FS@fariel-shafee

PhD-trained analyst moving into data analytics

I turn real datasets into clear insights, dashboards, and recommendations from externship work with Amazon, Pfizer, TruBridge, BeReal, and a value investing practicum.

Work samples

Portfolio pieces include persona-driven people analytics from an Amazon externship, a Pfizer AI document processing prototype, TruBridge healthcare dashboards, a BeReal product growth feature, and a

  • Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship
    Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship
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    Amazon · Oct 2025 · ✅ Verified by Extern

    Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship

    Imagine shaping how AMAZON — yes, THE Amazon — welcomes and keeps its workforce. Every year, Amazon loses billions because new hires leave before Day 90.You’re going to fix that. In this externship, you’ll web scrape real-world employee reviews from across the web, extract actionable insights, and design persona-driven strategies to help Learning Ambassadors connect smarter, faster, and more humanely.It’s part research, part strategy—and all about learning how people data drives big decisions.

    StrategyAI & MLPresentation SkillsOperationsData AnalysisPython
  • BeReal Product Management Externship
    BeReal Product Management Externship
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    BeReal. · Dec 2025 · ✅ Verified by Extern

    BeReal Product Management Externship

    Discover how product teams at social apps like BeReal design for authenticity while driving user growth. In this externship, you’ll explore what keeps users coming back— benchmarking competitors, analyzing engagement features, and designing your own growth-driven app feature. You’ll learn how to balance product innovation with BeReal’s unique mission of real, unfiltered connection. Perfect for those interested in product management, UX strategy, or social media innovation, this experience gives you a hands-on look at how product teams grow platforms without losing their core values.

    DesignProduct ManagementUI/UX

About me

I turn real datasets into clear insights, dashboards, and recommendations from externship work with Amazon, Pfizer, TruBridge, BeReal, and a value investing practicum.

I hold a PhD and I'm building a transition into data analytics. I’ve completed several project-based externships that applied web scraping, healthcare and operations data analysis, financial modeling, and AI document processing to real problems. My immediate goal is to strengthen my resume and show practical, portfolio-ready analytics work that helps me compete for jobs and internships.

Externships

Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship

Completed · Oct 2025

Experience

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Education

Princeton University, USA

PhD (physics) · Class of 2008

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

BS (Physics and Mathematics) · Class of 1998

University of London

LLB · Class of 2020

University of London

GCSE O & A levels

Skills

Web scraping and text analysisDashboarding and data visualizationHealthcare data analysisFinancial modeling in ExcelOCR, LLMs, and RAG pipelinesProduct research and growth analysisPresentations and storytelling with data

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Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship

Imagine shaping how AMAZON — yes, THE Amazon — welcomes and keeps its workforce. Every year, Amazon loses billions because new hires leave before Day 90.You’re going to fix that. In this externship, you’ll web scrape real-world employee reviews from across the web, extract actionable insights, and design persona-driven strategies to help Learning Ambassadors connect smarter, faster, and more humanely.It’s part research, part strategy—and all about learning how people data drives big decisions.

StrategyAI & MLPresentation SkillsOperationsData AnalysisPython

Overview

The work examined frontline fulfillment center roles and their operational context, then collected and prepared employee voice data from Glassdoor and YouTube transcripts for analysis. It identified themes and sentiment patterns, traced root causes with a 5 Whys, produced workforce segments with prioritized pain points, and proposed a pilot-ready intervention addressing unclear overtime practices.

Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship
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What I've accomplished

I delivered a packaged analysis that included a cleaned CSV of employee feedback, a Colab notebook with text preprocessing and sentiment work, thematic and root-cause artifacts, labeled workforce segments with priorities, and a pilot intervention proposal with rollout steps.

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BeReal Product Management Externship

Discover how product teams at social apps like BeReal design for authenticity while driving user growth. In this externship, you’ll explore what keeps users coming back— benchmarking competitors, analyzing engagement features, and designing your own growth-driven app feature. You’ll learn how to balance product innovation with BeReal’s unique mission of real, unfiltered connection. Perfect for those interested in product management, UX strategy, or social media innovation, this experience gives you a hands-on look at how product teams grow platforms without losing their core values.

