Nitin Agrawal

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

+1 (312) 714-3583 nits.ag84@gmail.com
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
Jun 2014 Current
Data Mining Specialist, Marketing and Product Development Team, Interactive Brokers, Chicago
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 companys first data analytics project.
Tracking conversions showed an uptick of more than 50%. Also IBs 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 IBs
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.
Aug 2013 Current
Director, IIT BHU Global Alumni Association
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.
Aug 2012 Dec 2013
Research Assistant, UIC - Department of Information and Decision Sciences, Chicago
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.
Jun 2013 Nov 2013
Intern, Product Analytics, Data Analytics and Research Group, Press Ganey Associates, Baltimore
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
Aug 2012 May 2014
Master of Science, Management Information Systems, University of Illinois at Chicago
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
Mar 2011 Jul 2012
Business Intelligence Consultant, HCL Capital Market Services, Bangalore
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

Jul 2010 Feb 2011

Information Technology Analyst, Tata Consultancy Services, Gurgaon, India
Led module implementation of TCS BNCS 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
Aug 2008 Jul 2010
Information Technology Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services, Brussels, Belgium
Worked as TCS BNCS 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
Jun 2006 Aug 2008
Assistant Systems Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services, Gurgaon, India
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
May 2014
Master of Science, Management Information Systems
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
June 2006
Bachelor of Technology (Honors)
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. Deans 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