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Experienced Business Consulting and Analytics Professional with 8+ years of experience in delivering market research, analytics and consulting projects. 150+ projects delivered at upwork.com. With ranking among top Analytics professional at upwork.com, I see my success in your growth and passionate to offer you great value for your consulting dollar

Australia 15+

Europe 20+

150+ Consulting and Analytics projects delivered, and growing

Asia 2 Russia 1

*Size of bubble shows number of projects delivered

ResearchAnalytics

Consulting

Regions Served

North America 100+

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2009 First market research project was delivered

2016 150+ projects are delivered till date.

1900+ Hours logged on upwork.com

All time rating of 4.8 out of a score of 5Client Reviews and Feedback

The Journey So Far


Research AnalyticsMarket Research HR AnalyticsBusiness Research Customer AnalyticsCustomer Research Web Analytics

Technolgy Research Predictive Analytics

Type of Projects Delivered

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USA70%

Australia12%

Canada10% UK

2% Japan2%

Denmark1%

Norway1%

Switzer-land1%

Russia1%

Projects delivered by Country


North America remained the mostly served market in last 5 years. However, new clients are approaching for services from Europe, part of Asia and Russia as well.

Skills Utilized – Marketing Analytics, Customer Analytics, Social Media Analytics, Human Capital Analytics, Feasibility & Research Studies

Tools Used – MS Excel, SAS, IBM SPSS, R (Basic User)


Client Reviews and Feedback Word Cloud (2009 – 2016)



Analytics

Skills Cloud (2009 – 2015)


Predictive Analytics

Management Consulting

Statistical Analysis

Change ManagementSocial Media Analytics

Survey Analytics

Retail AnalyticsMarket Assessment

Human Capital Analytics

ResearchSAS

SPSS

Span of Control Analysis Compensation and Benefit Analysis

Employee EngagementWorkforce Planning and Analytics


Project Type – Market Sizing and Research

Country USAIndustry ConsultingProject Cost $1000 & Above

Duration (Hours) 132

Year 2013

Business Problem and Objective

Approach

Solution and Deliverable

Client is an Oracle’s gold partner based in USA and hired our team to estimate market size for a new application to be launched by Oracle. US higher education was targeted since it has great potential for deriving value for Oracle’s application. The objective was to estimate potential number of users for the Oracle application in the US higher education industry.

Research - Extensive secondary research was conducted to estimate total number of new student registrations in US universities.

Assumptions - Collected data was further challenged and given a logical shape by setting assumptions based on research to arrive at FTE estimates at department level for US higher education market.

Top down approach was used to understand US education industry. Statistics like total number of universities offering higher education, number of students enrolled in a year and total number of FTE’s by department in US higher education were researched. Appropriate ratios and assumptions were used to further identify the core target market for the client.



Project Type – Pricing and Competition Assessment

Country GermanyIndustry ManufacturingProject Cost $500 and Above

Duration (Hours) 50+

Year 2013


Approach


Client is a toy manufacturer based in US and wanted to price their new product by assessing the competitor price. Our team identified key competitors for them and suggested a price range for their products.

Research - Extensive secondary research was conducted to identify competitors and collected data regarding the price, distribution platforms used, location, type of product sold etc

Assumptions - Collected data was analyzed to identify hidden price pattern based on type of product sold in the market.

Provide d pricing trend for different types of toys sold by competitors in the US. He analysis was provided in the form of a detailed market research report. Helped client identify the average price of product sold which further helped them identify a range of prices to quote for their product in the market.



Project Type – Steel Recycling Industry – Assessment

Country CanadaIndustry RecyclingProject Cost $500 and Above

Duration (Hours) 50+

Year 2010


Approach


Client is an Entrepreneur based in Calgary Canada, and willing to set up a steel recycling firm. Before making any final decision, client hired us to answer some vital questions about the Canadian recycling industry. This included, industry size, competition , potential customer , forecasted demand for recycled steel in Canada.

Research - Extensive secondary research was conducted to identify competitors and collected data regarding the price, total demand etc in Canada.

Assumptions - Collected data was analyzed and presented in the form of tables and charts to provide useful insights to the client.

Provided useful insights to the client with market statistics regarding the Canadian recycling industry with special reference to Alberta. A comprehensive market research report was prepared keeping client’s objectives in mind.



Project Type – Mobile Data Analytics

Country USA

Industry Financial Service

Project Cost $100 and Above

Duration (Hours) 10

Year 2013


Approach


Client is a Finance Service company based in US. They are not sure if their spending in online advertising contributing anything to get more customer. They have data for number of applications filled, number of approval and number of loans approved by the company. To understand if their advertising is showing any impact statistical analysis was conducted

Data Source – Last 2 years transactional data was provided with information about number of applications applied online, number of approvals made and loans sanctioned.

