Rahul Gorantyal
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ac0gj7@r.postjobfree.com 980-***-****
CORE
STRENGTHS
Customer/Client Focus Ability to work cross-functionally Problem Solving/Analysis Passion for Business & Technology Time Management Willingness to learn new things
WORK UBISOFT ENTERTAINMENT INDIA – Quality Assurance Analyst Jun 2014 – Nov 2014 EXPERIENCE
Client: Hasbro Games
• Interacted with customers and other stakeholders to analyze user needs/requirements and translated them into proper technical specifications to develop next – generation console games such as Monopoly, Risk and Trivial Pursuit
• Collaborated with the QA team to create and maintain test scenarios, test cases and requirements traceability matrix to build a robust software solution
• Participated in the Sprint Review meetings and communicated suggested changes to the development teams to ensure the technical solution meets customer expectations
• Created ad-hoc dashboards using JIRA to monitor open issues, daily team activities and project status and consolidated findings into user friendly reports for the project management team
• Performed manual testing and logged issues in concise written format for the development team to conduct root cause analysis of the issue
• The studio was honored with a ‘Quality Excellence Award’ by the Microsoft Compliance Team for effectively delivering the project against official Microsoft quality Standards EDUCATION University of Texas, Arlington May 2017
Master of Science in Information Systems – Business Analytics GPA 3.4 University of Pune, India May 2014
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science GPA 3.5 COURSEWORK Big Data Advanced Statistical Methods
Business Data Mining Project Management
Data Warehousing Relational Database Management
Web and Social Analytics
Data Science
Object Oriented Modeling and Design
Systems Analysis & Design
Software Testing & Quality Analysis
Finance and Management Information Systems
ACADEMIC Direct Bank Marketing – Predictive Analysis PROJECTS • Cleansed and prepared the dataset of a Portuguese Bank by applying SMOTE technique
• Led a team of four to perform predictive modeling on the dataset by applying three different classification algorithms -Naïve Bayes, Decision Table and Decision Tree to predict whether or not the targeted customers will subscribe to a term deposit U.S. Presidential Elections 2016 – Sentiment Analysis
• Downloaded tweets from 2016 presidential elections using ‘twitter’ and ‘ROAuth’ libraries in R
• Transformed the raw twitter data using lexical normalization and performed positive and negative sentiment analysis using ‘NLTK’ package in Python
• IMDB Movie Dataset – Movie Rating Prediction
• The dataset was divided into training set and testing set using Apache Spark on IBM Bluemix
• Implemented four predictive models using Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Decision Tree, Naïve Bayes and summarized the correlation between variables and movie rating
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• Pharmacovigilance Using Social Media Data (www.patientslikeme.com) – Topic Modeling
• Collaborated with a team of four to scrape a website and gather the Parkinson’s Disease patient information (chats, posts) into an excel document using ‘BeautifulSoup’ library in Python
• Implemented topic modeling, sentiment analysis on the patient data and built Python-based recommender system that connects users with patients exhibiting similar symptoms Global Bike Company (GBI) – BI Reporting
• Imported the historical sales data of GBI and created a multi-dimensional OLAP cube with correct attributes, dimensions and data flow suitable for advanced data exploration
• Built BI reports for ad-hoc queries using SAP BEx and exported the visualizations to Excel Agile Methodologies Other Than Scrum – Project Planning
• Prepared and maintained Project Scope, Project Plan, Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt Charts and Risk Assessment to accomplish the project objectives and deliverables
• Delivered a seminar highlighting several agile frameworks such as Lean Development, Kanban, eXtreme Programming, Rational Unified Process and Dynamic Systems Development Apartment Rental Software & Web application – Architecture & Design
• Gathered requirements from the landlord and created comprehensive UML diagrams using MS Visio displaying associations between tenant, management and landlord which can be used as a blueprint for object-oriented code generation
• Developed a wireframe model to visualize the framework and navigation patterns of the website TECHNICAL Languages – Python, Apache Spark, C++, Visual Basic SKILLS Databases – Oracle SQL, Microsoft Access
Web Technologies – HTML5, XML
Applications – JIRA, Tableau, Rational RequisitePro, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS SharePoint, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Stata, Weka, SAS, Office 365 CERTIFICATIONS
EXTRA-
CURRICULAR
Udemy – MS Excel, Tableau 10.1, Oracle SQL 11g
Amazon – Preparing for AWS Solutions Architect 2017
• Participated in inter-college ‘Data Analytics Competition 2017’ held in UT, Dallas
• Won first place in ‘Apartment Cricket Competition 2017’ held in UT, Arlington
• Won second place in ‘Intramural Table Tennis Championship 2016’ held in UT, Arlington LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpgorantyal