GOURAV GUPTA

Personal Data
Place and Date of Birth: Rourkela | 08th January 1994
Address: B-14, Ivy Villas, Wagholi, Pune - 412207
Phone: +91 801 869 1660
email: gourav.f8@gmail.com

Career Objective
To grow as an individual in an organization where I can use my analytical, logical and technical skills to identify
and solve problems that would actually impact businesses in a positive manner

Education
May 2017 B.Tech. Industrial Design ,
National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela
Gpa: 7.93/10
March 2012 Intermediate in Science,
Vidya Mandir Sr. Sec. School, Kota
Percentage: 87.80
March 2010 Matriculation,
St. Paul’s School, Rourkela.
Percentage: 90.29

Work Experience
October 2017 - Present Decision Analytics Associate at ZS Associates,Pune
Currently working as an associate with the Business Consulting Capability Group of
ZS Associates - one of the global leaders in sales and marketing consulting, outsourcing,
technology and software developing. My key responsibility is to conduct market research
to develop statistical models, synthesize insights and put recommendations for clients

June - September 2017 Analyst - Derivatives Trading at Halftick Info Services Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai
Worked as a short sterling trader in Halftick where my major responsibilities were to
trade futures contracts (LIBOR) on Inter-Continental Exchange(ICE) based on various fac-
tors like bids, offers, price action, news etc. I used technical indicators to predict the
price action and implemented strategies to hedge risks and manage the portfolio of the
firm

May - July 2016 Intern at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (Aircraft Division), Bangalore
Worked as an intern in HAL, Aircraft division and helped creating a mechanical milling
and jig fixture which increased the efficiency and reduced the man power involved in
the fabrication of the fitting rear centre line pylon for the hawk aircraft

Technical Skills
General Programming: R, C, C++, MATLAB(Basics)
Database : SQL
Other Softwares: Adobe Photoshop, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint

Soft Skills
Languages English - Professional Fluency | Hindi - Mother Tongue | Oriya -Basic Fluency

Soft Skills Leadership, Management Skills, Business Understanding, Analytical Thinking, Team Player
Projects
Feb-Apr 2018 ZS Associates - Baseline ATU
Conducted a pre-launch quantitative study for a drug to help a Japan based pharma-
ceutical company understand the customer attitudes, behavior and promotion to help
clarify market drivers and maximize its product uptake. I was responsible for creating
the survey from the scratch, communicating with vendors to ensure data quality, client
communication, setting up analysis, creating the final report which included the insights
and recommendations

Oct 2017-Feb 2018 ZS Associates - Wave over Wave Tracking ATU

Conducted quantitative study for a pharmaceutical giant across 11 countries. The key
objective of the project was to compare the performance of the drug in the market with
its competitors and to assess the performance of the sales representatives in order to
answer the key business questions which would help in making strategies to increase
the market share of the drug. My role in the project included coordinating with ven-
dors/clients, analyzing the data, story-boarding and preparing the final reports (a global
and 11 country specific reports)

Aug 2016-May 2017 NIT Rourkela - Low cost acoustic impedance tube(TEQIP-II Funded)
The objective of this project was to build a low cost acoustic impedance tube to measure
the sound impedance,sound absorption and reflection coefficient using a 2-microphone
method . My work in this project was to design, analyze and build the setup and do the
entire marketing work required for the experiment

Extra Curricular Activities

May 2016-June 2017 Placement Coordinator, Training and Placement Cell, NIT Rourkela
As a Placement Coordinator, I worked with a team of 24 members who worked as a
liaison between the institute and the industries. I was also involved in decision making
and drafting of an entirely new placement policy which ensured minimization of job
wastage

Sept 2015-Mar 2016 Founder, Captain, Management Head, Team Zon, ASME - NIT Rourkela
Team Zon a 22-member team, was one amongst the 130 teams who fabricated a solar
vehicle and took part in ”Electric Solar Vehicle Championship-2016”. Under my leadership,
the team finished 16th in the competition and bagged the awards - ”Best Business Plan”
and ”Runners-up in Design and Innovation”

Oct 2015 Chief Coordinator (Strategy Lead), SLDC, ASME India

As a chief coordinator of the first Student Led Design Conference held in India, my work
was to plan the strategies for the marketing and organizing the entire event in NIT
Rourkela which had a footfall of over 400 participants from various colleges in India

Nov 2014 Chief Coordinator, ”Automotive Style and Designing Workshop”, Innovision-2014
Was the chief coordinator of this workshop by the Italian designer Emmanuele Nicosia,
conducted by ASME NIT Rourkela Chapter and saw a footfall of 300 participants

Awards and Achievements

1. Stood First in Business Plan Round of ESVC 2016
2. Stood Second in the Design and Innovation Round of ESVC 2016

Interests and Activities

Puzzle Solving, Travelling, Playing Cricket, Music, Cooking