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Prantik Bala

@prantikbala

Solution Architect and Data Science Professional

Kolkata

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pr antik-bala/

Cognizant Tech Solutions US CorpJadavpur University

Prantik Bala is a technocrat with nearly 16 years of experience specializing in Data Science, Program Management, and Delivery Management. He has a proven track record of developing innovative business solutions, leading complex projects using Agile methodology, and directing full development cycles. His expertise includes advanced analytics, predictive modeling, and communicating data findings to key stakeholders to solve business challenges.

Experience

Delivery Manager, Program Manager, Technical Architect / Technical Lead, Solution Architect

Cognizant Tech Solutions US Corp

•Jan 2001 - Present•Kolkata

Proactively assisting in the development & management of data-driven projects for attaining excellence. Leading the development of mathematical models and applications to present the information to the stakeholders. Evaluating data findings to communicate findings in a clear, structured manner; developing cordial relations with stakeholders and rendering guidance. Identifying valuable data sources and automating XX (mention) processes. Directing full development cycle of planning, analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation using data mining and data analysis tools. Undertaking preprocessing of structured and unstructured data. Analyzing large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns; using the same to develop predictive models and machine-learning algorithms. Presenting information using data visualization techniques. Undertaking data collection, preprocessing and analysis. Building models to address business problems. Providing overall leadership to the entire Project Team including managing deliverables of functional team leaders. Rendering technological direction & purchases decision and upgrades; driving the vision for the business unit while maintaining 'big picture' focus. Formulating, suggesting, and managing data-driven projects which are geared at furthering the business's interests. Ensuring proper alignment of analytics with strategic business initiatives encompassing understanding of omni-channel behaviour, building recommendation engines, store viability model. Evaluating data findings to communicate findings in a clear, structured manner; developing cordial relations with stakeholders and rendering guidance. Directing full development cycle of planning, analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation using data mining and data analysis tools.

Software Engineer

NIIT Tech Ltd.

•Jun 2001 - May 2001•Kolkata

Client: ING Groups BV. Project: The BAS project is an offshore development project for a leading Banking sector in Europe. This banking group is one of Europe's largest banking, insurance, and finance conglomerates. The project aims at offering business and application in a Better, Different and Faster way. -- Team Member.

Senior Software Engineer

HCL America Inc.

•Jan 2001 - Apr 2001•Noida/Portland

Client: PacifiCorp. Project: The CIS is Customer Information System which is the part of CSS for PacifiCorp. CIS helps the company to maintain and generate bill/ invoice of more than 80k customer every day. The application is built in AllFusionGen7.6 on mainframe. The application interacts with several external components. Platform is Z/OS, database DB2.

Senior Programmer Analyst

Kale Consultant

•May 2001 - Jan 2001•Mumbai/Gurugram

Client: Aviva Life Insurance. Brief: The application Lissia is an end-to-end application used for managing the complete life cycle of the Policy. The application Lissia is an end-to-end application used for managing the complete life cycle of the Policy. This application deal with all the functional operations of an insurance company. -- Technical Lead and Architect.

Education

Jadavpur University

BE

Information Technology

Jan 2005

Skills

Data Science
Machine Learning
Statistical Modeling
Python
R
SQL
PySpark
Tableau
Azure
Predictive Modeling
Deep Learning
Agile Methodology
Project Management
Solution Architecture
Java Script
Scala
Spark
C++
COBOL
GIT
TFS
Oracle
MSSQL
DB2
VSAM
Unix/Linux/AIX
Windows Mobile platform