Minu Shridhar

Dallas, TX 214-***-**** adkhrg@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/minushridhar/

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Management Science University of Texas at Dallas (GPA:3.7/4.0) May 2020 Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation technology Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering June 2013 SKILLS

• Data Analytics: MS SQL, Python, PowerBI, Tableau, Adobe & Google Analytics, Advanced excel

• Project Management: Agile Methodologies, SCRUM, Sprint Planning, Waterfall, User stories, BRD/PRD, JIRA

• Functional Tools: CATIA & ENOVIA, ERP with SAP, SAS Enterprise Miner, Salesforce

• Cloud services: Open Stack(IaaS, PaaS)

EXPERIENCE

CodeHound - App Development (Part time Project - Product Management)

• Conducted Market research and app store trend analysis to understand competitive position. Identified gaps and unlocked new market segments and customer personas for next iterations

• Conceptualized and launched 3 new gaming apps with 700k downloads. Responsible for defining roadmap and prioritization of features and bugs based on user feedback and A/B testing

• Increased the product reliability by categorizing user reviews on the play store and app store as bug, new feature request or repeated request and built metrics to understand the trends.

• Improved app ranking in play store and app store to top 26 in India region through search engine and keyword search optimization

Nokia Software San Jose, CA

Co-op Intern Aug 2019 – May 2020

• Analyzed large datasets related to Nokia software Sales Operations from Salesforce CRM tool to identify trends, business growth, forecast and focus areas; delivered 5+ presentation to sales leadership with actionable insights

• Collaborated with stakeholders from Product teams, Engineering and Operations team to optimize the manual process of Excel entry to real-time, interactive PowerBI dashboards resulting increase in efficiency

• Built scorecards and presentations, highlighting key KPI’s such as Sales Margin%, Order Summary, Revenue and Opportunity in forecast for the monthly business reviews

• Automated report generation process by designing dashboard for CXO’s using PowerApps to make data-driven decisions using tools like SQL, PowerBI

• Documented business requirements, technical design specifications and conducted 15+ UATs with the clients Mercedes Benz Research & Development Bangalore, India Product Analyst Nov 2016- Jul 2018

• Collaborated with product managers and with cross functional teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications; built roadmap to instrument 3 new product features

• Led high quality technical engagements with managers, software developers and engineers to deliver new product features on time by driving the projects using Agile methodologies, identifying and tracking bottlenecks throughout the Sprint cycle using JIRA

• Streamlined third party license utilization process and reduced cost by 50% by analyzing historical license consumption data using SQL and presenting dashboards generated on Tableau to leadership

• Performed Inventory management, purchasing of 3rd party software licenses, vendor management for the Electrical department

• Led initiative to create training roadmap for new hires on CAD tools like NX and SMARAGD and delivered 20+ trainings and webinars to engineers from cross-functional teams IBM (Global Business Solution) Bangalore, India

Functional (PLM) Analyst Jul 2013- Nov 2016

• Resolved 100+ customer technical issues by delivering functional consultations on CAD tools for a leading automotive and aerospace client; built strong relationship with customers; retained contracts worth $5M

• Generated reports and drove the daily sustainment call for the team, identifying project backlogs and resolving dependencies hence ensuring smooth and efficient daily operations

• Enhanced IT Operations Delivery by monitoring replication of data across multiple servers and locations; ensuring zero downtime

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

• Data Visualization: Analyzed large dataset using Tableau, Qlikview, Gephi, PowerBI and Github D3 to understand the market trends and customer buying behavior for Neiman Marcus and its competitors. Defined business objectives and KPIs.

• Business Analytics using SAS: Built and trained models (decision tree, regression, neural network) to predict the flight delay based on the weather conditions using the historical flight and weather data. Evaluate these models and identify the fittest model

CERTIFICATIONS

- ITIL Foundations: Issued date: Aug 2017 - AWS Cloud Practitioner: Ongoing

- Google Analytics: Issued date: May 2019 - Certified Scrum Master: Ongoing

- A2 level German language

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