Project Management Information Technology

Visharad Topa

*** ********** ******, *** *, Santa Clara, CA 95050

*.********@*****.***, 510-***-****, https://www.linkedin.com/in/visharad-topa

EDUCATION

Santa Clara University, Graduate School of Engineering Santa Clara, CA

Master of Science in Engineering Management 2014 - 2016

Maharshi Dayanand University Rohtak, Haryana, India

Bachelor in Electronics and Communication Engineering 2007 - 2012

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Python, Java, HTML

Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, T-SQL, MySQL), SQL Server

Tools: Business Intelligence(Tableau, Qlikview), Microsoft Office (Excel, Project, PowerPoint), JMP, Astah

Business Skills: Software Requirements Engineering, Project Management, Product Management, SDLC, UML Modelling.

KIIT Gurgaon, India

Research Data Analyst Apr 2014- June 2014

Worked on the Pronunciation Lexicon Specification project sponsored by Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India

Generating SQL queries to pull data and performed comprehensive data analysis and cleansing using Excel and MATLAB.

Developed scripts and processes to automate the data analysis using MS Excel macros and VBA.

Created Data Visualizations based on Geographic and Linguistic metrics and patterns to present to senior stakeholders of the project.

Adroit New Delhi, India

Business Analyst Oct 2012-Dec 2013

Conducted meetings with business users to collect key business requirements.

Performed data migration of User and Sales data to a SQL server database, increasing data efficiency.

Assisting the senior sales manager in identifying KPIs to increase the renewal rate.

Developed key insights working with marketing team on Google Analytics and analyzed metrics to identify cause-effect relationship between marketing actions and financial outcomes.

Designed surveys to capture market research data.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS/COURSES

Thanksgiving Dinner Analysis: Used Python (NumPy and Pandas) to analyze regional and income based patterns on what American families eat for Thanksgiving dinner.

Project Management Plan: Created a detailed project plan to show the different aspects of project management like project selection, WBS, resource loading, resource leveling and project risks.

Business Process Recommendation: Used Tableau to analyze data for Dognition.com to provide a data driven business process change recommendation to help increase the number of users and tests that users complete on Dognition.

GRV 2.0: Created a comprehensive marketing plan for fully autonomous car GRV 2.0. Analyzed the key market segment and raising user awareness through marketing campaigns.

Managing, Controlling and Improving Quality: Used JMP to understand the statistical methods that are used to improve quality in industrial processes. Emphasis on DMAIC, Six-Sigma and analysis techniques like ANOVA.

Campus Smart-Café: Designed, analyzed and implemented an application using JAVA and MySQL, which manages restaurants and vending machines all over the university campus.

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