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Mahfuz Kabir Pulak (He/him)

Human Capital Analytics Research Assistant at New York University

Business Analyst | Data Analyst | Analytics Research Assistant @NYU Tandon | MS Candidate @NYU

Currently I'm working as Research Assistant at Human Capital Analytics Lab of NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

Motivated, team-oriented, and result-driven analyst with 2+ years of work experience in analytics & consulting. Strong in communication, problem-solving, exploring insights from data & reporting the findings to key stakeholders and/or clients. Focused to make an impact in the team with critical thinking & innovative solutions.

I bolstered my profile by assisting California based financial firm Credit Sesame

- ๐—ฅ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ธ ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ% by developing models analyzing 30K records using MySQL which helped exploring strategic business insights.

- ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฒ% by extracting data from 20+ datasets using MySQL to design reports and conduct analyses.

- ๐—œ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐Ÿฑ๐Ÿฌ% by designing KPI trackers using Excel macros.

I contributed to the New York based consulting Startup IdeaStreet in

- ๐—˜๐—ป๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿฌ% ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜„๐˜๐—ต within 2.5 months by closing 4 client projects successfully and with significant profit margin through customized financial model.

- ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ปing ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฑ% ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ for a struggling restaurant owner client within 3 weeks renovating their revenue stream.

I kickstarted my professional journey with Hamburg based OTTO GmbH Co & KG as Growth Analyst, Retail products and succeeded in

- ๐—˜๐—ป๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฑ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ ๐—˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ in 2 months in the retail products section in Hamburg by extracting and emphasizing 6 key metrics of growth by performing exploratory data analysis & data-driven reporting.

- ๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐˜ƒing ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฌ% ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜€ by categorizing products into 3 groups using A/B testing on 48 product batches.

- Reducing 22% time on customer segmentation by automating market datasets using Advanced Excel.

Skill Sets: SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL), Tableau, Excel (Pivot, VLOOKUP, Power Query), Python, R, Power BI, SAS

Languages: English, Bengali, Hindi, German, Spanish

Interests: Analytical & Creative writing in Medium, Traveling, learning history & languages, Finding short cuts for a time-consuming process

2 ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ๐™จ ๐™›๐™–๐™จ๐™˜๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š ๐™ข๐™š ๐™ข๐™ค๐™จ๐™ฉ: first is analyzing data & visualizing insights to bullet actionable decisions and second is strategizing the tasks by implementing those data-driven metrics or insights.

I love to escape the 'Traditional Path' in any work. I always try to find out the pattern for process improvement to pull off the task in a finer way.

Location

New York, United States

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Work style

How I prefer to work

Remote & Office

Afternoon

Mostly in a team

Qualities I value in my colleagues

  • Honesty
  • politeness
  • team spirit
  • integrity
  • compassion

My communication style

  • Positive
  • assertive
  • thoughtful
  • cordial
  • polite

My pet peeves

  • Poor communication
  • disrespectfulness
  • politics
  • arrogance
  • inconsiderateness

Fun fact

I'm a bit lazy so I always look for finding short cuts to accomplish a tedious task.