PRATEIK MAHENDRA
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EDUCATION
Drexel University LeBow College of Business, Philadelphia, PA
Master of Science, Business Analytics, GPA: 3.89 (Anticipated March 2018)
Amity University, Noida, India
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
COMPUTER SKILLS
•Analytics tools: SAS, R, Python, Hadoop, Tableau, Google Analytics
•Databases: MySQL
•Microsoft Office: Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Drexel University, Business Analytics Department Philadelphia, PA
Early Prediction of Music Album Success, Professor Chuan Ren Liu, Ph.D. Nov 2016 to present
•Relation between pre-ranking criticism of music albums and actual ranking on billboard.
•Currently working on 15 years of data of music albums to predict a model which can estimate the billboard ranking of the music albums.
•Using R and python to carry out experiments and see if there is any pattern in some genres or albums.
Last Word Analysis, Professor MuruganAnandarajan, Ph.D. Nov 2016 to Dec 2016
•Identified the relationship between the demographics of criminals like age, gender, type of crime and their last words.
•Used advanced text mining techniques in SAS text miner to establish these relationships.
Valuation of Bet Performer(ship)–Harvard Business School Case Study, Professor Chuan Ren Liu, Ph.D. Nov 2016 to Dec 2016
•Predicted the selling price of a bulk carrier given its age, weight and capsize index.
•Used multiple linear regression in R and nearest neighbor algorithm to estimate the price.
WORK EXPERIENCE
MAZ Digital India Pvt., Ltd Noida, India
Software Engineer-2 Jan 2015 to June 2016
•Analyzed mobile data using Google Analytics for 200 plus digital magazine brands. Reported app metrics in excel reports which helped understand the user behavior in digital magazines.
•Managed an app called CORE (content consumption app), from quality assurance to data analysis and carried out a successful release as its product manager.
•Managed an app called LYNX (social media for sharing web links), from quality assurance to data analysis and carried out successful release as the product manager.
•Wrote test cases in PERL to automate testing of web version of LYNX which reduced the testing time by 66%.
•Analyzed data on google analytics, mix panel, flurry, Localytics.com to help implement features in the app.
Software Engineer-1 Apr 2013 to Dec 2014
•Provided B2B technical guidance for Forbes, National Enquirer and other magazine brands.
•Wrote scripts to automate back end technical processes, enabling twentyfold increase in app set up capabilities.
•Maintained scripts to automate submission of forty applications of American City Business Journals.
•Received a Spot award at MAZ Digital Pvt. Ltd. for finding a ship blocker bug in the code base which could have allowed users to access all paid subscriptions for free resulting in a massive overall financial loss to the company. I carried out the entire fix to production.