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AKSHAY PARTHASARATHY [pic]

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email: ******.*.*******@*****.*** ?

webpage: http://tiny.cc/akshaypartha

OBJECTIVE Goal oriented Industrial Engineer seeking a Full time position

using relevant project and leadership experience

EDUCATION

Master of Engineering (Major: Industrial Engineering, Minor: Business

Analytics) CGPA: 3.8/4.0 Texas A&M University, College

Station, Texas (TAMU) Fall 2010

. Awarded Graduate Assistant Scholarship and tuition waiver for the

period 2008-2009

. SAS Certified Predictive Modeler

. Courses on BASE SAS and Advanced SAS Programming

Bachelor of Engineering (Major: Mechanical Engineering)

CGPA:3.8/4.0 Anna University, Chennai, India

Spring 2008

. Ranked first and received a Scholarship for all 4 years of

Undergraduate study

. Ranked amongst the top 0.1% among 20,000 students, University wide

WORK EXPERIENCE

Student Technician II, Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences,

TAMU Spring 2010 Data Collection, Customer Relationship

. DEVELOPED A DATA COLLECTION PROCESS TO ANALYZE THE TOURISM AND

RECREATION ACTIVITIES IN THE SABINE RIVER REGION

. Responsible for collecting data from tourists to enrich the data

available

Research Assistant, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology

dept., TAMU Fall2008-Fall2009 Monte Carlo Simulation, Project

management, Risk reduction

. DEVELOPED MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORK TO STUDY THE IMPACT OF DESIGN

ASSESSMENT METHOD SELECTION ON DEVELOPMENT LEAD TIME AND COST AND THE

TRADEOFFS BETWEEN THE RELIABILITY OF ASSESSMENT METHODS AND TIME AND

COST ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

. Illustrated the mathematical framework developed and simulated the

design process of a simple water cooler to project the tradeoffs

between the reliability associated with design assessment methods and

the overall development time and cost

. The framework clearly projected the tradeoff by yielding different

set of assessment methods for the various optimization goals

Intern, KONE Corporation, India

Spring 2008 Process improvement, cycle time reduction, KAIZEN

. IMPLEMENTED AN ASSEMBLY FIXTURE TO REDUCE THE CYCLE TIME OF THE

ASSEMBLY PROCESS FOR ONE OF THE COMPONENTS (SLING) OF AN ELEVATOR

. The fixture resulted in 26% reduction in assembly time, reduced human

effort to assemble the component and also improved the ergonomics of

the workers

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Impact of a NBA Player On His Team

Data Analysis, SAS Programming

. PERFORMED AN ANALYSIS TO RECORD THE INTANGIBLES STATISTICS, LIKE PICK

AND ROLL ETC., OF EACH PLAYER WHICH COULD AFFECT THE IMPACT OF THAT

PLAYER ON HIS TEAM USING SAS 9.2

. The analysis resulted in a new statistic (point difference per minute)

for each player which could record the intangible statistics along

with the tangible statistics, like assists etc.

Dallas Cowboys' Probability Of Winning: A Predictive Model

Data

Analysis, Predictive Modeling, SAS Programming

. DEVELOPED A PREDICTIVE MODEL (LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL) TO PREDICT

THE PROBABILITY OF WINNING FOR THE DALLAS COWBOYS BASED ON THE FIRST

HALF STATISTICS USING DATA FROM THE MATCHES PLAYED BY DALLAS COWBOYS

FROM 2001-2009 USING SAS 9.2

. The model used first half points difference, first half passing and

rushing yards of Dallas Cowboys as the predictors

Disease Prevention: A Data Mining Approach

Data Mining, Predictive Modeling, Data Analysis, SAS

Programming

. DEVELOPED A STATISTICAL MODEL TO PORTRAY THE HEALTH AND FINANCIAL

IMPACT OF PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE MEASURES ON DIABETES OCCURRENCE FOR

A FICTIONAL GROUP UNITED STATES HEALTH EXPENSE THINK TANK(USETH) USING

SAS ENTERPRISE MINER

. The model showed that a person with diabetes spends $2516.70 more than

a person without diabetes and also projected the effect of a special

program to reduce the Body Mass Index (BMI) by 10% for people above

the threshold with a 4% reduction in health care cost and 26%

reduction in diabetes occurrence

Predictive Modeling Of Customer Solicitation

Data Mining, Predictive Modeling, Data Analysis, Sensitivity

Analysis

. DEVELOPED A BEST PREDICTIVE MODEL USING DATA MINING TECHNIQUES IN SAS

ENTERPRISE MINER FOR A NATIONAL VETERANS ORGANIZATION TO PREDICT THE

DONORS TO SOLICIT FOR A CAMPAIGN USING DATA FROM PREVIOUS SIMILAR

CAMPAIGNS

. The best model, neural networks model, selected had a lower error rate

of 41.9% and yielded a total profit of $22,558 when compared to others

Risk Assessment Of Iraqi Village At Fort Irwin

Monte Carlo Simulation, Second Moment Approach, Value at Risk,

Sensitivity Analysis

. PERFORMED A DETAILED RISK ANALYSIS, USING MICROSOFT EXCEL AND @RISK,

ON THE BUDGET TO BUILD THE MOCK IRAQI VILLAGE AT FORT IRWIN TO

DETERMINE THE CONTINGENCY AND THE AMOUNT OF POTENTIAL LOSS FROM THE

PROJECT

. The risk function determined using the Second moment and Monte Carlo

simulation resulted in $1.3 million contingency and the Value at Risk

analysis indicated for a reserve of $950,000 in case of overrun

PUBLICATION

M.D. Johnson and A. Parthasarathy, "Assessing the Trade-Off between

Information Fidelity and Time and Budgetary Constraints", in 3rd

International Conference on Integrity, Reliability and Failure,

Porto/Portugal, 20-24 July 2009

M. Johnson and A. Parthasarathy, "A Student Project Examining Alternative

Assessment Methods for Structural Components," in ASEE Annual Conference

and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, Louisville, KY, 2010, 2010-1007

M. D. Johnson and A. Parthasarathy, "Evaluating the Accuracy, Time, and

Cost Trade-offs Among Alternative Structural Fitness Assessment Methods,"

International Journal of Engineering Research & Innovation, vol. 2, pp. 62-

68, 2010

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Statistical Packages SAS ENTERPRISE MINER, SAS 9.2, SPSS, JMP, PALISADE

Decision Support Tools

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES & DBMS TOOLS SQL, MS ACCESS

SIMULATION TOOLS @RISK, CRYSTAL BALL

COMPUTATION & DOCUMENTATION SUITES MS OFFICE

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

. Chairperson, Society of Automotive Engineers Collegiate Club for the year

2005-2008

. Chief Organizer, SAE Student Convention 2006, attended by over 500

students from all over India

. Coordinator, "A World In Motion" (AWIM 2005), a program to impart

importance of practical education to middle school teachers and students,

at Chennai, India

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