Malavika Ravindra
IMT Deerfield Apartments, ATLANTA, GA ***********@*****.***
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* ***** ** ********** ** IT industry in Banking, Retail and Energy domains. Recognized consistently for performance excellence, process improvement and providing cost saving solutions. Have 2 years of experience working on predictive analytics projects using statistical techniques.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Languages – Python (stats models, pandas, scipy, plotly, Word2Vec, lightgbm),
R, Java
Database - SQL PLSQL, T-SQL
Visualization Tools - Tableau, Power BI
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:
Master of Science -Rochester Institute of Technology, December 2020, G.P.A 3.7 (VISA STATUS – STEM EAD )
Bachelors in Computer Science from Osmania University, India 3.5 GPA
CERTIFICATIONS
Tableau – Author
Tableau - Desktop Fundamentals, Desktop Intermediate
IBM – Python for Data Science
GOOGLE -Google Analytics Certification
PROJECTS
NLP:
Performed lemmatization and created Word2Vec association of tweets for 2 Pharmaceutical Companies
Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling using TFIDF for customer reviews of E- commerce site.
Predictive Analytics:
Implemented Machine Learning Algorithm Gradient Boost Regressor to predict the sale at Wal-Mart across Categories Food Items, Household Goods, Hobby Supplies
Logistic Regression on Heritage Health Claims data using to predict whether patients of various demographic groups would claim insurance in the next year.
Regression Analysis and Predictive Modeling on USDA data to predict Obesity of Adults in America based on factors like age, diet, mode of transportation.
Marketing Analytics:
Survival Analysis: Used COX PH model to calculate hazard ratio and evaluate the effect of several factors on Customer Loyalty
Choice Modeling: Predicted market share for the various feature options in a product (Automobiles). Calculated discount required on a product to make a product more attractive compared to competing products in the same category. Feature options in a product (Automobiles.).
Financial Analytics:
Data Analysis of Balance Sheet metric Net Income to report the effect of financial crisis (2008) on Corporate Profits.
Accounting Analytics:
10KReport Structured and Unstructured Data Analysis to gain insight and provide prescriptive analysis for the next financial year.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Designed a batch job data creation tool to load records through server which created annualized saving of USD 5153 and saved 220 hours of productive time for Wells Fargo’s Wholesale Line of Business.
Received “Achieving Excellence” award for gaining expertise in the domain and exceeding expectations in the deliverables.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Rochester Institute of Technology, New York August 2019 – December 2020
Teaching Assistant (Part Time)
Responsible for Teaching Programming in Python, R to students of Business Analytics [BANA680] and Information Systems [MGIS650] courses
Research Assistant Saunders College of Business
Examined data related to admissions and research projects established key metrics to leverage the growth of business.
Designed a plan for improved data flow, created and analyzed dashboards and performed exploratory analysis. Presented the findings and business recommendations to various stakeholders. Performed structural modeling on research dataset.
Facilitated in decreasing operational time and cost to the Institution by 60%.
Cognavate Business Solutions, India July 2016 - May 2019
Business Data Analyst
Requirement gathering and elicitation, Use case identification for the project from the Clients.
Project planning, estimation and Implementation of the modules in the Project.
Designed Tableau Dashboards with the KPI metrics.
Technical issue resolution and providing optimal cost solutions.
Wells Fargo, India
Quality Specialist November 2012-Apr2016
Worked on automation testing using Selenium for the Health Benefit Insurance Application of Commercial Banking Group as a lead for application quality assurance, integration and release.
Functional testing of Android and iOS applications according to the test plans
Requirement analysis and Identified gaps in requirements, worked on adding and updating requirements and after system change and use case changes of the Business Scenarios.
Collaborated with stakeholders across job levels, and both internal and external business partners to ensure coordination and project completion according to timelines.
Wells Fargo, India
Senior QA Analyst July 2010 – October 2012
Functional and Automation Testing of critical high-volume loan risk rating application for the Commercial loans department of Wells Fargo involving Moody’s Risk Rating integration.
Wells Fargo, India
Senior QA Analyst (Contractor through Magna InfoTech) February 2010-June 2010
Functional testing of CommerCardExpenseReporting Application for desktop and mobile devices.
Performed black box testing and SDET role in an agile environment.
Infosys Technologies Limited, India
Software Engineer November 2006 – April 2009
Developed an automated system for the operations at the Field (oil well) of the Baker Oil Tools division of Baker Hughes. Increased efficiency of the technicians in completing the task by 70% and faster processing of contracts for the oil well drilling. Received “Best Project “award for the year 2009 for customer service excellence