Harsh Vardhan S. Email & Phone Number

• UIUC PhD (ECE) alumnus with a balanced mix of research & development experience (academia + industry) vis-à-vis prototyping, experimental design, statistical model building and validation, scaling and deploying statistical models as-a-service• Experience and keen interest in work involving interaction with Business-side / Product Management and Professional Services clients: formulating project objectives and plans; presenting data analyses• Attention to detail; ability to see big picture; providing high quality deliverables; relatively good statistical modeling, presentation, and software development skillsOrganizations that interest me: ones where their own data drives revenue, and where all stakeholders understand the characteristics of the iterative data analysis, statistical model research, model deployment and service scaling cycles. I'm particularly interested in organizations that have a role involving substantial cross-functional interaction (i.e., with stakeholders from various divisions) and majority ownership of the data value chains associated with said divisions.Specialties:Engineering::Statistical Data Analysis • Statistical Modeling • Machine Learning • Pattern RecognitionSoftware Development::• Programming Languages: Python, Java; Bash shell scripting• Data store and analysis stack: MySQL, HBase, HDFS, Hadoop, Hive, Impala, redis, Apache Pig, Python (pandas, numpy, PyMC)