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Salil Waknis

University Park

Summary

Third-year Economics student. Keen on taking up leadership roles in business, product oriented domains and working in a team of likeminded individuals. Seeking an internship opportunity to leverage skill sets to create a positive impact on the organization's goals.

Work History

Customer Success Intern

Plobal Apps
  • In tandem work with Head of Customer success to research bench line statistics to analyze current trends in regard to our client companies and then generating predictions for the final quarter of 2023 and the first two quarters of 2024
  • Work included shadowing calls with clients and understanding the metrics and variables that clients valued and wanted to be part of the model we used to generate predictions for the following quarters
  • To generate predictions, we used online trends to create a raw prediction column for each quarter, then I used the excel spreadsheet to generate a logit model on Stata

Customer Service Intern

Apace Apparel
  • Worked closely with the marketing department to discuss plans on how to market and advertise new products that were approaching their release date
  • Work included talking to cyclists and triathletes about what facets of apparel they saw the most value in and creating plans to market each of them accordingly
  • Being part of a relatively smaller company, work would often extend to taking inventory, as well as some aspects of customer service (Calls, emails, meetings, etc.)

Volunteer Teacher

IISP
  • Founded and led literacy initiative at my school which led to educating over a dozen rural women in spoken and written English
  • Student volunteer who taught underprivileged groups English as a part of our school’s literacy initiative
  • Helped execute key elements of this project contributing to the design of the syllabus

Education

B.A. in Economics -

Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus
01.2024

Skills

  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Time Management
  • Teamwork
  • Leadership
  • Critical Thinking
  • Professional elocution skills

Interests

  • Customer Success
  • Product / Social Media Marketing
  • Logistics & Planning
  • Statistics
  • Data analysis
  • Game Theory

Projects

Hope/22


Leading Rural development project, Spearheaded fundraising and development of rural areas in local community, Key member fundraiser which raised 20,000 rupees for supplies relating to the initiative, Led a team of 8 people to clear a thousand square feet of land to establish a temporary community center


 LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM


The project involved creating a Library Management System exclusively using Python, The Library Management System would grab information from text files and process it using python 'List Manipulation' methods



Accomplishments

  • Deans list {GPA > 3.50} for academic semesters Spring 2023, Fall 2023
  • Captain of high school and middle school basketball team including captaining premier club in Pune (Deccan Gymkhana)
  • House captain in Junior year of high school

Languages

Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Marathi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Spanish
Elementary (A2)

Timeline

Customer Success Intern

Plobal Apps

Customer Service Intern

Apace Apparel

Volunteer Teacher

IISP

B.A. in Economics -

Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus
Salil Waknis