Akshita Gangrade adg104@r.postjobfree.com (***) 602–5134 LinkedIn

EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA

Master of Information Systems Management Dec 2020

Shri Shankaracharya Group of Institutions Bhilai, India Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology Jun 2017 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tata Consultancy Services Summer Consultant Pittsburgh, PA Jun 2020 – Aug 2020

● Data Collection & Visualization: Evaluated gaps in airline loyalty programs and conducted 1000+ surveys to understand pain points in cross border transactions. Created Tableau dashboard for quantitative visualization of survey data

● Technical Documentation: Compared analysis with industry best practices, performed SWOT analysis, conceptualized, and presented white paper ‘Reimagining Loyalty Programs Using Blockchain’ to stakeholders Sukhi, Inc., Healthcare B2B Startup Product Management Intern Pittsburgh, PA May 2020 – Jul 2020

● Product Strategy: Conducted market research and examined 20+ competitive products. Developed product roadmap for next 2 years and successfully launched therapist matching product focused on the geriatric population in nursing homes

● Data Management: Designed database schema and performed data modelling. Created data pipeline to update dataset with real-time information and improved data accuracy by 82% Dell Technologies Presales Consultant- Data Protection Storage Bangalore, India Nov 2017 – Jul 2019

● End-to-End Pre-sales Management: Supervised pre-sales cycle for 13 products including requirement gathering, proposals, technical architecture and presented demos to 100+ enterprise clients

● Leadership: Spearheaded international cross-functional team of 6 along with account managers; identified business development opportunities and generated a quarterly sale of $5M (2019 Q1)

● Digital Transformation: Introduced technology revamp strategy that generated over 23 projects from 15+ clients and maximized product reach in Asia Pacific and Japan, increasing sales by 16% adding $336,000 in Q2 of 2019 CauseCode Technologies, SaaS Software Engineer Intern Pune, India Jul 2017 – Aug 2017

• Software Development: Designed and developed product features for a conference management application, using Groovy Grails and MySQL on AWS and manual testing, reduced meeting set up and start time by 17% ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Android App to display meals Android, Java, Apache Tomcat, MongoDB, Heroku Oct 2020

● App Development: Fetching details through mealsDB API to display details about user searched meal. The data from the API was manipulated and stored in MongoDB and used to display logs in a separate JSP webpage CMU Health Condition Classification Python (K-Means, Random Forest, Linear Regression) Sept 2020

● Data Processing and Clustering: Analyzed US Health dataset of 3142 counties to predict factors causing premature death Allies for Children, CMU Cost Optimization for Public School Transportation MS Excel Python Mar 2020 – Apr 2020

● Data-Driven Prospecting: Analyzed Port Authority dataset to determine utilization, frequency, and routes of all public- school buses in county and proposed solution for reducing annual spending by $4M Cisco, CMU Social Media Interaction Python NLTK Jan 2020 – Apr 2020

● In-depth Analysis: Performed data preprocessing and analysis of 140K+ tweets; Generated insights and recommended strategies such as frequency of tweets, using right hashtags, etc. which increased interaction with CXOs by 52% CMU Employee Database Oracle 11g Nov 2019

● Business Operations: Built and manipulated a relational database for improving HR operations; created reports and query views using analytical functions and regular expressions SQL queries SKILLS & COURSEWORK

• Programming Languages: Python, Java, SQL, Groovy, C/C++

• Technologies: Rest APIs, AWS, Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK), HTML, Git

• Tools: JIRA, Trello, Adobe XD, Tableau, SAS, Power BI, Oracle 11g

• Relevant Coursework: Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Finance, Consulting Lab, Data Focused Python, Business Intelligence Data Mining, Digital Service Innovation, Distributed Systems, Economics, Statistics, Database Management AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

● Bagged 2nd position at the Philips Health Ideation Hackathon, CMU Jan 2020

● Specialist – Technology Architect, Data Protection Mar 2019

● Represented Dell Technologies and showcased a business model of an ‘all-in-one’ digital transformation suite Nov 2018

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