Credentials*

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): Data Management and Analytics, Microsoft, Sep 2016.

This certification validates the earner’s skill in running a highly efficient and modern data center, identity management, systems management, virtualization, storage, and networking

1. Querying Microsoft SQL Server.
2. Administering Microsoft SQL Server Databases.
3. Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server.
4. Developing Microsoft SQL Server Databases.
5. Designing Database Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server.

Digital Marketing Specialization, University of Illinois (UIUC), Nov 2018.

1. Digital Marketing Analytics.
   • Illinois Component: Theory and strategy behind marketing analytics for use in practical application.
   • Coursera Component(s): Digital Marketing Analytics in Theory and Digital Marketing Analytics in Practice.
2. Digital Media and Marketing.
   • Illinois Component: Learn the role of digital channels in an integrated marketing campaign and why you need a digital strategy. Interact with the content and learn from a variety of examples.
   • Coursera Component(s): Digital Marketing Channels: Landscape (Digital Media and Marketing Principles) and Digital Marketing Channels: Planning (Digital Media and Marketing Strategies).
3. Marketing in Our New Digital World.
   • Illinois Component: This course will explore the new digital realm in two parts. First, this course will explore how the digital revolution has affected our analog world. Second, this course will review the foundations of marketing, including customer co-creation, user-generated content, and 3D Printing.
   • Coursera Component(s): The Digital Marketing Revolution (Marketing in an Analog World) and Marketing in a Digital World.
4. Capstone.
   • Illinois Component: The Specialization concludes with a Capstone project that allows students to apply the skills learned throughout the courses.
     • Understand challenges in branding, brand positioning, and strategies to address brand communication in a digital world.
     • Delve in detail into the factors that shape consumer behavior and customer responses.
     • Understand market-oriented creativity and innovativeness within the firm and learn the success drivers of viable consumer-centric marketing strategies.
     • Perform data analysis and visualization techniques to extract useful information for strategic decision-making.

Financial Management Specialization, University of Illinois (UIUC), Mar 2019.

1. Accounting Measurement, Reporting, and Control (Financial Accounting).
   • Illinois Component: A managerial perspective of the nature and role of accounting in organizational measurement, reporting and control processes.
   • Coursera Component(s): Financial Accounting: Foundations and Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics.
2. Investment Finance I and II.
   • Illinois Component: Introduction to investment analysis, including the theory and implementation of portfolio theory; empirical evidence on the performance of financial assets; evaluation of portfolio investment strategies; and the extension of diversification to international markets.
   • Coursera Component(s): Investments I: Fundamentals of Performance Evaluation and Investments II: Lessons and Applications for Investors.
3. Corporate Finance I and II.
   • Illinois Component: Provides an understanding of the rich diversity of challenges that confront those creating new enterprises. Students will learn about managing growth while considering business models and cash issues, building the team with organizational and managerial issues
   • Coursera Component(s): Corporate Finance I: Measuring and Promoting Value Creation and Corporate Finance II: Financing Investments and Managing Risk.

Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization, University of Illinois (UIUC), Jul 2019.

1. Leadership and Teams
   • Illinois Component: Develops and integrates fundamental behavioral concepts and theory having administrative applications; initially focuses on the individual decision maker and ultimately includes interpersonal, organizational, and social structures and influences; and develops strategies and methods of research on behavioral applications in business
   • Coursera Component(s): Leading Teams: Developing as a Leader (Foundations of Everyday Leadership) and Applications of Everyday Leadership (Leading Teams: Building Effective Team Cultures).
2. Managing Organizations.
   • Illinois Component: Examines and analyzes the organization as a social system and the impact of its various components on work attitudes and behavior; topics include the development of organizational structures, organizational effectiveness, decision-making and policy formulation, leadership, and change.
   • Coursera Component(s): Designing the Organization: From Strategy to Organizational Structure,  and Managing the Organization: From Organizational Design to Execution.
3. Strategic Management.
   • Illinois Component: Introduces concepts useful in understanding marketing systems and buyer behavior in addition to developing skills in making marketing decisions; the orientation is primarily managerial and uses examples from both business and non-business contexts.
   • Coursera Component(s): Business Strategy, and Corporate Strategy.

Global Immersion Specialization Capstone: Germany, University of Illinois (UIUC), Aug 2019.

This course is an Action Learning trip in Germany during the summer break in 2019. The focus of the global immersion trip is on understanding business and economics in our host country. The itinerary combines academic activities with social and cultural experiences. This trip is more than a trip abroad. It is a robust, immersive business experience where MBA teams conduct projects for foreign businesses. The experience enables students to transform the theoretical and abstract into experimental learning while giving them a new skill set and a new perspective on the world.

Reflection: Global Immersion in Germany 2019.

Global Immersion Specialization Capstone: Brazil, University of Illinois (UIUC), Dec 2019.

