Nitin Agrawal Resume

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Nitin Agrawal 2217 W Taylor St, Apt 2F, Chicago, IL 60612 +1 (312) 714-3583 • [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitinagrawal84 SUMMARY IT professional with specialization in Data Science, having more than 7 years of rich cross cultural, cross technology, cross domain and multiple rolesexperience. EXPERIENCE Data Mining Specialist, Marketing and Product Development Team, Interactive Brokers, Chicago Jun 2014 Current Profiled most profitable customers to be targeted using digital marketing through programmatic buying. Implied both exploratory and multivariate predictive analysis using R, thereby convincing executives, with the results, for budget approval for company’s first data analytics project. Tracking conversions showed an uptick of more than 50%. Also IB’s stock has increased over 50% while direct competitors have stayed at same level from January this year, the period from when this targeted marketing started. Researched vendors, finalized most suitable ones, negotiated prices, corrected contracts, managed project schedules, worked as a single point of contact with vendor, coded and delivered working proof of concept within time while taking care of stringent IT security needs for a $1M financial data aggregation project. This project is expected to go live in early September. Represented IB in annual R/Finance conference and in R webinar for customers. Setting up algorithmic trading using IB’s official R API. Created marketing analytics infrastructure, set up R and libraries, Data and Web Analytics using R, Python, Java, Oracle, MySQL and Linux. Also, created interactive dashboard in Java EE to track and improve performance of Google AdWords keywords. Director, IIT BHU Global Alumni Association Aug 2013 Current Actively involved in preparation of 2016 Bay area meet celebrating 100 years of BHU. Actively involved with setting processes right, fund raising, routing funds to institute through accountable channels, new website design, helping placement activities and encouraging on campus initiatives. Taking care of communication with more than 10000 alumni. Volunteered for 2012 Bay Area meet. Have been an Organization Committee member for 2013 NJ & 2014 Chicago meets. Research Assistant, UIC - Department of Information and Decision Sciences, Chicago Aug 2012 Dec 2013 Text mined indeed.com using Hadoop, Python, Linux and Java while utilizing RapidMiner and LDA Topic Modeling to get Social Media jobs distribution. Researched how organizations interact and influence each other through social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) and presented research insights to the group. Intern, Product Analytics, Data Analytics and Research Group, Press Ganey Associates, Baltimore Jun 2013 Nov 2013 Cluster analysis of Patient Lifestyledata. Analyzed more than 3000 variables using 100+ GB data files using SAS and SQL Led team of interns for sentiment analysis project as junior Project Manager; Prepared documentation & project plan and assigned work; Presented findings to CEO Master of Science, Management Information Systems, University of Illinois at Chicago Aug 2012 May 2014 Completed data mining, text mining, system design, IT consulting and web design and development projects Led INFORMS, UIC chapter as Vice President. We had more than 100 registered members from streams like MIS, CS, MBA and PHD. Gathered funds and arranged alumni meets, information sessions and student placement drives Led Chess team as president. Increased total members from 3 to 90 and weekly participating members count to 20 Business Intelligence Consultant, HCL Capital Market Services, Bangalore Mar 2011 Jul 2012 Worked as a consultant in HCL Technologies, Bangalore, India - reporting to a Vice President in Citibank, New York Worked on multiple large databases and wrote Unix scripts for ETL process for Capital market Trade Surveillance System Developed project plans, gathered requirements and communicated with multiple geographically dispersed teams Migrated system from HP UNIX servers to open source Linux servers resulting in 30% cost savings Business intelligence system migration from Hyperion 8.3 to Hyperion 9.3

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Nitin Agrawal Resume

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Nitin Agrawal 2217 W Taylor St, Apt 2F, Chicago, IL 60612

+1 (312) 714-3583 • [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitinagrawal84

SUMMARY

IT professional with specialization in Data Science, having more than 7 years of rich cross cultural, cross technology, cross domain

and multiple roles’ experience.

EXPERIENCE

Data Mining Specialist, Marketing and Product Development Team, Interactive Brokers, Chicago Jun 2014 – Current ● Profiled most profitable customers to be targeted using digital marketing through programmatic buying. Implied both

exploratory and multivariate predictive analysis using R, thereby convincing executives, with the results, for budget approval for company’s first data analytics project. Tracking conversions showed an uptick of more than 50%. Also IB’s stock has increased over 50% while direct competitors have stayed at same level from January this year, the period from when this targeted marketing started.

● Researched vendors, finalized most suitable ones, negotiated prices, corrected contracts, managed project schedules, worked as a single point of contact with vendor, coded and delivered working proof of concept within time while taking care of stringent IT security needs for a $1M financial data aggregation project. This project is expected to go live in early September.

● Represented IB in annual R/Finance conference and in R webinar for customers. Setting up algorithmic trading using IB’s official R API.

● Created marketing analytics infrastructure, set up R and libraries, Data and Web Analytics using R, Python, Java, Oracle, MySQL and Linux. Also, created interactive dashboard in Java EE to track and improve performance of Google AdWords keywords.

