INTERNSHIP:
Risk and Data Analyst Intern, PayPal, San Jose, CA June 2016 - September 2016
Project – Leverage device data to mitigate risk
Examined various mobile device data variables
Performed exploratory analysis to gain high level insights on account takeover loss
Analyzed the loss rate originating from devices accessing multiple accounts
Developed new variables for point in time sender counts associated with a device
Segmented devices into categories based on the loss amount
Created strategies for mitigating risk resulting in savings worth $ 2.5M WORK EXPERIENCE:
Analyst, Deloitte Application Studios, Deloitte US-India June 2012- December 2013
Interacted with the client for requirements & specifications of business tools
Collaborated with global teams & facilitated the development & testing of these tools
Generated reports and spearheaded team meetings, managed product issues Consultant, Enterprise Risk Services, Deloitte India December 2013 - July 2015
Performed information security and risk assessments on client’s network infrastructure
Designed a risk mitigation methodology which resulted in savings worth $10,000 for client
Drafted business development proposals for prospective engagements Co-founder, Pehnaawa – an e-tailing venture January 2014 – August 2015
Created company concept, developed product line and developed the business process
Took the company from local markets to a national audience with a revenue of US $6,000
Administered end to end business process from procurement to customer service
Implemented a feedback system to gain insights & evaluate customer expectations RELEVANT COURSEWORK:
Courses – Data Science 1: Theoretical Foundations, Data Science 2: Machine Learning and Econometrics and Data Science 3: Scaling, Applications and Ethics DATA ANALYSIS PROJECTS: https://github.com/inferno9004 What’s Cooking: A kaggle dataset, used recipe ingredients to categorize the cuisine Price Prediction: Created a model to predict housing prices using gradient descent and PCA Progresa: Used econometric methods to measure the impact of the welfare program Web Scraping: Used Beautiful Soup and regex to scrape university course catalogs Demographic Analysis: Analyzed demographic data to predict extramarital affairs Cancer cell classification: Analyzed various cancer cell parameters to classify cells Survival Analysis: Analyzed passenger data from titanic dataset for predicting survival Sentiment Analysis: performed mining on twitter data and classified a tweets sentiment Stock Market Analysis: Performed risk analysis of investing in 6 major tech firms Housing Price Index: Compared the trend in house prices by comparing data for all 50 states RESEARCH WORK: February 2016 – April 2016
Assisted Prof. Abhishek Borah (Fosters B School) in his research on consumer search trends
Extracted 5 years of search data for 2000 firms from google trends using python scripts PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
BizCursion: A travel app for working professionals October 2015 – December 2015
Leadership: Led a team of 4 to define product scope and design through an agile approach
Strategy: Analyzed user data, studied short term and long term viability of the app
Product Management: Identified critical requirements, Laid out the product roadmap AAMIR RASHEED acw8kw@r.postjobfree.com
#301, 5256, University Way NE, Seattle, WA – 98105 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aamir218
Applying for:
Full Time Positions
Graduate School:
University of Washington,
Seattle (GPA – 3.83/4.0)
Program:
Master of Science in
Information Management
Expected Graduation by: June
2017
Skills set:
Programming skills:
R, Python (Pandas, Numpy,
Matplotlib), Java, HTML,
SQL, Linux-bash
Data Analysis Skills:
Modelling,
Statistics,
Regression,
Prediction and
Classification
Tools:
R studio, Jupyter notebook,
Tableau, Teradata, SQL
Server, Apache
Ecosystem (Hadoop,
Hive, Spark)
Additional Courses:
Foundations of Information
Management
Introduction to Information
Architecture
Policy and Ethics in
Information Management
Principles of Information
Project Management
Undergraduate Program:
Bachelor of Engineering,
Computer Science &
Engineering
School:
Manipal University – India
(GPA – 7.14/10)
Graduated: May 2012