My name is Swapnil and I am currently working at zulily, Seattle in their Marketing Analytics and Strategy team. My major responsibility at zulily is to understand customer behavior, and help marketing and strategy team optimize their efforts. A typical day at work involves working with web-analytics, demographic, transaction and spend data, designing and running statstical experiments and closely working with stakeholders.
Academic Background
Professional Background
Over the years, I have worked in air logitics, supply chain, marketing and eCommerce industries.
Senior Marketing Analyst- Strategy, Lifecycle and Customer Experience, zulily -
- Strategizing, management, financial modelling and reporting of zulily’s product returns program
- Utilized analytics to recommend product returns process improvements resulting in $8.1M annual cost savings
- Performing experiment design, power analysis and running A/B tests to improve customer experience and prevent churn
- Providing analytics support and building audience for Email and Offers campaigns
- Statistical analysis of user behavior on web and app using clickstream, orders and customer data
- Running price sensitivity tests for offers audience to optimize offers spend
- Answering ad-hoc business questions using advanced analytics techniques
Graduate Student Consultant
Worked as a graduate student consultant to help increase the annual revenue of a national food delivery company. The major tasks involved in the data-driven project -
- Customer Segmentation
- Market Basket Analysis
- Seasonality Analysis
- Creating Buyer Personas
- Measuring success of coupon campaigns
Business Analyst-
- Performed customer segmentation using K-Means clustering leading to better customer service and increased customer satisfaction
- Developed customer churn prediction model using Logistic Regression based on key metrics and developed retention strategies leading to a 12% increase in customer retention
- Led the design of Key Performance focused interactive dashboards in Tableau for Sales, Customer Support and Billing teams
- Provided technical consultation to air freight forwarders for setting up their business
- Developed competitive shared service models for small freight forwarders
- Consulting Airlines, Ground Handling agents, and the Freight Forwarders to help set up their business
- Working as a communication channel between HM Revenue & Customs Office and the group of Freight Forwarders, Airlines, and Ground Handling Agents
- Performing Descriptive analytics of the air cargo data
- Generating interactive reports for Sales, Customer Support and the Management teams in Tableau
- Visiting shed operators around London Heathrow and understanding their ground handling operations
Software Engineer
- Performed descriptive analytics in R and suggested cargo message tariff changes leading to an increase of 15% in quarterly revenues
- Developed Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) applications in Java to extract air cargo transaction data
- Led a team of four to design, develop and maintain the International Air Transport Authority air cargo message database in SQL, catering 0.2-0.3 million air cargo messages per day
- Developed SQL queries for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer dashboards for different teams
- Fine-tuned SQL queries to maximize efficiency and performance
- Managed client engagements and client visits to understand ground handling operations
Technical Associate
- Generated KPI focused Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer reports for sales, customer support and billing teams
- Performed end-to-end white box testing of IATA air cargo message database
Skills
On a day-to-day basis, I mostly work on R, SQL, Python and Tableau
Analytical Skills-
- Simulation
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Regression
- Text Mining
- Sentiment Analysis
- Clustering
- Hypothesis Testing
- Association Rules
- Classification
- Optimization
- Statistical Modeling
- Bagging, Boosting
- Reporting and Visualization
- Information Filtering
- Geospatial Analysis
- Google Analytics