Varsha Goli

**** ********* ******* **********, ***** 75080

469-***-**** acb377@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/varshagoli/

EDUCATION

The University of Texas at Dallas Expected May 2014

M.S., Management Information Systems Concentration Business Intelligence GPA: 3.66

Visvesvaraya Technological University, India July 2008

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication (B.E) Aggregate: 73.5%

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

The University of Texas at Dallas Dallas, Texas

PeopleSoft intern, The Vice President’s Office Feb 2013- Present

• Manage and assist in the execution of 100+ financial activities and perform account reconciliation, allocate budget and

prepare expense report for the fiscal year by using PeopleSoft Finance module and excel spreadsheet modelling

• Analyze previous fiscal year data and predict the funds in cost centers and suggest future cost reduction projects

Scotts Miracle Gro Marysville, Ohio

Business Intelligence and Analytics intern May 2013-Aug 2013

• Analyzed consumer insights and weather data to forecast sales and automated data loading to SQL database

• Built operational dashboard to monitor performance of SAP data warehouse using WebI and Xcelcius

• Created a standard process to be used by all departments to manage and monitor impact analysis

Deemag Infotech(WorldLink Inc) Bangalore, India

“Android” Application Developer Oct 2010 – Mar

2012

• Designed, developed and tested “Android” mobile and tablet apps in the field of healthcare, education and e-commerce

• Used “Agile” methodology and “Scrum” to collaborate with customers and respond to change requests

• Collected requirements, created project backlogs, user stories and sprint deliverables and, managed scrum meetings

Acuvate Pvt Ltd Hyderabad, India

Software Engineer Aug 2008 –Dec 2008

• Developed a desktop application using Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows communication Foundation

and a web application using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

• Waterfall methodology of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) was used

PROJECTS

Business Plan Proposal for ThinkParking: Entrepreneurial project

• Business plan involved following: market opportunity, product/service - process, competitive matrix, marketing

strategy, milestones, pricing strategy, resources, risk factors, financial statement, break even analysis and funding

Fissure Simulation: SimProject

• Lead a virtual team and as a project manager, plan, execute, monitor, control and close out a “real project”

• Managed to complete the project within budget and within deadline

Software Project Management

• Used MS Project 2010 to create project tasks and resource pool, allocate resources and schedule accordingly

• Learnt about project initiation, process management, project scope, work breakdown structure, work activities,

Project schedule, estimation, risk management, execution and quality assurance.

• Created network diagram to determine schedule and Gantt chart to visualize the schedule and the completion date

AdWords campaign and tracking blog viewers using Google analytics

• Studied the traffic flow to my travel blog, analyzed page visiting behavior and attained 30% returning visitors

• Approached a client and discussed business strategy and conducted Google Adwords campaign using both organic and

paid search, created ads, performed keyword analysis and provided with 100K impressions in 30 days

Research paper on Business Intelligence in “Retail industry”

• Studied how clustering and association rules of business intelligence is used to identify potential customers

• Learnt the improvement in inventory management, understanding customers and predicting sales

Data Mining for Direct Marketing

• Used predictive analysis model to identify customers who are most likely to respond in the next campaign

• Estimated the reduction in cost of the campaign by 20% by using prediction accuracy and confusion matrix

ACTIVITIES and LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

Entrepreneurship club – Member, Vice President Finance Nov 2012 – Aug 2013

Jindal School of Management Dean’s Council Jan 2013 – Present

Presented a business case at UT Dallas, proposed opportunities in big data and a potential strategy in the AT&T case competition

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Awards: Deans Impact Scholarship 2013

Certificate: Google Analytic Individual Qualification, SAS Data Mining and Business Intelligence certificate

Varsha Goli

2200 Waterview Parkway Richardson, Texas 75080

469-***-**** acb377@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/varshagoli/

Applications: MS-Office, MS-Project, Automation Anywhere, PeopleSoft finance, HCM and Procurement, Prezi

Operating Systems: Windows vista, 7, Android

BI tools: SAS Enterprise miner v9.3, XLMiner, Google Analytics, BEx Analyzer, BEx Designer SAP GUI 730,SSIS,SSMS, Web

Intelligence, Xcelcius, Business Objects

Databases: Oracle 10g, MySQL, MS Access, SQLite Manager, SQL server 2012

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