ARPAN SHARMA
***********@***.*** +1-845-***-**** New York linkedin.com/in/arpansharma9011/ about.me/arpan.sharma EXPERIENCE
Project Development Intern, Global Book Clubs, New York (Remote) Aug 2020 - Present
• Product Development: Managing the launch plan for a sustainable literacy product in developing markets globally
• Business Operations: Spearheading market analyses and enhancing outreach campaigns for suppliers and consumers
• Research and Reporting: Identifying chemical recycling tradeoffs in plastic sheet casting for book manufacturing Analyst - International Student Advisory, NYU Office of Global Services, New York Apr 2019 - May 2020
• Advisory/Consultancy: Resolved F-1/J-1 Visa immigration and work authorization cases in compliance with U.S. DHS and SEVIS regulations for student customers; achieved 98% accuracy in settlement of 10,000+ cases in a year
• Optimization: Redesigned the case-management workflow in batch-processing of categorized requests with sunapsis software, reducing the seasonal demand surge by 30% and the operational cycle-time by 2 days/case Operations Assistant, NYU Courant Institute of Mathematics, New York Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
• Operations: Identified major gaps in the education ecosystem by analyzing and visualizing sentimental data from course feedback of 2,100 undergraduate students, managed the NYUClasses website databases
• Teaching Assitance: Initiated, proctored, and graded 40+ examinations with over 50 students across 14 courses Sales Analyst, Infrastructure Publishing Pvt Ltd, New Delhi Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
• Marketing / Sales: Designed and implemented a specialized B2B marketing pipeline to generate and leverage databases of 40k+ leads for sales campaigns, increased product sales conversion by 20% in 90 days
• Research: Spearheaded research on infrastructure market growth trends in USA, India, EMEA and SEA regions; collaborated with lead editor to develop new reports that generated $18,000 in revenue in 2 weeks
• Product Management: Managed the successful launch of Renewable Energy Development in Africa 2018 annual report from primary research through sales, increase in product value by 15% Industrial Engineer, Bharat Electronics Limited (NSE: BEL), New Delhi Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
• Engineering/Supply Management: Created inventory control charts for Radar and Transmitter department to identify quality-testing bottlenecks in VLF Transmitter production; redesigned process to reduce lead time by 3 hours/week PROJECTS
BeLeaf App
• Developed a smartphone app with a team of 5 through ideation, prototyping, and A/B user testing to promote sustain- ability via organic waste composting, inspired by OpenIDEOs Food System and Design Thinking Walmart Tech for Good
• Analysis of Blockchain and AI capabilities in Walmarts online grocery segment with IBM Food Trust, including SWOT and PEST analyses and recommendations for creating a transparent and ethical supply chain YouTube Marketing
• Built ML tools for content creators by identifying relations in 400,000+ trending videos using R, BigML, providing user with array of profitable KPIs: categories, tags, and titles, and PPC to enhance marketing campaigns Smart Mirror
• Led a team of 4 to program and develop a Linux-based smart mirror using Raspberry-Pi, incorporated applications like Google voice-search, news, photos, enabled smartphone synchronization EDUCATION
Master of Science, Management of Technology Sep 2018 - May 2019 New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, New York GPA: 3.4 Bachelor of Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Jul 2013 - Aug 2017 Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, BPIT New Delhi GPA: 3.5 SKILLS
Programming Languages and SaS: R, Python, SQL, Excel, PowerPoint, Salesforce, Slack, Google Suite Competencies: Business Analytics, Data Visualization, Design Thinking, Applied Research, Root Cause Analysis EXTRACURRICULAR (NYU)
• Elected VP of Marketing, Student Council: Launched 40+ campaigns with 50+ attendees, 173% increase in web traffic
• Orientation Leader, New Graduate Student Orientation (NGSO) Fall 2019 Orientation Captain, NGSO Spring 2020
• Nominated: Outstanding Engagement Leader, Student Leader Awards 2020 Recipient of NYU Merit Scholarship CERTIFICATIONS
• Initiating and Planning Projects, Managing Risks and Changes: University Of California
• Programming in Python, Data Science Applications: University of Michigan