Email: sra44@njit.edu Siddharth Arora linkedin.com/in/sid12590 Address: 212 Harrison Ave, Harrison, NJ 07029 http://sidarora.com Cell: (551) 556-9450

EDUCATION MS - Information Systems, New Jersey institute of technology, GPA 3.85/4.0 December 2016

BE - Computer Engineering, Mumbai University, India, GPA 3.5/4.0 May 2013

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tableau 10.1, R, Python, Regression, Sentiment Analysis, Clustering, SAP-ERP & BW, SAS JMP, dashboard/report visualization, Google Analytics, APT, MS Excel, VBA Macros, Pivot Tables, SQL, UML, Visio, SharePoint, SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, Cryptography, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL

WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Mentor - Dr. Michael J. Lee) November 2015 – April 2016

Gidget: A Debugging Game for Computing Education (http://www.helpgidget.org/):

Conducted behavioral analysis to predict usage trends & user preferences for future releases of Gidget, which helped the developers, understand at which level the users give up playing at.

Improved reach of the game using Google Analytics to track clicks, user locations and the need of a mobile version of the application, which increased the traffic by 10%.

Assisted to enhance game at User Interface level and provided innovative ideas in research work.

Data Analyst, eClerx Services, Mumbai, India May 2014 – July 2015

Global Merchandising Support Program (Client: DELL)

Project aimed at providing global support to all the web portals of DELL.

Performed Cause-and-Effect Analytics and tracked trends using Google Analytics, presented in Tableau dashboards.

Automation: Identified areas of improvement in processes and designed Excel Macro to track SLA of developers & wrote JavaScript to extract image layers in Photoshop.

Drove innovative ways to enhance systems and to make processes more efficient, timely and accurate.

Performed root cause analysis for data issues, fixed the issues related to data and table structure etc.

Award: Best Innovator by CEO of eClerx India.

Award: Business Process Improvement by Program Manager of Global Merchandising Support, eClerx India.

Web Analyst, Siddharth Forge, Mumbai, India May 2013 – April 2014 Brouhaha 2014 (Client: Sydenham Institute)

Understood the business model & gathered requirement by meeting event-handling team, attended weekly client calls.

Designed and developed the website for event scheduling and implemented contest system module.

Managed online registrations & helped expanding the outreach of the event, increasing number of entries by 500.

Data Analyst Intern, Siddharth Forge, Mumbai, India August 2012 – April 2013

Monitored and reported on the influence of social media marketing

Produced and presented reports, through PowerPoint and other MS Office tools, directly to the client

Successfully identified multiple data issues and helped with their resolution

Seamlessly aided communication between the development team and the clients

Gathered data from different stakeholders; analyzed data and assisted teams on the daily execution of program

PROJECTS Interactive Dashboard in Tableau Public 10.1 of famous data breaches January 2017

Created an interactive dashboard of 223 data breaches from 2004 to 2016, as a personal project.

Article: www.linkedin.com/hp/update/6227558266671497216 ; Dashboard: https://goo.gl/3aeNY2 Prediction in R using past historical data October 2016

Led a four member team to predict where Pokémon appear in Pokémon Go (a famous Artificial Intelligence game to catch Pokémon), using the dataset found on Kaggle.com.

Prediction made using the past historical data like geographical location, time, temperature etc. Discovering disease prone areas for new born babies February 2016

Conceptualized and developed an intuitively designed interactive dashboard in Tableau to help understand Global burden of deaths and the number of deaths caused in each age group.

Slides: https://public.tableau.com/profile/sid6682#!/vizhome/DataVisualisationforGlobalBurdenofDisease/Story1 WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi Password Hack – Cryptography Project February 2016

Used a combination of WPA handshake and brute-force dictionary attack in Kali Linux environment. Enterprise Database Management Project September 2015

Imported dataset with 2.5+ million records in MS SQL Server & understood the database, demo: https://goo.gl/JqZVzN