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Kaushal Desai

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Professional Profile

Data Scientist/Analyst with extensive portfolio of innovative and unique project experiences. Proven ability to effectively analyze quantitative data and metrics using appropriate platform to back up assertions and develop strategy. Possessing a wide-ranging knowledge of the tools needed to design, implement and support financial solutions. Education

Master of Science – Information Systems May 2017

New York University - Stern School of Business / Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) – Computer Science Dec 2013 Birla Institute of Technology & Science - Pilani, India Skills

Work Experience

Business Analyst Intern, NYU School of Medicine Research IT, New York, NY Sep 2016 - Dec 2016

• Managed project to design and implement online bio-banking system for analysis and collaboration

• Designed cloud based database systems to extract, analyze and store sensitive medical data

• Developed dashboards for data visualization and reporting of analytical data

• Implemented standardization for cross-system reporting and versioning of existing ontologies across all platforms Business Analyst Intern, Technical Consulting & Research Inc. Weston, CT Jun 2016 - Sep 2016

• Liaised with senior management to design and implement suitable business analytics platform

• Implemented machine learning techniques to data mine over 500 thousand data entries to gain key insights

• Developed reporting systems to summarize and document data insights to provide best treatment methods

• Managed multiple teams under aggressive deadlines Web Developer, Inonit.in, Mumbai, India Jan 2014 - Jun 2014

• Lead developer of ecommerce website and platform from the bottom-up for online tech startup

• Led and managed project team motivating timely product deployments under strict budget

• Performed Search Engine Optimization (SEO) doubling user traffic to the website

• Built data warehouse and data pipelines to catalogue incoming data and protect system infrastructure Technology Analyst Intern, Eclerx Solutions, Mumbai, India Jul 2013 - Dec 2013

• Experienced all facets of product lifecycle development, from analysis, implementation, user training and product enhancement

• Contributed to design for specific deliverables and assisted in the development of technical solutions

• Worked with minimal direction from the technical lead to accomplish assigned tasks Additional Experience

Administrative Assistant, New York University, New York, NY Feb 2016 - Present

• Provide administrative support to campus safety Shift Captain and three of his departments

• Generate reports that assist upper management with decision-making and are distributed to 200+ employees, department wide

• Answer telephones and promptly and courteously assist students and employees on campus

• Digitize recordkeeping system and create user-friendly and systematic info management platform, reducing data-retrieval time Finance Projects

Expedia Hotel Recommender System, NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Aug 2016 - Dec 2016 Built ‘Collaborative’ and ‘Content - Based’ recommender system that will recommend hotels to the Expedia users. K-modes clustering algorithm was used. Apache Spark, Python Pandas and MS Azure were used for data processing and modeling. Project Website: https://github.com/kaushaldesaianalytics/hotel-recommender-system Assessment of Amazon Mechanical Turk Population Dynamics, NYU Stern School of Business Jun 2016 - Present In collaboration with Amazon.com, Inc. project focusses on analyzing the dynamics of all Amazon M-Turk worker population, and evaluates the integrity of information available on Amazon M-Turk marketplace through implementation of analytics and machine learning tools, data visualization platforms and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology. Certification, Leadership and Extra-Curricular Achievements Risk Management Associate PRM Certification candidate Leadership Department Head at national level Inter-college tech event ‘Quark – 2012’ Volunteer / NGO Volunteered for ‘Abhigyaan’ initiative to educate laborers working on college campus Business Analytics Tools R, MS Excel, SAS, Tableau Programming Languages Python, Scala, Java, PHP

Database Management SQL, Spark, Hadoop

Relevant Skills Project Management, Predictive Modeling, Data Management, Data Visualization

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