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Remote

• Deep-dive analysis of data of the global digital identity product of AI age estimation and anti-spoofing technologies to test specific hypotheses and generate new business insights
• To advice on business strategy and delivering executive presentations using story telling with visualization techniques in Tableau, across multiple areas - including Product Development, Sales, Marketing, and Finance
• Working with stakeholders to agree on clear, unambiguous KPI definitions and mapping the relationships between leading and lagging metrics
• Building, maintaining and communicating reports and dashboards and data visualization to track key performance indicators against objectives followed by insightful interpretation of results

Atlanta, Georgia

• Understood financial and merchandising business problems of the Installation Services category (~$ 7B/year in revenue) and designed and developed analytical solutions in the form of foundational data, reports.
• Collaborated with multiple stakeholders ranging from 2 different business teams (total 6 members), IT team (10 members) and executive leadership to deliver these solutions.
• Measured and reported out financial impact of 6+ strategic initiatives and events. Enabled tracking and improving of KPIs like average cycle time from 103 days to 91 within 6 months
• Analyzed large volumes of complex data, using a wide variety of database applications and tools including SQL, Tableau, Google Cloud, Google BigQuery, Excel and R
• Delivered executive presentations and presented key insights using story telling with visualization techniques in Tableau
• Developed new metrics that business partners use such as KPIs such as cycle time, average ticket resolution time

Atlanta, Georgia

• Forecasting sales using analytics, for assigned product category. Improved and maintained accuracy to 91%
• Implemented process improvement to reduce resolution time of store requests by 50%, leading to time savings of 2 to 2.5 hours of an inventory analyst per week
• Creating new reports to help the team focus on most relevant data and metrics using Excel and SQL
• Collaborating with merchandising, supply chain and stores
• Maintain the sale forecasting and replenishment system for assigned stores and distribution centers
• Identify opportunities to balance inventory between locations to reduce total inventory investmentfor assigned product category

Greater Atlanta Area

• Understood business requirement of campaigns and translated that to analytics use cases- Defined metrics and built scorecard to measure the sales team performance
• Used data-driven predictive models such as regression in Excel, analytic models such as clustering, segmentation, data and data visualization techniques such as dashboards in Tableau
• Delivered analytics solution to increase profitability by optimization of customer acquisition and retention costs
• Proposed actionable insights to reduce new customer acquisition cost by 20% performing data-mining using store data
• Delivered executive presentation to management and marketing team to present an analysis of key insights, root cause, opportunities and gaps in the operations using PowerPoint (Microsoft Office)Relevant Skills.

Atlanta, USA

• Working with the Sponsored Research Department of the Business School under Ms Lalita Kaligotla
• Strengthen the program portfolio by analyzing data of research budgets and trends of top 100 US business schools
• Strengthen the relationship with businesses by means of networking events for additional research fundsRelevant Skills: Business Analysis, Presentation, Communication, Research, Data Collection, Process Improvement.

Mumbai, India

• Managed the product during its life-cycle: from gathering product requirements, forecast analysis, design development, costing, vendor negotiations and production all the way through launch by working with.
• Coordinated with different stakeholders in expansion of the low-cost brand from 8 stores to 15 over a period of 2 years
• Played a significant role in outperforming the competitors’ sales revenue by collaborating with multiple teams: production, operations, marketing, merchandising and management
• Boosted online and retail sales by conducting market research and analysis of competitors and customer data
• Supported the merchandizing team to ensure efficient costing and purchasing: resulting in per unit cost reduction by 7%
• Analyzed state-wide sales reports to understand trends and made recommendations to management and buying team

Mumbai, India

• Optimized the material flow operations involving the delivery, storage and retrieval of raw materials in the factory
• Collaborated with other departments in implementing processes to reduce operational cost and improve efficiencies
• Applied data-driven techniques to critical KPIs to continuously maintain a high standard on operations and product quality Relevant Skills: Presentation, Communication, Innovation, Project Management, Collaboration.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Supply Chain, Operations And Business Analysis, G.P.A.- 3.69

Full Scholarship with Graduate Research Assistantship

Diploma In Apparel Manufacturing And Designing