Director, IIT BHU Global Alumni Association Aug 2013 – Current ● Actively involved in preparation of 2016 Bay area meet celebrating 100 years of BHU. Actively involved with setting

processes right, fund raising, routing funds to institute through accountable channels, new website design, helping placement activities and encouraging on campus initiatives. Taking care of communication with more than 10000 alumni.

● Volunteered for 2012 Bay Area meet. Have been an Organization Committee member for 2013 NJ & 2014 Chicago meets.

Research Assistant, UIC - Department of Information and Decision Sciences, Chicago Aug 2012 – Dec 2013 ● Text mined indeed.com using Hadoop, Python, Linux and Java while utilizing RapidMiner and LDA Topic Modeling to get

Social Media jobs distribution. ● Researched how organizations interact and influence each other through social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.)

and presented research insights to the group.

Intern, Product Analytics, Data Analytics and Research Group, Press Ganey Associates, Baltimore Jun 2013 – Nov 2013

● Cluster analysis of ‘Patient Lifestyle’ data. Analyzed more than 3000 variables using 100+ GB data files using SAS and SQL

● Led team of interns for sentiment analysis project as junior Project Manager; Prepared documentation & project plan and

assigned work; Presented findings to CEO

Master of Science, Management Information Systems, University of Illinois at Chicago

Aug 2012 – May 2014 ● Completed data mining, text mining, system design, IT consulting and web design and development projects ● Led INFORMS, UIC chapter as Vice President. We had more than 100 registered members from streams like MIS, CS,

MBA and PHD. Gathered funds and arranged alumni meets, information sessions and student placement drives ● Led Chess team as president. Increased total members from 3 to 90 and weekly participating members count to 20

Business Intelligence Consultant, HCL Capital Market Services, Bangalore Mar 2011 – Jul 2012 Worked as a consultant in HCL Technologies, Bangalore, India - reporting to a Vice President in Citibank, New York

● Worked on multiple large databases and wrote Unix scripts for ETL process for Capital market Trade Surveillance System ● Developed project plans, gathered requirements and communicated with multiple geographically dispersed teams ● Migrated system from HP UNIX servers to open source Linux servers – resulting in 30% cost savings ● Business intelligence system migration from Hyperion 8.3 to Hyperion 9.3

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Information Technology Analyst, Tata Consultancy Services, Gurgaon, India Jul 2010 – Feb 2011 ● Led module implementation of TCS BαNCS custodian services solution for Ned Bank, South Africa. ● Interviewed new hires and introduced new associates to the organization ● Used Java EE platform with Struts framework, WebLogic with Oracle 10G SQL, PL/SQL, UNIX and JavaScript

Information Technology Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services, Brussels, Belgium Aug 2008 – Jul 2010 ● Worked as TCS BαNCS consultant for KBC bank in Brussels, Belgium assisting KBC ICT in infrastructure management,

maintenance and production support for Orbay project of Rabobank Nederland ● Resolved application issues with databases and web technologies for client KBC Bank in Belgium

Assistant Systems Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services, Gurgaon, India Jun 2006 – Aug 2008 ● Worked on large databases for capital market brokerage application development for Bank of Muscat and Rabobank, NL ● Used IBM Rational ClearCase, Tuxedo Middleware, Pro*C and PL/SQL for ETL process and scheduling batch reports ● Developed documentation related to different phases of project and trained team of 3

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Management Information Systems

May 2014 University of Illinois at Chicago, IL GPA 3.82/4.0

● Relevant Coursework: Advanced Systems Analysis & Design Project, Market Microstructure & Electronic Trading, Information Systems Strategy & Policy, Financial Text Analysis, Data & Text Mining, Big Data Analytics, Managing Enterprise Data & Analytics, Business Data Mining, Multivariate Analysis, Algorithms Part I, Statistical Software for Business Applications, Advance Database management, Enterprise Application Development, Enterprise Information Infrastructure Planning & Security

● Vice President of INFORMS, UIC Chapter; President of Chess Club, UIC; Director of IIT BHU Global Alumni Association

Bachelor of Technology (Honors) June 2006 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India GPA 7.7/10.0

● Led Chess team to Gold individually winning all games in national event. Gold medalist in all years and Chess captain

SKILLS

Certifications: Oracle SQL certification OCP 007, Scored 50% in CFA level 1, NSE Certifications in Financial Markets Statistical & Data Mining Tools: SAS, R, RapidMiner, SPSS, Minitab, Microsoft Excel BI Tools: OBIEE Hyperion Interactive reporting, OBIEE Hyperion SQR Production reporting DBMS: Oracle 10g, SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL Languages & Frameworks: Java EE, .NET, C++, Unix Shell scripts, VBA, JavaScript, Python, Hadoop, Hive Foreign Languages: Level-1 certified in Dutch Language by Technische Scholen Mechelen, Belgium Other Achievements and activities: Awarded Student Of The Year among 200 graduate students for excellent academic and

extracurricular performance during Graduation. Dean’s grant – tuition waiver for 3 semesters of

Graduate Degree, Involved with few India focused NGOs, Perfect 170/170 score in GRE

quantitative, Among top 0.2% in India in IIT Joint Entrance Exam, Among top 0.02% in State

board, National level event Chess gold medalist, Currently United States Chess Federation rated

player