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Syracuse, NY,

USA - ***** Akshay Bhala

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linkedin/akshaybhala/

Education

MS Applied Data Science Syracuse University, School of Information Studies GPA: 3.8 May 2021 Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering Mumbai University, India GPA: 3.9 May 2016 Experience

Associate Software Developer Mumbai, India Sep 2016- Oct 2018

• Designed and developed catering business system from scratch for Bluesquare. Developed functions like registering new businesses, taking and delivering the orders which reduced customer wait time by 20%

• Implemented an e-commerce application Candy love offering responsive design, multiple payment options, feedback system and performed market analysis to efficiently achieve objective, increasing sales by 24%

• Performed statistical analysis using advanced Excel techniques for more than 80 million customer records to understand customer behaviors, attitudes and preferences, achieving 70% returning customer ratio

• Built interactive visual dashboards using Tableau to yield recommendations for increasing sales (by 25% per product) and used analytical models to reduce uncertainty and drive key decisions across the organization

• Co-ordinated with the CTO’s office to conduct requirement gathering, and achieved user satisfaction in regards to the product delivered

Projects

Customer Churn in the Airline Industry R Tableau Data Science Nov 2019

• Performed Data Munging and modelling on Airlines data of 130 thousand flights around the United States

• Generated actionable insights for the airline company on the essential areas that it needs to improve upon to increase customer satisfaction and maximize profits

• Visualized data exploratory analysis and provided insights, reports from live dashboards using Tableau. Online News Popularity Python Spark Machine Learning Big Data Analytics Feb 2020

• Analysed the Mashable dataset consisting articles to predict the number of shares that articles can be shared

• Categorised articles in Spark and used Random Forest Regression to predict number of shares achieving an accuracy of 70% which helped Mashable to decide which articles should they publish Weather Forecasting (Rain) Python Machine Learning Data Analytics Feb 2020

• Identified Data Quality Issues using python scripts, applied KNN imputation for Data Pre-processing and Seaborn for visualizing each location characteristics

• Built Classification Model using K-Means clustering and applied Machine Learning algorithm such as Decision Tree, predicting whether each location will have rain tomorrow or not with an accuracy of 81% Database for Mary Ann Shaw Centre of Syracuse University SQL Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft Access Nov 2019

• Shifted manual maintenance of student logs to an automatic system consisting payroll and department operations

• Performed database transformations and migrations to Microsoft Access for thousands of student data

• Bootstrapped the project and implemented the Tutor log and Payroll module using SQL queries, Forms and JS helping the department by saving time, increase in efficiency by 90% and ease for students to pick shifts

*Projects available on https://github.com/akshaybhala Leadership and Community Engagements

Data Science Department Head Graduate Student Organization Syracuse University Present

• Empowering the data science community in Syracuse University by organizing workshops, talks, and hackathons Technical Head Computer Society of India India May 2016

• Organised technical festivals, technical paper presentations, what’s new in IT talks and coding competitions Student Supervisor Food Services Syracuse University Present

• Managing and coordinating the Training of new employees and responsible for managing inventory for cafes Technology & Software Skills

Languages: R, Python, Spark, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, git Visualizations: Tableau, Excel (VlookUP, Pivot, Stat tools and Solver), Power BI, Google Analytics, SAS, R-Shiny Apps Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, MySQL Softwares: DataBricks, RStudio, Hadoop, Jupyter Notebook, Wordpress, Word, PowerPoint, Visio Certifications: R by Johns Hopkins Univ, Advanced R by Johns Hopkins Univ, Tableau Publication: “Data Mining (Optimized Apriori Algorithm)” in IJREAS Expertise: Data and Quantitative Analysis, Decision Analytics, Predictive Modeling, Machine Learning, Data Mining, KPI Dashboards, Business Intelligence, Data Interpretation, Data Transformation and Migration, Data Visualization, Critical Thinking, Research, Report and Forecast, Data Cleaning, Data Preparation