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Chandler, Arizona, US

Chandler, Arizona, US

• Leading a cross functional team of data engineers, data scientists and analysts
• Implemented and oversee data pipelines to support data-driven decision making across all departments
• Led the team to swiftly build data pipelines and dashboards to deliver critical analytics on macro level trends during the 2022 housing market slowdown
• Leading multiple Risk projects from the Data team side to mitigate risk at property level and at portfolio level

Chandler, Arizona, US

• Led the team to develop and productionize company’s proprietary Automated Valuation Model
• Built new data pipelines to automate data movement from AWS to Azure
• Implemented a lead tracking system to alert the customer support team and ensure 100% coverage

Chandler, Arizona, US

• Lead the analytics business function to prioritize business problems, scope analytics requirements, design data solutions & deliverables
• Developed and productionized a ML model to predict contract cancellations utilizing Apache Spark, R on Azure Databricks platform
• Built a sentiment scoring model on unstructured agent notes data using Stanford CoreNLP to proactively address problems in listed properties to help save carry cost and improve profitability
• Identified good and bad areas to buy houses using various clustering methods on geospatial data to help in competitive pricing
• Analyze huge volumes of MLS and public records data to create new market entry strategy, define pricing segments etc.

US

• Beta Gamma Sigma honoree for being recognized as one of the most outstanding scholars at WP Carey School of Business.
• Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in a business program accredited by AACSB International - The Association of Advance Collegiate Schools of.

Tempe, AZ, US

• Worked on a research project for performance comparison of various machine learning algorithms on different platforms such as R, Python, Azure ML, H2O etc.

Tempe, AZ, US

• Academic Projects:
• Worker’s compensation litigation model: A predictive model to identify the probability of an insurance claimant to hire an attorney. Key Activities – Data exploration, Data cleaning, Outlier treatment, Variable.
• Santander bank customer satisfaction: Predict customer dissatisfaction to help the bank in customer retention. Learnings – MS Azure - Random forest, Decision tree, Naive Bayes, SVM algorithms.
• Loss Forecasting for consumer loans portfolio: Model to forecast loan default rates using ARIMA model of time series forecasting.
• Amazon book recommendation: Used concepts of Pearson Correlation (User based recommendation), text mining (for semi structured data) to develop a recommendation system in Python.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Project for Product Implementation at China Bank Corporation, Manila, Philippines.Analytics:
• Built a Customer Churn Model using Logistic Regression in R to predict churn in the e-Wallet facility offered by bank
• Developed a new Credit Scoring Model for the bank, for accepting or rejecting a loanProduct Implementation:
• Handled full life cycle implementation - Business Requirement Document, deployment procedures, post deployment support
• Led the task to address limitations in bank’s existing system, automated penal interest computation, increased income by 4%

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Project for Product Implementation at Robinsons Bank, Manila, Philippines.Analytics:
• Built a predictive model to predict the probability of a customer accepting the offered motorcycle loan.Product Implementation:
• Single handedly drove the requirement gathering sessions and coordinating with team at offshore whenever required.
• Took additional responsibility to address unanticipated requirements, led 4-member team from Infosys China for the task.
• Translated business requirement into functional requirements and provided appropriate scope of work for the team.
• Customized computation logic of various charges in Finacle, automated entire process, thereby, increased income of bank by 3%.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Project for Product Implementation at RCBC Bank, Manila, Philippines. This was a core banking system implementation project at one of the largest banks in the Philippines. Worked as part of a team of senior consultants.
• Spearheaded customization activity – propagated detailed requirements to internal teams, reviewed the changes done and validated the output of test results to ensure that customizations met functional requirements.
• Liaisoned with different teams (onsite, offshore, customization, product maintenance) to ensure delivery of customizations and bug fixes
• Customized loan renewal feature in Finacle, reduced over head for bank, renewal process time reduced from 2 days to 1 minute
• Understood migration requirements, created new migration strategy/design, aided in a smooth Go Live on the intended date
• Awarded Infosys Dream Award for this first successful product implementation in Philippines.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Product Enhancement - Cash Basis Penal Int. Recognition for Bank Columbia, Pune, India.Lead a 4-member team. Studied and analyzed requirements shared by functional anchors to calculate effort required and prepare.
• Worked on deliverables, acted as a reviewer for every deliverable of other team members to ensure a quality delivery for the client.
• Organized weekly knowledge transfer and reverse knowledge transfer session for team to enhance their knowledge about the product.
• Prepared functional testing scenarios and unit test plans for the codes developed by the team and self.
• Guided the team with their assigned modules and helped them fix the defects identified during testing.
• . Team was awarded the Infosys Gem Team Award for minimal defect delivery.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Product enhancement - Off Balance Securitization for Bank Columbia, Pune, India.
• Collaborated with team lead to understand client requirements, calculated effort required, prepared the high level design, low level design and deployment procedures.
• Developed, tested and implemented client requirements in Finacle menus.

Ms - Business Analytics

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.)