Sarthak Arora
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Business Product Analyst with over 4 years of experience in business analytics, and data analytics across multiple industries. Interested in leveraging prior experience and advanced degrees [MBA & MS] to develop meaningful insights for business growth decisions.
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business Master of Business Administration, Strategy, Operations and Information Systems April 2020 Master of Science in Management Information Systems (STEM) April 2020 Honors: Recipient of Katz Scholarship
Recipient of Investor’s Expectation Award in Business Strategy Capstone Project JAYPEE INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, Noida, India Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science Engineering June 2014 MBA EXPERIENCE
AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTER, Pittsburgh, PA August 2019-December 2019 Six Sigma Strategy Consultant Lead
Improving Buy Online Ship from Store (BOSS) First Fill Performance by increasing fill rate by 15% leading to incremental revenue of $6 million.
Refined BOSS First Fill metrics through continuous improvement using Monte Carlo Simulation. BUCHANAN INGERSOLL AND ROONEY, Pittsburgh, PA June 2019-August 2019 Business Intelligence Analyst Intern
Developed the business Intelligence KPI Dashboard for Leadership Teams and C-level Executives to assist them with business and investment decisions.
Collaborated with financial analysts for improving metrics such as revenue realization for the on-boarded attorneys leading to cost benefit by 5%.
KURT J LESKER, Pittsburgh, PA January 2019- April 2019 MBA Strategy Consultant
Developed optimized statistical model for manufacturing client to reduce the lead time by 20 % for two of their flagship products leading to cost benefit of $12.5 million.
Identified gaps in supply chain processes leading to improvement in inventory management. MBA CASE COMPETITION
GSCMI Purdue Case Competition, Krannert School of Management, IN February 2020
Received First Prize for developing financial recommendation to battle Coronavirus Conundrum for Global Manufacturing Companies.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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SOPRA STERIA, Noida, India August 2014 - July 2018 Senior Product Analyst/Product Manager (August 2017 - July 2018)
Strategized and Developed BI Product Improvement plans with cross functional teams for banking client to improve their revenue by $1.5 million in one year.
Created comprehensive strategic analysis report for banking stakeholders to drive growth initiatives.
Designed product development road maps developed user stories to drive user engagement and managed product backlog.
Led all Market Research efforts for introducing photo Tan application for payment authentication.
Collaborated with the designers, architects and engineers to iterate on the MVP scope.
Acquired data from primary or secondary data sources and maintained databases. Product Lead (August 2014 – July 2017)
Led a team of Application Developers for Deutsche Bank (listed in Fortune Global 500) and handled responsibility of managing support operations.
Conducted scrum meetings to supervise product development in offshore and onshore locations.
Received STAR Performer in the team twice based on stellar contributions to projects. System Engineer (August 2014 – July 2015)
Analyzed technical and functional requirements working with analytics team
Devised complex SQL queries to monitor the ETL data loads using Informatica Monitor Tool.
Improved incident resolution KPI by 20% by initiating and strategizing IT control processes across seven applications to audit incident escalations and closure. ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Problem Solving, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Text Mining, Competitive Analysis, Market Research, Demand Forecasting, People Management, Client Interaction, Product Consulting, Product Development & Management, Strategy Consulting.
Software: MS Office Suite, SPSS, R Programming, Python, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, SQL Developer, Jira, Service Now, Google Analytics, Tableau, Power BI (Business Intelligence), SAP ERP, SAP HANA.