About Me
I’m an experienced Data Science and Analytics Professional and have worked with startups building analytics dashboards to help investors, and clients invest in the right ventures, building and presenting reports to the stakeholders, maintaining the data quality. I’ve briefly worked on developing bankers’ scorecard dashboards, which eventually drives employee incentives. Currently, I am helping out with strategizing cloud and machine learning projects to enable Enterprise Level Digital Transformation at BMO.
Skills: SQL, Python, Tableau, TIBCO Spotfire, Looker, Google Analytics, PowerBI, SAS
Projects
Analyzing Video Assistant Referee (VAR) decisions in the English Premier League.
Reviewing the controversial implementation of Video Assistant Referees in English football (EPL) helping understand the impact of the system on the game, its outcomes, and its future in football.
Predicting the attributes a footballer needs in order to excel in a position..
I tried to predict what are the attributes that are significant for a footballer to excel in their position, I used various algorithm to predict and evaluate the metrics.
Predicting diamond prices using basic diamond measurement metrics.
A Web App for a Jewelry company, where their customers can look up for a predicted price for their desired diamond, used a regression model to predict the price and heroku to host the web app.
Predicting the quality of a cannabis plant, based on its botanical measurements.
As the plant classification quality is required to be “best” in order to be properly processed for medical use, I used logistic regression to determine the quality of the plants.
Experience
BMO Financial Group
Manager, Data and Analytics, Strategic Initiatives
December 2022 - Present
• Lead strategic opportunities within Data Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning driving digital transformation.
• Drive efficiencies with Ideation & Incubation, creating impactful outcomes through Data & Analytics capabilities.
• Shape a digitally enabled, future ready bank, along with supporting BMO’s Mergers & Acquisitions programs as well.
BMO Financial Group
Senior Data Analyst
March 2022 - December 2022
• Building and developing dashboards for bankers’ scorecard, finding insights that drive employee incentives.
• Merging data from various sources, managing the code run on servers, updating the database periodically.
• Presenting reports to the stakeholders and recommending steps to recalibrate performance evaluations.
BMO Financial Group
Data Analyst
August 2021 - February 2022
• Developing machine learning models for model score prediction and building dashboards visualizing insights.
• Maintaining and scheduling model run on cloud servers.
• Presenting reports to the stakeholders and recommending steps needed to be taken to lower the attrition score.
Cornershop by Uber
Catalog Analyst
November 2020 - August 2021
• Consolidating databases, supporting new integration projects, data feeds, building reports, and dashboards.
• Generating insights by analyzing trends, helping curb deviations to support data-driven strategic decisions.
• Helped increasing the Found Rate from 82% to 87%, achieved a stable 2% Markup over time improving the Catalog.
Learners.ai
Data Scientist
May 2020 - November 2020
• Developed Data pipelines through Twitter and other APIs to prepare a database for analysis.
• Organized Data Acquisition from RSS Newsfeeds to evaluate the ongoing market sentiments.
• Built a Sentiment Analysis Web App using NLP techniques to measure the S&P500 Companies’ stock prices.
NRI Startup India
Data Analyst
May 2018 - June 2019
• Collected data and maintained a database using SQL for portfolio companies.
• Generated reports and dashboards using Python, Tableau and PowerBI tracking the Return on Investments.
• Presented findings to the clients and stakeholders narrating a story that solved business problems improving ROI by 20%.
Rang Technologies
Data Analyst
October 2016 – February 2018
• Built dashboards on the recommendation engine results for resumes, technical screenings, for recruited data scientists.
• Collaborated with the manager in an analysis of the recruitment statistics.
• Based on the analysis performed on the collected data, an increased placement rate of 60% was achieved.
Education
Durham College
Data Analytics for Business Decision Making (Graduate Certificate)
September 2019 - April 2020
Majors:
Statistical Predictive Modeling For Analytics • Data Analytics Tools & Techniques, Business Analysis • Data Visualizations • Ethical Leadership And Critical Decision Making
Gujarat University
Master of Commerce
June 2013 - April 2016
Majors:
Financial Management • Financial Economics • Marketing Management • Financial Markets • Investment Management • Operations Research • Risk Management
Gujarat University
Bachelor of Commerce
June 2010 - March 2013
Majors:
Advanced Statistics • Business Economics • Corporate Financial Accounting • Business Law • Taxation • Business Organization & Management
Professional Certifications
- Google Data Analytics Certification (Google)
- Google Analytics Individual Certification (Google)
- Deep Learning (deeplearning.ai)
- SQL for Data Science (University of California, Davis)
- SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 (SAS Institute)
- SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS 9 (SAS Institute)
- Data Science Professional Certificate (IBM)
- Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau (Duke University)