Data Engineer

Abhi Thakral, MS, Prince* Phone: 713-***-****

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5+ year experienced professional from Engineering and management industry sector seeks position in multinational organization that will offer career development opportunities to exceed potential. Also, brings transferrable skills and competencies gained through academic and employment experiences.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

•Analytical Skills: Data Forecasting, Cost Analysis, ETL, Data Mining, Exploratory Analysis, Predictive Modeling, Model Evaluation, Risk Analysis, V-Lookups, Pivot Tables, Root Cause Analysis

•Statistical Modeling: SVM, Linear and Logistic Regression, KNN, Naive Bayes, Cluster Analysis, Extreme Gradient Boosting, A/B Testing, Random Forest

•Programming: Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, Keras, Theano, NLTK), C, C++, SQL, M Language, SQL Server 2012, T-SQL, Excel

•Tools: Power BI, Tableau, MS Project, Minitab, MS Office, Visio, JIRA, Power Query, SSIS, SSMS

•Other skills: Project Planning and Analysis, Requirements Engineering, DMAIC/DFSS Processes, Industrial Design, Continuous Improvement Principles, Lean Manufacturing, Agile Methodologies, PRINCE2 Methodologies, FMEA/DFMEA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Arrow Electronics, Engineer (Data and Analytics) Greater Boston, MA, USA July 2015- Present

Technologies Used: Power BI, Excel, Jira, PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Azure

•Worked under ISO 9001:2008, ASQ 9100, 9021 and 6081certifications

•Successfully interacted and created customer requirements focused reports; Generated Product data Visualizations based on geographical sales and Counterfeit product data analysis. Created Dashboards and reports with Power BI for business decision making for Supply chain, Commodity management and sales departments of the organization.

•Built data / trend analysis on discrepant product findings for over 5 million data points; Performed data cleaning with Power Query reducing error rates. Worked with Operations using supply chain and transactional data on resource analysis and planning.

•Update and maintain Arrow internal Databases and KPI with up-to-date transactional and supply chain data for extraction.

•Analyzed business problems and provide solutions to data related queries to multiple departments of the organization

University of Houston Clear Lake, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Product Development Houston, TX Aug 2014 – Dec 2014

Technologies Used: Minitab, Palisades @Risk, MS Project, Excel

•Assisted Professor in Researching for Thesis on concepts in Project Management. Developing and sustaining contacts with faculty, staff, and other constituents within and outside the university, as necessary for research resources. Aided in the development of reports, grants, presentations and Bibliographical analysis of research paper

•Provided crisis intervention, conflict mediation, counseling, tutoring and advisement to students. Tutor and Strive to maintain a supportive relationship between Professor and students

IHS Global (IHS Markit), Project Engineer, Delhi, India Dec 2011 – July 2013

Technologies Used: MS project, Excel, SQL Server

•Assisted team lead in daily data and analytic management for daily stand up meetings and business decisions.

•Engineered Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) per customer project requirements, Project Brief and Initiation Documents; Track Project milestones Via MS Projects and Gantt Charts and maintaining coordination within the team

•Extract and assess critical data on hazardous materials and part numbers from Server and provide result reports to customers.

•Interacted with customers on all products and product parameters as per customer’s functional requirements providing wide range product alternatives, product knowledge, market trends. Act as an indirect interface between customers and engineering department.

Asian Art Industries, Quality Control Assistant Manager Delhi, India Nov 2010 – Dec 2011

Technologies Used: Excel, Word

•Upholding the quality of leather and PVC products up to ISO Standards

•Performed JIT Inventory Management for shipping and packaging. Tools used MS Excel and Google drive.

•Specifying quality requirements of raw materials by using Resource Allocation Sheets; Working with vendors to fulfill supply and demand of manufacturing

•Keeping Records, Managed Shipping documents and Scheduled production and managed orders. Working with accountant on day-today Tally of records.

RELEVANT PROJECTS

Kaggle Competition: Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster

•Used data sets, performed data cleaning, preprocessing and transformation by filling in missing values, eliminating redundant data and converting categorical data to numerical data. Algorithms came to 75% predictions for passengers who survived.

•Models And Environment: Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines (SVC), Linear SVC, KNN, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Naive Bayes (Gaussian NB), Perceptron, Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB), Python (Pandas, Matplotlib, Skicit-Learn, NumPy, SciPy)

Quote Management System (QTrade) (Canada) Analyst role: Arrow Electronics

•A Quote Management System will aid our Customers as well as protect interests of Arrow with regards to the tracking of and reporting on Quotes. The purpose of this project is for all internal quotes between buyers and sellers to be automated.

•Tools: JIRA confluences, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint

Research Paper on Logistics firm (USA): R.A. Transports by Location Strategy/Forecasting Techniques

•Analyzing the Most Effective States in the United States for logistics business using Location Strategy and Time-Series Forecasting of revenues based on strategic locations.

Toshiba Semiconductors Data Extraction and Parametrizing (India) Project Engineer role: IHS Global (IHS Markit)

•Provided Data plan for Processing the semiconductor products data for the Electrical Engineering team. Tracked Project and milestones. Created WBS and Project initiation and closing documents

•Tools: MS Project, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SQL Server

EDUCATION

MS, Engineering Management University of Houston Clear Lake, Houston, TX, USA Aug 2013 - Dec 2014 B. Tech, Electronics Engineering Maharishi Dayanand University, Haryana, India Aug 2007 - Jun 2011

CERTIFICATIONS

Data Analyst/Python Programmer, Data Camp License 450361934

Power BI, Microsoft/EDX License 218609003ba04d83ba72c486b52aa9cf

Prince2, Axelos/APMG License 04173345-01-826V

SCRUM Certified, SCRUMStudy

Leadership Coaching Strategies, Harvard School of Continuing Education

Project Management and Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt) Certification from U of H Clear Lake

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