AJAY R KUMAR

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EDUCATION

The University of Texas, Dallas - Masters of Management Information Systems. GPA – 3.61/4[May 2011]

Anna University, Chennai, India - Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering[May 2008]

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Nissan North America, Franklin, TN

Information Systems Intern [May 2010 – Present]

- Worked on the development of a Business Data warehouse in the process of integrating Nissan’s operations in North America.

- Gathered requirements and worked with Business users/Groups to gather and evaluate possible impact and relevance of Transactional data, data-marts and data warehouses in the process of building a Business Intelligence road map for the development of an integrated Business data warehouse.

- Analyzed business requirements, created Business Intelligence standards and checklists, reviewed process flow documents to ensure confirmation of the progress with the scope and roadmap.

- Created, tested, and tuned universes based on Business Requirements using Business Objects universe designer and extensively implemented reporting functionalities for creating ad-hoc Web intelligence reports using SAP Business Objects XI 3.1 suite.

ACADEMIC COURSE WORK

Ericsson, Plano, TX

Student Consultant [January 2010 – April 2010]

- Led a 5 member team in the market research and analysis to identify potential avenues of revenue generation for Ericsson with their advent into the LTE space as part of the academic course curriculum.

- Presented Revenue models and Business models on alternative strategies of revenue generation and the observations generated from the cost/benefit analysis of the same.

- Provided business consulting, feasibility analysis, knowledge expertise in strategic performance management methodologies, process analysis and assessment work, technical and functional documentation and the application of technologies to business.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Data mining for Direct Marketing and Customer Segmentation, August 2009 – December 2009

- Performed data cleansing and mined real time data sets from several clothing retailer companies using XL-Miner and SAS Analytics to identify target markets, customer segments and patterns.

- Implemented the concepts of Association rules and K-means clustering using XL-Miner to identify customer patterns in visiting websites of these companies and further used classification techniques like Decision tree, Neural networks, K-nearest neighbors and linear regression in SAS Enterprise Miner 4.3 to forecast profits

Data Analytics using SAS Enterprise Miner, Weka and Microsoft Excel, January 2009 - May 2009

- Wrote SAS programs using procedures like PROC FREQ, PROC ANOVA, and PROC GENMOD among others to implement models like Poisson regression, NBD regression, Negative binomial regression and Poisson distribution to perform predictive modeling in SAS enterprise miner and further verified results from the implementation of the models in Microsoft Excel.

- Further, classifiers like Naïve Bayes, Bayesian Network and Support Vector Machine and several enhancement techniques like boosting, bagging, and stacking were implemented using Weka 3.6.0 for data analysis.

Development of a Student Information System using JAVA, August 2009 – December 2009

- Designed Entity Relationship Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and Class Diagrams according to the requirements of a student information system and further, designed the user interface using Swings in JAVA, and established JDBC connectivity to a Microsoft SQL server 2005 database.

Implementation of a Inventory Database Management System, August 2008 – December 2008

- Analyzed the flow of data in an inventory management system of a grocery store, performed UML modeling and developed conceptual data model, ERD diagrams and generated user interface using Microsoft Access.

- Forms were developed and queries were created to generate reports according to business requirements.

SKILL SET

SAP:SAP R/3 ECC 6.0, SAP Netweaver BW 7.0.

Reports:SAP Business Objects XI 3.1 Suite, BEx Analyzer, BEx Query designer.

Data mining tools:SAS Enterprise Miner 4.3, Weka 3.6.0, XL-Miner.

Languages:C, Java, ABAP

Database:Microsoft Access 2005, MS SQL Server 2005, Oracle 9i.

Web package:HTML, XML, JavaScript, PHP.

Other Applications:Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft InfoPath, Microsoft Visio, Rational Rose,

Certifications:SAS Certified in Business Intelligence and Data Mining.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

- Selected member, Deans Council – University of Texas, Dallas.

- Member, SAP users group, UT-Dallas.

- Placement coordinator, Sri Sairam engineering College, India.

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