Usman Shaikh

Experience

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  Career Education Corporation

  Mar 2004 - May 2011

  ⬪ Advised 500 students each quarter on academic and financial matters and developed student degree plans.⬪ Consulted students regarding eligibility to earn prior learning credits by documenting experiential learning.⬪ Analyzed annual reports, interpreted financial and operational data for Career Education Corporation.Designed and operationalized change management strategies in the department of student affairs that supported institutional goals of becoming a high-performing organization.⬪ Organized initiatives as part of institutional effectiveness that fostered learning and continuous improvement. Show less ⬪ Supervised fellow advisers, performed training's and performance appraisals for new hires.⬪ Provided 700 students each quarter with guidance on academic and financial matters.⬪ Served as an advocate and liaison for students; informed them of their rights and responsibilities, acted upon their behalf in disputes concerning government agencies and university departments.⬪ Trained & monitored staff members in implementation of program policy, procedures and services. ⬪ Prepared training manuals, job aids, organized & supervised training activities for staff members, assessed effectiveness of training provided via interviews and surveys. Show less

  • Prior Learning Assessment Specialist

    Feb 2008 - May 2011

  • Sr. Student Advisor

    Mar 2004 - Jan 2008
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  COMSATS University

  Sept 2012 - Jun 2017

  ⬪ Planned to conduct management trainings for senior executives of non profit organization in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development and the Trust for Democratic Education and Accountability (TDEA).⬪ Managed budgets, oversaw project teams and carried out project negotiations and contract pricing when necessary.⬪ Communicated with partners and key stakeholders, rendered oversight of sub-contract development and execution.⬪ Provided leadership and strategic insights in areas of budgeting, proposal development, project planning and execution.⬪ Coached other organizational departments pursuing high level projects and directed proposal development.⬪ Guided at all levels in developing clear objectives and facilitated program development. Show less ⬪ Provided management trainings to over 100 NGO’s across Pakistan in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Asia Foundation.⬪ Supervised a team of 40 personell consisting of faculty and staff and a budget worth PKR 14 Million.⬪ Managed cash, logistics, accounts, allocated resources and prepared project budgets.⬪ Instructed professional trainings in proposal writing as part of the USAID management course for nonprofits.⬪ Administered instruction of 11 management modules for the USAID capacity building program for nonprofits.⬪ Managed curriculum updates in accordance with the latest industry trends and needs of the participants.⬪ Monitored progress and quality of work performed by instructors and the content developers.⬪ Assessed project progress against stated deliverables, helped partner organizations address implementation challenges.⬪ Proactively communicated with the project director, country representatives of the donor organizations and organizational leadership to continually improve programming and implementation challenges.⬪ Prepared sustainability action plans, training and progress reports. Show less

  • Project Director

    Jul 2016 - Jun 2017

  • Assistant Professor

    May 2012 - Jun 2017

  • Project Coordinator

    Sept 2012 - Jan 2016
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  Virginia Tech

  Oct 2017 - Nov 2019

  Instructional Resources Consultant

  ⬪ Trained Virginia Tech faculty and staff in use of software applications, WebEx, Zoom and Canvas.⬪ Enhanced Instructor teaching and student learning experience by setting up state of the art distance learning technology at the VT Northern Virginia Center.⬪ Led a team of tech experts responsible for successfully implementing a doctoral program in Executive Business Research at the Pamplin College of Business yielding an annual revenue of $1.7 Million.

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  Thinkful

  Jul 2018 - Oct 2019

  Data Science Apprentice

  ⬪ Completed an intensive Data Science program with focus on Python, Statistical Analysis, Machine and Deep Learning.⬪ Learned industry best practices and standards by collaborating several hours every week with senior Data Scientists.⬔ Neural Networks Capstone - CIFAR-10 Image Classification (March 2019). A project based on comparison of traditional and contemporary machine learning models for recognizing images and how each model performs in respect to each other. The algorithms used in this project include Convolutional Neural Networks, Random Forest and Gradient Boost. ⬪ GitHub Repo: https://github.com/usman7vt/Projects-completed/blob/master/Final%20Capstone%20Project.ipynb ⬪ Presentation: https://github.com/usman7vt/Projects-completed/blob/master/FC%20Presentation.pdf ⬔ Supervised Learning Capstone - Predicting Housing Prices in Melbourne Australia (January 2019). A project focused on data analysis and predicting housing prices in the city of Melbourne using machine learning algorithms Random Forest and Multiple Linear Regression.⬪ GitHub Repo: https://github.com/usman7vt/Projects-completed/blob/master/Melbourne%20Housing.ipynb⬪ Presentation: https://github.com/usman7vt/Projects-completed/blob/master/Melbourne%20Housing.pdf⬔ Unsupervised Learning Capstone - State of the Union Addresses of the U.S. Presidents (February 2019). An in-depth NLP analysis of the speeches delivered by the U.S. Presidents at the state of the union from 1945 to 2019 starting from President Truman to the most recent U.S. President Donald J. Trump. ⬪ Approaches used consist of Bag of Words, Principle Component Analysis (PCA), K-Means Clustering, Calculating Silhoute Coefficent, Word Tokenization, Latent Semantic Analysis, TF-IDF and Word2Vec. ⬪ GitHub Repo: https://github.com/usman7vt/Projects-completed/blob/master/State%20of%20the%20Union.ipynb Show less

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  QualX Corporation

  Nov 2019 - Nov 2021

  Sr. Data Management Analyst

  ⬪ Oversee A.I. and Machine Learning projects for the United States Federal Government.⬪ Conduct data analysis using SQL , Python and Qlik Sense and make it available to various stake holders. ⬪ Coordinate with entities with in and outside the Federal Government and follow up on operational commitments ensuring timely completion of project tasks and requirements.⬪ Monitor progress of Software Development teams and report it to the senior Government Leadership.⬪ Carry out user testing and provide feedback to the Software Development & Data Science teams. Show less

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  Grant Thornton LLP (US)

  Nov 2021 - Oct 2022

  Senior Associate, Advance Digital Technology & Analytics

  ⬪ Analyze and interpret financial data for the United States Federal Government, ⬪ Execute SQL and Python scripts and identify potential issues relating to working with large datasets. ⬪ Support leadership with ad hoc data requests and lend support in the decision making process.⬪ Perform data modeling, database development, management, and participate in all phases of the script generation process from requirements gathering, coding, QA to delivery and presentation.

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  Guidehouse

  Oct 2022 - now

  Data Science Consultant