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Esha Kaushal



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About Me

A dedicated business technology professional with ~6 years’ experience in delivering end to end technology solutions, managing project operations and handling client communication.

My role in various organizations has had to focuses on end-to-end (requirement gathering, design, build, test, deploy, on-going support, enhancements.) timeline, project, and scope management. I often provide design and code feedback based on my experience in the solution-space, and with our primary client's systems and needs.
My role is best defined as ground level program management, but some examples of duties include:

  • Facilitation of requirement-gathering and design sessions with client teams. Translation of pain-points into business process or technology short-comings.
  • Coordination of a medium-sized (7-8) off-shore and small(2-3) onshore team. I am ultimately responsible for our team's delivery across our project umbrella to our clients.
Currently pursuing MS in Business Analytics (Graduate in Dec’21) to further hone my analytics skills and make more meaningful impact in the space of Product Management

Experience

Target Corporation

Automation Consultant (Level 5)

  • Established automation project intake and execution guidelines for finance and retail services.
  • Lead business team to gather FTE saved data and quantified benefits of automation ideas proposed to get stakeholder buy and managed project delivery with cross functional teams across Target.
  • Realized annual savings of ~ $160K in terms of contractor salaries from reduced hiring during holiday season due to automation of ticket submission process.
  • Type of automation projects delivered:
    • Browser based automation
    • MS Excel based automation
    • Pdf based automation
    • Automation of data extraction from protected environment

Soroco

Engagement Associate

  • Managed delivery of enterprise wide automation system for a finance fortune 500 company
  • Work on end-to-end (issue identification, requirement gathering, design, build, test, deploy, on-going support, etc.) timeline, project, and scope management
  • Managing project timelines, creating UAT plans and test cases and coordinating with Go-Live Plans

ZS Associates

Senior Business Technology Analyst

  • End to end project management inclusive of client engagement, content building, deliverable and timeline governance, finances, and team staffing.
  • Spearheaded teams of 4-5 associates and lead UI mock-up creation, database architecture design, designing script logic/flows and delivery of several projects for many US based pharma clients
  • Technical team lead for ZS’s flagship goal management solution for $17.3B US Pharma giant.
  • Handled ongoing project operations and lead improvements on existing tools along with their budgeting with the clients.
  • Worked in close liaison with Software development team on deciding product roadmap of ZS’s custom web tools.
  • Recipient of 3 performance based avoids

Deloitte Touche & Tohmatsu

Associate - Enterprise Risk Services

  • Independently conducted IT General Control testing (ITGC) audits, SAP Auditing, OS and database auditing, for major listed clients.

Education

Purdue University

Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

Master of Science in Business Analytics and Information Management

MDU Rohtak

August 2009 - April 2013

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology Engineering

Projects

Detection of face mask in a video

An application that uses web camera to detect whether people have worn a face mask or not. Application is built by training a custom deep learning model built using Python's libraries like OpenCV, Keras & TensorFlow and computer vision technologies MobileNetV2 and Caffe Model.

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Identify trends and predict popularity of songs on Spotify

Explore Spotify’s song data to get current trend and predict popularity of songs. Project employed various libraries of Python like pandas, matplotlib, numpy to read given data, visualize, plot the trends in the data. Further, to predict the popularity of songs, we imported sklearn libraries for Data Modelling & Normalization, Linear model, Lasso, XGBRegressor and KNN to build models.

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Introducing 4th tier classification for postings on Craigslist

Our system effectively addresses the goal of automated 4th-tier classification. Categories are generated based on the currently available ads and assigned to new posts automatically, making it easier for buyers to find their desired product without impacting advertiser’s experience in generating an ad or requiring additional manual labor on behalf of Craigslist’s advertisers nor staff. 

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Automated Ad classification

Correctly classifying ads into appropriate categories on Craigslist, using text mining, text manipulation and Natural Language Processing.

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NBA Player Performance Prediction & Roster Generation

Predict player performance for the 2019-20 season, and recommend trades based on player positions, performance and user-entered budget cap.

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Financial Portfolio Management

A portfolio management dashboard built on RShiny for visualization, prediction and optimization of investor portfolios.

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Bankruptcy Prediction

Predict whether a firm goes bankrupt in the upcoming year based on historical data for 5 years, using ensemble modeling.

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