Pallavi Krishna

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Oct 2002 - Dec 2007

  IT Analyst

  ● Successfully collaborated with client teams from various departments at Ford Motor Company Tax Department & Ford Credit Australia. Projects include - Analysis & redesign of the existent data collection systems within multiple teams to create interface data reports required for financial reporting.● Programming, Debugging, & problem-solving old bugs & fixes for the legacy account payable system.● Extensive experience in requirement gathering & testing - built & executed UAT cases.● Experience in change management, quality & compliance, and creating SOX audit reports.● Full lifecycle development experience with a focus on data extraction, cleansing, & analysis Show less

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  Central St Martins London | Ken School of Art Bangalore | Indian Ensemble Theater Company Bangalore

  Jan 2008 - Jul 2012

  Sabbatical for Study. Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Indian Ensemble Theatre Company

  ● Studied Painting at Central St Martin's London and Ken School of Art Bangalore (2008-2010).● Co-founded Indian Ensemble Theatre Company. One of the leading contemporary theatre company in India. Managed Production, Design, accounts, communication and data management in my role as Partner (2009-2012)● Nominated for Mahindra Excellence in Theatre award for Costume Design for the play 'Kaumudi'. ● Taught painting for Children aged 5 to 15 at Headstart Educational Academy (2011-2012)

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  Unisys India

  Aug 2012 - Nov 2014

  Consultant IT Analyst

  ● Designed & implemented technical solutions & frameworks for multiple requirements, helped increase team productivity and bring down cost & delivery times of code by >20%.● Contributed to Problem-solving, planning, & estimation of technical deliverables.● Solved long-standing bugs using root-cause analysis. ● Prepared & Monitored Quality metrics.● Trained in Agile methodology of delivery

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  Freelance

  Nov 2014 - Dec 2019

  Maternity Break, Relocation, Self Study, Volunteer

  ● Self Study in R, Python, Linear Algebra, Statistics, Machine Learning.● Presented my paintings in the exhibition - 'Forms and Perception' at the leading art gallery in Bangalore - Venkatappa Art Gallery.● Design and Production work at Indian Ensemble Theatre company.

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  Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

  Dec 2019 - Oct 2021

  Data Science and Machine Learning Engineer

  ● Worked & coordinated with researchers & diverse teams to deliver machine learning and statistical analysis projects and applications. Areas of work include – Data ingestion, capture, and collection Use of diverse data – tabular, audio, video Data cleaning, preparation Build algorithms and models in statistics, Machine Learning & AI● Key projects Air Quality Forecast using ARIMA Finance Portfolio - optimize risk and return - kmeans, Sharpe's Ratio Timeseries EDA + Bit coin Forecasting using ARMA, seasonality, stationary tests, forecasts. Market Basket Analysis - apriori algorithm, association rules, frequent set generation Face Mask Detection using CNN, ImageDataGenerators, Transfer Learning, VGG16, resnet Audio Emotion Classifier - Extract audio features, prepare team audio samples, test with live audio. Bike Rental Prediction - Linear Regression via normal equation, gradient descent. Credit Risk Modeling - Logistic Regression Dementia Prediction - SVM Customer Segmentation - K means, DBScan Show less

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  Praxis Business School

  Sept 2021 - Apr 2022

  Teaching Assistant - Analytics Modelling Project (Praxis Business School Bangalore

  ● Built and evaluated Model for Sports Performance Analytics● Prepared and presented Exploratory Data Analysis / Visualizations / Modelling / Evaluation Metrics

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  Voosh

  Feb 2022 - Oct 2022

  Data Scientist

  ● Identified, developed & implemented data collection strategies/pipelines for the digital product from various internal & external sources as a part of database storage & management to deliver analysis, visualizations & reports.● Developed programs to clean, filter and map data, ensuring technical correctness & quality before feeding into reports & dashboard-generating systems.● Developed automated programs to statistically analyze data & create relevant periodic reports, alerts & performance trackers, helping various teams achieve and manage their goals.● Developed statistical data analysis reports tracking the digital user consumption, involvement, effectiveness, and conversion of marketing material and sales. Recommended improvements, and new initiatives that saw a >10% increase in conversion.● Recommended, Designed, & ran A/B tests to reduce delivery time by 33%. ● Proposed a new location intelligence framework using new & modern technology trends to identify optimal locations to open new stores, improve delivery polygon marking, and meet delivery SLAs successfully. ● Recommended and implemented dynamic customer segment marking to target user groups for marketing and feedback initiatives. ● Designed User Feedback Surveys & quantified responses into statistical dashboards to help customer and delivery teams identify areas of improvement in user experience. Show less

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  The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

  Oct 2022 - May 2023

  Data Analyst Accelerator

  In association with Tableau, GitHub, & Thoughtworks. ● Import complex data using various methods, including web scraping and APIs.● Analyze data for critical business insights and trends.● Create comprehensive visualizations to support decision-making.● Communicate insights to stakeholders and recommend actionable strategies.● Apply predictive models to support business objectives.● Establish a culture of ethical data-driven practices.● Solve business problems using advanced data analysis techniques. Show less

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  New York University Abu Dhabi

  May 2023 - now

  Data Analysis at the MARS Research Lab, Center of Astrophysics Data Analysis at the MARS Research Lab, Centre of Astrophysics

  • Research Assistant - Data Analysis

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Data Analyst - Freelance

    May 2023 - Jan 2024