Data Scientist

SONAL SONAWANE

**** ****** ***** #***, ******* Park, MD 20740, Phone: +1-240-***-****

Email: *****.********@*******.***.***

SUMMARY

I am a data-driven analytics professional and skilled collaborator; comfortable working across key functional areas to derive and implement analytical insights; looking for challenging opportunities in data science to help organizations make smarter data based decisions. EDUCATION

Master of Science, Information Systems December 2016 Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

§ Relevant Coursework: Data Mining and Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Decision Analytics, Database Management Systems, Managing Digital Business Markets, Project Management, Strategic and Transformational IT Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology May 2012 Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues Institute of Technology, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Corporate Technical Analyst September 2016 - Present Paradyme Management, Greenbelt, MD

§ Performed clustering in R to find customer segmentation and provided recommendations for marketing strategy for each cluster

§ Built a data visualization dashboard in Tableau of key performing metrics by analyzing processes of client

§ Awarded best technical proposal for devising a teleworking solution as a part of company-wide competition

§ Acquired and analyzed data to gain competitive intelligence using Black Hat Opposition Research

§ Created database for an application that integrates time-entry and invoicing data to improve operations with client Corporate Technical Project Lead, Intern June 2016 - August 2016 Paradyme Management, Greenbelt, MD

§ Spearheaded a team of eleven interns to perform analytics to increase efficiency of invoicing systems

§ Developed predictive model using logistic regression in R to predict high value contracts

§ Pioneered and trained the team on agile project management methodologies and practiced Scrum Agile Software Engineer February 2013 - June 2015

L&T Infotech, Mumbai, India

§ Led a team of eight and collaborated with clients to develop application for Material Handling & Tracking

§ Set-up automated reporting platform identifying key metrics for management team to support operational decision making Implemented application for product designing and procurement with SAP NetWeaver, reduced processing time by 25% KEY PROJECTS

Expedia Hotel Recommendation: Performed exploratory analysis of Expedia search logs loaded on Hadoop File System and built prediction model to determine possible destinations for a new hotel search in Python December 2016 Data Mining & Predictive Analytics for Disease Control: Mined the Center for Disease Control (CDC) data set to understand and identify patterns in causes of mortality using regression and classification models in R September 2016 Google Online Marketing Challenge: Created an online marketing campaign using Google AdWords and Google Analytics; analyzed e-commerce site and improved marketing to create brand awareness and increase customer base May 2016 Video Production Tracking, Learning Technologies Division - UMD: Interacted with stakeholders as a product owner to gather requirements, created user stories for team and supervised scrum process during development April 2016 Art Gallery Management System: Designed and developed a system to manage product inventory and produce reports for an art gallery using Salesforce December 2015

Risk Analysis for online marketing, stupidsid.com: Performed risk identification, assessment and risk response development to minimize the impact of risks in an online marketing campaign; provided contingency plans to handle risks Feb 2016 SKILLS

Programming languages: Python, R, SQL, HTML, Java, CSS, C, C++, JavaScript Tools and technologies: Hadoop (Spark, Pig, Hive), MongoDB, Tableau, Power BI, Excel, SAS, Rapid Miner, Alteryx, Google Analytics Certifications: Google AdWords Fundamentals, Google Mobile Advertising Quantitative skills: Supervised and unsupervised machine learning, Hypothesis testing, Regression

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