LAVANYALAKSHMI LOKADOLALU

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/lavanyalakshmi-lokadolalu/ San Jose -CA EDUCATION:

Master of Science, Engineering Management, San Jose State University, San Jose-CA August 2018 - May 2020 Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communication, BEC, Bagalkot, India August 2009 - May 2013 SKILL SET:

# MS Excel # Qlik-View # JIRA & ServiceNow # Python # SQL #Gantt Charts # Salesforce

# Tableau # Minitab

# Splunk # R # Slack # G-Suite # CPM/PERT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Data Analytics Research Assistant– Lucas College & Graduate School of Business, SJSU Oct 2019 – May 2020

• Gathered quantitative data by market research on electric vehicles for planning, discovering hidden problems & challenges.

• Consolidated & analyzed data by visualization techniques, correlation metrics, outlier detection and sequential patterns.

• Designed a regression model best fit and decision trees for decision making in pricing strategies using MS Excel and R. Business Development Intern – SJSU Research Foundation Jan 2019 – May 2020

• Documented customer focused business development activities by creating standardized procedures in confluence.

• Evaluated annual financial report using MS office suite, tableau to visualize data & proposed actionable recommendations. Sr. Systems Engineer- Cognizant Technology Solutions Feb 2014 – July 2017

• Communicated stakeholder’s business process requirements into easy to understand data process models, by interacting with cross-functional teams and applied analytical models to solve business problems.

• Designed easy to communicate dashboards in tableau for monitoring and presented the visualized metrics for project status updates by analyzing, identifying trends and patterns for data driven insights and presented the analysis.

• Implemented and managed documentation of cost analysis by developing a business model and statistical analysis by cleaning data set and using vlookup, Pivot tables, aggregation and data joining.

• Designed automation algorithms by optimizing SQL queries, interacting with database resulting in efficiency increase 23% PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES:

• Hold “Lean Six Sigma Green Belt” certification issued by San Jose State University in June 2019.

• Completed Market Place Simulation from Harvard Business School for implementing strategies in decision making process and Project Management Simulation by Harvard Business school, for ‘Senior Project Manager’ role in April 2019.

• Hold Business Analytics Fundamentals, and Project Management certifications from LinkedIn.

• Lead cultural teams, organized and hosted national level tech Fest ‘Spectrum’ as an 'Anchor' in April 2012. RELEVANT ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

Online customer behavior analysis Fall 2019

• Applied data mining techniques such as logistic regression, clustering using R in determining the performance of the customer traffic involving large dataset. Identified inconsistencies by visualization & statistical analytics.

• Gained business insights by clustering to validate text mining & designed the model for increase in online business. Financial Architecture analysis of Facebook Spring 2019

• Analyzed financial statements of Facebook by comparing to its competitors such as Intuit, Amazon and salesforce, mapped high and low financial areas and performance metrics in Minitab, QlikView and Tableau based on the profitability ratios.

• Determined the investment decision for profit by performance metrics and ratios based on market trend. Project Management analysis for Space Shuttle Challenger Crash Spring 2019

• Analyzed the incident by formulating 5 why methodology and designed planning methodology using CPM technique.

• Concluded with recommendations for effective actions & precautionary measures to avoid management failure in project management process using incident and change management techniques. Reduction of Cost and Process Improvements of Vikings Division Fall 2018

• Developed process improvement methodologies in product management to figure out the overall cost involved for production, and optimized cost by statistical forecast, aggregate planning and MRP as product strategy.

• Performed routing and scheduling of resources for production process based on time of delivery, BOM, resource allocation, and designed capacity planning for machines which reduced the cost of production process by 30%.

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