Data Life Insurance

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SHUBHAM SHARMA

Hartford CT 06106 *******.******@*****.***

EMPLOYMENT

Associate Consultant Oracle 09/2011 – 11/2013

Provided consulting services to customers to develop analyses leading to actionable insights that accelerated their

profitable growth

Wrangled data from multiple sources including online, POS, product, bank and customer databases to create

integrated views that can be used to drive decision making

Redesigned online transaction processing framewo rk and developed algorithms to improve the performance of

databases by 30%

EDUCATION

Hartford, CT University of Connecticut 01/2014 – 12/2014

M.S. in Business Analytics and Project Management. GPA: 3.6

Graduate Coursework: Hadoop and Big Data Analytics, Predictive Modelling, Data Mining and Business Intelligence,

Advanced Business Analytics, Business Decision Modelling, Analytical services for Financial Consulting

Ranchi, JH Indian Institute of Management 08/2013 – 11/2013

Executive program in Business Analytics and Business Intelligence

Coursework: Adaptive Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, Business Process Modelling

Ambala, HR Maharishi Markandeshwar University 04/2007 - 04/2011

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology

Undergraduate Coursework: Operating Systems, Object Oriented Programming, Computer Architecture, Engineering

Entrepreneurship, Calculus

DATA SCIENCE ADVANCED ANALYTICS EXPERIENCE

Online Transaction Processing Framework Redesign, Oracle (2011 -2013) – Worked closely with the Consulting

Practice Director and helped the client scale to millions of transactions per day using JAVA and Oracle’s relational

database system to build a scalable, cost effective, and fault tolerant online transaction processing fr amework

DNALoan Application, Fiserv (2014) - Proposed design of a loan recommendation application to reduce loan default

rate and improve product offering. Developed cluster analysis to segment good credit and bad credit customer

portfolios. Used R for price sensitivity analysis and loan default prediction using conventional and social network

data. Targeted lift in gross profit is estimated to be 7%

Predicting Level Term Policy Lapses, LIMRA (2014) – Analyzed life insurance data to provide heuristics and reports.

Designed a predictive model using decision trees in R to identify the policyholder’s behavior and policy factors that

lead to the surrender or lapse of a policy

Give me some credit, Kaggle (2014) - Built a model by combining random forests wi th other ensemble methods like

gradient boosting using Python that helped borrowers in making financial decisions. Improved on the state of the art

in credit scoring by predicting the probability that somebody will experience financial distress in the next two years.

Solution ranked in the top 10% solutions

Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster, Kaggle (2014) – Analyzed what sorts of people were likely to survive on

RMS titanic and applied tools of machine learning using scikit-learn in Python to predict which passengers survived

the tragedy. Solution ranked in the top 15%

International Air Transport Association Traffic Analysis, University Of Connecticut (2014) – Used PIG and Java to

analyze a large data set of airlines and airports data stored in Hadoop. Deduced and presented inferences such as

volume of flights, carrier delays, carrier popularity and busiest routes across U.S.A

SKILLS

Domains – Big Data, Analytics, Financial Services, Digital Analytics, Social Network Analysis

Certifications – Hadoop Ecosystem (Big Data University, IBM), Red Hat Certified Engineer

Analytics Tools – Tableau, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Mine r

Languages – R, Python, Java, Pig Latin, HiveQL, SQL

Databases – Oracle, MySQL, HBase

Dev. Tools – Linux, Eclipse, RStudio, Canopy, git, SVN

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