equities
                                        • Customer Behavioral Analysis
                                        • OCR for Documents
Project Development
• Data Visualization & Dashboards
                                        • A/B Testing
                                        • Hypothesis Testing
                                        • Statistical Modeling
University
Georgetown University
McCourt School of Public Policy
Master of Science, Data Science for Public PolicyAugust 2019 - May 2021
• Relevant Coursework:
                                                                    •
                                                                        Microeconomics
                                                                        • Statistics I & II
                                                                        • Data Science I, II & III
                                                                        • Data Visualization & Geographical Information
                                                                        Systems
                                                                        • Massive Data Fundamentals
                                                                        • Computational Linguistics
                                                                    • Recevied the Merit based Graduate School Financial
                                                                    Aid
                                                                    Award.
                                                                    • Managed the financial operations of the South
                                                                    Asian
                                                                    Policy
                                                                    and Research Initiative as Treasurer
                                                                    (2019-21).
                                                                    • Advocated for student concerns and needs, serving
                                                                    as a
                                                                    liaison between students and faculty as GradGov
                                                                    Senator
                                                                    (2020-21).
                                                                
Mumbai University
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and TelecommunicationAugust 2015 - May 2019
• Relevant Coursework:
•
                                                                        Applied Mathematics I, II, III
                                                                        &
                                                                        IV
                                                                        • Structured & Object Oriented Programming
                                                                        • Analog and Digital Electronics (I & II)
                                                                        • Signals and Control Systems
                                                                        • Wave Theory, RF Modeling, and Sat. Comm.
                                                                        • Microprocessors & Microcontrollers
                                                                        • Integrated Circuits & VLSI Design
                                                                        • Computer Networks
                                                                    • Inducted into the Hall of Fame (2018-19) for
                                                                    display
                                                                    of
                                                                    extra-curricular excellence.
                                                                    • Organized, participated and judged over 50 Model
                                                                    UN
                                                                    Conferences across India (2015-2019).
                                                                    • SYNC, Computer Society of India: Mumbai Chapter
                                                                    (2015-16):
                                                                    Designed and built a custom Arduino-based automated
                                                                    medication dispenser enabled with seamless operation
                                                                    through
                                                                    Bluetooth connectivity with smartphones for precise
                                                                    and
                                                                    reliable dosage delivery.
                                                                    • The Management Society - TSEC (2016-17):
                                                                    Strategized
                                                                    and
                                                                    executed 3 major student event conferences involving
                                                                    over
                                                                    1000 participants overall as the Debate Coordinator.
                                                                
Professional Experience
       Full-TimeDIA Associates
AnalystAugust 2021 - September 2023
New York, NY, USA
Collaborated with clients from
                                                                    cross-functional teams of a Fortune 500
                                                                    multinational
                                                                    financial services corporation that specializes in
                                                                    payment cards to drive profitable business decisions
                                                                    and
                                                                    improve overall internal capabilities assisting
                                                                    their
                                                                    Global Commercial Services division (United States
                                                                    Region) by:
                                                                    •
                                                                        Boosted overall customer spend targets by
                                                                        ~30%
                                                                            YoY
                                                                        by statistically analyzing KPIs, thereby
                                                                        building a
                                                                        robust
                                                                        forecasting model.
                                                                        • Enhanced visibility on reporting requirements
                                                                        by
                                                                        100% by enabling weekly/monthly reporting
                                                                        of
                                                                        -
                                                                        
                                                                            • Performance tracking of Business
                                                                            Development
                                                                            Leaders,
                                                                            • Tracking and consolidation of sources of
                                                                            Revenue
                                                                            via
                                                                            cross-segmentation of various
                                                                            cross-functional
                                                                            teams,
                                                                            • Tracking the impact of Covid-19 and its
                                                                            trailing
                                                                            effects on various business segments,
                                                                        
