Chandra Shekhar

Information Technology Consultant at National Scholarship Providers Association
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Austin, Texas, United States, US
Languages
  • Hindi -
  • Kannada -

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Credentials

  • Architect Profession Certification
    IBM
    Nov, 2016
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

  • National Scholarship Providers Association
    • United States
    • Education Administration Programs
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Information Technology Consultant
      • Mar 2022 - Present

      Spearheaded product management, identifying and evaluating requirements to facilitate the development of robust and scalable databases and platforms. Created a Graph DB on AWS Neptune to explore and understand how students navigate to scholarships to identify areas of improvement. Played an integral role in establishing 2 data standards in JSON/XML for exchanging scholarship and student information. Key Contributions * Instrumental in designing and developing a Scholarship Exchange platform with more than 40,000 scholarships built by leveraging NodeJS hosted on AWS stack. * Built and launched a data warehouse on Snowflake for gathering strategic insights into students’ abilities to secure scholarships, demographic analysis of students, analysis of eligibility criteria. Show less

  • Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
    • United States
    • Philanthropic Fundraising Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Solutions Architect
      • Aug 2018 - Mar 2022

      Pioneered the vision, strategy, and technical roadmap for multiple cloud-based applications, including a scholarship application hosting high-quality scholarships. Served as a strategic leader within data architecture, with a focus on defining, developing, and evolving enterprise-wide and system-level data models. Leveraged exceptional communication skills to collaborate cross-functionally with the College Board for access to over 30 million scholarships. Pioneered the implementation of applications on Heroku to maintain scholarship data using NodeJS, Postgres, React, and SOLR. Key Contributions * Constructed and integrated a student profile hub that enabled the exchange of student data between partners that reduced the amount of time taken to apply for a scholarship; generated $20,000 in cost savings. * Deployed REST API on Azure to drive digital transformation, including digitizing FAFSA documents (SAR) to streamline application processes and increase user experience. Show less

  • IBM
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Watson Solution Architect
      • Jun 2015 - Jan 2018

      Served as the lead architect for operationalizing and integrating solutions leveraging IBM’s Watson Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, such as Watson Assistant, Discovery, NLU, and NLC, to gain insights into customer data. Delivered consulting solutions to over 20 clients, providing cognitive strategy roadmaps, training, and workshops to clients. Played a key role in identifying business needs to create and guide virtual assistant frameworks, chatbots, product matching, quality assurance for contact centers using speech-to-text, and more.Key Contributions* Constructed an innovative, data-centered solution to automate data extraction and data entry by extracting financial data from commercial mortgage back security documents using IBM Watson Explorer.* Designed and developed a conversation shopping advisor solution for a Korean company to attract and engage customers using conversation and image search to find and recommend products.* Created a sleep advisor solution for a large mattress company using Watson IOT and big data analysis on Hadoop Show less

    • Senior Data Architect
      • Jun 2002 - Jun 2016

      Promoted from Data Architect to Senior Data Architect in 2008 to deliver leadership across data architecture and modeling, offering recommendations on business intelligence (BI) tools and cutting-edge technologies to design and develop a data pipeline, state-of-the-art visualizations, reports, and dashboards. Developed conceptual, logical, and physical data models in collaboration with clients’ architects and tech leaders across the enterprise. Led team of up to 25 across several of IBM’s Global Delivery Centers, including China, India, Brazil, and Austria. Developed full life cycle architectural services, including designing flexible architectures, data analysis, data migration, data modeling, and data integration.Key Contributions* Championed continuous improvement and process automation, designing procedures to review diverse data and convert reports exports to custom CSVs to guide key performance indicators (KPIs) within new dashboards.* Steer system integration, implementing an Order to Cash system for a large consulting organization; created global dashboards for reporting and analysis of key sales process metrics.* Supported a large systems transformation project, delivering a data strategy for a large banking client to implement a new core banking product across the organization. Show less

Education

  • Cleveland State University
    Master of Science - MS, Computer Science
  • The National Institute Of Engineering, Mysore
    Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial Engineering
  • Delhi Kannada School

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