Method - Paired T test was used to understand if there is any significant increase in number of loans granted to customer. SPSS and SAS were used to run the analysis

Though the results were not significant, the client demanded to extrapolate the data and provide a threshold point to conclude how much lift is required to make the test statistically significant

Extrapolations were done using some logical assumptions and a range of data points were provided which were necessary for the test to be statistically significant.



Project Type – Customer Survey Analytics

Country USAIndustry PublicationProject Cost $200 and Above

Duration (Hours) 10

Year 2013


Approach


An online survey was conducted to understand the newspaper consumption behavior in a select location in United States. A total of 664 responses were collected from diverse origin which included customers originating from Central American, Mexican, South American and United States.

Data Source – An online survey was conducted by the client in Los Angeles and data was collected from 600+ customers.

Method - Cross tabulations and descriptive statistics was provided to the client using MS Excel and SPSS. The data was interpreted and results were presented in a power point deck.

News paper buying behavior was studied in detail by running cross tabulations using SPSS. This included understanding customer behavior by age, gender, location, origin along with others.

Survey revealed some great insights about newspaper buying behavior in the select location. A small percentage of respondents have started demanding news on their cell phone. This is a result of the global revolution in mobile app technology which has spread around the world. However, this demand is mostly from the middle age working professional who only find time to see news paper over a weekend or after office



Data Source – Employee Data, engagement survey data (Provided by client)

Method - Descriptive analytics was used to first understand the performance of available talent across locations, age groups and tenure. Compensation trends, engagement and attrition trends across the different locations were also studied for further analyses.

Project Type – HR Analytics

Country USA

Industry Management Consulting


Duration (Hours) 5

Year 2014


Approach


Cleint is a management consultant based in the US and working for a global telecom giant in their Asian location. The problem with firm is attrition, sussession planning, low engagement and high dissatisfaction with their compensation

Lack of effective leadership skills and experience is visible in the current workforce. The findings suggest that investment in developing talent is imperative. The dissatisfaction in people was mainly because they were not happy with their job and managers.

Client was suggested to introduce more recognition programs and invest in up-skilling employees. The focus on the investment should be to introduce more leadership courses and encourage people who demonstrate leadership traits.



Customer billing history to be analyzed to understand the hidden pattern and relationships in the transactional data. The obective was to see which client has paid less amount of money in the given period of time. The client is a Multimillion$ company based in USA.

Project Type – Customer Analytics

Country USA

Industry IT


Duration (Hours) 15

Year 2013


Approach


Data Source – Customer billing history from quick books

Method - Descriptive Analytics was used to understand the hidden pattern in the data. The basic question was to know if there are some client accounts which have paid less fee for the services compared to others

Overall insights were very useful for the client and they could understand what’s going on in their business.

Clients could also identify the accounts where they could have charged more fee and earned revenue.

Some other useful insights were also share, like revenue trend by location, client, type of service etc. These insights were very useful for clients to understand what type of services are doing good and which locations have been doing great for their products and service.




Client is a Coach and Speaker in United Kingdom and have a great database where Leadership survey responses are stored. Client wanted to have some strong insights from this data and use it for enhancing their understanding on vital leadership issues.

Project Type – Leadership 3600 Assessment

Country United Kingdom

Industry Management Consulting


Duration (Hours) 50

Year 2016


Approach


Data Source – Leadership Survey data stored on client server

Method - SAS was used to analyze survey responses. At total of 64 questions were analyzed and correlations were run.

Insights were found very useful by clients. The analyses revealed close correlations in the way leaders interact with others and make their decisions.

Findings were shared with the lead coach on a weekly basis and results were presented during a Skype video call and screen share.



Ashish is a management consulting and analytics professional with specialization in small business management, marketing and entrepreneurship.

Besides earning valuable work experience with reputed management consulting and small boutique research firms in India and Canada, Ashish delivered more than 130 research and analytics assignments for clients in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia via upwork.com

His key areas of focus are human capital analytics, customer analytics, change management, employee engagement, workforce planning and analytics, impact assessment and market research.

Ashish holds a master’s and a bachelor’s degree in economics from reputed universities in India and also completed an advanced program in business administration from a reputed university in Canada. His key areas of specialization are Econometrics, Statistics, Mathematical methods for Economics, Small business management and Entrepreneurship

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