Anita Pinto

Experience

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  Horizon Semiconductors

  Jun 2002 - Mar 2003

  Design Engineer Trainee

  PG Diploma in VLSI .Advanced training in VLSI and Semiconductors. MAC, SPI etc

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  Infosys Technolgies Ltd

  Apr 2003 - Nov 2004

  Software Engineer

  + Embedded Systems programmer for FPGA based devices for automotive applications+ Designed FPGA based XML parser architecture for a business application, included coding in VHDL, integrating and testing on SPARTAN2 FPGA

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  Sasken

  Dec 2004 - Oct 2008

  Lead Engineer

  + Worked as a consultant for Top Semiconductor Companies like Texas Instruments and Qualcomm, mainly for their Wireless SoC(OMAP/Snadragon) verification projects+ Spearheaded scripting and automation of common regression scripts, graphics and multimedia reference models, maximizing reuse efficiency+ Developed several design automation tools for increasing verification productivity (Perl/TCL)

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  SAMSUNG R&D INSTITUTE INDIA - BANGALORE PRIVATE LIMITED

  Nov 2008 - Jan 2015

  Senior Technical Manager

  + Led a team of 15 engineers involved in the Design of Mobile Application Processors ( Flagship smartphones) focusing on datapath and performance verification of multimedia, display, graphics, audio and camera sub-systems.+ Maintained project schedules, tracked project status on ERP Project system tools, issue/decision logs, meeting summaries andstatus reports to ensure effective, ongoing communications across all key stakeholders+ Facilitated development of common user manuals, methodology documents and oversaw migration to new software tools and liaising with IT services team+ Involved in Project Management Tracking, Quality Release/Baseline/Configuration Management Audit Activities+ Worked closely with recruiting partners, created job descriptions, involved in screening candidates and coordination between recruitment committees and consolidating technical interview feedback+ Technical paper on Graphics selected and published for ICETET-2011 (International Conference for Emerging Trends inEngineering and Technology – IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/ICETET.2011.22 ) Show less

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  Columbia University in the City of New York

  Sept 2017 - May 2018

  Data Science Student

  Discriminative Analysis of Maternal Distress Variables - Summer 2018DEPT OF PSYCHIATRY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE MEDICAL CENTER - Summer Intern | NYC, NY+ Developed sparse multivariate models (SPLS-DA) and computed VIP scores (used R’s mixOmics pkg) to identify most discriminative features to classify the latent variable in the maternal sample data.+ Co-authored paper “Latent Profiles of Maternal Stress and Infant Outcomes: Effects on Gestational Age” presented at 2019 SRCD biennial meeting.+ Performed clustering using K-Means algorithm on maternal discriminative featuresDatabase Development Projects Using Filemaker Pro - Summer / Fall 2018INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE MEDICAL CENTER – Freelance Consultant | NYC, NY+ Designed and developed Filemaker Pro Database modules with custom GUI for IHN’s alumni data and recruitment data+ Cleaned original data using R and created relational structures between multiple groups of data sourcesAnalysis of New York City Crime Data - April 2018COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Final Project – Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization | NYC, NY+ Examined NYC crime data to investigate patterns around the location, time and contributing factors of NYC crime occurrencesAnalysis of Holiday Effect on Retail Stocks - December 2017COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Final Project – Introduction to Probability and Statistics | NYC, NY+ Performed regression analysis to investigate the effect of Thanksgiving holiday on the stock returns of retail companies+ Conducted statistical tests in R to analyze log-returns of individual stocks and verify pre-holiday effect on stock prices Show less

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  Terman Group

  Sept 2019 - now

  Data science Consultant

  + Designed and automated ETL processes on target macro-economic and financial data+ Implemented a real time data pipeline to process semi structured data from global central banking data sources to provide up to datereleases of international economic and financial indicators Created original automated models to detect anomalies in financial timeseries data using SQL, Python and Tableau