DesignProduct ManagementUI/UX

Overview

The externship examined BeReal-style social interactions, mapping the end-to-end user journey and benchmarking competitors across authenticity, engagement, privacy, and innovation. Work included a journey map spreadsheet, a scored comparison table of features, a PRD-lite and one-page feature definition, a focus-group prototype with findings, and a product-pitch outline.

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What I've accomplished

I mapped the full user journey, benchmarked competitors with a scored comparison table, drafted a PRD-lite and one-page feature definition, ran a 12-person focus group with a prototype, and delivered a product-pitch outline with usability data and recommendations.

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TruBridge Healthcare Data Analytics Externship

A TruBridge externship focused on healthcare data analytics, using public datasets and AI tools to analyze cancer-related risk factors and build dashboards and presentations.

Data AnalysisGoogle Colab

Overview

The externship worked with public and simulated healthcare datasets to investigate lifestyle and environmental associations with cancer. The work selected and prepared structured datasets, ran exploratory and inferential analyses including regressions and hypothesis tests, and produced visualizations, a slide outline, an interactive dashboard, and a presentation video.

 TruBridge Healthcare Data Analytics Externship

What I've accomplished

I produced a complete analytics deliverable: cleaned cancer-risk data, statistical models with performance metrics and hypothesis tests, four analytic visualizations, a 10–15 minute slide outline, an interactive dashboard, and a recorded presentation video.

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Yinan Value Investing & Financial Modeling Externship

Gain insider experience in value investing by analyzing leading stocks alongside seasoned investor Yinan Zhao. Learn how professionals leverage financial modeling in Excel, interpret alternative data, evaluate market trends, and craft persuasive investment recommendations. Build real-world skills essential for careers in finance, equity research, and investment banking.

Data AnalysisFinancial Statement AnalysisInvestment AnalysisFinancial ModelingExcel

Overview

The externship produced a full equity research workflow for Siltronic AG, beginning with candidate screening and company selection, then moving into 10-K and earnings analysis, competitor mapping, and multi-year financial modeling. The work culminated in scenario-based valuations and a structured investment memo reconciled with the model.

Yinan Value Investing & Financial Modeling Externship

What I've accomplished

I produced a complete equity research package for Siltronic AG: screened candidates, built a multi-year financial model with segment forecasts, created bull/base/bear valuations, and wrote a reconciled investment memo.

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Pfizer Supply Chain Document Processing Externship

Prototype AI-powered document intelligence with Pfizer—using OCR, LLMs, and RAG to automate real enterprise PDF workflows and build a standout portfolio project.

AI & MLPythonDocument IntelligencePresentation Skills

Overview

The work developed an end-to-end document intelligence pipeline for pharmaceutical supplier documents, combining OCR, text extraction, RAG retrieval, and a user-facing chat demo. Deliverables included Colab notebooks, JSON segmentation outputs, embeddings and a FAISS vector store, comparisons of OCR engines and LLMs, and a Gradio UI wired to a Mistral model. The project also produced evaluation

Pfizer Supply Chain Document Processing Externship

What I've accomplished

I delivered a working RAG-based document intelligence system combining OCR, chunking, sentence-transformer embeddings, FAISS storage, LLM responses (Mistral), JSON segmentation outputs, a Gradio UI, and quantitative evaluation metrics.

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Cloudy Data Bootcamp

Created Python,Panda, Excel, SQL, Power BI, Tableau projects. Analyzed election data from India’s UP state and local elections and formulated policies for the leading party. Carried out complicated Excel calculations.

PythonPandaExcelSQLPower BITableau
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Think Cloudy Bootcamp

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Quantium Data Analysis

Data was obtained from Forage and was used to analyse sales of chips. Separated columns by weight and name, and found selling patterns across stores to recommend business strategy.

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Flight Satisfaction Recommendation

Data was pulled from Kaggle and analyzed to find correlations of variables in buying tickets to find business strategies.

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Coffee Shop Analysis

Data was pulled from Kaggle to analyze sales of different items over segments of the day in various stores to find actionable strategies.

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