Mahmood Raza (STEM Eligible/ * years OPT) adcpla@r.postjobfree.com

****, * ****** ***, #***, Tempe, AZ – 85281 480-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/mahmoodr

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Analyst with 7 years of experience in Data warehouse & Business intelligence (DWBI) in the IT industry. Experienced in demand planning, operations management & SAP ERP system. Very strong problem-solving abilities through innovative solutions using my computing skills and analytical experience.

COMPETENCIES:

Sourcing & Procurement Business Development Tableau/SAP/SaS/SPSS Sustainability and CSR

Demand forecast & strategy Vendor Management SQL /Oracle DB2 Negotiation & Influencing

Supply Chain Management Operations Management Microsoft Excel/VBA Leadership & Mentoring

EDUCATION

W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Aug 18 – May 20

Master of Business Administration, Supply Chain Management

Master of Science, Business Analytics (STEM degree)

SRM University, Chennai, TN, India Aug 07 –May 11

Bachelor of Technology, Instrumentation & Control Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Jan 20 – Present

MBA Capstone Project with Knight-Swift Transportation

●Identifying outside market variables affecting the transportation rate fluctuation to predict more accurate customer pricing

●Research publicly available data and data sets from DAT to find correlation in contract pricing and identify common pricing trends

●Clean and analyze the available data using various analytics tools like Python and create visualization using Tableau to see the trends

Virtual Hold Technology, Akron, OH, USA Jun 19 – Aug 19 Summer Product Development Associate

●Researched public data, potential partner data and commercialize use cases of software features that make use of personalized profiles.

●Built consumer profiles to drive personalized customer experience capabilities for the VHT clients like Bank of America, Delta & Comcast

●Designed company profiles for 250+ companies providing advance text/chat services to their customers and compare the features and prices

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Aug 18 – Present Program Assistant at International Student Engagement (ISE)

●Managing a team of 7 student workers to advocate for international student engagement and resolving their issues at the ASU campus

●Collaborating with different stakeholders to promote multicultural environment for international students in the university

●Resolving internal and customer disputes to confirm that applications are functioning properly for student engagement by prompt response to their emails and collaborating with different stakeholders

Great-West Financial, Bangalore, KA, India Oct 15 – Jul 18

Reporting Analyst & BI Lead

●Led the Reporting & BI team of 5-6 members and spearheaded the Scrum meeting with Business users for daily project updates

●Managed multiple projects, resources and demand planning using Agile project management tools such as Jira, Kanban, SAP ERP systems

●Collaborated with cross-functional teams to initiate 8-9 development plans and created accurate resolution and testing reports to clients

●Transformed High Level Design requirement by the customers into Low Level Designs & detailed project plans and to meet the deliverables

●Mentored and groom the new joiners and system application developers with domain & technology training, and timely assessments

●Automated 100’s of SQL scripts by creating jobs using scheduling tool resulting in saving of over 1000 men hours and $5M

Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, KA, India Oct 11 – Sep 15

Software Engineer, SAP Business Objects Developer

●Assisted the project manager in ensuring timely completion of GMD PIR project which generated revenue of $5M by realigning the old applications and writing complex SQL queries in TOAD and MySQL

●Raised key Value Design Frameworks (VDF) following Lean Six Sigma process improvement and waste reduction in SAP BO reporting platform resulting in savings of $50K

●Headed the Cultural Social Responsibility (CSR) team and organized different charity and employee engagement events within the community by collaboration with different nonprofit organizations in the area.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

●VP of Net Impact ASU Chapter & volunteer at ASU ZeroWaste program, focused in learning and spreading the segregation of waste management and promoting sustainable lifestyle to meet university wide sustainability goals

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