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DISHA CHOURE

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Jersey City, NJ 07305 www.linkedin.com/pub/disha-choure/3b/533/a14 *****.******@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging opportunity to creatively analyse quantitative information and facilitate data driven decision making

EXPERIENCE

May 14 - Nov 14 Financial Analyst Intern - Lightship Partners LLC (Client - Weight Watchers International)

Managed operations budgets and delivered forecast for various lines of business for 2015

Investigated critical impact metrics in operations & finance data for performance management

Extracted raw data from disparate sources, transformed it by data manipulation and loaded it dynamically across

various financial models

Performed root cause analysis and recommended data quality remediation to deliver an automated solution

Analysed and reverse engineered business processes during GAP analysis in product development and managed

supply chain execution of print deliverables for 2015 Innovation

Facilitated collaboration across international and cross-functional teams for next generation service products

Jan 14 - May 14 Graduate Assistant - Fordham University (Information Systems Department)

Developed MS Excel tutorial covering financial functions, data tables and DCF Statements

Performed keyword extraction on an academic survey to quantify its content

Assistant Project Manager – Atul Enterprises (Promoters and Builders)

Nov 11 - Nov 12

Estimated novel civil quantities and delivered budgets for a million dollar housing project

Reduced construction cost by 20% through international procurement

Jan 08 - Jul 11 Student Ambassador - International Office (University of Sheffield)

Led international pre-departure briefings of prospective students to provide them counselling

Architectural Intern – Adarkar Associates (Architects and Urban Planners)

Jun 09 - Sep 09

Mapped environmental assets across 200 sq mi to promote sustainable urban development of Mumbai

EDUCATION

Aug 13 – Dec 14 Fordham University, NY

Master of Science in Business Analytics GPA 4.0

Sep 11 - Jul 13 University of Pune, India

Master of Commerce in Advanced Banking and Finance GPA 3.8

Sep 07 - Jul 11 University of Sheffield, UK

Bachelor of Arts in Architecture GPA 3.6

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Business Analytics: Investigated indicators leading to revenue increases in private emergent companies in the

US to define an entrepreneurial ecosystem using IBM Cognos BI

Web Analytics: Designed and implemented a search engine Pay-Per-Click Campaign for a Non-Profit

organization to successfully increase its web traffic by 90%

Text Analytics: Developed regression model to predict salary category based on text features in job

advertisements by applying text analytics techniques

Data Mining: Evaluated WHO’s survey on children’s lifestyle to identify vital predictors of BMI category

using IBM SPSS Modeller for decision tree analysis, associative rule mining and clustering

Database Management: Designed a prototype RDBMS for an ‘online urban guide’ with IBM Data Studio

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Skills: IBM SPSS Modeller, IBM Data Studio, IBM Cognos BI, Tableau, QliqView, MS Office Suite, MS Project

Attained the Sheffield Graduate Award endorsed by PWC, RBS, BT, HBOSplc, etc.

Awards:

Won the Presidential Elections of Indian Society at the University of Sheffield and lead 500+ student members

Interests: Acrylic painting, Cooking, Yoga, Indian Classical Music

References: Available upon request

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