Aspiring Business Analytics Specialist with Data-Driven Expertise

Linju Thomas

Manvel, TX *****

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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, C. T. Bauer College of Business, Houston, TX December 2025 Master of Science in Business Analytics (Dean’s Award: Recognition for outstanding academic performance) Relevant Courses: Cloud Data Visualization( Power BI), Capstone Practicum in BZAN II(Python), People Analytics(Power BI, Excel), Capstone Practicum in BZAN I(Python), Cloud and collaboration Solutions, IT Project Management, Business Analytics Frameworks and Methods

(Python), Advanced Programming for Big Data Analytics (Python), Database Management (SQL-DBeaver/Oracle), Quantitative Foundations

(R, Tableau, Orange), Research Design; Basic Programming(R) GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, Gujarat, India

Master of Commerce April 2017

Bachelor of Commerce April 2015

EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, C. T. BAUER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, Houston, TX 2023-2025 Instructional Assistant, Decision & Information Sciences Department

• Develop and deliver effective instructional support to faculty for Business Modeling and Decision Analysis class, resulting in improved learning outcomes with positive feedback from students

• Teach students advanced and intermediate Excel, and business models, leveraging optimization tools

• Review course syllabi, grade assignments and exams, and clarify student questions via in-person and online tutoring AXIS BANK LTD., Gujarat, India 2018-2022

Branch Relationship Officer (Deputy Manager); Branch Relationship Officer (Assistant Manager)

• Managed high net worth clientele and business accounts valued at approximately INR 350 million with responsibility for relationship management, business continuity and performance monitoring

• Performed data mining using Excel to assess customer banking practices, improving the growth of the bank

• Resolved audit queries and completed audits on time, providing personal services to clients

• Guided team, tracking KPIs, achievements and work process. ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Texas Children’s Hospital-Central-Line Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI), Capstone Project Spring 2025

• Reviewed research papers to gain insights to understand the occurrence and risk factors of CLABSI. Conducted stratified random sampling to extract 10% of the dataset, ensuring class balance.

• Worked on the research understanding phase and performed exploration data analysis (EDA) on the sampled data.

• Addressed class imbalance/ skewed data using machine learning techniques such as SMOTE and developed a predictive machine learning model to identify potential CLABSI occurrences. Machine Learning Project- Insurance Customer Churn Prediction (Python) Spring 2024

• Developed and implemented predictive models to forecast customer likelihood of purchasing car insurance using Python and Machine learning libraries (pandas, numPy, matplotlib, sklearn).

• Conducted comprehensive data analysis and preprocessing including exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, and handling imbalanced data.

• Built and evaluated multiple classification models (e.g., Logistic Regression, Random Forest, Support Vector Classifier, Gradient Boosting) to optimize predictive accuracy.

SQL Project- Database Management (Oracle/ DBeaver) Spring 2024

• Designed and implemented a relational database schema to manage the operations of a company using SQL skills.

• Created and populated tables to store data using MySQL.

• Wrote SQL queries to retrieve, manipulate and analyze data using multiple approaches and including (Joining tables, using aggregate functions to calculate averages, counts, and sums, employing subqueries, Binary Queries and set operations for advanced data manipulation).

Pixar Movie Data Analysis (Power BI) Fall 2025

• Built a multi-page Power Bi report for 28 Pixar Films, to assess the relationship between production budgets and performance.

• Identified that Low-budget films achieved higher ROI than high-budget films and presented these insights through interactive dashboards with slicers, custom tooltips, and navigation buttons. ADDITIONAL

Technical Skills: Excel, SQL (basics), R, Orange, Tableau, PowerPoint, Python, Palisade Decision Tools, Para View (basics), Power BI; Tally ERP Certifications: Data Camp Certifications (Python, Power BI, R, SQL); Energy Careers and Leadership.

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