• Improved management of
                                                                        ~10% of customer
                                                                        accounts
                                                                        specifically by analyzing Rolling-12
                                                                        customer-cycle
                                                                        spending
                                                                        profit margins.
                                                                        • Optimized resource allocation by strategizing
                                                                        the
                                                                        deployment of efforts toward replicating
                                                                        historically
                                                                        successful deals.
                                                                        • Built an LLM classifier model with ~85%
                                                                            accuracy to
                                                                        understand actual customer engagement from
                                                                        ad-hoc tasks
                                                                        for
                                                                        reporting purposes.
                                                                
Fellowships
Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia
Data Science for Public Good FellowMay 2021 - August 2021
Arlington, VA, USA
• Led a team of 2 interns to
                                                                    classify
                                                                    innovation from news sources using LLMs to reduce
                                                                    the
                                                                    costs of surveys for the National Science
                                                                    Foundation.
                                                                    •
                                                                        Our summer project focused on enhancing
                                                                        innovation
                                                                        measurement for the National Science Foundation
                                                                        by
                                                                        implementing advanced Natural Language
                                                                        Processing
                                                                        techniques. We aimed to supplement traditional
                                                                        survey
                                                                        data with alternative methods, successfully
                                                                        constructing
                                                                        a pipeline to identify innovation from text
                                                                        sources and
                                                                        extract relevant company information. This
                                                                        approach
                                                                        provides a real-time means of identifying
                                                                        innovation,
                                                                        offering a more dynamic perspective than
                                                                        traditional
                                                                        survey methods. Learn
                                                                            more.
                                                                    • Built a comprehensive dashboard for presenting
                                                                    Arlington County Park Access Equity Data in
                                                                    collaboration with the Arlington government.
                                                                    •
                                                                        In collaboration with Arlington County,
                                                                        Virginia,
                                                                        conducted an equity-focused study on park
                                                                        provision,
                                                                        analyzing demographic factors and travel
                                                                        accessibility
                                                                        to assess alignment with community needs. Learn
                                                                            more.
                                                                
Assistantships
Georgetown University
Graduate Research AssistantSecurity Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
November 2019 - May 2021
Washington, DC, USA
• Graduate Research Assistant for
                                                                    Professor C. Christine Fair
                                                                    
                                                                        • Co-authored with Prof. C. Christine Fair and
                                                                        Prof. Parina Patel an academic paper that was
                                                                        published in Small Wars and Insurgencies Journal
                                                                        in May 2021: Did
                                                                            India's demonetization policy curb
                                                                            stone-pelting in Indian-administered
                                                                            Kashmir?
                                                                        • Co-authored article about the paper at Gateway
                                                                        House, Indian Council on Global Relations in
                                                                        June 2021: Linking
                                                                            demonetization and stone-pelting
                                                                        • Created a novel time-series dataset of
                                                                        stone-pelting events in Indian Administered
                                                                        Jammu
                                                                        and Kashmir (J&K). (608 Downloads from the
                                                                            Harvard Dataverse as of March
                                                                            2024.)
                                                                        • Tabulated household survey data from Pakistan
                                                                        in
                                                                        STATA to study the positive correlation between
                                                                        education
                                                                        and income, as part of a separate project.
                                                                    
                                                                
Internships
The World Bank
Data Publication InternDevelopment Impact (DIME)
February 2021 - May 2021
Washington, DC, USA
Cleaned, wrangled, aggregated, and translated (from Portuguese to English) country-governance-related survey data (3 datasets, ~3200 variables) in STATA to be statistically analyzed to gain insight into irrigation-related development of a country in Africa.
The World Resources Institute
Data Science InternClimate Team
June 2020 - August 2020
Washington, DC, USA
Compiled disparate sources of data and produced a new normalized dataset to evaluate and quantify water use of ~500 thermoelectric plants across North America & Europe.
Hard Skills
Python
SQL, PySpark, Hive
R & STATA
Tableau & PowerBI
Web Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Skills
Soft SkillsLEADERSHIP
COLLABORATION
Microsoft Office Suite
MEMOS AND DOCUMENTATION
Languages: English, Marathi & Hindi
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