This course is an Action Learning trip in Brazil during the winter break in 2019. The focus of the global immersion trip is on understanding business and economics in our host country. The itinerary combines academic activities with social and cultural experiences. This trip is more than a trip abroad. It is a robust, immersive business experience where MBA teams conduct projects for foreign businesses. The experience enables students to transform the theoretical and abstract into experimental learning while giving them a new skill set and a new perspective on the world.

Reflection: Global Immersion in Brazil 2019.

Value Chain Management Specialization, University of Illinois (UIUC), Mar 2020.

1. Marketing Management.
   • Illinois Component: Introduces concepts useful in understanding marketing systems and buyer behavior in addition to developing skills in making marketing decisions; the orientation is primarily managerial and uses examples from both business and non-business contexts.
   • Coursera Component(s): 
     Marketing Management I (Developing a Winning Marketing Strategy) and 
     Marketing Management (Developing a Marketing Mix for Growth).
2. Process Management.
   • Illinois Component: Introductory course in decision-making problems in production; includes the theoretical foundations for production management as well as the applications of decision-making techniques to production problems in the firm; and considers production processes, plant layout, maintenance, scheduling, quality control, and production control in particular.
   • Coursera Component(s): Operations Management: Analysis and Improvement Methods (Operations and Supply Chain Decisions and Metrics), and Operations Management: Strategy and Quality Management for the Digital Age (Process Improvement).
3. Managerial Accounting.
   • Illinois Component: Introduction to management accounting as part of the firm’s information system, in terms of modern cost accounting and budgetary systems for planning and controlling business operations.
   • Coursera Component(s): Managerial Accounting: Cost Behaviors, Systems, and Analysis and Managerial Accounting: Tools for Facilitating and Guiding Business Decisions.

Business Analytics Specialization, University of Illinois (UIUC), Aug 2020.

1. Introduction to Business Analytics with R.
   • Illinois Component: This course welcomes you to the world of business analytics by first exploring examples of how data analytics has improved business outcomes for large and small organizations. The course then continues by introducing you to a powerful data analytic language, R, and RStudio, the integrated development environment (IDE) to code with R. You will be also introduced to notebooks, and dashboards, with which you can learn to communicate code and analytic results with other people. You will also learn some data manipulation skills to prepare your data so that they can be analyzed with visualizations and machine learning algorithms.
   • Coursera Component(s): Introduction to Business Analytics with R.
2. Introduction to Business Analytics: Communicating with Data.
   • Illinois Component: Introduction to the science of business analytics while casting a keen eye toward the artful use of numbers found in the digital space.
   • Coursera Component(s): Introduction to Business Analytics: Communicating with Data.
3. Data Toolkit: Business Data Modeling and Predictive Analytics. 
   • Illinois Component: The emphasis of this course is placed on developing a business analytic mindset. You will then be exposed to various tools to perform tasks including extracting, transforming and loading (ETL) data to conduct exploratory data analytics (EDA). These tools are Power BI, R, and Alteryx. In addition, you will learn different machine learning algorithms but also develop the ability to evaluate and select the right algorithms for the right circumstances and use Notebooks to communicate results with others. 
   • Coursera Component(s): Data Modeling and Regression Analysis in Business and Predictive Analytics and Data Mining.
4. Applying Analytics Across Business Functions.
   • Illinois Component: This course explores business analytic applications in finance and marketing. Students will understand analytic issues and topics in marketing and finance, learn various techniques to assess customer satisfaction, conduct audit and control testing tasks using Alteryx and R, and examine robot process automation.
   • Coursera Component(s) Applying Data Analytics in Marketing and Applying Data Analytics in Finance.

Managerial Economics and Business Analysis Specialization, University of Illinois (UIUC), Dec 2020.

1. Statistics Management Decision Making.
   • Illinois Component: The application of classical and modern statistics for business decision-making. The level of the course assumes some prior knowledge of basic statistics as well as facility with elementary calculus.
   • Coursera Component(s): Exploring and Producing Data for Business Decision Making, and Inferential and Predictive Statistics for Business,.
2. Microeconomics for Business.
   • Illinois Component: Microeconomics for professional business students. Shows relevance of value and distribution theories for business managers. Includes demand and supply theory, consumer choice, production and cost theory, industrial structure, and was and capital theory.
   • Coursera Component(s): Firm Level Economics: Consumer and Producer Behavior, and Firm Level Economics: Markets and Allocations.
3. Macroeconomics.
   • Illinois Component: This course provides a framework that allows you to assess how new developments in finance and public policy may influence the macroeconomic and business environment.
   • Coursera Component(s): Country Level Economics: Macroeconomic Variables and Markets and Country Level Economics: Policies, Institutions, and Macroeconomic Performance.

Cybersecurity Specialization, ISC2 via Coursera, Jan 2023.

1. Security Principles.
2. Incident Response, BC, and DR Concepts.
3. Access Control Concepts. 
4. Network Security.
5. Security Operations.

Skills: Cybersecurity, Network Security, Security Principles, Risk, Information Assurance, Security, Governance, Computer Security Incident Management, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Logical Controls, Administrative Controls.