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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Technical Performance Specialist for the School of Business at Udacity

  • Education

    • Sies commerce & economics

      2008 - 2011
      Bachelor's degree marketing

      Graduation project on Retail Sector - " Strategies of Mall Mega stores"●Studied the profit maximization strategies Two national retailers – Food Bazaar & Odyssey Book Stores.●Scope of study explains in detail about retail strategies of 2 distinct segments- Supermarkets & Gift stores. ●Strategies are explained in detail through actual observation through test stores of each of the retailers.

    • Olps

      1996 - 2005
      Upto std 10

    • Udacity

      2020 -
      Product manager beta nd

      The skills I have learnt during the course include :1. How to Pitch a Product Vision2. How to Run a Design Sprint3. Manage the Product Development Process4. How to create a plan to deliver a Product to Market

    • Udacity

      2017 - 2017
      Nanodegree program predictive analytics for business

      The skills I have learnt during the course include : 1. Time-series Forecasting - ARIMA and ETS Models2. Logistic regression, Decision Trees, Forrest model, Boosted Model3. Data Cleanup, formatting and blending techniques 4. A/B Testing and trend analysis to calculate lift5. Postgre SQL6. Segmentation& Clustering techniques- PCA Analysis, Kmeans, K-medians, Neural Gas methods.7. Data visualizations through Tableau.

  • Experience

    • Vaz

      Jan 2009 - Mar 2017
      Co founder

      ● Represent the company at trade association meetings to promote products. Major tradeshows attended include Expo Riva Schuh Delhi -2011, Dubai India Leather Fair - 2013.● Contact new customers, retailers, web portals to on-board products. Most notable clients successfully on-boarded include Myntra, Starmark, The Lotus House, The Bombay Store, Pothys amongst others.● Represent company in negotiating contracts and formulating policies with suppliers.● Locate vendors of materials or supplies, and to determine the terms of sales.● Determine price schedules and discount rates.● Resolve customer complaints regarding sales and service.● Review operational records and reports to project sales and determine profitability Show less

    • Udacity

      May 2017 - now

      ● Co-developed and operationally led the 'Mentor Content Partnership' initiative in collaboration with the Content team. This initiative significantly enhanced the speed and scalability of our content maintenance tasks by leveraging external contractors, increasing our quarterly capacity to maintain Nanodegree programs by 6x and cutting maintenance costs by 50%.● Collaborated on the beta-testing and launch of an in-house developed templated system for student reviews at Udacity. The tool was quickly adopted, achieving over 7,000 reviewer comments in the first 10 days since launch, demonstrating its effectiveness and utility.● Led major redesigns of 2 projects in Digital Marketing and Digital Project management Nanodegrees leading to a significant increase in pass rates and a marked improvement in student feedback scores.● Delivered a custom-designed digital marketing program for a large Middle Eastern client.● Led multiple data investigations analyzing ungradable rates, the impact of revoking dates on student submissions, the impact of career projects on the platform, and mentor review efficacy, among others. These analyses informed strategic decisions on retaining career projects amid a significant business model shift in mid-2023. Other investigations drove operational improvements, enhancing cost efficiency and improving student experience. Show less ● Collaborated on refining a contractor-developed templated system for student reviews, enhancing its effectiveness through rigorous testing of over 30,000+ reviews. The refinements led to improved pass rates and student feedback scores, significantly increased contractor capacity to handle scale, and reduced review costs by $20,000. This collaboration laid the groundwork for successful in-house development of the feature.● Improved the student experience by refining 8 projects with high misalignments in the School of Business.● Designed, developed, and executed multiple new initiatives to drive technical operational excellence. For example: Codesigned a new “health report” process for existing courses on the platform to proactively assess quality and drive improvements. This helped improve the student feedback score of 7 courses in the School of Business. Show less

      • Senior Technical Performance Specialist (School of Business)

        Sept 2022 - now

      • Technical performance specialist for School of Business (Frmrly. Program experience manager)

        Jun 2021 - Aug 2022

      • Knowledge Mentor

        Nov 2018 - Jun 2021

      • Reviewer - Business Analyst , AI for Product Manager , Product Manager , Predictive analytics

        Apr 2017 - May 2021

      • Study Group Mentor - Predictive Analytics for business & Business Analytics ND

        Jul 2018 - Mar 2020

      • Forum Mentor - Bertlesmann Data Scholarship 2018

        May 2018 - Jul 2018

      • Classroom Mentor - Data Foundations Nanodegree

        Mar 2018 - Jun 2018

      • Classroom Mentor - Business Analyst Nanodegree

        May 2017 - Jun 2018

      • Forum Mentor - Business Analyst Nanodegree

        Mar 2017 - Mar 2018

      • 1:1 Mentor -Business Analyst Nanodegree

        May 2017 - Nov 2017

    • Worldquant

      Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
      Virtual research consultant

      I researched and developed alpha's for trading in the US, European and Asian markets.Total Number of Alpha's developed : 21------------------------------------------------Number of Alpha's in Outsample Testing : 20Number of Alpha's in Production : 1

  • Licenses & Certifications