MBA in Business Analytics, Class of 2021
Suresha’s success story is an example of his perseverance and hard work using the right resources available to him for achieving his career goals during his 2-year tenure at REVA Academy for Corporate Excellence- RACE, REVA University.
Suresha owed his career transition and success to RACE mentors who helped him build leadership skills, presentation skills (storytelling), and learn new perspectives on AI/ML, Bigdata, Statistics, and Cloud technologies. As part of the MBA in Business Analytics program, he has completed IBM Modeler Certification and IBM Big Data Engineer Certification, which backed him to drive his career forward.
He has also learned a lot about mentoring, coaching, and new and related topics of AI ML by joining the world-class MBA in Business Analytics program. He has also got the opportunity to work on real-time projects with industry experts in AI/ML during his learning journey at RACE, which helped him to get promoted from Principal Leader to Manager- AI/ML.
Suresha also made use of the networking opportunities at RACE by connecting with peers and program participants from other batches. The networking opportunities enabled him to gain knowledge on different domains and develop skills in AI/ML.
He has won the ‘Best Student of the Year-2021’ for his outstanding academic performance. Another achievement of Suresha by being a student of REVA Academy for Corporate Excellence-RACE is that he got the opportunity to present a paper at the International Business Analytics conference held at IIMB in 2019. He has also published his two papers in international journals on NLP and Time series Forecasting.
Upon completion of the MBA in Business Analytics program, he has been placed as the Manager AI/ML-Technical Consulting at Ernst & Young as the program enabled him to develop career-relevant skills.
According to Suresha, “MBA in Business Analytics from RACE helped me to make my career transition into AI/ML in my previous organization. Also helped me to build a network with AI/ML leaders and mentors. The timeline between 2019 and 2021 was wonderful for me to cherish with a lot of great memories.
His advice to the upcoming batches is, “RACE is a great place to build your career in Business Analytics, AI, and Cybersecurity. Great opportunity to learn new technologies from AI, ML, and Cybersecurity industry leaders.”