Ahmed Sami

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Education

The University of Oklahoma, Michael F. Price College of Business, Norman, OK, USA Jan 2018 – May 2020 Master of Science in Management of Information Technology (MIT), GPA: 3.66/4.00 The University of Dhaka, Faculty of Business Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh Jan 2009 – Dec 2012 Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance, GPA: 3.27/4.00 Work Authorization

Eligible to work without sponsorship up to 34 months under Optional Practical Training (OPT) Skills

Data Analysis: EDA, association rule mining, cluster analysis and anomaly detection using Python and SAS Enterprise Miner, text mining (R), Excel, T-SQL querying, AWS Athena, Databricks, SQL Server ML Services (Python) Data Visualization: Tableau, Python Matplotlib and Seaborn, familiar with Power BI Data Warehousing: ETL pipeline (using Python), SQL server, familiar with SSIS Relational Database: Design and implementation of database, familiar with Dimensional Data Modeling Machine Learning: Support vector machine, Decision tree, Logistic regression (using Python Scikit-learn) Product: Prototyping, Software requirement specification, Git, familiar with Jira Service Desk, SDLC (Scrum), Trello Relevant Experience

Data Analyst (Remote): Chaldal, Inc. (San Mateo, CA) July 2020 – Present Chaldal is the leading online grocery platform (YC-backed) in Bangladesh

Developed dashboard (using SQL and Python) to track daily loss of sales due to stockout. Chaldal’s Sourcing team is currently using this to determine the optimal amount of stock for diaper and pet-food categories. Business Intelligence Intern Summer 2019: Kimray Inc. (Oklahoma City, OK) June 2019 – Aug Gathered a comprehensive experience of working with data from extraction to building reports. Majority of my tasks entailed writing ETL script using Python, analyzing data with SQL, and building reports using Tableau.

ETL pipelines: Created 5 ETL pipelines from DrillingInfo and the U.S. Energy Information Administration application program interfaces that will be used to support daily data feeds to multi-variable forecasting models and strategic reporting

Tableau dashboards: Built strategic dashboards for Kimray’s Business Development team to track retention of existing customers as well as drilling and production activities of potential customers Innovation & Solutions Design Associate: mPower Social Enterprises (Bangladesh) Feb 2017 – Dec Contributed to developing Data for Decisions - a consumer behavior measurement tool for small enterprises

Designed live dashboard that secured 3 clients (Nestle, Axiata, local NGO) on the third month of trial Product Associate (part-time): Chaldal, Inc. (San Mateo, CA) June 2016 – Dec

Implemented analytics-driven customer acquisition campaign for “baby diaper” category

Gained 2X revenue growth from August to consecutive three months Past Experience (selected ones)

Graduate Teaching Assistant: The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) Jan 2018 – May 2020

Introduced Typinator and ZipGrade, which save on an average 5 hours in grading 100 assignments

Introduced PollEverywhere which cut down regular attendance taking time from 15 minutes to only 3 minutes Founder, Product & User Acquisition: NearBuzz (Bangladesh) Mar 2015 – Dec 2016 A location-based question-answer app that facilitates sharing of information on hyper-local issues

Pivoted to a subscription-fee based revenue model (b2b) which attracted $10,000 seed funding

Created feature “Jump Query” that resulted in 20% increase in total number of daily posts/queries

User acquisition: 7000 downloads; 2000 returning users; average time spent per day/user - 171 seconds Project Coordinator: LaunchPad Bangladesh (Bangladesh) May 2013 – Jan 2015 An accelerator platform for student-run startups in Bangladesh funded by U.S. Department of State

Wrote proposal that won funding of $ 28,750; slashed cost ($3000) by introducing inhouse content creation Courses completed in 2018-20

MIT: Cloud Computing (AWS and Azure), Database Management, Data Warehousing, Statistics for DSA Analytics: Analytics Programming (Python), Optimization, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Social Analytics