SHALAKA KARANDE

309-***-**** ac8eg6@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY - Masters in Information Systems Normal, Illinois

Skills Learned: Data Analysis, Project Management, System Analysis & Design and 2018

Software Quality Assurance & Testing

PUNE UNIVERSITY - Bachelors in Computer Engineering Pune, India

Skills Learned: Programming, Data Structures, Statistics and Data Mining 2016

WORK EXPERIENCE

Illinois State University Normal, Illinois

Operations Manager Feb 2018 - Dec 2018

Served as a liaison between residence hall students, faculty, assistants and professional resident staff

Served as a resource for resident hall students, worked collaboratively with the supervisors and maintained records and documentation for the housing services

Matrix Business Machines Pvt. Ltd. Pune, India

Business Data Analyst Intern May 2016 - Dec 2016

Discussed requirements with clients and team, created documentation to track the activities and generated reports on daily basis using Microsoft Excel

Performed data wrangling using SQL queries

Performed analysis by collecting, cleaning and analyzing data and insights using Microsoft Excel

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Python, HTML5, CSS, R

Databases Known: SQL server, Oracle, MySQL

Softwares Known: Ms Office, Ms Project, Ms Visio, Tableau, SAP, SPSS, Axure RP

CERTIFICATIONS

Systems Analyst, Illinois State University 2018

Scrum Fundamentals Certified 2018

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis of Tweets 2018

oAnalyzed a large dataset by performing data cleaning by filtering comments

oPerformed analysis using Sentiment Analysis and Text Analysis

oCreated graphs based on Positive and Negative Word Frequency Distribution to visualize the data

oPython packages used: pandas, natural language toolkit, matplotlib, machine learning and data visualization

Capstone Project: Indian Student Association 2018

oCreated a website for ISA enabling the administrator to manage the events, update and modify the details about events to keep the members posted about upcoming events

Husky Air – Pilot Angels 2017

oUsing project management knowledge areas, managed a project where the organization wanted to switch from a paper-based system to a computer system

oDefined the scope statement and analyzed the project requirements and risks

oPerformed earned value analysis for defining the project schedule and plan for evaluation

oDeveloped the business case, project charter, change management plan and work breakdown structure

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