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Dijana Cosic

Dijana Cosic

Washington,DC

Summary

Highly analytical and process-oriented data analyst with 16 years of experience across diverse industries. Demonstrates expertise in database technologies, research methodologies, and big data capture, curation, manipulation, and visualization. Recognized for attention to detail, reliability, and a strong drive for learning. Skilled in project management and team leadership, adept at managing multiple tasks concurrently. Proficient in written and oral communication as honed through teaching and research experience.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Data Services Manager

WEALTHENGINE/Altrata - Euromoney/Delinian
02.2019 - 04.2024

Company Overview: WEALTHENGINE is a data services company that provides insights and analytics for commercial and nonprofit clients

  • Managed production team responsible for ETL, data processing, non-bespoke SQL query builds, and data delivery
  • Successfully increased productivity by 271% while working remotely (last 4 years)
  • Reached maximum record production in the company (by 238%)
  • Successfully delivered over 150 million records in over 800 projects for hundreds of commercial (ex: American Honda, Tiffany, Restoration Hardware, Aetna, Cigna, etc.) and nonprofit clients (ex. UNHCR, Medstar, University of Texas etc.)
  • Managed and manipulated data using: PL/SQL, SQL, SQL Developer, SQL Plus and Python
  • Analyzed millions of data points housed in and across multiple Oracle data warehouses
  • Deployed data quality assurance systems, developed and implemented company policies, technical procedures, and standards for preserving integrity, quality, and security of data
  • Successfully implemented companies' policies and standards to Altrata
  • Coordinated with clients to develop project requirements and technical specifications in over 200 projects
  • Managed projects from beginning to end while coordinating internal departments (7 geographically distributed teams worldwide) with external parties
  • Coordinated inter-departmental data sharing efforts
  • Managed Jira and Freshdesk tickets from Customer Service and Engineering teams
  • Documented various Data Services processes in form of data flow diagrams and shared knowledge of WealthEngine processes with other teams
  • Successfully learned data mining process in WealthEngine and delivered modelling project for healthcare provider

Teaching Associate

SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS, UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB
03.2014 - 06.2018

Company Overview: University of Zagreb is the oldest and biggest university in South-Eastern Europe

  • Taught a lab in Enterprise Information Systems (SAP, Navision) and Informatics (Advanced Microsoft Office, Google Tools and Wibley) to over 100 students per semester
  • Monitored students' performance; prepared, administered, and evaluated exams

Data Analyst

EOS MATRIX D.O.O.
03.2016 - 09.2017

Company Overview: The EOS Group is one of the leading international providers of customized financial services present in Europe and USA

  • Automated production of reports in SPSS Moduler and Excel spreadsheet functions. for daily, weekly and monthly snapshots of current debt payments, operations and customer data
  • Estimated prices for portfolios that were considered for purchase
  • Automated business processes and created daily dashboards for multiple departments
  • Managed critical business data in Toad and SQL
  • Created various Excel documents to assist with pulling metrics data and presenting information to stakeholders for concise explanations of best placement for needed resources.

Consultant Data Analyst/Team Lead

Hendal and Valicon
04.2007 - 02.2016

Company overview: leading independent marketing research agencies in Croatia (Hendal d.o.o.) and Slovenia (Valicon d.o.o.)

  • Tested concepts, products and services, names, packaging, price-positioning and assessment of volume/market on hundreds of survey projects utilizing CATI, F2F, WEB and paper data collection technologies to identify emerging trends, enabling clients to adapt and stay ahead in competitive industries.
  • Designed surveys using internally developed tools
  • Simultaneously managed multiple time-sensitive projects (more than 20 at times)
  • Collaborated with researchers in tabulating and plotting various statistics in SPSS and Excel
  • Conducted award-winning study using company's Neuromarketing tool which promoted company
  • Supervised and coordinated data collection and data processing for national and regional projects that were conducted by geographically distributed teams
  • Managed a team of 20 interviewers in exit polling of Croatian national election, collected and cleaned data for real time outcome projections
  • Conducted QA procedures, including inspecting surveys for errors, and verifying database consistency

Customer Intelligence Specialist

TELE2 D.O.O. (Telemach)
06.2009 - 03.2013

Company Overview: Tele2 is a Swedish telecom operator present in 12 European countries

