Six Sigma Information Technology

Samyuktha Balaji https://www.linkedin.com/in/samyukthabalaji

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Summary

Reliable and creative Graduate Business Analytics student with strong technical, quantitative and communication skills seeking a position in an organization that can offer an opportunity to make effective business decisions using data analytics.

Education

W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ May 2018

Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA), GPA 3.82

SRM University, Chennai, India May 2017

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology, GPA 9.539/10

Professional Qualifications

Decision Analysis

Machine Learning

Text Analytics

Financial Modeling

Marketing Analytics

Optimization Modeling

Deep Learning

Advanced Statistical Analysis

Enterprise Data Modeling

Visual Analytics

Software: Excel, R, Python, Java, SQL, SAS, SPSS, Palisades, Tableau, Azure ML, Minitab, Hadoop, HIVE, PowerBI, Pig, Kafka, MapReduce, SPARK, TensorFlow, Keras

Quality management and Six Sigma

Projects

Using Prescriptive analytics to increase market share

Currently working with a leading client to achieve a tradeoff between stringent credit screening and default rates, thus increasing market share using prescriptive analytics and optimization modeling.

Using Machine learning algorithms to predict driver safety

Applied techniques like Random forest, Gradient boosting, Decision trees, and Neural networks with hyperparameter tuning in a Kaggle competition to reach the top 10% of the leaderboard.

Service Time Consulting using Six Sigma methodologies

Improved efficiency for a leading client by designing and testing hypotheses and experiments using six sigma methodologies to achieve a 63% service time reduction.

Exploring Sales transaction data using Time series analysis

Performed time series and cluster analysis to study transactional data to discover unknown complimentary products and identify trends using exponential smoothing models.

Professional Experience

Summer Intern June - August 2016

Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai, India

Created a software tool and a comprehensive database system for British Airways that challenged and outperformed the existing methodology which lead to an overhaul of the existing systems.

Collected and predicted user preferences and proposed a challenging system to the management executives of Transportation and Hospitality vertical.

Summer Intern June – July 2015

Vectra Technosoft Private Limited, Chennai, India

Helped the team to maintain a customized database that led to an improvement in the efficiency of the existing system and was granted the title of ‘Red Hat Linux System Administrator’.

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