Pratik Patel is an IT professional with over 4 years of experience in data analysis, management, and analytics using technologies such as Java, SQL, Python, Hadoop, and Tableau. He has a Master's degree in Management Information Systems and is currently a Project Manager/Business Analyst at Verizon Wireless where he leads data-driven projects and creates analytical reports and dashboards. Previously he has held roles as a Data Analyst at Newark College of Engineering and Packt Publishing Limited where he performed data extraction, transformation, reporting, and visualization.

1. Pratik Patel
16 Perrine Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306 ∙ 973-489-6926 ∙ pmp54@njit.edu ∙ www.linkedin.com/in/pratikmpatel/
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL
Data Analyst with over 4 years of experience in business intelligence, data management and analytics. Strong
understanding and practical knowledge of technologies such as Java, SQL, Python, Hadoop, Tableau, HTML. Background
in leading significant projects and managing technical teams in a fast paced environment.
Technical Proficiencies
▪ Python
▪ Hadoop(Mapreduce)
▪ Data Analytics
▪ Tableau
▪ SQL
▪ HDFS, Hive
EDUCATION
Master of Science – Management Information Systems, 2016 | New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ | 3.8/4.0
Coursework: Data Analysis, Big Data, Hadoop, MapReduce, Advanced Database Systems, Business Process Innovation, SDLC
Extracurricular: Data Visualization with Tableau – Duke University, June-2016, Active volunteer Graduate Student Association
Bachelor of Science – Computer Science, 2014 | University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Coursework: Cloud Computing, Data Mining, Java Programming, Supply Chain Management, Software Testing
Paper: Demonstrated integration of social networks and SMS for disaster management, ICSCI 2012
Awards: Innovation of the Quarter, 2014
Member: Computer Society of India (CSI) – Communication Head, 2011-2012
Certifications
Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer (2012) ∙ Advanced Java Certified Professional, NIIT India (2013)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
VERIZON WIRELESS – National Operations, Basking Ridge, NJ, 2016-ongoing
Project Manager/ Business Analyst
Leading customer impacting projects including nation-wide launch of product, integral part of team throughout data
gathering, data analysis framework involving data cleaning, processing, analysis, & visualization and being SPOC to
represent team, analyzing,categorizing, prioritizing issues and finding trends within Point of Sales system
Key Accomplishments:
▪ Automated several analytical reports using Python comprised of different data modeling techniques such as time
series analysis, financial modeling, and trend mapping
▪ Worked with design, code, and debug operations, reporting, data analysis utilizing Python.
▪ Created Tableau Dashboards for transaction time in Retail store with quick/global filters, parameters and calculated
fields using Microsoft SQL Server as backend database design
▪ Lead of a project– Understanding requirements from various channels and communicating technical information to
IT, prepare integration and launch plan for over 40K employees and generating total saving of $61M.
▪ Working on project development lifecycle with JIRA Management Tool, prepared business case, Return of Investment
calculation and creating user stories and tracking Agile project
▪ Develop SQL queries to extract complex datasets and metrics from multiple databases.
Tools: Tableau, Python, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Google Analytics, MS SQL, Agile
NEWARK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Newark, NJ, 2015-2016
UI and Data Migration Analyst
Spearheaded the entire web architecture requirement gathering, planning, documentation, prototyping and execution for
a customer-facing website. Determined source data, analyzed the data, advised the end users on the data quality, formatted
the data to load into database tables, and write SQL queries
Key Accomplishments:
▪ Reduced exit percentage by 25% vs. the former web interface through a comprehensive portal replacing multiple sites
▪ Utilized web crawler to retrieve data of over 200 faculty members while performing data cleaning and modelling.
▪ Participated in data merging to support new requirements, data conversions, and system consolidation
↳ Tools: MS SQL, Axure, MS Access, Excel, HTML5, CSS2, PHP, PowerPoint

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PACKT PUBLISHING LIMITED, Mumbai, 2013-2014
Data Analyst
Maintained direct visibility and ownership of significant reports considered by senior management for key decisions
regarding product offerings. Participated in the Analysis, Design and Development Phases of report development,
performance tuning and production rollout for every report. Created Tableau dashboards and extensively used SQL for
accessing and manipulating database systems.
Key Accomplishments:
▪ Acquired commendations from senior management for providing excellent analyses for decision making.
▪ Performed extensive ad-hoc data reporting with great accuracy and analysis using Google Analytics.
▪ Implemented data extraction, transformation and loading(ETL) methods from large data set using MS SQL and used to
write complex SQL queries using joins, sub-queries and correlated sub-queries.
▪ Completed various projects related to RDBMS, including Normalization, Stored Procedures, Constraints, Querying,
Indexes, Nested Queries, Data Import/ Export and Triggers.
↳ Tools: SQL, Advanced, Google Analytics, Tableau, Visio
Product Executive
Coordinated publishing initiatives by serving as a liaison between the company and various publishing platforms for
data transformation and migration. Planned and implemented data migrations and test plans to improve business
processes. Acted as a single point of contact between company and major online bookstores.
Key Accomplishments:
▪ Devised an automated information submission tool that won Innovation of the Quarter.
▪ Decreased task time by 75% which resulted in 100 days’ man hour savings for the technical team.
↳ Tools: Drupal, XML, XPath, PHP, VBScript
FREELANCE DEVELOPER, Mumbai, 2012-2013
Customer-facing experience of developing a MIS portal to manage efficient customer engagements. Integrated a system to
gather online hotel booking, reporting, billing and customer profile management. Wrote test cases and performed unit,
functional, integration and system testing. Facilitated knowledge transfer for management & training to employees to
manage the system.
PROJECTS
BIG DATA
▪ Worked on installing, configuring, modifying, testing and deploying applications with Apache
▪ Developed Map-Reduce code in JAVA to run Hadoop in all three modes for a big CSV dataset
↳ Tools: Hadoop, HDFS, Map-Reduce, Hive, JAVA
DATA ANALYTICS
▪ Led a team of five in data mining, analyze and interpret patterns in a large dataset to create a flight simulation model.
▪ Created visually appealing drill-down dashboards using Tableau which helped in key decision making.
↳ Tools: Tableau, RDBMS (Oracle), SAP BI, SAS, Visio
PYTHON
▪ Created Wikipedia based web crawler extracting link information and mapped with vital information within page
↳ Tools: Python, Notepad++
WEB MINING
▪ Developed a predictive pricing strategy using demographic data and web mining.
↳ Tools: RapidMiner, Excel
OTHER INFORMATION
Co-Founder of Weekend Wanderers, a non-profit hiking group with 30+ expeditions and 200+ members