  • Conducted statistical analysis of customer behavior using descriptive statistics, trends, regression and predictive analysis under different scenarios, churn prediction using data mining, data modeling, business intelligence gathering, trending and benchmarking wile processing large volumes of raw data into actionable intelligence products.
  • Supported decision making for high-priority, enterprise initiatives including the development of a customer relationship management tool for real-time analysis of customer data
  • Conducted detailed data analysis for customer retention (resulted in 5% yearly customer growth), creation of new telecom tariffs, marketing campaign implementation and evaluation
  • Produced multi-source intelligence periodic reports and reports on request for the company's executives, including the CEO and headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden
  • Team leader for data preparation projects that included data cleaning and coding, verification of data integrity and accuracy

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS) - Managerial Information Technology

School of Economics And Business, Zagreb, Croatia
06.2006

Studied general economic and business classes to be able to develop, implement and deploy managerial information systems (major) in every company

Classes: E-Commerce, Software Development, Data Bases, Office Automatization, IT Management, Expert Systems, Simulation Modelling, etc.

Thesis: "Data mining with a help of decision trees"

Skills

  • SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner
  • SPSS, SPSS Moduler
  • SQL Developer, SQL expertise
  • Salesforce
  • Advanced Microsoft Office
  • Survey System QML PHP CSS, HTML for market research
  • Weka Google tools
  • R, R Studio, Wibley
  • Toad
  • SAP
  • Navision
  • Freshdesk
  • Atlassian
  • Quantitative methods, regression, trend analysis
  • Data warehousing, database management, data architecture
  • Data mining, data science research methods
  • Business intelligence
  • Data visualization
  • Information systems
  • Research data management
  • Excellent written and oral communication
  • Data quality assurance
  • Big data technologies
  • Teamwork and collaboration
  • Problem-solving, analytical detail oriented thinking
  • Multitasking
  • Reliability
  • Adaptability and flexibility
  • Task prioritization and project leadership, organizational skills
  • Business process improvement

Professional Development

  • Getting and Cleaning Data in R
  • R Programming
  • Data scientist toolbox
  • Data Analysis and Statistical Inference in R
  • SAS Programming 1: Essentials
  • SAS Training
  • Predictive Modeling Using Logistic Regression
  • Applied Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner
  • SAS Enterprise Guide Essentials
  • Customer Analytics
  • Fundamentals of Business Process Modelling
  • Introduction to Neuroscience and Neuromarketing
  • Tableau
  • Python
  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Digital Marketing
  • Navision (mostly online courses)

Publications

  • Data mining usage in health care management: literature survey and decision tree application, M. Pejic Bach, D. Cosic, Medicinski Glasnik, 5.1, 2008, pp. 57-64
  • Neuromarketing in Market Research: Eye Tracking Application, D. Cosic, Entrenova 2015, Kotor, 2015, pp. 295-302, Best Methodological Paper Award
  • Neuromarketing in Market Research, D. Cosic, INDECS, 14(2), 2016, pp. 139-147
  • Dashboards Usage for Business Intelligence, D. Cosic, B. Korizma, I. Horvat, Entrenova 2015, Kotor, 2015, pp. 265-272
  • Future Development of Customer Analytics in Marketing, D. Cosic, Entrenova 2016, Rovinj, 2016, pp. 188-195, Presented at the conference
  • Credit Risk Scoring in Entrepreneurship: Feature Selection, M. Pejic Bach, M. Šarlija, N. Zoroja, J. Jaković, D. Cosic, Managing global transitions, 17, 2020, pp. 265-287

Languages

Croatian
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional
Italian
Elementary
Macedonian
Limited Working
Serbian
Native or Bilingual
Slovenian
Limited Working

Interests

  • Music
  • Acting and Theater
  • Photography
  • I enjoy sketching and drawing, which helps improve my creativity and attention to detail

Exploring famous landmarks, historical sites, and cultural attractions in a new destination

Timeline

Data Services Manager - WEALTHENGINE/Altrata - Euromoney/Delinian
02.2019 - 04.2024
Data Analyst - EOS MATRIX D.O.O.
03.2016 - 09.2017
Teaching Associate - SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS, UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB
03.2014 - 06.2018
Customer Intelligence Specialist - TELE2 D.O.O. (Telemach)
06.2009 - 03.2013
Consultant Data Analyst/Team Lead - Hendal and Valicon
04.2007 - 02.2016
School of Economics And Business - Bachelor of Science (BS), Managerial Information Technology
Dijana Cosic