Ali Raza Zaidi

acw9ms@r.postjobfree.com 617-***-****

** ******* **, *** ***, Boston, MA

Education:

●Masters in Computer Information Systems (May 2015)

Boston University GPA:3.60 Boston, MA

●Bachelors of Engineering in Information Technology (July 2012)

Shri G.S.Institute of Technology and Science (GPA: 3.50) Indore, India

Technologies

Software : Dreamweaver, MS Office, SharePoint, Visio and Google Analytics

Languages : C, C++, C#, JAVA and Python

Web Technologies : Wordpress, HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP

Database/Warehouse : Oracle BI Suite and SQL Server Operating Systems: UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS

Cloud Solutions: Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure Data Science : R, Weka

Professional Experience:

Technology Business Consultant -

Fidelity National Information Services (Burlington, MA) (May 2015 - Present)

●Reporting daily operational builds, resolving, troubleshooting customer queries and providing product support. Issue tracking and conducting fraud prevention, AML research activities for clients.

●Writing parsers and custom applications in C#, ETL, database tuning, scripts to sync data, automate routine jobs and testing patches.

●Designing the front end using Angular JS, Writing SOW, implementing both ACH and cheque modules of the fraud detection suite.

Instructional Systems Designer – Boston University (Boston, U.S.) (Jan 2014-June 2015)

●Designed and developed the entire Financial Planning Course. Technically managed and upgraded other modules associated with the program. Optimized the access speed by 50%, quality and user experience of each module.

●Attend meetings to discuss, analyze, and mitigate challenges faced by deployed resources.

●Designing and implementing dashboards and scorecards and setting up the data warehouse. Delivery of self-service analytics and mobile report access, and facilitating the scalability of data.

Business Analyst - Edu-Vikas (Indore, India) (Aug. 2012-Jan. 2014)

●Experience implementing transactional (OLTP) and Non-Transactional (OLAP, Big Data) projects. Assisting customer in designing, planning, building and deploying solutions. Evaluating and proposing the best possible solution specific to organization’s needs. Experience managing analytic solutions and presenting deliverables.

●Gathering requirements, addressing regulatory violations and customer feedback with proper documentation. Working with customers on a roadmap to achieve their business objectives. Analyzing and optimizing customer’s business processes for efficient workflow.

●Performed advanced operations in Excel using VLookUps, conditional formatting, PivotTables/Pivot Charts, and graphs to provide various solutions such as organizing Intranet site metrics and managing employee performance data.

●Managed, integrated, multi-track projects and programs for development of responsive websites for clients such as Future Market and SBI Bank. Managed the scope, time and cost using MS project.

Publication

●Dynamic pricing strategies and its Impact on consumer behavior in Indore.“International conference on Paradigm Shift in Innovative Business CONFERENCE Management.”ISBN- ***-**-****-000-0

●Technological Aspects of a Massive Open Online course: The Case of Coursera and its effects. “Paradigm Shift in Innovative Business Management.”ISBN-***-**-****-000-0.

●Aspects of a Massive Open Online Course: The Case of Edx and its effects “COMPUTER SCIENCE AND EDUCATION IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (CSECS 2014)”

●Presently selected abstract - “The Case Study Method to Examine How Facilitator led Online Learning decreases the drop out rate”. Third 21st Century Academic Forum Conference at Harvard.

Awards/Extra Curricular Activities:

●1st Prize - Oracle Customer Mapping Experience (Boston University) - Journey mapping is a customer-focused, in- demand methodology that allows you to look through your customers’ eyes and understand their experience

●Co- Founder - GoBe groups (Boston University) - GoBe is an application on App Store which makes it possible for different people to meet at a place at any time with reliability.

●1st Prize - AT&T INNOVATE CAMPUS CHALLENGE (Boston University) - Created a business case for reducing drop out rates among students in high school.

●1st Prize - IIM Banglore Businees plan competition - Presented a business plan for a start-up TriNano Corp dealing with green nanotech products.

●Founder - Data Science and Mobile Apps Group (Boston University) First Data Science and Mobile App group at Boston University. Experience with outsourcing Mobile Application and Web development projects.

PROJECTS

• Instructional Systems Designer Project- Implemented and tested modules in HTML5. Changed the course content from HTML/Flash to HTML5. Collection and cleaning every page and manually testing every single page and presenting it on Blackboard. Created a dynamic dashboard using excel which identifies learning objects, objects having tables and objects having images.

• Building and Testing a Classifier Model Using Real World Data- Built a higher accuracy classifier model using Weka 3.6 on a crime records data set. The data set consisted of 2118 instances and 700 instances were sampled randomly. Displayed results through dashboard using Tableau 9.0.

• Prediction of customers likely to buy an medical policy using Oracle data Mining Identified Data Miner interface components and created a Data miner project along with a workflow which uses Naive Bayes classification model to predict customer behavior. Analyzing claims data and manipulating it for various analyses.

• Calculation of cost-per-query metric for TPC-H Queries- TPC-H (Transaction performance Council-Decision Support Benchmark) consists of a suite of business oriented ad-hoc queries and concurrent data modification. TPC-H reports were run against a single data set in 4 different environments namely SQL Server, Pig on Hadoop, MS OLAP (ROLAP Mode) and MS OLAP(MOLAP mode)

• Real Estate Website -Developed a Real estate website using XAMPP framework with PHP, javascript and MySQL. This application displays the number of properties and information about each property: location, price and loan money.

• Online course portal a ASP.Net, C# Project -This system provides access to registered users to browse through the site and join the course of their choice. Users can also access the course materials. Users can either register themselves as faculty or as a student. For both the type of users, the administrator has to approve of it. There is an approval page dedicated for it.

• K-Mart DataWarehouse -Developed a dimensional to suit requirements of users which must address business needs. Employed T-SQL queries to create and populate dimension and fact tables. Creating packages with SSIS and creating and deploying reports using SSRS. Utilizing data cubes to generate immediate results.

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