RIPUDAMAN SINGH KOHLI
**** ******* *** *** #*, Columbus Ohio -43220
*******@****.**.*** • 513-***-****
www.linkedin.com/in/ripudamansinghk/
EDUCATION
University of Cincinnati, Carl H. Lindner College of Business, Cincinnati, Ohio Aug 2014-Dec 2015
MS –Information Systems, GPA: 3.97
Coursework: Data Mining, Data Analysis using R, Data Modeling, Database Design, Business Intelligence, Statistical Computing, Process Modeling, Data Visualization using Tableau
Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra July 2006-June 2010
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics (GPA 3.58/4.00)
CERTIFICATIONS
SAS Base Programming for SAS 9 (Certificate No. BP055391v9)
Microsoft Certified Professional –SQL Server 2008 R2 (Certification No. E172-9171)
ITIL V3 Foundation Certified (EXIN)
Certificate in Data Analytics (R, SAS), University of Cincinnati
R-programming, Exploring and Cleaning Data with R, Data Structures in Python(Coursera)
Python for Everybody, Python data Structures(Coursera)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, Ohio (USA) May 2015 - Present
Sr. ETL Developer
Performed Data profiling, analysis, cleaning and modeling for historical Beneficiary data conversion project
Successfully completed data conversion by developing Informatica workflows for moving the data from old systems to new data warehouse.
Reduced data validation time frame by 200% with the help of R scripts
Developed shell scripts for running daily feeds
Data Analyst Intern (May 2015-December 2015)
Prepared Data Model for existing databases storing old closed claims.
Analyzed, cleaned the existing data for Life, Annuities and Retirement claims.
Using the existing database model and data in it, prepared data model for new data warehouse to store closed Life, Annuities and Retirement claims.
Automated internal IT processes by creating R scripts.
Successfully implemented proof of concept to capture skills in the team by using R Script
Prepared Dashboard using tableau to display skills of the Team members as a part of POC.
Worked on Streamlining Intern On-boarding process. Implementation of it saves $50000 for Nationwide Financials each year.
Tata Consultancy Services, Gurgaon (India)/Crawley (United Kingdom) August 2010 – July 2014
Contracted to Client location for setting up disaster recovery environment and to implement Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) Compliance.
System Engineer – SQL Server DBA (December 2010 – June 2014)
Improved performance of the SQL Server Farm for a well renowned Airline client by optimizing and tuning the Servers, re-indexing the databases, upgrading instances from old versions to new ones
Successfully created and maintained Disaster Recovery Environment for SQL Farm
Day to Day activities included setting up Mirroring, Log shipping, SSIS, SSRS, Upgrade from 2005 to 2008 R2 and 2012
Led the release and implementation of the newly developed applications, for making the client Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant.
Achieved PCI Compliance for the client and handed over the applications for support to TCS within a year which exceeded project goal expectation by six months
Assistant System Engineer – Level Two Support (August 2010 – December 2010)
Implemented more than five System Improvement Plans(SIP)for supported applications which resulted in reduction on the count of issues by 25 percent per month
Handled Incident, Work Order, Change and Problem Management using ‘BMC REMEDY’ management Suite.
PROJECTS
Predictive Modeling using R to estimate Landing Distance of an Airplane
Using R, developed predictive models and compared them by evaluating Normal Q-Q Plots and residuals/fitted value plots.
Credit Risk Analysis using R
Analyzed 58000 data points to predict the probability of credit default by: In sample prediction, Misclassification rate, ROC Curve Analysis, confusion matrix and optimum cut off probability.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Statistical Analysis- SAS, R, MS Excel, Python
Algorithms –CART, K-Means
Regression- Linear and Logistic Regression
Data Visualization : Tableau, R packages for visualization, MS Excel
Database Management Systems – SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 R2, 2012, MySQL, Microsoft Access, Excel
Programming Language –T- SQL, PL/SQL, Python, Unix
Data Warehousing – Informatica, QlikView
Methodologies – Agile, Water fall
Leadership, Affiliations, and Awards
Won the First Prize for Best Designed Application at Nationwide Financial Hackathon
Among the top 10 ideas in the Idea Jam 2015 held in Nationwide Financials
Won ‘On the Spot’ Award in TCS for excellent issue handling skills
Won the First Price for Dance (Bhangra) in College
Part of Management Team to organize college Fest called ‘Bhartiyam’