ATHARVA SHANTANU KULKARNI
857-***-**** ********.****@************.*** www.linkedin.com/in/atharva-kulk Boston, MA SUMMARY
Results-driven Business and Data enthusiast with expertise in analytical thinking, business domain knowledge, data analysis, visualization tools, effective communicator skilled in driving data-driven decisions, proposing innovative solutions through seamless collaboration with diverse stakeholders, strong project management, technical acumen, and critical thinking abilities optimize business processes. EDUCATION
Northeastern University Master of Science Applied Machine Intelligence Boston, MA 01.2021 – 04.2023
Courses: Data Mining, Usability & Human Interaction, AI System Technology, Finance Info Processing Vishwakarma Institute of Technology Bachelor of Technology Computer Science Engineering Pune, India 08.2015 – 05.2019
Courses: Python Cross functional statistics, Big Data Application, AI Visualization, Data Science Applications SKILLS
Programming Python, SQL, R Programming, MYSQL, VBA, MACROS, DAX Data Technology Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Hive, Hadoop, Smartsheet, GCP, Alteryx, Talend Technologies / Tools Apache Spark, Tableau, PowerBI, Git, ServiceNow, SharePoint, AWS, Google Studio Certifications AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Tableau Analyst, Microsoft Technology Associate Cyber Security WORK EXPERIENCE
Business Analyst III Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Pittsburgh, PA 11.2023 – present
Maintain and update Activity Based Modeling assumptions, calculations, and templates while coordinating with business partners and IT, perform large volume data analysis, leveraging strong business acuity, to effectively communicate insights to key decision makers.
Collaborate with multiple business functions to drive profitability and productivity gains for the CCG business, provide technical expertise, business insight, and support across the GPI team, ensuring efficient operations and informed decision-making.
Initiated the development and migration process from a legacy Access database form to an interactive PowerApps form, streamlining contract compliance procedures for enhanced effectiveness and accuracy. Business Data Analyst Breegi Scientific Boston, MA 06.2023 – 10.2023
My daily activities include reengineering of internal and external report process with leadership alignment, cross functioning with new teams, service delivery commitments, create Dashboards on PowerBI and process documentations
Acting as a liaison between Stakeholders and Developers by identifying business needs and performing data-driven analysis in the full lifecycle of Data Ingestion and Dashboard development to ensure scope of work, across the project
Completed ingestion and Deployment of 62 tables as well as reliably translated and executed 20+ external data reports under Spend which are utilized by leadership to perform audits, provide customer communication, and forecast trends Data Analyst Charles River Laboratories Wilmington, MA 01.2022 – 07.2022
Created efficient SQL queries, ETL pipelines to obtain metrics from database, resolved data addition issues, added alerts to signal failure, making the system resilient and scalable, created optimum workflow by weighing various approaches
Curated high-impact PowerBI KPI dashboard that facilitated ongoing agile project cost tracking, identified, mitigated potential issues by 15%
Identified critical understandings and presented comprehensive reports in PowerBI to stakeholders, providing key inputs for effective business decision-making, resulting in a 20% increase in cost savings approximately $200K through scalable project reforecasting Data and Operations Analyst Northeastern University Boston, MA 09.2021 – 04.2023
Played a pivotal role in curating and processing data, preparing it for data science and statistical analysis. Collaborated closely with the data analytics team to develop analysis pipelines, generating essential measurement metrics for further statistics analysis
Utilized advanced Tableau dashboards to gain critical anomalies from complex data sets, resulting in a 15% improvement in productivity, 20% increase in efficiency, and 10% networking enhancement in availability across business operations
Led weekly office hours, learning sessions and taught Database design concepts, efficient SQL querying, resolved questions, identified growth areas through review sessions and provided feedback thus, guided them to improve their technical and leadership skills Data Analyst ATOS and Gut Lerner Technology Pune, India 01.2019 – 12.2020
Analyzed ITIL service software development life cycle, developed and implemented an innovative Python and VBA framework to automate daily workflow, resulting in a 70% reduction in manual work, bridged statistical techniques and gap analysis to optimize service offerings
Maintained version control, ensured continuous integration and deployment, leading to an efficient and streamlined development process
Utilized MS Excel to analyze data from graphs and dashboards generated by the framework, gaining valuable insights into software workflow and identifying areas for improvement
PROJECTS
Academic Projects Stock Data AWS Pipeline Python, Flask, EC2, RDS
Built an End-to-End pipeline to extract data from Yahoo finance API, transform the data and load the data on AWS RDS.
Developed a Flask application for displaying different stocks by rendering the data to HTML pages, Hosted the Flask application on AWS EC2 Time Series Analysis for Walmart Time Series Forecasting and Data Analysis – Modelling
Structured a forecasting tool to evaluate revenue variances, business pipelines, industry trends, and probability of projected Sales / Profit for up to three years via Python-scripted ARIMA model to provide a quantitative thorough analysis report to project sponsor
Crafted tableau-generated interactive dashboard and detect outliners as well as KPIs contributing to different sales and profitability