My Journey Towards UpSkillShare
Hello Guys, I am Kiran KV and the creator of “Upskillshare.com — An Active community platform for skill development”. To give you a little background of myself, I have finished duel Master Graduate (Electronics & Communications / Business Administration). Currently working as a Business Operations Manager in one of the MNC in Europe. I have been a Digital Marketer for more than 5 years involved in almost every part of Digital Marketing, building websites to creating content building marketing strategies helping advertisers to grow their reach. I worked with multiple clients some of them including the world’s largest brand like Starbucks/Nike/Puma/Pepsi/Mc Donalds/etc., on many platforms.
You can skip to the last part of this article if you want to know my data science Learning progress. However, you can continue If you want to know more about my career journey. Starting my career as an executive for one of the US Based Call center operations, taking the call back to back was a great initial experience and learning. I have learnt many things during the this experience like how do corporate companies work, what do they measure, how to handle situations in a productive way with colleagues, how to be patient, how to deal with the clients, how to stand out of the crowd by excelling in what we do, how to find solutions for problems, how to improve our response time and especially how to sell or up-sell to customers/clients. This has been a great foundation for my career, considering interaction with 100’s of customer calls per day for more than a year.
My Journey as a Digital Marketer
Then started my Digital Marketing journey with my second employer. I started learning SEO/Digital Marketing campaigns and started getting certifications. After I finished my 1st digital marketing certification “Adwords”, I was able to join Adword campaign management team with one of the Google vendor and then moved to as a Banding Consultant in Youtube Reserve buy team working on YouTube home page masthead and skip/non-skip video ad-campaigns and then moved as Social Media Manager for one the employer in Singapore as a contractor. During this time, I have registered a company SeonDigital and have worked with many client helping them to build website and in reaching their audiences by building digital marketing strategies and some SEO Projects too. Also worked as a Digital Marketing Consultant for Sciens Technologies, Hyderabad helping them building their Digital Marketing Team.
My Entrepreneurial Journey
In Aug 2015, I have launched my Startup called Grabees.com which is a Hyperlocal Food/Grocery delivery platform with 2 other team members. We were able to get our website ready and build initial marketing after tied-up with almost 50 business across Hyderabad city including Super Markets/ Restaurants/ Sweets & Bakers, we managed to get orders and were able to deliver around 1k orders. However, we were not able to continue growing considering our investment was not in mobile platform and not enough funds to build a mobile app for our business. This has been a great learning for me since after our launch Swiggy & Grofers Apps have launched operations in Hyderabad and took over the Market as they have been funded multiple rounds of investment. This have been a great entrepreneurial journey, where we need to think and work on multiple things at the same time.
After which I joined Dell as Sr. Marketing Analyst. Considering my passion towards Digital Space and Data, I started my Data Analysis journey. I started my learning towards working with data in operations as a part of my campaign optimization strategies. Started learning Data Handling on Excel to start with. Excelled in “Excel” and slowly started working with VB Script which allowed me to play with the data for a long time building custom dashboard for stakeholders in the organization. Trying to analyze the data from multiple angles has become my hobby — Was Loving it very much. This helped me to see trends and insights in the data which are very important factors in taking actions in Building better Marketing Strategies for client and campaigning, this also helped my daily business operations. So I have slowly started learning SQL & Python without which its hard to work with large data sets.
My Journey towards Data Science
Later joined CTS working with a process related to Machine Learning for one of the largest Social Network which improved my passion towards Data. Since I have been enjoying my work with data operations I started learning other tools and techniques of handling data. Also, I am more fascinated by the value of Data Analytics to the world with Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence. Hence started my Data Science Journey. Its been more than a year, but considering this not being a full-time engagement and an optional engagement I was not spending a decent or dedicated time towards this.
However, was able to make decent progress of finishing a few basic certifications related to Data Science & Machine Learning which are attached on my LinkedIn profile.
“Success comes to those who love what they do”
My Journey towards UpSkillShare
Considering, I love Digital Space Internet, Data, Analysis I started this blog to work as my learning progress diary while I am also able to share my other interest of Data/Digital Marketing/Start-up. Also this site will work as a tool which will allow people to share their progress on what ever they are practicing.
I want focus more on Up-Skill efforts & Progress of an individual on learning with Co-Learners and post my progress on building my blog. I also intend to cover Startups/Learning/Progress tracking & Productivity. So you can expect to see blog posts in those areas too.
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