Omkar Saha

*** ****** **, ***#***, Cincinnati, OH 45220 • 513-***-**** • abns3k@r.postjobfree.com

Education

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India

MS Quantitative Analysis, August, 2009 Computer Science & Engineering, June 2000

MBA (concentration in Finance), June, 2008

Professional Experience

Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Financial Analyst Intern, April 2009 – Present

• Working on the development of the Advance indicative pricing model (using VBA), used to relay daily advance indicative

rates internally and externally. This will free resources to do other activities and cut the manual work.

• Assisting in verification of data and reports prepared by department (Credit division) staff, including review of output for

accuracy and consistency, testing of new reports, and integrity validation of processes generated from IT-system developed

applications.

The Malibu Group, Cincinnati, Ohio

Financial Analyst Intern, October, 2008 – December 2008

• Performed market and financial analyses of companies to get a proper valuation and get suitable buyers. This assisted

clients in their decision-making and negotiating the deal.

• Prepared marketing presentations, disclosure documents, and memorandums to help Client get a proper valuation and

appropriate buyers.

Fidelity Investments, Covington, Kentucky

Market Research Analyst Intern, July 2007 – September 2008

• Developed and executed online customer surveys, performed statistical analysis of the data and presented insights and

conclusions to relevant management. Insights and implemented recommendations helped to increase customer satisfaction

rate by 5%.

• Designed strategy to penetrate new vertical markets and better position products and services to future clients (segmentation

analysis). Results were enhanced understanding of target audience and customer profile, and a 10% increase in customers.

• Developed pricing and revenue forecasting model (Pro Forma) for new products which helped to gain 10% more customers.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Delhi, India; London, UK; Singapore; Indianapolis, USA

Sr. Analyst, July 2000 – August 2006

• Measured the online traffic and business trends, generated key metrics reports and gave corresponding recommendations.

This helped customers to grow revenue by 15%.

• Led $1 million global software installation executed by 10 cross-functional employees from three different companies.

Project was completed under budget, one week before schedule and achieved zero post-install defects.

• Developed and managed creation and implementation of e-business solution to minimize paperwork, reduce cost of

operation, and ensure 24/7 online capabilities.

• Developed models in C++ as a part of the design module. The model was capable of analysis of extracted data from Oracle

database using SQL queries.

Achievements

Winner ACG Cup Cincinnati (private equity/investment banking case), 2008

Computer Expertise

• Programming Languages and Packages – C, C++, HTML, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, SPSS, SAS (Certified), VBA

• Databases - Oracle, MS Access

• Computer Applications - Unix, Linux, Windows, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft

Project, Visio, Acrobat, Arena, Crystal Ball

Academic Projects

Thesis: Developing and implementing scheduling for Cincinnati Children's Hospital staff who have no optimization background and

presenting the output in a user friendly format using VBA.

Data mining: Analyzed credit scoring data (5000 observations) using different techniques like Logistic Regression, GAM

(Generalized Additive Model), CART (Classification and Regression Tree), Neural Networks, MARS (Multivariate Adaptive

Regression Spline) to predict number of bad loans.

Optimization: Developed portfolio optimization model to minimize downside risks of portfolio. The model fetches data from web

for current stock prices, builds the model, solves and creates the efficient frontier. The model is built in Excel and VBA.

[re]form Solar Decathlon, University of Cincinnati

Member of inter-disciplinary team at the University of Cincinnati that competed with 20 universities from around the world to

design the best next-generation solar house. Worked on the business plan development, specifically on the pricing and financial

forecasting.

Affiliations

Toastmaster; Finance Club and MBA Association, University of Cincinnati

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