Professional Record

Eight years of moving data into decision-making.

8+

Years in BI & analytics

4

Industries shipped in

PhD

+ PMP certified

Career Timeline

  1. Jun 2024 — Present

    Woodbridge, Canada

    Pong Game Studios

    Head of Business Intelligence and Analytics

    • Joined as a Business Analyst and grew into leading the analytics function as the company scaled — now leading a team of 3 (2 Data Analysts, 1 Business Analyst) plus cross-functional partners, owning BI across 500+ land-based locations and an iGaming arm processing over $800M in annual bet volume.
    • Drove game-economy and revenue-optimization strategy using Taguchi DOE, K-means clustering, multiple regression, and Monte Carlo simulation; data-driven tuning of RTP, volatility, and player experience lifted Gross Gaming Revenue 19% and player retention 11%.
    • Built an ensemble revenue-forecasting pipeline (Holt-Winters, blended-growth, YTD-anchored) with backtested accuracy (MAPE) and confidence bands, and led actuals-vs-forecast variance and bridge analysis to guide executive forecast revisions.
    • Engineered custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in Python/JS integrating Claude with SQL, Oracle, and Jira, automating reporting workflows and reclaiming ~20 analyst hours per week.
    • Architected a scalable Microsoft Fabric environment with Copilot in Power BI, directing pipeline requirements in partnership with a senior backend developer to build the capacity infrastructure that accelerated automated insight generation across the business.
    • Set analytical standards across the team and translated complex analysis into board-ready decisions leadership can act on in under a minute, partnering directly with the CEO, CTO, and VP of Sales & Product.
  2. Oct 2022 — May 2024

    Mississauga, Canada

    Camden Door Controls

    Business Intelligence Specialist

    • Hired on the product development team to write product manuals and assembly/QC SOPs, then progressively built out the company's product-data and inventory systems.
    • Built Excel/VBA tools to automate product-number assignment and BOM entry, removing a slow, error-prone manual step.
    • Set up QA/QC tracking sheets and inventory monitoring for the assembly floor, giving teams clear visibility into stock on hand, used, and refilled.
    • Introduced barcode scanning to log inventory movements into CSV records feeding live Power BI dashboards, replacing manual spreadsheets with real-time visibility.
  3. Aug 2020 — Jun 2022

    Bengaluru, India

    Bartleby Technologies Pvt Ltd (Acquired by Barnes & Noble Education Inc)

    Lead Subject Matter Expert — BI & Operations

    • Led the Civil Engineering expert team (in-house experts plus 100+ freelancers) handling 500+ student questions a day, tracking intake, acceptance and rejection rates, and rejection categories to maintain quality and volume.
    • Selected to launch Bartleby Live Chat and ran it end to end, scaling it from 30 to over 1,000 questions a day in six months across all subjects, with a network of 50+ vendor experts and 8 in-house experts plus the QC team.
    • Designed the operating KPIs (inflow rate, average session length, rejection rate, SME availability, QC score) and used inflow data to plan SME shifts.
    • Built the Power BI reporting and presented it weekly to US leadership; authored the official Live Chat SME playbook used to train and QC the full expert network.
  4. Sep 2014 — Oct 2019

    Rajkot, India

    Marwadi University

    Assistant Professor and Subject Matter Expert

    • Provided statistical and experimental-design consulting (Taguchi, regression) — the same methods now applied to revenue and game-economy modeling.
    • Taught engineering coursework and managed academic cohorts; research in this period produced a granted patent (Indian Patent No. 396605) and the PhD thesis on alkali-activated concrete optimization via the Taguchi method.

Education

  • PhD

    Marwadi University

    2017 — 2022

  • Master of Engineering

    Gujarat Technological University

    2014 — 2016

  • Bachelor of Engineering

    Gujarat Technological University

    2010 — 2014

Certifications