PREKSHA GOPALAKRISHNA
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EDUCATION
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan Aug 2019 - Present
Master of Science in information technology & Management – Major in Business Analytics GPA: 3.97/4.0
Visveswaraya Technological University, Bangalore, India Aug 2011 - Jun 2015
Bachelor of Engineering – Computer Science GPA: 3.6/4.0
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming/Scripting Languages: Python, Excel-VBA, UNIX Shell Scripting
Data Mining Tools: SAP Enterprise Miner, JMP
Data Visualization: Power BI, Tableau
Database: Oracle, Microsoft SQL server, Microsoft Access
Hadoop technologies: Hive, Impala and Basic Pig
Query Languages: SQL, MySQL
Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visual Studio Enterprise
Web Analytics: Google Analytics 360 suite, hotjar, Google AdWords, Google Tag Manager, Google Optimize
SAP: EHP7 FOR SAP ERP 6.0, SAP EHP2 FOR SAP NETWEAVER 7.0(ECC), Solution manager 7.1 & 7.2, SAP BW, SAP CRM, SAP HCM
WORK EXPERIENCE
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY Aug 2019 – Apr 2020
Graduate Research Assistant
Research on how the impact of emotion inherent in a product review from Amazon.com affects the product ratings
oWeb scraping from Indeed website to get the job listings of different companies using Python
oExtracted the product reviews from Amazon.com to get the dataset.
oImputation of the missing values in the dataset for Data Cleaning
oCombined the required variables into a single excel as Data Integration using VBA code
oApplied the different Data Mining techniques such as MLR and evaluated patterns and found the accurate model for the dataset which predicts the emotion inherent in a product review on the Amazon website.
oThe model predicts if a verified/helpful product review affects the product rating
Tools/Technologies: Python, Excel VBA, JMP
Research on Injury Severity patterns and accidents at Highway Rail grade crossings
oUnderstood the different set of variables in the data set
oImputing the dataset for missing values as a part of Data Cleaning
oJoined the required variables into one single table from multiple files as part of Data Integration using SQL queries.
oApplied various Data Mining Techniques to find the accurate model
Tools/Technologies: SQL, MySQL, JMP
Assisted Seasonal adjustment for unemployment data series
oRetrieved the historical data series for unemployment based on Industry
oPerformed Seasonal adjustment of the data series using EViews
Tools/Technologies: Excel, EViews
SAS STUDENT SYMPOSIUM COMPETITION
Published a paper for the SAS Student Symposium Competition on Text Analysis of Yelp customer reviews using SAS Enterprise Miner
oConversion of the json files to csv using Python
oUsed the Text Rule builder, to analyse the customer reviews of the restaurants and to understand if the restaurants had been closed due to the negative reviews on Yelp
oSentiment Analysis is done based on the customer ratings. This could be used by the owners to concentrate on areas to improve in a restaurant
Tools/Technologies: SAS Enterprise Miner, Python
CAPGEMINI INDIA PVT. LTD Jul 2015 - May 2019
Associate Consultant, Bangalore, India
Manage the database that support performance improvement activities
Query the database - SQL to produce reports and analyze the database
Build monthly and weekly reports and dashboards
Wrote SQL queries to change the Oracle parameters and ABAP parameters
Wrote Cron jobs to check the system status and update the user it’s performance
Daily system monitoring and solving the issues observed.
Oracle SBP update, Kernel upgrade, Hana Revision Patch update, SPAM/SAINT update, IGS Update
Linux/windows patching on monthly basis.
System copy Oracle and HANA
SSFS configuration, Operation modes, Central User Administration.
Background Job Administration, User Administration.
Client Administration like Client copy, Client Export and Import, Remote Client Copy.
COURSEWORK
Introduction to Database Management
Business Analytics
Advanced Database and Big Data Management
Software Project Management
Introduction to Data Science
Web Analytics
Quantitative methods for Managers
Practical Computing with Data Analytics with R and Python
ACADEMIC PROJECT
Retail Store Data Warehouse
oPerformed ETL services for loading the data from the three sources onto the created Data Warehouse in SQL server
oCreated a Multidimensional Cube for analyzing the sales data among the different stores and the Revenue data across the different states and years.
oUsed SSRS to build the reports to view the sales of the different products category-wise and year-wise, Revenue of the Retail store month-wise
oPerformed Market Basket Analysis to see which two products were often bought together
oUsed Tableau for Data Visualization and analyzed the Sales, Revenue across the states, month, Season & year and Quantity per Product Categories sold per Season
Tools/Technologies: SQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Visual Studio, Tableau
Loan Prediction Based on Dollar Amount
oAnalyzed whether the loan (high, medium, low) was approved for a customer based on customer variables such as gender, education, marital status, applicant income, credit history etc.
oData Preprocessing by imputing the missing variables
oAnalyzed correlations among different variables and used Principal Component Analysis – PCA to check if variables can be excluded from the model.
oApplied various data mining models such as Logistic Regression, MLR, Decision tree, KNN
oChose the best model by comparing the different models and validating the dataset.
Tools/Technologies: Excel, JMP
US Census Data
oDeveloped an application using EXCEL-VBA that allows the user to view demographics, Income, Means of Transport, Ethnicity of Population, Employment of the population by the user’s choice of state and year in the drop down. Also created an application for comparing the most densely populated states across the years.
oA home page which consists of all the buttons that a user can navigate to, for accessing the different applications by the VBA code
oCreated dynamic charts for displaying the statistics, which change as and when the raw data is changed.
oUsed Tableau for a more interactive visualization of the demographics, employment, poverty, ethnicity of population, means of transport across the different states and years
Tools/Technologies: Excel – VBA, Tableau
Supermarket Sales
oNormalized the data and loaded the data into the SQL Server
oPerformed analysis using Power BI for various types of customers, products brought frequently and analysis of branch for knowing the highest sales
oSales analysis showing total sales across the year and quarterly ranges, days of the week and time in which most sales have been made
oProduct Analysis which says which categories of products have been bought the most
oCustomer analysis based on type and gender, Rating of the customer based on gender and payment
Tools/Technologies: SQL, SQL server management studio, PowerBI