KAUSHAL JHA (0356/56)

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Year Degree/Examination Board/Institute %/CGPA
2017 B.Tech (Mechanical) IIT Delhi 6.81/10
2013 Class XII CBSE 93.2%
2011 Class X CBSE 10/10
ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS AND CO-CURRICULAR ACHIEVEMENTS
 Secured overall 99.97%ile in CAT’16, 99.83%ile in CAT’18; 99.9+%ile in QA for 3 consecutive years[‘16-‘18]
 Awarded the NTSE scholarship, (Top 1%/1.5lac) with State Rank 2(Raj),93/100 in MAT (4th highest in country)[‘09]
Distinctions  Won the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana(KVPY) fellowship by IISc, AIR 242 of 1056 in General Merit list[‘12]
 Secured AIR 578 (0.5%/1.5lac) in JEE-Advanced; 99.95%ile/13.5lac in JEE-Mains; 99% in Chemistry in 12th[‘13]
 Awarded the prestigious “Silver Certificate”(AIR<250) in Technothlon, an IQ quiz by IIT-Guwahati[‘09]
 Selected for National Jr. Science Olympiad Camp (Top 35 in the country); Top 1%/16300 candidates in 1st round[‘10]
 Secured International Rank 3 & 22 in Science Olympiad[’11,’12];Intl Rank 12 & 92 in Maths Olympiad[’09,’12]
Olympiads
 Secured AIR 7[‘12], AIR 83[‘10], AIR 47(AIR 1, Maths)[‘09] in NSTSE; AIR 50(AIR 1, Reasoning) in UCO[’09]
 Won Brilliant Student Medal for 3 consecutive years in Rajasthan Dainik Bhaskar Scholarship Exam[’07-‘09]
 1/25 among 800+ in IITD to be awarded Design Innovation Summer Award, received cash prize of INR 12k[‘16]
Awards and  State Rank 20, awarded Distinctive Excellence Certificate & Medal of Merit in SSTSE by govt. of Rajasthan[‘10]
 Achieved AIR 1 in Insight National Talent Hunt, awarded a scholarship of 1 Lakh Rupees by Navgurukul[‘08]
Scholarships
 Awarded Brain of Rajasthan(State Rank 1) prize[‘08] and Brain of Kota(City Rank 1) prize by Resonance[‘10]
 AIR 5 in jr. category of All India General Knowledge Test, conducted by USO, VEC of United Nations, scored 91%[‘05]
WORK EXPERIENCE 20 months
ZS Associates Pvt Ltd DECISION ANALYTICS ASSOCIATE Jan’19 – May ‘19
Roles &  Leveraged International healthcare data in immunology, oncology, rheumatology spaces for a USD 20B+ pharma client
 Sole Offshore under 2 consultants, responsible for Australian market solutions, part of International Markets team
Responsibility
 Worked directly with Australian clients; Responsible for sending weekly, biweekly and monthly brand performance scorecards
 Performed data segmentation through k-means clustering and quintiling to analyse effective promotion channels
Analytics &
 Saved 210+ yearly man-hours (4+ hours per report) by automating monthly brand report for clients in Italy, through VBA
Automation
 Enabled reporting rationalization on multiple reports saving a total of 324+ man-hours, 17% of the time taken
 Rated as an “Employee exceeding expectations” on essential business understanding in less than a month
Achievements  Spotted and rectified multiple quality errors in major client deliverables sent in past within 2 months of joining
 Much appreciated for analytical abilities, problem solving, quality, communication and professionalism by team
Cognizant Technology Solutions ASSOCIATE-PROJECTS Jul’17 – Oct ‘18
Google  Worked under Communication Media Technology Dept.; rated as an “Employee exceeding most expectations”
Automation  Developed a Chatbot for queries regarding Google My Business listing using DialogFlow, a Google interface
Project  Completed ANSI-SQL certification and SQL scripting_onsite skill certification with a score of 76/100
Konan Error  Contributed to an error catcher tool for Google Ads content with 2000+ Google internal agents as daily users
 Rolled out a Reactive Quality Check, a first of its kind tool, to display all errors in a single sheet on one click
Catcher Tool
 Enhanced the Tool with multiple new functionalities and features resulting in 35 Lakh+ monthly transactions
Feedback  Built and automated FMS for automatic mail triggering and scorecard generation of internal Google agents
Management  Developed FMS for 6 different processes, used for 1500+ agents’ automated feedback generation weekly
Systems  Built archives, scorecards and Google Forms modelled through appscript on agents doing 100+ audits daily
EXTRA CURRICULAR ACHIEVEMENTS
 Mentor at Avanti Fellows to provide quality education access to bright students from low-income backgrounds[’14-‘15]
Social  Taught kids, women in Bhatti Mines, an extremely underprivileged section located on the outskirts of NCR[’13-‘14]
Initiatives  Completed “Samvaad Winternship”, devoting 84 hrs of dedicated campaigning to promote root level governance[‘15]
 Created video solutions of JEE problems for Bodhbridge Educational Services to increase access for aspirants[‘14]
 Protagonist for Institute Stage Play team in Rendezvous, IIT-Delhi’s cultural festival with a footfall of 50k+[‘14]
Dramatics,
 Actor and musician for Institute Street Play team in Mood Indigo, IIT-Bombay’s cultural festival, footfall of 126k+[‘14]
IITD
 Conceptualized, directed and executed street plays for inter-hostel event, secured 2nd position[‘14], 3rd position[‘16]
 Eastern Music: One of the lead vocalists for Saarang gharaana in Mehfil, winner in folk category, 2nd position overall[‘14]
Music, IITD
 Fusion Music: Lead vocalist and keyboard player in “Dhwani”, inter-hostel fusion event[’14,’15]; hosted Dhwani[‘15]
 District winner twice[’09,’11 in Limca Book Quiz], represented school at district level for 4 consecutive years[’09-‘12]
Quizzing
 Stood 2nd in Bharat Ko Jano at the Zonal Level(South-East Raj.)[‘08], represented school for 5 consecutive years[’07-‘11]
Acting and  Enacted a street play on Elections in NCR at SDA, covered by NDTV; acted in a street play at India Gate[’14,‘15]
Production  Acted in 5 YouTube videos under Retake Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. with a total of 85k+ views[’14-‘15]

Email: kaushalj2021@email.iimcal.ac.in
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta