Harsh Kava



6197600-21971000left-27051000Harsh Kava (MS, MBA)Jersey City, New Jersey -07307 |201-381-9897harshkava@ | in/harshkava/ | harshkava/ | public.profile/harsh.kava#!/SUMMARYResult-oriented analytics leader with over 6+ years of cross-functional IT and Project management experience in big data technologies for scalable business growth.CORE COMPETENCIESProject Planning & ManagementStrategic LeadershipBusiness Development Interpersonal CommunicationBusiness Requirement GatheringData Visualization & DashboardingData Extraction & Data ModelingData Ingestion & Building PipelinesData Provisioning & Predictive ModelingETL DevelopmentBig Data DevelopmentAlgorithm & Data structuresBusiness Intelligence & AnalyticsCloud data engineering & DevOpsAgile MethodologyTECHNICAL SKILLSProject Management Tools: JIRA, HPQC, Version One, Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint, Advanced Excel, Microsoft Word.Big Data Technologies: HDFS, YARN, SPARK, HBase, MapReduce, HIVE, PIG, KAFKA, OOZIE, SQOOP, ZOOKEEPER, Azure DevOps, Ambari, Alation, IBM Cognos, Google Analytics.Programming Languages: Java, Python, SQL, SAS, R, Scala, SPSS,Database: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, MS Access, MongoDB.CI/CD & DevOps: Informatica, Jenkins, Tortoise SVN, GitHub, Selenium, Maven, Docker hub, Google Cloud.Visualization Tools & Software: Tableau, Power BI, Qlik Sense, R-Studio, Spyder, SAS Enterprise 6.1, Eclipse, IntelliJ, JavaScript, Scripting.WORK EXPERIENCEJefferies LLC, NJ (Senior Associate – RegEdge) July 2019 – CurrentCore team member for ECOM project responsible for ensuring smooth product development by vendor (BEHAVOX) and stakeholders management.Furnished a data analysis driven solution in response to amendments to FINRA Rule 2232 and MSRB Rule G-15 for prevailing market price (PMP) for fixed income securities.Munich Re America, Princeton (Data Engineer/Data Analyst) Jan 2019 – May 2019Maintained existing data pipelines, Python based ETL framework, Data Warehouse on Hadoop using advanced SQL queries, and analyzed high-volume of claims data. Engineered the claims_info pipeline to extract textual data in real time from files residing on SQL Server, Hive & Content server using Apache Kafka, Spark, Hadoop and Java.Implemented MapReduce scripts to process over 14.7 million existing claims records to extract text data from scanned documents, Pdf, Jpeg, Excel, Emails & Zip files.Designed and developed the OCR engine for text analytics using Tesseract OCR and apache TIKA.Consulted the business with data architecture design and leveraged existing infrastructure for scalable pipeline building.Analyzed the live data and furnished interactive reports using Power BI.Involved in building and applying existing security model (Kerberos, LDAP) to Big Data application.Collaborated with offshore teams and Devops teams to support the system.Health First, New York (Data Analyst/Project Management) Jun 2018 – Aug 2018Strengthened data usage, data quality, and governance via liaising between engineering and business leaders as Data officer.Worked collaboratively across various cross functional teams within Healthfirst.Designed and Implemented Lean Processes using Microsoft Visio in conformance with HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).Integrated with existing process and added 2 new task types under existing data governance flow to handle special scenarios.Created knowledge articles explaining the re-defined process flow.Proactively resolved various data issues/ambiguities using complex SQL queries.Spearheaded data analysis project for Health and Recovery Plans (HARP) that increased the plan enrollment by 17%.Engaged with stakeholders to understand and re-engineer the QA release process for IT deployments, server restarts and database refreshes.Acted as product owner in scrum meetings to oversee the alignment of business needs and IT implementation.Managed CI/CD process development for automated deployments based on Azure DevOps and service now.BNP Paribas ISPL, Mumbai, India (Senior Data Engineer) Oct 2016 – Jul 2017Interacted closely with business to gather requirements & technical design specifications for individual projects and sub projects.Built highly scalable ingesters for high volume proprietary data feeds.Performed end to end project implementation which comprises of collecting requirements, analyzing design, deploying code, validating, delivering & supporting in live production environment.Developed various in house responsive & intuitive web applications for BNP Paribas stakeholders using IBM Cognos (data discovery).Developed pipelines for processing swift messages (MT94X & MT103) in real time using Apache Kafka, Spark and Java with minimum lags.Analyzed & addressed business user problems by delivering productive data insights on day to day basis leveraging Tableau.Conducted due diligence?of a transaction processing pipelines to confirm all facts, that also included the review of financial records.Used Agile methodology in developing the application, weekly Sprints, stand up meetings.Core contributor in defining strategy and leading migration of engineering division from system to data-centric organization to optimize data share-ability, reduce data redundancies, and elevate overall data quality.UBS, Pune, India (Senior BI Developer -Infosys Ltd) Aug 2013 – Oct 2016Developed a scalable sub-system to source and maintain data about fortune 500 companies and financial indexes using web scraping, selenium, python and Oracle.Designed & built code for Oracle data integrator which is a comprehensive data integration platform to perform all types of data integration activities.Designed ETL architecture for overall data transfer from the source server to enterprise services warehouse using Informatica.Built platform to analyze data lake metrics, hybrid on-premise and cloud-native data strategy, which shifted focus to data curation, modeling, data centralization, and common architecture utilization. Co-created SDMA using Java, Spring MVC, Hibernate and Oracle for managing the transactional metadata which enhanced process efficiency for financial analysts.Orient Press Limited, Mumbai, India (Systems Engineer) Jun 2012 – Jul 2013 Developed Orient-Desk web application using Java, SQL Server, JavaScript, HTML & CSS that improved business efficiency by over 35%.EDUCATIONMS Information Systems (Business Intelligence & Analytics) | Stevens Institute of Technology |GPA: 3.96 May 2019Courses: Multivariate Analysis, Web Mining, Social Network Analytics, Marketing Analytics, Data Mining, Process Innovation & ManagementPGD in Business Administration (MBA in Finance) | Symbiosis |GPA: 3.7 Jul 2017 Courses: Strategic Management, Financial Management, Corporate Governance, Security Analysis & Portfolio Management BE in Electronics & Telecommunication |University of Mumbai |GPA: 3.6 Jul 2012 PROJECTS 2017-2019Business Expansion for Panera Bread Captured datapoints from live customers using survey monkey and mined sales data to perform predictive analysis using SAS. Developed a detailed 4P strategy plan with market segmentation which led to 38% increase in quarterly turnover.EverQuest -Sentiment Analysis Programmatically structured and cleaned over 9.5GB of EverQuest’s forum data and Facebook scraped using python and excel.Accomplished text analytics using NLP to identify and visualize user trends and emotions which led to increased subscriptions by 27%.Soccer Player Rating predictionImplemented deep learning model using TensorFlow for predicting the final player ratings based on various characteristics.Facebook Scraping Scraped Facebook pages of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon using Python to collect data from most recent 1000 posts.Applied text analytics using Scikit-learn and create model to identify the most popular company. AWARDS.2584450277495OPEN FOR RELOCATIONOPEN FOR RELOCATIONBeta Gamma Sigma Honor Award of Lifetime membership for exceptional academic performance and leadership skills.Tableau Certified Desktop Specialist. ................
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